Drink Water, Look Younger?

'Water. It's the one drink that's free' Wait a minute...free?!? If I use water from the sink, I get a water bill every month. And if I want to drink water from a bottle, I have to buy it and pay for it.

I would think different amounts for different people due to age, weight, climate, etc.?

they used to say 6 to 8 eight oz glasses. I hate drinking water. But if you don't you won't burn fat. you have to drink water to burn off fat. I didn't see any mention of that.

I quit soda and carry water bottle or mug.my skin is looking better.

Easy way to tell if you are getting enough water: look at your urine. If it's clear or very pale yellow, you are adequately hydrated. If you drink about 4-8oz. glasses of water a day, you should be fine. I wouldn't do less than that though. Alcohol is drying (no surprise) and tea and coffee just aren't enough fluids.

13 cups a day, wouldn't that be 104 ounces of water. Sounds to much... there is such a thing of drinking to much water, which can flush Electrolytes out of your body.

this is like the 8th article on water intake i have read over the past 2 months.all of them stating we must drink 8-14 glasses of water per day. this is fine and all, and agree we need to drink water daily for our overall health. but every article has one thing in common. none of them give a measure per glass. does a glass consist of 4,6,8,10,12,16 ounces? 4 glasses at 14 per day is 56 ounces.sounds reasonable. but, 14 at 16 ounces, is 224 ounces if my math is correct. this is one quart short of 2 gallons per day.so, my thing is, instead of a glass, use a unit of measure as in ounces.because, afterall glasses come in a wide variety of sizes as indicated previously.

water also helps diabetes

Ever since I started drinking more water, I have never had the chronic chapped lips that were a guarantee every winter all my life until then, 7 years now. Also, drink your water mostly all in-between meals, right up to 1/2 hour before, a large glass then primes you for digestion, then not again until food digested, or it dilutes digestion to drink a lot during meal. You won't be thirsty then anyway when drinking it in proper amounts in-between meals. :)

Car needs oil; body needs water

I wondered about that "free" statement too. Did you mean "free" as in no calories?! Nine to thirteen cups a day seems rather daunting. I heard something about drinking half your weight in ounces. That seems more logical to acomodate people of various sizes.

As more water sources are privatized we will see many more of the recommendations, studies, etc. It is going to be the most expensive utility in all parts of the world. And it is happening fast, as big money pours into the deals.

So, there are 24 hours in one day and we need to sleep for 8 of them leaving 16 left over and if I drink 13 glasses of H2O each day = peeing all day! This is RIDICULOUS! Get some math skills for no where in a sane world are we supposed to pee all day long!?

They really don't know.

So I take it the less than one glass of water a day I've been drinking my whole life won't do?

the , drink an ounce of water per pound of half your body weight per day

Where in Las Vegas is water free, unless you go out to eat or to a casino? Add the fact that Las Vegas is in the top 5 for the worst water in this country and the water company wants to keep gouging it's residents for money for crap water. Me and my dogs drink bottled water and it ain't free.

Wow,
all these doctors r leaving their reply....i'm glad they r knowitalls.....

when you are thirsty drink, when you are not thristy don't drink. I guess common sense has been lost forever.

Everyone's different, contrary to what these guidelines would have you believe. I drink a 20-oz coffee spread out over an 8-hr workday. I also have an 8-oz fruit juice at lunch. Then about 10-oz milk with dinner and about 8-oz juice before bedtime. That's about 46 oz a day, and nearly half of that is a depleting drink. Yet, if I drink any more than that, especially water, I'm peeing clear liquid every single hour. Makes no difference whether I drink the water very slowly or a glass all at once. My body simply gets rid of it as fast as it can. That's my equilibrium.