You really do not need to drink 8 glasses of water a day to stay healthy.

[Matt2584]

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I tried drinking up to 8 glasses of water a day, years ago and it makes you pee a lot. Talk about hardly any sleep.

I would not be surprised in the slightest if what we are told about drinking 8 glasses a day is an excuse to intake more sodium fluoride which is a component in tap water, toothpastes, mouth washes and other daily items.

Check out your tube of toothpaste for 'sodium fluoride' or just 'fluoride' (which is more apt for confusing the public) and find out what this dangerous substance is.

This isn't related to fluoride but I was talking to my uncle the other day about deodorant, I use roll-on deodorant now that I get from Holland and Barrett.

I told him I use that because there is no aluminium in it and according to scientists, aluminium is the metal found in the brains of alzheimers patients. So it then makes you wonder why these spray-on deodorants such as Lynx, Right guard, Sure and many other aerosols add aluminium to their deodorant.

Many of the items bought at supermarkets, newsagents... whatever, have got something that is bad for your health in it.

[paxo05]

I think this dates back to drinking a litre and a half of fluid a day . This was then turned into having to drink a litre and a half of water a day.

What they failed to include was any other way of consuming liquid. Through fruit and veg or any other drink. It is quite easy to consume a litre and half through a normal diet. You don't need to just drink water.

[cat3]

Just about everything we consume is contaminated in one way or another by growers or processors, and I'm not sure I believe that organic food is entirely free of fertilisers and pesticides.

And how do we know that bottled water hasn't come from a tap ? I think the option of eating healthily is becoming a thing of the past.

We were given a litre of water to drink each day in the neuro ward and, if the level in the jug wasn't dropping, one of the nursing staff would pour a glass and stand over us 'til we finished every drop. And I swore it was partly a ploy to keep us exercised...............there was a never ending relay, back & forth to the loo ! x

[AlexBee in reply to cat3]

I think it's likely to keep the body and more importantly the brain, hydrated 😊, I should think it helps to process and pass all the medications we are given in hospital.

[Matt2584 in reply to cat3]

That is right, almost everything we consume is contaminated but a lot of what we eat is purposely contaminated.

When it comes to organic food, organic meaning clean and free of pesticides. You can grow yourself plants in the garden and not spray with pesticides (avoid Round up weedkiller at all costs), that is organic gardening for you. Plus, organic garden should not involve pesticides really, look up permaculture. But then you've got all the purchasable compost which is also contaminated. Contaminated compost leads to contaminated plants. And these horticulture tv shows and books all tell you to go buy compost! That is not what you want to do. A person can make their own compost. Lots of tutorials on Youtube.

By the way, I mentioned the weekiller Round up. The main ingredient is glyphosate where the World Health Organisation (WHO) say it is a PROBABLE carcinogen.... err, I think they should say it is a DEFINITE carcinogen. But don't just take my word for it, hear what Patrick Moore, a Monsanto lobbyist says about glyphosate.

youtu.be/ovKw6YjqSfM(Not working as expected?)

Now this was a man who used to belong to Greenpeace but was bought out by Monsanto.

You can do a lot with money... apparently.

The option of eating healthy may becoming a thing of the past for most people but I think it is and should be coming back and taking over.

The company that makes Kit Kats and loads and loads of other foods and so on, Nestlé. They have got to be one of the most evil companies around. They are up there with Monsanto. Nestlé's CEO says and I quote "Water is not a human right".

How can he be saying something like that!

Nestlé pump gallons of natural water from lakes and rivers and bottle it up so they can sell it to the public!

In America, in some areas it is even illegal to collect rain water using water butts and buckets!

I remember the days in hospital where you HAD to drink water. I don't know about you but I think drinking all that water was to get the insides working and good digestion cos whenever the nurses made me drink all the time I kept using the bedpan which looks like a cardboard sock :).

[cat3 in reply to Matt2584]

No Matt, it was specifically to aid the healing process after my op as the brain struggles more than any other organ with dehydration.

We had catheters for the first few weeks but, as soon as we could 'shuffle' we joined the walking (weeing) wounded ! xx

[RogerCMerriman in reply to cat3]

Hospitals in general are keen on folks to drink, I end up in for work in them fairly regularly.

For myself didn't need a catheter though, it was felt I should have a helper much to my annoyance!

Don't remember them pushing water more food which I wasn't interested in, both the NHS and family.

I wasn't in hospital for long, I was functional and had a wife who could take time off/work and could feed me back up once home!

[RogerCMerriman]

as ever with these things it just depends, and moderation you can at extremist end up in hospital or worse by drinking too much water and diluting your self essentially!