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Now you believe that?
Don't believe anything you see or read or hear. It's all lies. Do you know that the water companies made up drinking 8 glasses of water a day?
You so sure?
It’s hard to pinpoint exactly where and when the “eight glasses per day” rule originated. There are theories that it may be based on a fluid intake of 1 ml per calorie of food consumed.
The Water Myth
It is a common belief that you have to drink 6-8 glasses of water per day, but this myth comes from a fundamental misunderstanding of some basic physiology.
Where does the 8-glasses guideline come from?
In 1945, the U.S. Food and Nutrition Board recommended that people drink 2.5
liters (84.5 ounces) a day. Evidently, most who read this then ignored the
following sentence, “Most of this quantity is contained in prepared foods.”
Whatever “prepared” meant in 1945, all food contains water, especially
vegetables and fruits.