Health - Are you drinking enough water?

Are you drinking enough water, especially in hot weather or during exercise? As Peter Landless says, you can’t always depend on feeling thirsty.

How much water should we drink?  That’s a question which people often ask, should it be six glasses, eight glasses, does everything that I eat count?  Watermelon, fruit, soups?  Well yes it does, it all counts but is extremely difficult to go and count every glass of water.  So, we have two things, we have a wonderful thirst mechanism which tells you that when you are walking around with your bottle of water that you know weather or not you need to drink, you don’t need to sort of drink every five minutes, every two minutes but you do need to drink to quench your thirst.  Number one, always your quench your thirst and then take a third extra beyond that.  The second important test – when you are wanting to know how much water to drink, especially when you exercise, especially when it’s hot, especially when you are perspiring, then you need another test.  First one was your thirst, the second one is what color is your urine?  If the urine is a nice clear color, approaching the color of tap water, you know that you are drinking enough water.  And so you have some tests, we so often go without what is really one of the huge essentials of life and that is adequate amounts of water.  Make sure that you don’t make that mistake.  Quench your thirst, add a third of volume, over and above that is taken and check the color of your urine.