Drink water regularly. Don’t wait until you’re thirsty to drink more. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention notes that drinking water helps to keep your temperature normal, lubricate and cushion joints and protect your spinal cord and other sensitive tissues.
In the warm weather of summer, especially, it is important to drink a lot of fluids. There is some debate over exactly how much water one should drink. The outdated 8x8 rule, drinking eight glasses of eight ounces of water everyday, was established in 1945. The Institute of Medicine currently recommends a daily water intake of 15 cups for men and 11 cups for women. This figure can seem daunting, but the water contained in food, for example, counts toward that daily total.
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