Letters to the Editor
Our daily need of water
It is widely recommended that a person should drink at least 8 glasses of water per day. The above equation suggests that each of the 8 glasses should contain 8 ounces of water, that is, 64 ounces per day. This water-intake suggestion was based on the recommendation by the Food and Nutrition Board of the National Research Council (USA) -- one milliliter of water for each food calorie ingested. But some scientists who tried to find out scientific basis for this recommendation couldn't find any evidence. Actually water intake for a person depends on his/her food and beverage consumption because these also provide sufficient amount of water to human body. The fact is, for keeping us healthy, sufficient amount of water intake is necessary.
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