Sure sounds like the "8x8" recommendation (why not just say "half a gallon" or "2 liters"?) is actually a reasonable lower bound for what people should be drinking then.
Don't consume these. They have the opposite effect of dehydrating you.
[1] http://www.bbc.com/future/story/20140402-are-coffee-and-tea-...
Instead what you see are obese individuals because drinking soda has the net effect of making you more thirsty, causing people to drink more soda. Which is exactly what the soda makers want you to do, and will fund studies to make you believe otherwise.
My body certainly isn't.
Of course, at any restaurant glasses given with water for the table are going to be somewhere much nearer your 236ml, so there's really nothing psychotic about it.
Bingo. It's not hard to sip on a average sized glass of water during a meal. I routinely kill a 750ml water bottle at the gym or when hiking.
Since the article got something so basic wrong (and if it was intentional you would think they would mention that the numbers were similar), I decided to stop reading the article at that point, I don't need incorrect information.
Maybe it's an editing mistake?
The actual amount of water you need varies by exertion, and diet and all sorts of things, it's not a fixed amount.
I completely agree with this statement.
>If you drink that much, you'll just pee a lot, it won't actually do anything useful.
I drink on average 6L of water a day. When I first started water-only fasting I was urinating constantly. I discovered that this was because I would drink a lot in one sitting, (as a 'meal' replica) and then interspersed throughout the day.
Once I changed my consumption style to ~150mL frequently I found that my body used the water better. Once it realized that a "constant supply" was readily available (and didn't need to worry about feast/famine cycles) I retained what I needed and more casually urinated the processed water.
My body can better manage itself when I drink 150ml 40x a day then it can manage 1L 6x a day.
You can also store water, for a short time, mixed into fiber in food that was recently eaten.
Asking in good faith, taken independently each of your comments make perfect sense to me!
Continually drinking small amounts doesn't overwhelm my stomach and therefore it feels like I urinate less, and 'retain' that water.
(24h - 8h) * 60 min/h / 40 = 24 min
So you stop what you're doing every half an hour and drink get a glass of water and drink it? Or do you have constant supply at your desk or how are the logistics?
So cold water is always close.
I also drink when I'm at home.
8 cups / day is widely reported - and suggested in the article itself - to be too high as a minimum, and yet the article actually ends up concluding that you need to be drinking more than that.