Ask anybody this question, including health care professionals, and a confident response will be back at you in a flash … “2 litres a day” … “8 glasses a day” ... "only water counts as water”, some may add. We’ve all read it and heard it so many times before, so it must be true, right? Too many people say it for it to be wrong, right? If it isn’t true, then somebody would be saying it isn't true, wouldn't they?
It may have originated back in 1945 when the US Food and Nutrition Board of the National Research Council (NRC) issued a recommendation for meeting our fluid requirement: "An ordinary standard for diverse persons is 1 millilitre for each calorie of food. Most of this quantity is contained in prepared foods." [1]
Eat well. Add lots of salad veg or cooked veg to your meals. Eat fresh fruit a few times a day, carry on enjoying your tea, coffee and the rest, and you won’t need to drink anywhere near 8 glasses of water to meet your daily fluid requirement.
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