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Are you drinking eight glasses of water every day? Should you? It's important to make sure you drink enough water, especially if you live in extreme heat conditions. Dehydration can lead to fatigue, spikes in blood pressure and irregular heart rate. But the rules of hydration are surprisingly slippery. There's a lot of advice out there about how much water you should drink, who needs the most and how to know if you're dehydrated. In this article, you'll learn the true recommended intake for water, plus several factors that influence your hydration needs.
A lot of good info, especially regarding needs under various circumstances. But, the last two paragraphs have a great solution
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Drink half your bodyweight in ounces: This is a simple guideline that's easy to remember and usually easy to achieve. If you weigh 150 pounds, aim to drink 75 ounces of water each day. This is the only rule of thumb that accounts for different body sizes, but it doesn't account for thirst, climate, activity level or other factors.
Experiment with hydration techniques to find what works for you. As long as you're not battling chronic fatigue, headaches or other signs of dehydration, you are probably doing a pretty good job. As a failsafe, you can always determine whether you are under or overhydrated based on the color of your urine.
Can't alway measure in numbers but I've heard in the past 70% of the trips to the bathroom the urine should be mostly clear and odorless. Also thirst is natures way to say the body needs more water. Numbers will vary by individual but signs like fatigue, cramps, dry mouth might be a sign of dehydration as well.
Also thirst is natures way to say the body needs more water. Numbers will vary by individual but signs like fatigue, cramps, dry mouth might be a sign of dehydration as well.
Though I've read that by the time thirst and symptoms like those become noticeable, a person has been in a fluid deficit for a while. If you're trying to prevent dehydration in the first place, that's a little late. There's laundry list of more subtle indicators that may show up before thirst does including irritability, poor concentration, low grade headache, bad breath, hunger, skin tenting (different than dry skin)...
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At my current age (74), my mother weighed 98. I way 228. What moronic doctor would say we should each drink the same amount of water?
The figure I found most often was current weight X .67 = ounces you should drink on a 'normal day'. More if it is extremely hot or you are working hard and sweating. No, I'm not going to point to some source for that...I spend days finding it. Take it or leave it. I just know it works for me.
At my current age (74), my mother weighed 98. I way 228. What moronic doctor would say we should each drink the same amount of water?
The figure I found most often was current weight X .67 = ounces you should drink on a 'normal day'. More if it is extremely hot or you are working hard and sweating. No, I'm not going to point to some source for that...I spend days finding it. Take it or leave it. I just know it works for me.
Not to cause an argument, but did you read my post and article?
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Drink half your bodyweight in ounces: This is a simple guideline that's easy to remember and usually easy to achieve. If you weigh 150 pounds, aim to drink 75 ounces of water each day. This is the only rule of thumb that accounts for different body sizes, but it doesn't account for thirst, climate, activity level or other factors.
Experiment with hydration techniques to find what works for you. As long as you're not battling chronic fatigue, headaches or other signs of dehydration, you are probably doing a pretty good job. As a failsafe, you can always determine whether you are under or overhydrated based on the color of your urine.
"It's important to make sure you drink enough water, especially if you live in extreme heat conditions."
Air temperature, sun exposure, amount of physical exertion, food intake, body weight, how much a person is sweating- There seem to be several variables that could help determine how much water would be ideal for a person to drink.
Figuring half my bodyweight in ounces it's be 9-10 glasses of 8 ounces a day. That's a whopper. I'd need to have a toilet nearby at every hour-or less!
"It's important to make sure you drink enough water, especially if you live in extreme heat conditions."
Air temperature, sun exposure, amount of physical exertion, food intake, body weight, how much a person is sweating- There seem to be several variables that could help determine how much water would be ideal for a person to drink.
Figuring half my bodyweight in ounces it's be 9-10 glasses of 8 ounces a day. That's a whopper. I'd need to have a toilet nearby at every hour-or less!
Living here in Arizona I've learned one thing...it seems as if you're not usually sweating, even in the extreme heat. But I think that's often because the sweat evaporates almost immediately with relative humidities that are often in the teens.
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