When it comes to cooking, I love to get my nom-nom-nom on. In fact, the Food Network pretty much runs at a constant loop in the Bella household. Are you a fan, too? Recently, I caught an episode of Food Detectives, a show hosted by Ted Allen of Queer Eye For the Straight Guy fame. The premise? The crew performs studies on food items, debunking facts and myths through use of science.
One particular episode stood out. Does drinking sufficient amounts of water daily really improve the appearance of skin? After giving one identical twin the appropriate levels of water for a week and the other twin half the serving, not surprisingly, the one who drank more had radiant skin. As for me, I'm headed straight to the water cooler. In the meantime, check out some fun facts from the episode when you read more.
- Glug, glug: Our skin is made up of two to three gallons of water.
- Find your number: Figure out your daily intake by using the formula: weight/2 = how many ounces of water to drink each day.
- Are you dehydrated?: According to Dr. Jeanine Downie, who appeared in the episode, Caucasian skin tends to show dehydration with the appearance of fine lines and wrinkles, while darker-toned skin appears blotchy.
- No worries: If your skin is looking lackluster and your water consumption is low, don't fret. Start drinking the acceptable levels now and you'll notice an improvement. Plus, it's a fast, cheap, and easy way to get luminous results — without investing in $200 serums.
Gerard Darel
EWA
Rebecca Taylor
Water makes all the difference in everything concerning your body. Skin, hair, health, if you do not have enough real fluids to keep you hydrated you are going to look and feel worn down. Not even reamers or
1Wow! That's funny. I just saw a similar show like this on Oprah and they did the exact same thing with the identical twins, but they came to the OPPOSITE conclusion. I wonder which one's right?
2I love water but I hate it. It makes me go to the bathroom wayyyyy too much. I think that has always been one of the reason's why I don't drink that much.
3I love the foodnet work. I watch all the shows on Sunday morning until noon. I drives my husband crazy. I saw this episode and I am happy that I do drink a lot of water.
4And the other day I saw Ted Allen in my neighborhood.
I know he said he lives in Brooklyn, but I didn't realize it was so close to me.
Well, according to this formula, I should drink 6.8 eight-ounce glasses of water a day. I think I come close to that.
5I need to be drinking 10 8oz glasses a water a day according to this. Another motivator to lose weight! Then I won't have to drink as much water, plus drinking all that water will help me be full and have great skin. Wow, this is such a win!
6@ halfpintlbk: I saw that episode of Oprah as well. Apparently the food we eat is mostly composed of water anyways?
I'll just try to drink more water for the heck of it. It probably has health benefits if not skin benefits.
7I usually drink about 2L of water a day which I always thought was already a lot; however I started a yoga class last week and the instructor recommended drinking up to 6L! So I forced myself to drink more water than usual these last few days, and I actually feel *much* better.
8i drink probably 6l a day. if i don't i feel like crap. and thirsty out of my mind.
9Wow! I am skipping out on my cranberry spritzers from now on...more water please!
10I live in California (the desert) and the suggestion is to drink much more than that amount around here
11Yes, this is so true. When I don't drink enough water, I wake up with flaky, dry skin. I read about the "Evian challenge" randomly somewhere which suggests you drink a glass of water every hour on the hour at work and I did that for one week just as an experiment - my skin was NEVER dry that entire week!
12This is true!!! Staying hydrated improves my skin, my mood - and I don't get headaches!
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