[Alex D]

[quote="Mr.Buttocks":141a5][quote="Jimbo@":141a5][quote="Apocalypse | NoW":141a5]my health teacher said that if you drink water at an extreme amount, the water washes out the essential nutraints and u can die.[/quote:141a5]

Your teacher is wrong. Now chug down that water!!![/quote:141a5]


Actually, his teacher's right in a way. If you drink too much water it can reduce the amount of sodium in your bloodstream. This can cause swelling of various body parts, including the brain. Usually it happens to people that are doing serious physical activity and drinking too much water, the chances of it happening to someone sitting about drinking water would be slim I guess. Unless you went nuts and just drank and drank and drank all day long. eek:


(The above information might have been in mr.miyagi's post, but I was too lazy to read it all.)[/quote:141a5]

Maybe that is the reason Gatorade became so popular. I remember my father after sports used to drink water with some salts dissolved in, well before Gatorade.

Also the mith of drinking 8 glasses of water each day as minimum has been questioned by some researchers that said there was no hard proof of such affirmation. They concluded that our body has its own mechanism to protect itself from dehidratation, which is the feeling of being thirsty, as simple as that. In other words, just drink until feel satisfied and stop.

These 8 glasses may be true, but it already counts the water within the food.