I just heard on the news (so it must be true) that a study has been done and FOUR glasses of water a day is enough...forget that 8 glasses a day crap. The catch is you have to eat well balanced meals. I guess I better drink 10 glasses of water then. os
i think diet soda effects people in different ways... i gave up diet sodas about 4 months ago, but i haven't lost anymore weights (perhaps with all the intesive daily exercise and diet i do, i'm already at my minimum possible healthy weight) but i know people who gave up diet sodas and lost weight. after some research, we came to the conclusion that the chemicals that are used to replace the sugar or the carbs that are in diet sodas put weight on just like sugar.
Diet is better than regular, but still detrimental... try it Isabel (just water)...This kind of abstinence is good for you. At least give it a week or 2 weeks and see how you feel and perhaps appear afterward. (Not trying to imply anything, I'm sure you are a knockout)
Sodas of ANY kind are not good for you. Some consider diet worse because of the presence of Aspartame (or the friendly term Nutra Sweet) which has been linked to brain tumors in experiments. It is nasty stuff. There is nothing better for you than water when it comes to liquids to drink.
I've gone completely off sodas and caffeine lately - I don't miss them at all. Water tastes even better than it did before. I noticed when I was in high school and ran a lot that I had better stamina and endurance when I stayed away from carbonated drinks.
You didn't get a headache? When I once kicked the caffeinated soda habit I had headaches for about a week because of the withdrawl symptoms. I've since gone back to drinking about one or two diet drinks a day. I do like Gatorades Propel water though...a lot less sugar than regular Gatorade. os
More water than less certainly doesn't hurt, geez you'd think it were broccoli! I drink a 1.5 ltr every day at my desk at work. I drink more with dinner and while chillin at night. I am however, a terrible swimmer.
I am drinking more and more each day, its crazy i am falling in love with water, i hope i can keep the habit up, i sort of think my U.S. History teacher last year got me into it. He is the head wrestling coach at our school and he constantly drank it during class.
Seems like a lot of people are blaming their health problems on aspartame (read here). I think it could affect different people different ways and some people not at all. I can drink a liter of diet soda in a day easy and I can't say I've had any health problems from it. I definitely haven't been drinking any water as of late...which I know is a bad thing. I truly cannot envision just drinking water alone. Even if I drink my full daily recommendations of water...I still need something else. I'm not a tea or coffee drinker, either. Milk(skim) could break the monotony of just drinking water but I get that in my cereal and fruit/protein shakes already. Water sure can exercise them taste buds .
4 glasses??????? I could write a book (beit a short one) on why we should be drinking a heck of a lot more than 4 glasses. I'm amazed that someone would actually say all we need is four. AMAZED! Don't buy that crapola...DRINK ALL THE WATER YOU CAN! As far as I'm concern, water is the true elixir of life. RR
Water is great...once I switched from drinking sodas and juices all the time to water (as well as eatingless and exercising more), I saw an increase in energy and shed about 90lbs over the course of 10mos. I don't drink as much as I used to, but I still get a good 6 glasses a day at least and have been known to devour an entire gallon in one sitting. The only drawback is that if you overdo it, you might flush some of your electrolytes out, but as long as you don't consume glass after glass after glass, you shouldn't worry about that.
Duping the masses into believing they need only 4 glasses of water instead of 8 glasses is a great way of conserving water, especially when you know there may be water crisis on the horizon in the future. Its bettter than corpoarations having to lose money by discontinuing the production of sodas and other artificial drinks that waste up alot of our water resources.
