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Showing posts with label Health. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Health. Show all posts
Health Myth No. 1 - Thou Must Drink 2 Litres of Water a Day
Sunday, 26 August 2012
Hello Lovelies!
Having always been a bit obsessed with beauty, I've been an avid reader of magazines, and more recently in my life, blogs. I since then I have obviously started my own. I wanted to write about something that bugs the life right out of me though. And that is the "These things are what you should do to be beautiful, blah blah blah" magazine "facts" and these things are also I have noticed, been in blog posts. I myself believed these things when I was younger, but having studied nursing at university, and done some proper research on these matters for a variety of reasons, such as needing to know for assignments or just genuine interest, a lot of what you're reading is false information!
I thought I would start with the 'you must drink 2 litres of water a day' "fact". This is 100% completely and utterly wrong. Think for a moment if you will, that it is one of the weeks you have decided that you're going to be completely healthy. So out goes the fizzy drinks, tea, coffee etc., and you tell yourself, you WILL drink your "recommended" two litres of water a day. But it hits about mid-afternoon, and the thought of forcing yourself to drink more water literally makes you gag. Every time you move your stomach turns over and makes that god awful sloshing sound as all the water you have drank shifts. And completely on the other hand, you may be so thirsty because you've already drank your allowance.
This is because the amount of water your body requires is affected by a multitude of factors. Depending on any pre-existing medical conditions and something as simple as height, can affect the amount of water you're required to drink. Also, environmental temperatures and exercise are huge factors in determining the amount of water you should drink, or what your body needs.
Having always been a bit obsessed with beauty, I've been an avid reader of magazines, and more recently in my life, blogs. I since then I have obviously started my own. I wanted to write about something that bugs the life right out of me though. And that is the "These things are what you should do to be beautiful, blah blah blah" magazine "facts" and these things are also I have noticed, been in blog posts. I myself believed these things when I was younger, but having studied nursing at university, and done some proper research on these matters for a variety of reasons, such as needing to know for assignments or just genuine interest, a lot of what you're reading is false information!
I thought I would start with the 'you must drink 2 litres of water a day' "fact". This is 100% completely and utterly wrong. Think for a moment if you will, that it is one of the weeks you have decided that you're going to be completely healthy. So out goes the fizzy drinks, tea, coffee etc., and you tell yourself, you WILL drink your "recommended" two litres of water a day. But it hits about mid-afternoon, and the thought of forcing yourself to drink more water literally makes you gag. Every time you move your stomach turns over and makes that god awful sloshing sound as all the water you have drank shifts. And completely on the other hand, you may be so thirsty because you've already drank your allowance.
This is because the amount of water your body requires is affected by a multitude of factors. Depending on any pre-existing medical conditions and something as simple as height, can affect the amount of water you're required to drink. Also, environmental temperatures and exercise are huge factors in determining the amount of water you should drink, or what your body needs.
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