Benefits of pounding bottled water: purified folklore
Good news for all of you haters of the plastic bottle, new research shows that slamming a bottle of water at every opportunity has no scientific health benefits. In fact, unless you live in a hot and dry climate, or you're an athlete, drinking the recommended 8 glasses of water a day does nothing for you and is totally unnecessary. Will this put a stop to the compulsive bottled water consumption that goes on around us 24/7? Probably not, but still it's good ammunition in the fight against the plastic water bottle.According to researchers from the University of Pennsylvania -- Dr. Stanley Goldfarb and Dr. Dan Negoianu -- the conventional wisdom behind drinking tons of water throughout the day is really more like health mythology. Their research found that drinking excessive amounts of water will not improve skin tone, ward off headaches, or detox your body -- this is what your kidneys do and they filter the same amount of toxins no matter how much water you gorge yourself on.
It seems like everybody has either know that person -- or been that person -- who carries a water bottle around obsessively everywhere they go. I know I've been guilty of that. According to the scientists, there's really no harm in mild dehydration. At the same time, there's no real harm in over indulging. So, if you want keep guzzling water as a hobby, that's fine too. You just might want to switch to a refillable bottle to make your hobby more eco-friendly.
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