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Myth: If you’re thirsty, you’re already dehydrated.
Fact: It’s not too late. In fact, thirst is the body’s way of telling you to drink water, and you’re not at risk of becoming dangerously dehydrated the minute you feel a little parched. “When you get thirsty, the deficit of water in your body is trivial — it’s a very sensitive gauge,” Dr. Stanley Goldfarb, professor of medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, told HuffPost in January. “It might be only a 1 percent reduction in your overall water. And it just requires drinking some  fluid
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In fact, drinking when you’re thirsty (sounds pretty basic, right?) is a pretty fail-proof method of staying hydrated, says Dr. Timothy Noakes, professor of exercise and sports science at the University of Cape Town in South Africa and author of Waterlogged. “You don’t tell your dog or your cat when to drink, they’ve got a thirst mechanism,” he tells HuffPost. “Why should it be that humans should be the unique animal in the world who have to be told when to drink?”

He attributes this “you’re doing it wrong” attitude largely to the bottled-water and sports drink industries. “Commercialization and industrialization have told us that humans are weak,” he says, when in reality our ability to run in the heat helped us outsmart our ancient predators like lions and tigers, he says. “We should never have survived, and suddenly we’re told no one knows when to drink?”

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/...myths_n_3498380.html

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