Drinking water helps....

itontae

WATER does NOT get rid of toxins in the body.
This is utter nonsese

darlilama

OK, fine -- there are people who have died from drinking too much water. Here's what they ALL had in common -- they were drinking EXCESSIVE amounts of water in extremely short amounts of time. We're not talking about drinking 10-12 cups in a day. In all the cases that have been made public in the media (and accessible on the internet), there were cases of people drinking 4 liters in 2 hours, kids being forced to drink 2.8 in four hours or a gallon in 2 hours, hazing victims who were forced to drink gallons of water during the course of a party, a woman who died from drinking too much water and NOT PEEING!!! These are not people who are drinking 8, 16, or even 24 glasses of water a day (spread out over the course of a day). These are not people who are allowing their bodies to excrete in a normal way. They are doing something completely out of the ordinary. So, to act as though water intoxication is even close to common, let alone that the average person could just accidentally "OD" on water is utterly ridiculous.

To the one poster who has a particular medical condition -- I'm sorry to hear that you have this condition. But, A) there's no doubt in my mind that this is a rare condition and I'm guessing that you had been warned that you have the condition, and therefore know how to take precautionary measures. I seriously doubt that the average person is suddenly going to find out that they have this particular condition because they drank 9 glasses of water in a day.

But, when posting, it is better to never put your statements in "absolutes" without pointing out the exceptions, clarifications, or qualifications. There are a lot of people here trying very hard to become fit, many for the first time in their lives. Someone who might "hate" water could decide to drink their 3 litres in 15 minutes... So, okay, I'm not sure that particular amt/time frame would cause water intoxication, but you get my point.

tigersword

WATER does NOT get rid of toxins in the body.
This is utter nonsese

This. It also does nothing for weight loss, other than helping eliminate water weight if you are retaining water. You have organs in your body that eliminate toxins. Yes, being properly hydrated helps, but your body really doesn't care if it comes from pure water, juice, soda, coffee, tea, or watermelon, celery chicken broth, or any other source of liquid. Plain water does nothing special, except save calories.

BrewerGeorge

Water itself isn't magical, but if you drink a lot of COLD water as many of us enjoy it, your body will spend Calories raising it to body temperature. Raising a liter of well-iced water to body temp will burn about 37 Calories. So those drinking their 8 cups of cold water a day and changing nothing else will burn around 80 extra Calories each day. That's 8 lbs of weight loss in a year.

Do you have a source for that?

It's the definition of calorie. A calorie is a unit of heat energy defined by the amount of heat required to raise one gram/milliliter of water one Celsius. A food Calorie is actually a kilocalorie, so the amount of heat required to raise one liter of water one Celsius. Water just at freezing temp is around 1 C and body temp is about 38 C. A liter is roughly 4 cups, so 8 cups from 1 C to 38 C costs in the neighborhood of 76 Calories. It's just simple math.

You can also burn calories by hanging out in cold weather as your body burns extra fuel to combat the colder air.

alininja1991

WATER does NOT get rid of toxins in the body.
This is utter nonsese

Actually it does, I went to my doctor today to talk about my spot I am recently getting, I am WELL out of puberty, been out of that sinec i was 14... thats nearly 7 years... So the doctor asked me if i'm doing anything different with my diet and I told him I am drinking 2.5litres a day and he told me I am getting spots because of the toxins behind flushed out my body, I am also sweating more, which is a sign of toxins being released...

Also I am on the depo so I don't have a cycle. Ladies, it doesn't flush toxins out your body... Obviously you have to have a healthy diet AS WELL AS for this to happen..

I think a doctor confirming this is more accurate than any of us, since they see this stuff all the time.

Anyway the dr said in about 2 weeks my spots should be gone as soon as my body adjusts to this new dietary requirement

andrea_marie3

I found the same results with my headaches! Lesson learned...always drink enough water.

alininja1991

I found the same results with my headaches! Lesson learned...always drink enough water.

Definitely!

tigersword

WATER does NOT get rid of toxins in the body.
This is utter nonsese

Actually it does, I went to my doctor today to talk about my spot I am recently getting, I am WELL out of puberty, been out of that sinec i was 14... thats nearly 7 years... So the doctor asked me if i'm doing anything different with my diet and I told him I am drinking 2.5litres a day and he told me I am getting spots because of the toxins behind flushed out my body, I am also sweating more, which is a sign of toxins being released...

Also I am on the depo so I don't have a cycle. Ladies, it doesn't flush toxins out your body... Obviously you have to have a healthy diet AS WELL AS for this to happen..

I think a doctor confirming this is more accurate than any of us, since they see this stuff all the time.

Anyway the dr said in about 2 weeks my spots should be gone as soon as my body adjusts to this new dietary requirement

This is because you were probably not as well hydrated. Like I said, being properly hydrated helps your organs function properly, but it doesn't matter the source of the liquid. You could drink 2.5 liters of coffee and get the same over all results. If you're drinking more than you were before, then you are more hydrated than you were, which helps your body eliminate toxins. Physically, the water doesn't actually do anything special to that effect.