Comments on: Are the Benefits of Drinking Water Overated ?

By: dennis frost

dennis frost — Tue, 01 Dec 2009 12:13:01 +0000

scientists said that we should drink 8 glasses of liquid a day,whether its water, milk, tea, coffee juice and so on, but what the water companies did was to manipulate this and change it to 8 glasses of water per day, very clever cos it worked, the sale of bottled water went up and it was fashionable to have a bottle of water in your hand, saying to people ” hey look how healthy i am ”
ok you shouldnt drink a lot of coffee, but doesnt tea detox your body ?

By: Mark

Mark — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 07:16:22 +0000

Ashraf that is the point

By: Ashraf

Ashraf — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 07:08:38 +0000

I think some of you are missing the point here, it doesnt discourage drinking water, its simply put drinking excessive amounts of water or eight glasses, doesnt show any improvements compared to drinking the right anount needed to function, i only drink 3-4 glasses a day i feel great!

By: the man

the man — Wed, 20 May 2009 20:32:17 +0000

sorry to the writer of this article but i don’t quite understand what he is getting at.
yes it isn’t necessary to drink 8 glasses a day but you did mention benefits in most areas.
let me explain the brilliance of water to you and why high amounts can be beneficial. fortunately you ironically provided me with the facts in your article. firstly diluting toxins means they exit the body faster. you have decided this does not mean they ‘flush’ out of the body which to some extent is true but surely getting rid of toxins as fast as possible is flushing. water also aids the livers efficiency further speeding up the rate that toxins exit the body.
water as you have said speeds up blood flow and provides a more efficient immune system because of this. immunity is strongly linked to disease and skin. If one drinks more water they, i would assume be at less risk to disease.
Skin i feel is one major thing affected by large amounts of water. firstly on the point of blood flow increase; this will hydrate the skin quicker and provide a better immune system. the immune system is heavily linked to hormone control and obviously fighting infection. Hormone imbalance is the main reason for acne.
to conclude i feel you have a point that drinking 8 glasses is not necessary but there are undeniably health benifits.

By: Syed Sabir

Syed Sabir — Wed, 20 May 2009 10:37:11 +0000

Your are wrong enough because i get many benifits to drink lot of water for example, easy bowles, gastric pain relif, backach pain relife etc.