Did You Know? Drinking Too Much Water Can Kill You!

Contrary to popular belief, drinking large amounts of water isn't good for you.  In fact, it can make you very ill, and even kill you!

In the article, 'Strange but True: Drinking too Much Water Can Kill' it tells of studies done that show how drinking too much water can harm you.  If you don't drink enough water, then your cells shrivel up.  If you drink the right amount of water, then they are perfectly inflated with the water.  But if you drink too much water, then your cells expand, and if they expand too much, they explode.  Generally, in the rest of the body, it is hard for them to expand to the point that they burst - the muscle tissue around them expands with them.  But in your brain, you have your skull all around the cells, so they don't have any room to expand.  Therefore they burst, and you get a headache, and then you die (because all of your brain cells are bursting, fun huh?).

When I read this article, I was shocked that you could actually die from too much water intake.  I thought it was best to drink as much water as possible.  Now I am going to be much more careful about how much water I drink - enough, but not too much.