Eight glasses of water a day? Scientists dispel doubts – o2

Researchers at the University of Wisconsin-Madison conducted a study involving 5,600 people from 26 countries. They ranged in age from eight days to 96 years. The results obtained contradict the thesis that drinking eight glasses of 250 milliliters meets the daily needs of the human body.

Science never supported the old eight-glass rule as a valid guideline because it confused total water intake with drinking water. Meanwhile, a lot of water comes from the food you eat, says Dale Scholler, professor of nutritional sciences at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, cited in “Science.”

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Then he added “This work is the best his team has done to date to measure how much water people consume on a daily basis.”

Scientists have estimated the daily water requirement of humans to be between one and six liters. – There are also cases of exceeding 10 liters per day. Scholler points out that the variance means that pointing to an average means you’re small.

The results of the study suggest that men between the age group of 20 to 55 years have the highest requirement for water. Women, on the other hand, remained unchanged from 20 to 55 years. Newborns, on the other hand, had higher water intakes in percentage terms.

Dr. Yosuke Yamada, a former employee of Scholler’s lab, observed that assessing the need for water among people was critical. – Determining how much water people consume is increasingly important due to population growth and current climate change, as water turnover is linked to other key indicators of health, such as physical activity and body fat percentage, potentially as a biomarker of metabolic health. He said (from: “Science”).