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Is 8 Glasses of Water Per Day Overkill?
An anonymous reader writes: "David Harris reports in his science news that the American Journal of Physiology today published a study dispelling the 8x8 myth. That is, the recommendation to drink 8 eight-ounce glasses of water per day has no scientific evidence behind it. The paper also mentions the risks of drinking too much water and explodes some other urban myths of water drinking such as the 'thirsty means dehydrated' and 'dark urine means dehydrated' myths."
It pisses me off that i can't read this without paying. I mean all were getting here is the watered down abstract. And the link will likely be hosed shortly anyway due to ./ effect.