Conventional wisdom holds from the Boston Globe<\/a><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Norma Yvonne is the type of person who; when told by the doctor to eat more roughage, will run right out and stock up on alfalfa, barley and cashew nuts. So when told she should be drinking 8 glasses of … Continue reading ![](\"http:\/\/cyber.law.harvard.edu\/blogs\/static\/dowbrigade\/glassofwater.jpg\")
Norma
\n Yvonne is the type of person who; when told by the doctor to eat more
\n roughage, will run right out and stock up on alfalfa, barley
\n and cashew nuts. So when told she should be drinking 8 glasses of water
\n a day, she instead made it a point to go through at least a gallon a
\n day. Since she only weighs 95 pounds and has nowhere to store that much
\n water, she is making constant trips to the lady’s room, and constantly
\n needs to know where the closest bathroom is. Well, guess what? All she
\n was doing was diluting her essential essence!<\/em><\/p>\n
\n so strongly that drinking eight glasses of water a day is
\n essential
\n to
\n good
\n health
\n that
\n bottles
\n of water
\n have
\n become as ubiquitous as cell phones in meetings, on commuter trains
\n and on sidewalks. The nation is, by all appearances, parched, just a
\n sip
\n ahead of dehydration.
\n
\n
\n But last week, a panel of some of the most esteemed nutrition and health
\n experts in the United States and Canada said there’s no need to try to
\n get eight glasses a day: People should just drink when they’re thirsty.<\/p>\n