When I was a little girl, my Grandma kept 8 little figurines on her windowsill above the kitchen sink. Every day, she would move one over to the other side of the windowsill every time she drank a glass of water. For years, she drank 8 glasses of water every single day, no more, and no less. She lived until she was 92, and as far as I know, other than a few mild strokes, she was very healthy. It could have been the fact that she didn’t drink alcohol, that she lived and worked on a farm for most of her life, or that she had good genes, but it probably had nothing to do with her drinking her eight glasses of water a day.
A new study published in the Journal of the American Society of Nephrology, by Dr. Stanley Goldfarb and Dr. Dan Negoianu of the University of Pennsylvania debunks the health value of “guzzling glasses of water to flood yourself with good health”.
Goldfarb and Negoianu examined what Goldfarb called “four major myths” regarding claims of a benefit for extra water drinking: that it leads to more toxin excretion, improves skin tone, makes one less hungry and reduces headache frequency.
“Our bottom line was that there was no real good science — or much science at all — behind these claims, that they represent probably folklore,” Goldfarb said.
Even more validation that drinking Diet Coke instead of Water won’t kill me. Well, maybe the aspartame, caffeine, or phosphoric acid will kill me, but not dehydration.
I was always given that advice, I mean to drink at least 8 glasses of water everyday. I’m not a heavy water-drinker and almost everybody I know tells me it’s good for the body, to wash away toxins from our system.
This could prove them wrong!
My granddad drank a beer/smoked a pack a day and lived until he was 93….so go figure.
The only thing he was missing was the figurines on the window sill….lol.
I’m going with drink a glass (or two) of wine a day and live forever…
I always keep a bottle of water on my side table and i keep on refiling it all the time but haven’t counted it how many i finish in a day or never thought of blogging on it. Thanks! i will…
i still try to stick to the 8 glasses a day or more regime.. Inspite of the new studies and results.. I still am confident that more water,is better???
Yea…I totally agree!
Well… that is all the validation I needed. Welcoming Diet Coke back into my life. (thanks for dropping by earlier!). I’ll hedge my health bets by sticking to the whole wheat stuff, just in case.
I think similar misconceptions concerning the effect of water on weight loss and constipation have also been dispelled