Quick Fact: Drinking Minimum 2 Litres of Water Per Day (The Myth)

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Quick Fact: Drinking Minimum 2 Litres of Water Per Day (The Myth)

The common advise that you have to drink at least two litres of water a day is an old myth. It can be traced to Food and Nutrition Board report from 1945 posted in British Medical Journal. The report advised that we should drink 1 millimeter of water for each calorie intake. It may be more-less correct but the issue is that large amounts of water that we consume each day come from our food.
Besides, there is absolutely no evidence that drinking a lot of water has detoxifying effect on our body or improvement of our skin quality including wrinkles. By drinking more, we just have to go to the toilet more often. The kidneys and the liver are responsible for dealing with toxins in our body so the only benefit of drinking more water may be when you saturate your body with alcohol or salt (easy to do considering dangerous salt oversaturation in processed food). When you become dehydrated it is important to resupply your body with sugar and salt, not just water. Drinking excessive amounts of water can also lead to death by overhydration - "hyponatremia".

[ Typical advert of bottled water showing picturesque mountains to deceive about its source. 60-70% of "mineral" water on the market is filtered tap water, the rest is just ordinary ground water, with only tiny percentage coming from mountain springs. Picture Source ]

I remember when I was growing up as a kid in the 80s, it was very uncommon for anyone to carry water with them outdoors (unless on some sort of hiking trip), even during hot days. People simply drank liquids when they came back home. Mostly tap water, tea, some homemade juice or fruit compote drink.
Then in the beginning of 90s, big water companies started the boom of bottled water. They discovered new, easy way of making a lot of buck by selling water to people, so they started massive marketing campaigns brainwashing people with lies about inferiority of tap water and the need of constant hydration 24 hours a day. People mindlessly have followed this bullshit trend (as they tend to follow pretty much any bullshit they get brainwashed with in adverts), so now you can see people walking like some sort of aqua-zombies with their bottle of water everywhere they go, constantly suckling on it like a little baby on a tit. Regardless that they are not even feeling thirsty. This socially conditioned, consumerist-driven, mindless and habitual behavior has drowned our planet in plastic bottles causing irreparable environmental damage.

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References:

"Just Add Water", Journal of American Society of Nephrology, 2008.

"Fact or Fiction?: You Must Drink 8 Glasses of Water Daily?", Scientific American, 2009.

"Plastic bottles are a recycling disaster. Coca-Cola should have known better", The Guardian, 2017.

"Hyponatremia", Wikipedia article.

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