Did you know that water doesn't prevent dehydration?

Water doesn't prevent dehydration? So what things that prevent dehydration? Can someone tell me about it? It seems I can't found any of that information on that article.. From Merriam-Webster dictionary: [i]Definition of DEHYDRATE transitive verb 1 a : to remove bound water or hydrogen and oxygen from (a chemical compound) in the proportion in which they form water b : to remove water from (as foods) 2 : to deprive of vitality or savor intransitive verb : to lose water or body fluids[/i] If water doesn't prevent dehydration, then why should it called "dehydration"?

It is true, that water will not prevent dehydration... but that's only in specific medical cases. If you have a bad stomach problem, then you will not absorb that water, but rather, it'll go right through you, so you excrete everything that you drink. It does go the same way with food. If you have a terrible condition, like Aids or Cancer, then you can eat as much as you can, but that food won't be absorbed nearly as well as it would when you're healthy, and therefore, you will not get your nutrients from the food you eat. PS, the world is not collapsing. There are some really bad things happening, but we've been through much worse, and chances are, things will get much better.

I suppose they are also considering the amount of perspiration, the excess heat as well, the amount of sodium, and if one goes to the bathroom to frequently. Also if one has a lot of coffee, that would get rid of the water one drank. If one lived where there was lots of humidity, one would not need to drink as much water. I do not know if this does distract from other issues, but this is interesting.

I don't drink water as much as the recommended eight glasses every day. I just need to drink sparingly. I never dehydrated. If only the news is true, we do need to spend our money on water, so we can leave the water for the future of the earth.

That is a strange information and I don't believe on that,I believe that water is the most important liquid and that we to drink it all the time at least 8 cups daily.

Generally speaking, enough water consumption like 2-3L/day prevent dehydration. This is our common practice in the industrial setting considering people here are working on hard weather and on hard labor. But if you have absorption problem will it doesn't prevent dehydration. You need intravenous intervention to make your body system hydrated. If you are not well hydrated you body essential organs suffer.

Surely they are wrong about that, we need water or liquid, when I have to have a blood test my doctor tells me to drink a lot of water as dehydrated veins are very hard for them to find so I am not sure those people know what they are reporting there.

he he Water stillis the best source of hydration. i mean a person can live with out food for like 40 days, but they had to have access to water, that is as far as i know!! so there should really be no other information telling us otherwise. we do know that right?!

The article sounds strange and very tricky. They are giving related facts that mean water does not prevent dehydration. I think this in one of the economic strategy because there are countries suffering from scarcity in drinking water. They are elaborating that 8 glasses of water per regular recommendation is not from a sure source, however, still it emphasize in all that water in still needed in the body.Regarding the average amounts depend on the person taking in. IF water does not prevent dehydration, how come if those other animals or other poor people only drink water to fill their stomach with no food intake, how come those people during the ancient time eats many natural fruits for their Body. It is very obvious that any food we eat has liquid of water and natural phytochemicals that is needed by the body and that itself can justify that any form of water for intake as long clean water, do prevent dehydration, even in medical cases, salt is being added as additional solution for easier absorption and if you will take out totally water from that solution, the patient taking it will suffer from severe dehydration. The assumption of taking water atleast 8 glasses a day is for the easier cleansing of the body excreted through urine and perspiration. Any form of liquid based from clean water resources for human consumption as in drinking are essential contributors in preventing dehydration. IF we are to analyze, the meaning is TRUE because the water itself cannot prevent dehydration because water alone is water itself just like in desert areas, no water in land areas does not mean there is severe dehydration even there will be rains or put tons of water in that area still it will look a desert place. Mainly because, there are other sources of preventing or overcoming dehydration and for sure it must be a liquid form and the safest is pure water or other sources, And in this article it is safe to say that, water does not prevent dehydration because it is only water itself but it relies only from any humans or living creature that can prevent dehydration because he can control himself with several actions to urge him out of thirst to drink water. So, water does not prevent dehydration but Human itself do prevent that dehydration.

In some way this is right also it's right that drinking a lot is not necessary healthy since this makes your kidneys etc work extra hard. It's also right that you are not able to get this by your skin (like many creams lie) otherwise you could just stay outside in the rain or take a shower and have the same effect. Also true is that if you only eat natural food (vegetable, fruit, raw meat) about 60-80% of it fluid/"water" the same as the human body. So if you eat that way you will drink way less and are still very healthy and not dehydrated at all.

i think it is not true.and its not at all a common sense.some researchers will have no work so they simply predicting like this issues.dehydration means someone loss lot of fluids from his body than he intakes.if he loss 3-5% of your body weight as sweat and vomit.at this situation his body function will become slow and he will feel sick.this will not occur very quickly.when you are in mild dehydration you will feel very thrist. at this stage we want to take few sips of water.means you no need to take gallons of water.just 200-300ml will be enough.normally dehydration will occurs in persons who is working hard and losing more sweat than intake of water then they will be dehydrated.in case of cricketers the are playing whole day in sunlight and losing so much of water level from their body as sweat.so they are consuming water very frequently between 10-20 min.their sodium level also will be decreases so they will prefer glucose water or any energy drink. if anyone are believing water will not prevent dehydration then just stop drinking water for a day and prove it.then i will also agree with you.