Changing their stance on recommended daily water intake!!

[TiggerMe]

How hilarious! All the years they have banged on about the necessity of 2L a day...

Oh, ooops we forgot to add the water content of food into the equation 😨

Honestly, who are these people 😮

[Anthea55]

My daughter tried to add up the water I take, but excluded my cups of tea and coffee. Does that still apply?

[TiggerMe in reply to Anthea55]

Do liquids other than water count?

Water, milk, sugar-free drinks and tea and coffee all count, but remember that caffeinated drinks like tea and coffee can make the body produce urine more quickly. Fruit juice and smoothies also count, but because they contain ‘free’ sugars (the type we are encouraged to cut back on), you should limit these to a combined total of 150ml per day.

Many of the foods we eat contribute to our fluid intake – for example, dishes like soup, ice cream and jelly, as well as fruit and veg with a high water content, such as melon, courgette or cucumber.

bbcgoodfood.com/howto/guide...

The danger of overhydrating can lead to lower sodium levels

[Anthea55 in reply to TiggerMe]

Thanks for that. I've recently changed over to decaf instant coffee.

[Hypopotamus]

Who are these people? They are people who have been to university, and need to have a well-paid job. So we have all these research projects that contradict each other, and keep them in work.

[TiggerMe in reply to Hypopotamus]

Gcart Ah! Yes, great explanation 😉 specialise in one thing you loose sight of the whole

Thank goodness my Dad was an engineer with a far more practical, questioning mind set, cause and effect.. and Mum of the make do and mend fraternity, so I benefitted from the common sense approach 😅

[Gcart]

they are Experts 🙄🙄

If some common sense , handed down knowledge from older people (experience) we might actually get an outcome that really works.

All that is learnt is forgotten and reinvented , especially if it makes more money .

Sorry Mrs cynical strikes again.

[Kriticat]

TBF, the real 'experts' have always said that the water content of food counts towards the 2litres (or 0.033l x your weight in kgs) but the media have been happy to simply paraphrase, or parrot, the bottled water pushers' press releases, rather than actually check the actual research! The media have a lot to answer for...

[TiggerMe in reply to Kriticat]

So true... I heard it on the Jeremy Vine show!!! I so fell for the stupid click bait didn't I 😳

It just struck a chord as we are doing battle with a sodium depleted 89 year old who insists on lining up here 2L of water every morning, which is doing her more harm than good 😩

So this article I can use to bust this long held myth hopefully as Jeremy Vine is a trusted source in her eyes!!!🙃

[Batty1]

All liquid counts … its crazy right!

[helvella Administrator Thyroid UK]

I've lost count of the number of times I have challenged the idea of drinking large quantities.

We have had some members who were advised to drink positively dangerous quantities of water.

It has been claims like "8 glasses a day" that have demonstrated how appalling some of the "health" sites really are.

[serenfach]

I count my red wine intake too!

[TiggerMe in reply to serenfach]

Absobloominlutely 😉

[helvella Administrator Thyroid UK in reply to serenfach]

Only ever have one glass. (Unless I break it!)

Does sometimes miraculously get filled up again...

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"Yes, who are these people?"

I believe the 8 glasses/2 litres of water a day is an urban myth, not ever advised by the medical fraternity.

It's always been common sense that water intake is dependent on activity, foods eaten and an individual body's way of processing (sweat more/less, age, health conditions, etc).