Eight Glasses A Day

When the twenty year old swimsuit model is asked to pass on beauty tips you are likely to hear the benefits of drinking lots of water to keep you skin looking great. Or some other bullshit. What is she going to say to the interviewer from Teen Beat magazine? I started with the freakish genetics of an Amazonian Princess, plus I smoke a lot of cigarettes and do a lot of blow, which really keeps my appetite in check.

That so many calls for consuming water as a catch all health tip come from sources like the one above, or in women’s magazines in connection with advise on how to look younger, or prettier, or lose five pounds, is probably one of the reasons women seem more likely to be toting around water bottles everywhere they go.

The benefits of drinking, when your body gives no indication of being thirsty, are questionable. “Drink water”, is not health news, it is advise easily proscribed by any fool, and it usually is.

Five Myths About Drinking Water – NPR

Evidence wishy-washy for health benefits of water – Reuters

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