A Lot of What Everybody Knows Is Wrong
How many glasses of water are we supposed to drink each day? Eight – everyone knows it’s eight. But according to researchers from the schools of Public Health and Medicine at Johns Hopkins University, this has never been proven true. In fact, they argue there’s not one single piece of data that supports this claim.
This is from Brian Mossop, writing at The Health Care Blog. Entire piece is worth reading.
The human body is probably capable of regulating when to drink water using thirst as a guide. It’s amazing that the human race survive until we had public health advocates to tell us how to live; what we should and shouldn’t do; and how many glasses of water to drink on a daily basis.
A lot of what everyone knows is wrong? What else is new?
If “eight glasses of water a day” isn’t true, it calls into question whether swallowed gum stays in your stomach for seven years or any number of other old wives’ tales.
I like the article’s point about tracing data back to it’s original source. Very interesting.