{"id":19245,"date":"2025-09-16T14:10:55","date_gmt":"2025-09-16T18:10:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/valuecare.wpgamma.com\/?p=19245"},"modified":"2025-09-16T14:10:55","modified_gmt":"2025-09-16T18:10:55","slug":"8-glasses-of-water-per-day-is-it-really-necessary-and-why","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/valuecare.wpgamma.com\/index.php\/2025\/09\/16\/8-glasses-of-water-per-day-is-it-really-necessary-and-why\/","title":{"rendered":"8 Glasses of Water Per Day &#8211; Is it Really Necessary, and Why?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"entry\">\n<p>We are always told to take 8 cups of water a day.<\/p>\n<p>Yeah. Do you think I\u2019m a horse?<\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s what I have been telling myself until I sit down and do the math:<\/p>\n<p><strong>How the expert comes up with the magic number 8<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>On average, we get around 3.5 cups of water from various foods, and 0.5 cup as a byproduct from our body\u2019s own metabolism (water is produced when energy is released). At the same time, 2 cups of water is lost through lungs (breathing), 6 cups through intestines and kidney (poo and wee), 2 cups from\u00a0<a href=\"\/remedies-treatments\/deodorite-herbal-perspiration-remedies.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Sweating<\/a>\u00a0in inactive activities (like sitting and sleeping), and 2 extra cups from\u00a0<a href=\"\/remedies-treatments\/deodorite-herbal-perspiration-remedies.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Sweating<\/a>\u00a0under hot weather or exercise. As you can see we\u2019ll need to drink 8 cups of water to fill that hole.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Just to scare you further, here are a few fun facts on drinking water:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>75% of the earth is covered with water, of which only 3% is fresh water. Among the 3%, 2% is frozen in polar ice caps (yes, it\u2019s fresh water), thus only 1% of water available on earth is drinkable.Take it while you can!<\/li>\n<li>We are virtually made of water \u2014 A human body is 70% water, similar to an\u00a0<a href=\"\/remedies-treatments\/herbs-oils.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Avocado<\/a>\u00a0(73%), banana (75%) and a living tree (75%). Strawberry is 91% water.<\/li>\n<li>While we can normally survive without food for more than a month, we can\u2019t live without water for more than a week.<\/li>\n<li>Drinks containing concentrated nutrients, such as milk, sugar-sweetened soft drinks, and salty tomato-based juices, count more as food than drink since they themselves increase your body\u2019s water needs.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Composition of water<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>For tap water, it\u2019s 99.89% water, 0.1% ash (whatever that is), 0.002% (5mg) calcium, 0.002% (5mg) sodium, and 0.001% (2mg) magnesium. We are talking about tap water in the US here. I\u2019m quite sure you\u2019ll get a lot more interesting stuff in tap water from, say, Nepal?<\/p>\n<p>How much is 5mg of Calcium by the way? It equals to the amount of calcium a banana gives you, but banana is quite thrifty on this among fruits.\u00a0<a href=\"\/remedies-treatments\/herbs-oils.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Orange<\/a>, for example, gives you 10 times of that.<\/p>\n<p>How about bottled water? Interestingly, it does have more Calcium (24mg), and Perrier has even more (32mg). This is already double the amount of Calcium in an average fruit.<\/p>\n<p>On the other hand, if you think the \u201cmineral\u201d water can give you all buzzed up with the good stuff\u2026 please note that the bottled water will give you a little bit more Magnesium and Sodium than tap water, and nothing else. And Perrier? Zippo! except the calcium.<\/p>\n<p><strong>My conclusion is to dash into the kitchen and make myself the following:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A glass of really nice water<\/p>\n<p>Time preparation: 5 minutes Serving: 1<\/p>\n<p>Ingredients:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>1 glass of water<\/li>\n<li>1\/2\u00a0<a href=\"\/remedies-treatments\/herbs-oils.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Lime<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Directions:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Walk slowly into the kitchen. Smell the flowers. Think of the poor children in Africa who\u2019ve never had a drop of clean water.<\/li>\n<li>Get the freshest\u00a0<a href=\"\/remedies-treatments\/herbs-oils.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Lime<\/a>\u00a0from the fridge while making sure the water heater is on.<\/li>\n<li>Have your favorite glass ready, besides the window. Take a rest, look out of the window and enjoy the scenery.<\/li>\n<li>When the water is boiled and cooled, pour it into the glass. Better yet, pour into a simple water filter and then pour it into the glass. See how the water sparkles under the sunlight!<\/li>\n<li>Slice the\u00a0<a href=\"\/remedies-treatments\/herbs-oils.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Lime<\/a>; drop a few pieces in the glass and count the cute little bubbles coming out from the slices. Cut another thin slice from the\u00a0<a href=\"\/remedies-treatments\/herbs-oils.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Lime<\/a>, twist and make a pretty garnish.<\/li>\n<li>Get a book or magazine and dive yourself into the most comfortable sofa. Drink. Enjoy life.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>About the author<\/p>\n<p>Stephanie writes a light-hearted daily blog on healthy, delicious and family-friendly beverages, together with nutritional value and fun facts on foods. 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That\u2019s what I have been telling myself until I sit down and do the math: How the expert comes up with the magic number 8 On average, we get around 3.5 cups of water from various [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[129],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19245","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general-health-info"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/valuecare.wpgamma.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19245","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/valuecare.wpgamma.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/valuecare.wpgamma.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valuecare.wpgamma.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valuecare.wpgamma.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19245"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/valuecare.wpgamma.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19245\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/valuecare.wpgamma.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19245"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valuecare.wpgamma.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19245"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valuecare.wpgamma.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19245"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}