our bodies are made up of 70% of water, and drinking water is a good thing, but some people go to extremes, as in anything else. I think it's good to give your children water....and for all of us to drink water, but to much is not good either. I believe water companies are making a mint on us, and our stupidity about just how much water we should drink.
Not to mention for years...I've been saying...bottled mountain fresh spring water is nothing more then water being pumped into bottles from another source is all...???????
plus....different people have different percentages of their bodies made up of
water. Babies have the most, being born at about 78%. By one year of age,
that amound drops to about 65%. In adult men, about 60% of their bodies
are water. However, fat tissue does not have as much water as lean tissue.
In adult women, fat makes up more of the body than men, so they have about
55% of thier bodies made of water. Fat men also have less water (as a
percentage) than thin men.
So you can see three possible reasons for the discrepancies you have found:
1) Babies and kids have more water (as a percantage) than adults.
2) Women have less water than men (as a percentage).
3) Fat people have less water than thin people (as a percentage).
A forth reason is that different people measure per cent water a little
differently, causing small differences in the answer.
and I believe when one must analyze to this degree it becomes silly?
When the body is thirsty, it tells us, doesn't it?
I believe its kinda silly that we're all walking around with bottled water?
But that's just me?
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I do drink about 3 liters a day and really that's enough...LOL
