Let's talk about the number one mistake that people make when they're drinking water.

Now check this out, these are some interesting stats. The average amount of liquid consumed by

Americans, if we average men and women, okay, and this is based on cups, but for my friends in

Europe, including Dennis, one cup equals 236 grams, okay. All right, an average person consumes

4.3 cups of just plain water. Yet they drink a lot more fluids, but only a little more than four

cups of water. That is definitely on the extreme low side. All right, now the other things they

drink, okay. That's included in all these liquids, soft drinks, okay. 1.7 cups, coffee, one and a

half cups, alcohol, 1.1 cup, tea, a little less than 1 cup, 0.9, 0.8 cups, dyed soda, milk is

a half of a cup, and then juice is slightly less than a half of a cup, 0.4. So as you can see,

an average person consumes a lot of liquid, but not a lot of water. Now let's take a look a little

bit deeper what happens when you consume things that are caffeinated like the soft drink,

like the coffee, some teas, dyed soda, possibly. Caffeine acts like a diuretic. So anything that's

a diuretic is going to create more dehydration. It's going to get rid of fluid. Anything with

glucose, whether you're sweetening your alcoholic beverage, your coffee, of course the soft drinks,

and the juice, also is a powerful diuretic, as well as that glucose tends to lock up fluids as

you drink them. This is why people that drink a lot of sweets are retaining a lot of fluid,

because this glucose is stored as glycogen with a good amount of water. So for every molecule

of glucose, you store roughly about three molecules of water, locking this water up,

making it unavailable to you. So anything with glucose, anything with sugar, really is dehydrating

to your tissues. Now what about alcohol? Well, what happens after a night of drinking? You wake up,

you're completely dehydrated, you're very thirsty, your brain actually hurts because of the dehydration.

So alcohol has a very potent diuretic effect. So the big mistake is that thinking that you are

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