Do we really need to drink eight glasses of water a day ? This is something that has been around for quite a long time now, and being as there are quite a few splits between people, as to whether or not you need to drink lots of water a day.

I myself have seen various claims about drinking water in regard to weight loss whether they hold any substance is another matter, all the ones I’ve come across are the following.

• Drink water before a meal this is supposed to fill your stomach with water so you eat less
• Drink ice cold water this is supposed to speed your metabolism up because your body has to warm the water up.
• And just drinking water itself is supposed to help you lose weight.

But that’s not the main reason for writing this post is it’s more a case of what health benefits are there to drinking water all round. No doubt those people who spend a lot of money on bottled water, which is which incidentally is very big business these days are probably going to be quite disappointed by what they may read here.

The Facts

Some scientists have been digging around to see if this theory does in fact hold any water sorry about the pun. For all the people connected with the eight glasses of water theory it has now been proven, that there is no great benefit to drinking the suggested amount of water a day.

Stanley Goldfarb who conducted the research said “there is no benefit from drinking increased amounts of water” who is a professor at the University of Pennsylvania he goes on to say “that there is no solid scientific evidence to prove the theory of drinking lots of water ”

Stanley Goldfarb wanted to get to the bottom of where the eight glasses came from he “says that it is a necessary think there is a problem with drinking the water”, but that you might not need to do it. Looking back through medical archives there didn’t seem to be any evidence and/or studies to back up the claim.

So it seems that this was something that was started and took on a life of its own a bit like an old wives tale you might say, the researchers then went on to to look at some of the myths that are associated with water.

Which are as follows.

• Helps to flush out toxins
  within the body the only thing they found with this claim was that it could dilute toxinsbut not
  necessarily flush them out of your body.
• Water helps your organs function better
  This claim found came up with nothing as well
• Drinking water before a meal or water as a whole makes you feel full
  They say that in studies for some people this worked and some it did not but Goldberg says this area could do with more studies and research.
• Helps to make your skin look better One study showed that this there may actually be more blood flow to your skin as a result of drinking water but other than that nothing else conclusive was found.
• Prevents headaches There was only one study that was found with any real relevance to this the people that drank more water reported having less headaches but the statistics didn’t hold much reverence whatsoever.

Conclusion

So it would seem that that the people that do support drinking lots of water maybe just have an overall placebo effect, this doesn’t mean to say that you shouldn’t drink lots of water far from it but you probably don’t need to specifically drink eight glasses of water a day as you probably think that you may need to it is merely more of a personal preference than anything.

I myself used to drink lots of water each day thinking somehow that I was gaining lots of benefit from it but now I am wondering if that is the case.

What are your thoughts on this particular subject matter ? any feedback or comments would be quite interesting to read based upon your own personal experiences of drinking water.

References webmd

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