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Do You Really Need Eight Glasses of Water a Day?

  • April 21, 2004

How many of us have heard that we are dehydrated and we need to drink at least eight glasses of water a day? I know that was what I have been exposed to. More refined versions include one quart of water for every 50 pounds of body weight so that would increase it to 12 to 16 glasses a day for most of us. This is what I recommended at one time but after awhile it never made much sense to me so I refined my recommendations to look at your urine. As long as you were not taking riboflavin...