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Originally Posted by emmy007
Someone believes we need to drink a total 2 liters of water per day. Do we need that much? In some ways, water intake is helpful can help kidney discharges poisonous substances from our bodies and lessen kidney burden. However, an adult kidney's drainage is about 800-1000 ml. If we take over 1000 ml drinking water within an hour, it will affect kidney health. Thus, we should not take more than 100 ml water at one time, not more than 1000 ml per hour.
Though we need to take some water to make up for the moisture loss from breathing, excrement and sweating, it's unnecessary to drink a total 2 liters of water per day. It's not hard to tell if we are in the need of water supplement. Yellow transparent urine is a sign of enough moisture while untransparent urine shows lack of water. |
Everything in excess is bad. We should not drink the required 2 liters of water all at once. Like what you've said, 100 ml of water in one sitting is enough and just spread the remaining intake the rest of the day. I've read somewhere that the average daily water intake for men should be 3 liters or roughly 13 cups of water while women should be drinking an average of 2.2 liters or about 9 cups of water. Drinking water is really efficient in cleansing your body of impurities and excess waste.