Is drinking pure water better than getting our 8 glasses of water from foods and drinks?

Answer 1

the 8 ounces is a guideline, if you are more thirsty then drink more, if you are not then don't. Plus the water from foods is included in the 8 glasses of water. Also, 2 or 3 of those "glasses of water" should be lowfat milk in order to get the nutrients you need from that, like Calcium.

so basically the 8 glasses of water a day is misinterpreted and doesn't literally mean to go out and drink all that water. It's more like a guideline of how much "fluid" you should have in a day.

Answer 2

When you say "pure water", do you mean distilled water (99.99% water, virtually no other molecules present)?

If you do, then I would say that you should increase the water content of the foods that you eat instead of getting your water from a distilled source. Now I don't mean that you should not drink distilled water, but you should ensure that you are increasing the number of water soluble nutrients (especially electrolytes) in your diet to compensate for the distilled water having none. Drinking only distilled water will leach some minerals out of your body. Be cautious when looking at bottled water. Spring water is preferred, provided the sodium ion concentration fits into your diet. Remember that most countries (including the USA) do not require testing of bottled water. But those same countries DO require testing of tap water.

Hope this helps,
Lorax

Answer 3

The reasoning behind the "8 glasses a day" campaign is to dissuade people from drinking 4 cups of coffee and 4 glasses of soda a day. It is clearly of benefit to ingest less caffeine, and less sugar, and more water. The reason it is given as eight may be the same reason some dentists tell you to floss twice a day. They believe if you tell them this, they'll do it at least a couple times a week.

Answer 4

By pure water you mean H2O with nothing dissolved?

Then yes!

Depending on where you live your city or rural tap water IS laden with many harmful substances. But the concentrations of these substances is deemed by the government to be within acceptable human tolerance.

Even bottled water contains dissolved Antimony which is used the the manufacture of PET bottles (these are the common transparent bottles). In fact, manufactures of these bottles contend with the fact that you can TASTE it in whatever is in the bottle. Antimony is also the replacement for lead in soldering water pipe joints together... if you house has copper plumbing, you are getting daily doses of antimony.

Antimony is TOXIC and its effects are similar to arsenic poisioning. But you can't avoid it in everyday life without some extreme effort.

The human body does however benefit from some of the dissolved ions found in mineral and tap water, and there are much worse things you could be putting into your body then water.

Answer 5

You are better off substituting water for some of the drinks. I believe taking the foods into considation is double counting; you don't want to eat more food to provide the extra water.

Answer 6

You need 8 glasses of water a day. Period. It's up to you where you get it from, but water is water. There's no vitamins or protein in it, it's water. Drinking it from the tap or from a bottle, it's more or less the same.

Answer 7

That 8 glasses of water generally refers to water not including water in food and other drinks.

Answer 8

Yes pure water is better. It has no calories and gives you more water in one serving. You can make water taste better by adding lemon or Crystal Light To Go. If you still can't force it down, eat fruits and veggies that are rich with water. Melons, citrus fruits, apples, cucumbers, etc.

Answer 9

No, it generally makes no difference, and no, there's no magic in that ridiculous "8 glasses" joke. Why do people take that as gospel? There's no medical or scientific basis to it, and it's plain as day that more or less may be needed according to circumstance.