The following articles were sent after a conversation I had about the fact that people need 8-10 glasses of water per day. I had read that this wasn’t the case it was a single scientist a long while ago and pretty much every scientist since then that’s studied it has found it to be crap. Below are the references I found. Note, I’m not saying that you shouldn’t drink that much water if you want to, but that if you don’t want to you shouldn’t have to.
_After an extensive search in 2002 for the origins of what is commonly referred to as the “8 × 8” guideline and areview of associated health claims, hereports finding no scientific evidence supporting the notion that healthy individuals need to consume large quantities of water. In 2008 Dan Negoianu and Stanley Goldfarb reviewed the evidence for the Journal of the American Society of Nephrology. They came to a similar conclusion: “There is no clear evidence of benefit from drinking increased amounts of water.”…come from a variety of sources—including coffee,