Gem of the Week: Forget 8 Glasses of Water a Day – Mother Jones
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For many years, people have been told they should drink eight eight-ounce glasses of water a day. That’s 64 ounces, or nearly 2 liters. This week, Scottish practitioner Margaret McCartney is calling it “thoroughly debunked nonsense” in the current issue of the British Medical Journal. McCartney took on medical claims disseminated by Hydration for Health, […]
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Gem of the Week: Forget 8 Glasses of Water a Day – Mother Jones
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Gem of the Week: Forget 8 Glasses of Water a Day – Mother Jones