Experts say the “eight glasses a day” rule is outdated — your hydration needs depend on body size, activity, and temperature, ...

Donald Trump's second term may threaten what's lauded as one of the top public-health triumphs of the 20th century: adding fluoride, a mineral that helps prevent tooth decay, to drinking water. People ...

Perhaps the most common term associated with maintaining a balanced approach to nutrition and overall health is hydration. “Drink as much water as you can,” they say, and there’s good reason behind it ...

While hydrating won’t replace any medications prescribed for diabetes, it does play a role in staving off high readings. Here ...

Pesticides and disinfection by-products are widely detected together in treated drinking water at trace levels worldwide.

Most of us are also familiar with the old adage: Drink eight 8-ounce glasses of water daily. The 8-by-8 rule advises us to ...

Plumbed drinking water in developed countries is pretty clean, but invisible contaminants can still lurk. One mysterious “phantom chemical” has haunted drinking water for decades, and now researchers ...

Microplastics are everywhere. In fact, we even saw major bottled water brands reporting microplastic contamination back in 2018, which means they're likely also in our everyday drinking water.

Public health recommendations generally suggest drinking eight cups of water a day. And many people just assume it's healthy to drink plenty of water. Public health recommendations generally suggest ...

“Drinking adequate water is definitely a support to lowering cholesterol, but it cannot be used as a single-handed treatment ...

Evidence suggests that at recommended levels, fluoridation is cost-effective and promotes public health. But, like any healthcare intervention, it must be scrutinized and adjusted as new data emerge.