How much water should you drink a day?

Water component in the human body reaches 60 to 70 percent. In fact, the bones also have a water component of about 22 percent. That is what makes the water has a very important role in the body is as a major component of cells, but fat cells. So, how much water should we consume? Here is the amount of water intake per day should be consumed.

Drinking enough water that does not mean we have to drink water as directed, eight glasses or two liters per day. Body fluid needs to be balanced between the fluid entering (input) with a discharge (output). According to doctors, generally in one day, the body secretes the fluid around 2,500 cc, equivalent to 8-10 cups. The fluid excreted through urine, sweat, breathing, and other metabolic waste disposal process (excretion).

But keep in mind, the fluid replacement not only from drinks alone. But also foods such as vegetables and fruit. From the food we usually gets about 20 percent of fluid intake. In particular, the fluid needs of each person is different. Depending on the needs of the body, physical activity, body mass index (weight and height), age, gender, health condition or disease. The more activity or exercise and expend a lot of sweat, the more the fluid must be replaced.

Recommended daily water intake

The number of different suggestions regarding the adequacy of the amount of water intake per day may have made us confused. So how much water should you drink?

• Drink enough water, which means not too little and not too much. Associated with a variety of fatal impacts that occur in the marathon perlari from too much drinking water, the International Marathon Medical Directors Association (IMMDA) recommends that we consume drinking water only when we feel hungry and thirsty. Consume sufficient drinking water or not excessive, ie not more than 0:03 liters per kg of weight. So, for example, a person weighing 50 kg, then the drinking water consumption is allowed for the individual is no more than 1.5 liters per day. This recommendation becomes very logical, because a person's weight, certainly influenced also by the amount of water that needs to be drunk per day. People who are obese, would require the water in an amount more, when compared to skinny people.


• If we often heard the advice to consume as much as 2 liters of water per day, it does not mean that all the necessary body needs water we have to come from the water. The recommended two liters of water could also include foods that contain lots of water, or other drinks, for example soup, milk, juice, or other types of foods and beverages containing water.


• Recommendation drink 2 liters per day applies to healthy people. As for kidney patients, certainly should be limited. People suffering from kidney disease should not drink water too much, because it will further aggravate the kidneys.


• Drink water gradually, not all at once in one time. For example, 1 cup of water after waking up, then proceed to 1 cup before and after breakfast, 1 cup before and after lunch, a cup before and after dinner, and 1 cup before bedtime. But there are still many people who mistakenly drinking water on this suggestion. Because you want to meet the water needs for the body, they usually drink water in large quantities at once in one time.


• Water needs per day for each person is different, depending on certain conditions, namely physical activity, weather, diet, weight, sex, and health condition. To that end, take sufficiently tailored to the needs and conditions of each. Drink when you feel thirsty, as thirst and thirst is the best indicator to know when our bodies need a drink.


• Besides thirst, you can also find sufficient amount of fluid through the body color of urine (pee). When urine is bright yellow / clear and numerous, it means the body fluid needs quite well and have been met. Meanwhile, if the color of urine turned into darker (dark yellow / orange) and few in number, it means that the body's fluid needs are still unmet.