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Do You Drink Enough Water....??
Sep 1, 2008 | 7:55 PM
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Even on cool days, dehydration can seriously damage your performance. 

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Symptoms of Dehydration

 

If all food and fluids (nutrition and hydration) are removed from a person -- whether that person is a healthy Olympic athlete who takes food and fluids by mouth or a frail, disabled person who receives them by a feeding tube -- death is inevitable.  That death will occur because of dehydration.

As a person dies from lack of food and fluids, his or her

  • Mouth would dry out and become caked or coated with thick material.
  • Lips would become parched and cracked.
  • Tongue would swell, and might crack.
  • Eyes would recede back into their orbits.
  • Cheeks would become hollow.
  • Lining of the nose might crack and cause the nose to bleed.
  • Skin would hang loose on the body and become dry and scaly.
  • Urine would become highly concentrated, leading to burning of the bladder.
  • Lining of the stomach would dry out and he or she would experience dry heaves and vomiting.
  • Body temperature would become very high.
  • Brain cells would dry out, causing convulsions.
  • Respiratory tract would dry out, and the thick secretions that would result could plug the lungs and cause death.

At some point within five days to three weeks, the person's major organs, including the lungs, heart, and brain, would give out and death would occur.

[Source: Brophy v. New England Sinai Hosp., 398 Mass. 417, 444 n.2, 497 N.E.2d 626, 641 n.2 (1986) (Nolan, J., dissenting).

Did you know that a hangover is nothing more than being extremely dehydrated..... If you want to improve your mental and physical performance try drinking the proper amount of fluids for a couple of weeks and cut back on the things that will dry you out.... Did you know that water can actually make you high.........

Are you getting enough.....??

 

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mr_wildflower read my blog view my photos
Sep 1, 2008 | 8:03 PM

The reason for writing this blog is to vent a little..... I know a person that drinks coffee from sun up to sun down and alway complains about being thirsty and constantly has problems with bladder infections..... Although being told by the doctor and countless others that they need to lighten up on the coffee and try getting some big glasses of water they wont listen.........
Speedy62269 read my blog
Sep 1, 2008 | 8:22 PM

Tommy - how's it going? I drink about 60oz of H2O per day. I like the Sam's Choice because it tastes "normal" versus the competitors plus a case is only $3.89.

Yeah, coffee only hurts you - the caffeine will drain you of your fluids. I drank 3 cups of coffee today while chugging around 100oz or so of water.
mr_wildflower read my blog view my photos
Sep 1, 2008 | 8:36 PM

It's easy to get out of the habit of drinking enough water...... Most dont realize that our body runs totally off electricity and that if our fluid level and saline level isn't up to snuff that the brain cant fire the charges and communicate with the body.........

I start my day with a 9 ounce bottle of water and carry it around with me and refil it 6 or 7 times a day...... Can't really tell the difference between the tap water or the water that originally came in the bottle......
dwheeler6201 read my blog view my photos
Sep 2, 2008 | 2:13 AM

Our bodies also receive fluids from foods we eat, celery, watermelon, etc. Did you know that strained baby food is 90% water? It doesn't have to be "water", it can be any fluid. Kool aid, 7 Up, juices, soup, broth any of these contain the liquid our bodies need.

I have never paid for drinking water. Here in the City of St. Louis we have wonderful tasting and healthy tap water.
dwheeler6201 read my blog view my photos
Sep 2, 2008 | 2:19 AM

The 1945 edition of the Food and Nutrition Board recommended: "A suitable allowance of water for adults is 2.5 liters (about 8 cups) daily in most instances." This amount is based on the calculation of one milliliter of water for each calorie of food. HOWEVER, the Board also noted that most of the water you need is in the food you eat.

All foods contain water. Even the driest nut or seed has a lot of water in it. Furthermore, when food is digested, it is converted to energy, carbon dioxide and WATER. Most people can get the fluid the body needs from food, and they only need to drink enough water to prevent constipation.

When you eat, the pyloric valve at the end of your stomach closes to keep food in the stomach. Then the stomach takes fluid that you drink and food that you eat and turns the solid food into liquid. If you don't drink enough fluid, your stomach takes fluid from your blood and adds it to the food in the stomach to create the soup.
A study in the Journal of the American College of Nutrition shows that plain water is not needed as long as enough fluid is obtained from other drinks and food. Twenty-seven healthy men consumed one of two diets for three-day periods and were studied in a lab setting. The first diet included plain water while the second omitted it, relying on only foods, orange juice, diet soda, and coffee for fluid. None of the nine measures of hydration were affected.

A reasonable amount for a healthy human is one cup of water or any other fluid with each meal. If you have a problem with constipation you may not be drinking enough wate
dwheeler6201 read my blog view my photos
Sep 2, 2008 | 2:21 AM

Sorry, the above was taken from the Journal of the American College of Nutrition, April, 2003.
dwheeler6201 read my blog view my photos
Sep 2, 2008 | 2:26 AM

The 8 x 8 myth: Most American adults believe that they should drink eight 8-ounce glasses of water a day. Why do they believe this? Because they have heard it countless times from all U.S. media, including this magazine. But there's little to no evidence supporting 8 x 8.

The good professor: Last summer a Dartmouth College professor named Heinz Valtin published a lucid and compelling article in the Journal of the American Physiological Society. Basically, Valtin committed himself to searching out medical-scientific verification for the 8 x 8 rule. He couldn't locate any.

"I have found no scientific proof that we must drink at least eight glasses of water a day," concluded Valtin, the professor emeritus of physiology at the Dartmouth Medical School. "The published data strongly suggest that we probably are drinking enough, and possibly even more than enough."

Of course, Valtin was researching the hydration habits of average, nonexercising Americans. Runners sweat heavily, and need to drink more than nonexercisers. And the heavier and more muscular you are, the hotter the temperature, and the faster you run, the more you will sweat.

Awash in water: Meanwhile, a survey of 2,818 adult Americans in 2000 by the International Bottled Water Association (IBWA) revealed that we are drinking 17.6 8-ounce cups of liquid a day. The IBWA argues that 6 cups of this amount is alcohol and caffeine drinks (both considered diuretics, meaning they increase urine production), and should therefore be subtracted from the total.

The truth about caffeine: However, research conducted

dwheeler6201 read my blog view my photos
Sep 2, 2008 | 2:29 AM

con't. The truth about caffeine: However, research conducted in the last 2 years has reversed the age-old wisdom that caffeinated beverages are diuretics. Actually, to be more precise, the research confirmed that caffeinated beverages are diuretics--to the same degree as plain water. You drink a lot of water, you need to go potty. Same with caffeinated beverages, no more, no less.

"The research indicates that caffeine stimulates a mild diuresis similar to water," says heat and hydration expert Larry Armstrong, Ph.D., author of the just published Exertional Heat Illnesses. Armstrong reached this conclusion after analyzing 10 medical articles on caffeinated beverages, and published his report last year in the International Journal of Sport Nutrition and Exercise Metabolism.

Beating a path to the bathroom: Other experts agree with Valtin and Armstrong: There's no dehydration epidemic sweeping the country. If anything, we're overhydrated. This isn't necessarily a bad thing. It's probably just adding to your daily mileage and calorie burn, courtesy of all those trips to the bathroom.

But there's no evidence for the list of dehydration ills--fatigue, headache, dry skin, lack of concentration, and so on--put forth by some. "Without any convincing data, I remain skeptical of all these so-called dehydration problems," says Penn State University nutrition researcher Barbara Rolls, Ph.D., author of Thirst, and one of the country's leading experts on hydration. "It's a myth that's being perpetuated. The thirst mechanism is exquisitely tuned to keep us in fluid balance."
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dwheeler6201 read my blog view my photos
Sep 2, 2008 | 2:35 AM

I have to admit, I am not a coffee drinker, but I am a diet cola drinker. People yell at me all the time about drinking "water". I have talked to my doctor about this and he agrees with me that it is fluid we need and not necessarily water. I have never had a bladder infection in my life, and on those rare occasions when I actually feel thirsty I will have a glass of cold water.
I honestly believe the myth of 8 glasses of water a day was perpetuated by the companies that wanted to sell you bottled water.
mr_wildflower read my blog view my photos
Sep 2, 2008 | 3:20 AM

Deb I read those studies but I don't agree with them..... This 250 pound body needs more than 8 glasses of water a day...... I do agree with the fact that you can get water from food..... People who don't drink enough water are more prone to overeat.....

Our Bodies are what about 90 percent water.....
A car will run better on a full tank of gas.....
superjaybrd read my blog view my photos
Sep 2, 2008 | 5:14 AM

I have heard that sometimes your body will think it's hungry when actually it's craving water. A good reason to chug down some H2O first, and then decide if you're hungry.
kurkel read my blog view my photos
Sep 2, 2008 | 5:57 AM

overall....americans do not drink enough water. MANY think that their soda and/or tea and/or coffee counts. If it has caffeine it doesnt count (unless you drink it all day then it does eventually count but you have lost way more than you take in!)

Good reminder Tommy....also did you know that if you drink enough water it increases your metabolism?

But like you said (or someone did) you get out of the habit. I gen. am a good water drinker but lately I have been NOT so good. Thanks for the Really GOOD reminder...I think I will go get a bottle!
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54, retired From Chrysler. Substitute school teacher, sell Real Estate and also D J and host Karaoke shows. Love to work out and play volleyball. Back surgery in 95 was a major setback, but have recently regained my competitive bowling skills. I see things in a third dimension.

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