3526. Posted by A Yahoo! Health User on Mon, Apr 20, 2009, 9:35 pm PDT

Much better to be drinking water than sodas with corn sweeteners, or Diet drinks with dangerous chemical sweeteners in them! Give me a break Doc!

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3527. Posted by A Yahoo! Health User on Mon, Apr 20, 2009, 9:35 pm PDT

Much better to be drinking water than sodas with corn sweeteners, or Diet drinks with dangerous chemical sweeteners in them! Give me a break Doc!

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3528. Posted by A Yahoo! Health User on Mon, Apr 20, 2009, 9:35 pm PDT

what an idiot! he's never drank our hometown h2o. and as for 'toting' he can tote his thumb up his ass, up there where his head is...

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3529. Posted by A Yahoo! Health User on Mon, Apr 20, 2009, 9:48 pm PDT

This is good to know. As for me, I have a few liter-bottles that I fill with tap water every day, and refrigerate them. Still very convenient, and it tastes just like bottled water. Part of the reason I drink so much bottled water is to avoid drinking less healthy beverages like soda.

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3530. Posted by A Yahoo! Health User on Mon, Apr 20, 2009, 9:52 pm PDT

"half your body weight in ounces"... so, if I weigh 180 lbs, should I be drinking 90 oz? if you literally interpret that, I should be drinking 1440 oz, or 90 lbs of water a day.

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3531. Posted by A Yahoo! Health User on Mon, Apr 20, 2009, 10:44 pm PDT

It doesn't seem like much research was done for this article. If there was, then not much detail was given and is outdated. Are they talking about tap water that runs through new piping? How many people live in older houses? I do and once in a while the water will run rusty. I like to buy water for that reason but will only buy steam distilled. Seems worth the money to me since it's the closest thing to naturally purified. What about all the pharmisuticals that are being dumped into waterways? They are recycling water bottles now, but then again, what about the poisons found in plastics that leak out into the contents? That's ok, apparently we don't need to drink that much anyway. We can eat our liquids.

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3532. Posted by A Yahoo! Health User on Tue, Apr 28, 2009, 2:43 pm PDT

I do think we need to drink 8 cups a day, or close to it. I certainly have noticed a vast difference in my own health when I fail to do this, ranging from sore throats (I used to get them all the time before I began drinking the recommended amount of water) to weight gain (drinking lots of water really helps me stave off the urge for junk food) to irregular labor contractions (I found it very hard to drink enough water while pregnant, and one result was irregular contractions and the necessity of IV fluids during labor). However, don't assume when you see someone sucking on a squirt bottle that they're drinking bottled water. I have several around the house and fill them again and again with tap water. You shouldn't reuse those bottles too often, but buying a better one (in steel, say) and filling it with water from the tap is a great way to stay hydrated and save a lot of pollution and wasted money. If you're not sure about the quality of your tap water, look on your water company's website. They should have a report on water quality. If yours is perfectly fine and tastes good, why pay for bottled? And if it isn't, don't take it lying down--take it to your legislator. Everyone has a right to clean water at no more than a reasonable cost of purification and distribution.

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