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You need to drink eight glasses of water per day to be healthy is one of our more widely-known basic health tips. But do we really need to drink that much water on a daily basis? One such claim was collected via email in 2011: Some versions of this item are titled Water vs. Coke and tack claims about the supposedly deleterious effects of Coca-Cola (which we have covered in a separate article) onto the end of this piece. In general, to remain healthy we need to take in enough water to replace the amount we lose daily through excretion, perspiration, and other bodily functions, but that amount can vary widely from person to person, based upon a variety of factors such as age, physical condition, activity level, and climate. The 8 glasses of water per day is a rule of thumb, not an absolute minimum, and not all of our water intake need come in the form of drinking water. The origins of the 8-10 glasses per day figure remain elusive. As a Los Angeles Times article on the subject reported: As Drs. Aaron E. Carroll and Rachel C. Vreeman reported in an article on this topic: Other medical experts have also disdained the notion that one need drink at least eight glasses of water per day to remain adequately hydrated: Other doctors certainly take issue with his figures:
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