"Try to drink about 6-8 glasses of water (or other fluids) a day to prevent dehydration" says the NHS Choices website.
One of the biggest misconceptions currently is that we need to drink a certain amount of fluids or we'll get dehydrated - there is no physiological basis for this statement. Before we were told to do this, were there masses of people admitted to hospital with dehydration secondary to, well, nothing except not drinking? NO!
All the current information regarding water intake is promulgated by companies such as Danone "We don't drink enough water" - thanks for caring... oh, you make Evian, how coincidental!
According to Professor Stanley Goldfarb, nephrologist at the University of Pennsylvania, in the US "gallon for gallon, bottled water is more expensive than oil".
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