Crystal Light

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  • deedeehawaii
    deedeehawaii Posts: 279 Member
    Well to add to the conversation, there is NO SCIENCE behind the advice that you need to drink 8 glasses of water a day.
    For a starting point on this fact, google, or see the article: "The claim that you need eight 8-ounce glasses of water a day has been debunked. Again."
    http://www.livescience.com/health/080403-water-intake.html

    The article also addresses if water affects weight loss, there are NO CLINICAL TRIALS that prove such a theory.
    "Drinking more water will make people feel full and curb their appetite. Proponents say this may help people maintain their weight and even help fight obesity. But studies remain inconclusive. No carefully designed clinical trials have measured the effects of water intake on weight maintenance."

    Perhaps less water than 8 glasses would be quite adequate, especially if you are able to drink the lesser amount without needing to resort to artificial sweetners and colors. Aren't 4 glasses of pure water better than 8 glasses of chemically tainted water?
  • SHBoss1673
    SHBoss1673 Posts: 7,161 Member
    staying on topic (arguing over a side topic should be taken offline IMHO). I don't drink crystal light myself, just because I enjoy water, but my wife does, and as such I've done quite a bit of research into it, from all I've found, there's no reason not to use it as you would water. It doesn't contain anything that one would consider a diuretic, which would be the main reason to discount a liquid.
    On occation I'll drink a bottle of water with crystal light in it just because my wife made it up and I was too lazy to walk upstairs from our home gym and get my own :tongue: .
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