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Sunday, January 29, 2012

Mild Dehydration May Have Adverse Effects On Women.

WebMD Share to FacebookShare to Twitter (1/21, Mann) reported, "In a new study of 25 healthy women, mild dehydration dampened moods, increased fatigue, and led to headaches. ... Overall, women's mental ability was not affected by mild dehydration. But they did have an increase in perception of task difficulty and lower concentration." However, emergency medicine physician Robert Glatter, MD noted that "not everyone needs to drink this much water. 'People with congestive heart failure and people with certain kinds of kidney disease may want to limit their fluid intake, and should talk to their doctor about how much water they should drink.'" The research was published in the Journal of Nutrition.

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