how to drink water

in elementary school,most of us learn the human body is75% water and we are supposed to drinkeight glasses of water every single day. but that h2o knowledge,that's evaporated. hey, hydraters. trace here for d news. babies are wet. yeah, they are soaked in water.

a recent npr blog post talkedabout how hydrated babies are. they are 75% waterwhen they're new. just for comparison,potatoes are about 80% water and bananas, they're 74% water. as we grow older, we dry out. adult men are only 60% waterwhile women are 55% water. the reason beingmen tend to have higher amounts of muscleand women more fat, which means muscle storesmore water and fat cells

are bit drier on average. but the fluid is actuallystored all over our body. some is extracellular, storedin the liver, the kidneys, stomach, bladder, spinalfluids, and so on. but more than half isactually inside of your cells. the bottom line is thatwater is vital to our health. it helps lubricate joints. it gives our wastesomething to dissolve into. it keeps our tissueshealthy and pliable.

but we lose it. we lose it all day, every day,sweating, pooping, peeing. constantly, it'sevaporating from our pores. and if we don't replaceit, we become dehydrated, and our body suffersin a number of ways. which brings us toa very good question that d news fan vijanti persadasked on our facebook page. what is the rightor required amount of water intake for a person?

that is an excellent question. we've all heardthat you're supposed to drink eight glassesof water a day. but where did that come from? no one knows. the debunkingmasters at snopes.com couldn't even findoriginal research on it. they talked to barbararolls, a nutrition researcher at penn state who'swritten a book about water,

and even she doesn'tknow where it came from. the mayo clinic says thescience is contested, but it sure is easy toremember, so why not? honestly, a lot of our fluidintake comes from food. the rules say that weneed to drink fluid, so if we eat abanana or an orange, we consume their fluid, whichis to say, we take their water. like fricking dune, man, thespice must flow and all that. an orange contains approximatelyeight ounces of fluid.

but if you drink a lotof diuretics, like soda, your kidneys start to shedsodium, meaning you need more to replace it, which is bad. so while, yes, by drinkingsodas you're drinking fluids, you're doing it wrong. exactly how muchwater or fluid you're supposed to drinkevery day depends on things like body size andhow much exercise you get, how hot and dry the climateis and whether you're

sick or pregnant. the truth is itprobably wouldn't hurt you to drink 8 to 12 8ounce glasses of fluid per day, but a really good wayto test whether you're drinking enough water is tolook at your pee-- seriously. when i was hiking inthe desert, the guides told us that it shouldbe clear and copious. if it's yellow, thatmeans you're dehydrated. so drink up and keep a bpafree water bottle around

to fill it up directlyfrom your tap. what do you do to stay hydrated? give us some strategies. let us know in thecomments, and thanks a lot for watching d news everybody.

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