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    Did you know drinking eight glasses of water is nonsense? Drinking that much can be harmful.

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    +2  Views: 778 Answers: 7 Posted: 12 years ago

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    Well the scientific people say 8 glasses a day is helpful if they contain a mixture. Things like malt, barley and hops, that sort of thing.

    These blokes went to uni so who am I to argue with them?
    bulletman

    that was beery good, peoplelover!
    mycatsmom

    a university graduate doesn't know everything. If you want to get some good, no nonsense advice, ask the average working people out there on the street. I am a University grad, and even I know that.
    Tommyh

    Yep PL.That's a real pisser!

    Not, if you are on the Birdsville track.

    When I had an ultrasound to test for prostate problems I was told to drink 4 lires of water in the day I was having the test,AND BLOODY HOLD IT!!! So I do agree Eggy defineatly harmful!


     

    If I drank that much water, I"d never go anywhere or do anything, b/c I'd constantly be in the bath room-----peeing.


     Many foods have a lot of water in them, so that 's how we get enough water.without drinking 8 glasses a day .

    Yes I worked all through western Queensland and the first thing I did on arrival in a new area was to source rainwater from a tank.
    I was calling on station properties and travelling by car and caravan with a wife two kids and a dog

    Some areas rhe bore water came out that hot you needed to add cold to it, sulphur smell was shocking.

    None the less a lot of areas opened up because of the Great Artesian Basin.
    Been out in that type of country eggy and you are not wrong 50 in the water bag.
    eggplant

    I've been in the country too. Used to get bore water from some place in the wild, near Lightning Ridge.

    Drinking 8 glasses of water a day would put me in a pissy mood, pun intended.



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