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When I look out among the students in the lecture hall, almost all of them have a water bottle in front of them. We seem to have developed a national obsession with hydration. An old maxim was that you should drink six to eight eight-ounce glasses of water per day, but some sources recommend more than double that. We also drink other liquids like juice and coffee, and foods often contain water too. Recently, a study was published in the prestigious journal Science that may help settle the issue.
Water represents between 50-70 percent of your body weight and is essential for health. Every cell in the body needs water. To maintain water balance, water losses must be matched by water intake from various liquids and foods. However, we also get some water from water vapor in the air we breathe, our skin absorbs water and water is also formed by our metabolism. Humans can live without water for only about three days.
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