Thanks for the information. I nearly forgotten that the food that we consumed contains liquid in it too. How about those coma patients in the hospital can live from nutrients through an IV, intravenously? Those are considered as liquid food too if I'm not mistaken.

Regards, Joey

this topic comes up every few months huh.

well here you go.

http://nutrition.about.com/library/blwatercalculator.htm

calculate for your own selves how much you need to drink. but basically i guess the aim is to get clear urine.

anyway, if we consumer too much of water, doesnt burden our kidney meh ?

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This post has been edited by edge_seraph: Jan 18 2011, 07:02 PM

heavy metal source such as pipe water?

mineral water n distilled water confirm lesser heavy metal right?
how bout soft drinks?

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This post has been edited by edge_seraph: Jan 18 2011, 07:02 PM

misleading by some elders when i was a kid lol
so dun dare to drinkso much,kidney failure nanti -.- but of course got 8 cups of water per day

There's news on New Straits Times, Tuesday, November 10, 2009 about water intoxication. You may do some reading there.

Regards, Joey

This post has been edited by Joey Christensen: Nov 10 2009, 03:51 PM

Once I saw a person has a kidney failure.
The color of her urine are like Horlicks.

Kidney's job is to clean blood.
Water helps a lot.

Less water, kidney working overtime...bad.

it is extremely hard to overdose on water unless the person got some psychological problem or is a aquaholic. overdosage of water may cause disruption to salt balance in blood, causing hypotonic of blood which lead to swelling of cells. swelling of the brain in extreme cases will lead to coma and even death.

i remember long time ago a marathon runner drinking water( that time no isotonic sport drink) at every station then end up fainting coma and death.

wunt easily overdose la.. judge the water u need by the colour of ur pee.. Pee shud be slightly white yellow colour.. if too yellow,,not enuf water.. If too pure and clear,, u drank too much.. Average about 6-8 glass of water enuf for a normal person.. IT varies with your daily lifestyle though..

Hmm..what i heard was that it took over 10 liters a day to have an overdose problem.

Read in a news years ago.
This girl is on a diet...drank water only.
She died as a result.

Even in the office, I drank 2-3 bottles (regular mineral water bottle) of water.
At home, always has two(2) small thermos at my side.
Woke up every morning, drank water...4 glasses.
Those few morning saliva (air liur basi) contains good enzyme to kill bacteria in your stomach/intestines
After an hour, went to the toilet...took a huge dump
Clean intestines in the morning...no need to take a dump in the office (I prefer home toilet compare to office)

how many cans of soft drink u guys usually drink per day? sometimes i drink 3 cans. is it excessive? high sugar?

4 litre of plain water MINIMUM for me

wah lao.. u drink a lot of water. sometimes, i hardly finish 1.5 liter =.=
thks for this thread, i'll drink a lot of water start from now.. haha

does drinking alot of water will occur any disease?

Ingesting more water than you need can increase your total blood volume. And since your blood volume exists within a closed system - your blood circulatory system - needlessly increasing your blood volume on a regular basis puts unnecessary burden on your heart and blood vessels.

Your kidneys must work overtime to filter excess water out of your blood circulatory system. Your kidneys are not the equivalent of a pair of plumbing pipes whereby the more water you flush through your kidneys, the cleaner they become; rather, the filtration system that exists in your kidneys is composed in part by a series of specialised capillary beds called glomeruli. Your glomeruli can get damaged by unnecessary wear and tear over time, and drowning your system with large amounts of water is one of many potential causes of said damage.

Excerpt taken from Dr. Ben Kim.

Regards, Joey

p.s: My advice would be, it is to follow your sense of thirst. Drink when you are feel thirsty. You'll develop the habit of drinking water then.

more than 1 litter per day issit okay?

So I guess once the urine color is clear and not yellow, you are not longer to need force yourself to drink more water?

It is some kind of indicator that your body don't need more water or just some urban myth?