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Eight glasses a day? Or half your body weight in ounces? How much water should we be drinking? Turns out, all these formulas for how much water to drink are just plain wrong. According to Business Insider, you should drink enough water so you're not thirsty. And if you don't notice if you're thirsty? Check your urine color. It should be pale yellow. If it's darker, drink up!
When it comes to drinking water, more is always better... right? Not necessarily. Despite being told for years that we should all be gulping down eight 8-ounce glasses a day, the actual amount of fluids we need varies from person to person. Now, a new study has revealed what happens in our brains, and our bodies, when we’ve reached our hydration limit—and why it might be dangerous to ignore the feeling that you’ve had enough.
May 8 (UPI) -- Drinking an extra four to six extra glasses of water per day won't slow the decline of kidney functions for chronic kidney disease patients, according to a study in Britain and Canada. Researchers with the Lawson Health Research Institute in Ontario and Western University in London studied whether increased hydration made a difference in people with kidney disease.
Drinking less than 8 to 10 glasses of water a day can have serious health consequences. For instance, Business Insider reports dehydration can lead to rapid heartbeat or palpitations. Your face can take on a rather unattractive appearance of sunken eyes and papery skin. Consistent dehydration also puts you at greater risk of dangerous urinary tract infections. Ouch! And even your poo can dry out, coming out like hard little pellets!
Are you drinking enough water? With everything else going on in your life, it can be easy to forget how many glasses you've had. The NHS recommends six to eight glasses of water a day to maintain hydration, concentration and overall health. So how do you know if you're at a healthy level of hydration? A simple skin test you can do anywhere! The test relies on "skin turgor," which is your skin's elasticity. You can test your skin turgor if you pinch the skin on the back of your hand for a few seconds. If it immediately returns to normal, you are hydrated enough. If it doesn't, you need to drink more water.
. Business INsider reports The "Game of Thrones" series finale aired on Sunday, May 20. The sixth episode of season eight was titled "The Iron Throne." Fans on Twitter and Reddit spotted not one but two modern-day plastic water bottles in a scene on the show. Earlier on the season, a modern-day coffee cup was accidentally included in a feast scene and went viral.
People protest water shortage in Caracas showing dirty water and blaming President Nicolas Maduro's government for it.
Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu votes during Israel's parliamentary election in Jerusalem April 9, 2019. Ariel Schalit/Pool via REUTERS TEL AVIV (Reuters) - Get out of the water and vote for me, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu urged beach-goers during an election day visit to the Mediterranean seashore on Tuesday. “If you want to continue with the Likud and me, then you have to go vote,” he said, referring to the right-wing party that he leads.
Park rangers and volunteers collect garbage on the coast of the unpopulated Isabela Island, as tons of plastic waste wash up on the shores of the Galapagos Islands where microparticles end up in the stomachs of endemic species found only in the Pacific archipelago 1,000 kilometers west of mainland Ecuador. This report is part of an AFPTV Latin American dossier for International Water Day.
In northern Chile, many residents of the region of Antofagasta don’t have access to running water or suffer from cuts, depending on tankers to distribute the vital liquid to particular houses and farming plots. The water was formerly supplied from rivers that turned out to have very high levels of arsenic, so the city is now desalinizing seawater for 80 percent of its consumption, which some say could be unsafe.