If asked about how much water is required to stay healthy, most people would quickly respond with the answer, 8 glasses a day. According to Aaron E. Carroll, a professor at Indiana University School of Medicine, that's a myth … and it never seem to go away. In a New York Times article, Carroll said the eight glasses a day mantra probably gets its roots from a 1945 Food and Nutrition Board recommendation that people consume about 2.5 liters of water daily. However, he pointed out, they likely failed to notice the important sentence that followed: Most of this quantity is contained in prepared foods.
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The Ideal Water Intake: It's Not Necessarily 8 Glasses a Day
Published by Wonder Laboratories on Apr 28th 2016
If asked about how much water is required to stay healthy, most people would quickly respond with the answer, 8 glasses a day. According to Aaron E. Carroll, a professor at Indiana University School of Medicine, that's a myth … and it never seem to go away. In a New York Times article, Carroll said the eight glasses a day mantra probably gets its roots from a 1945 Food and Nutrition Board recommendation that people consume about 2.5 liters of water daily. However, he pointed out, they likely failed to notice the important sentence that followed: Most of this quantity is contained in prepared foods.