Can tea be included in your daily intake of water?!

NO, if the tea has caffeine. Tea that contains caffeine is a diuretic and will dehydrate you.

The real formula for how much water to drink is:

Take your total body weight and divide by 2. Take that number and it is the number of ounces you need each day. If you drink tea, coffee, sodas, etc. that contain caffeine, you must take the total ounces of that drink and multiply by 1.5 and that is the water you need to add to the total to compensate for the dehydrated loss.

It takes 7.5 quarts of water in your body to digest just 1 quart of food each day. If your body doesn't have that amount of water in it, your body will not function as well because food will not get digested properly.

By the way, skim milk is really not good for you. Did you know that skim milk is blue when it is made? They add powdered milk to it to give you the mouth taste and to color it white. Do NOT drink pasteurized, homogenized milk. It is terrible for you. The pasteurization process destroys the fat cells and bacterial cells that are still in the milk and the calcium is altered due to the high heat. Homogenization crushes the dead bacterial cells and the fat cells leaving huge amounts of homocystines in the form of small chards that are absorbed into your body. These chards are foreign amino acids that your body doesn't recognize and it becomes toxic.

Go to: www.organicpastures.com Read the FAQ's and learn about why cows that graze on grass and are free range produce the best milk, free of human pathogens and contain lots of digestive enzymes and friendly bacteria that actually nourish your body, unlike the pasteurized garbage.

Drink only high quality water, not fluoridated or tap water.

good luck

There has just been the results of a three year study released that as long as you are getting liquid in to yourdiet like through fruit and veg which is almost 90% water and then take pop, juice, tea and coffee into the equation then you are doing just fine. I was shocked when i first heard this and had to check it out but its definitly true.

hm..i disagree with some of these answers...

recc daily intake is 8 8 oz glasses right? i usually drink a gallon a day in 4 oz sips at a time, chugging water can be detrimental to processes...

and going with some of the logic i have seen...then i would say that..since beer is 6% alcohol then it is 94% water and thus you could get all of your hydration from beer...wrong...

and tea has caffeine which will dehydrate you, your body really appreciates water so..my advice to you?

start exercising, and i know you are not much of an exerciser because people who exercise, especially strenuously know how good water tastes after you get done...

the body is not made to just sit around eating moon pies and watching TV all day, this is why we have legs and an EXTREMELY AWESOME CARDIOVASCULAR SYSTEM NATURALLY

good luck stopping your laziness.

of course. its just that the intake of the caffeine and sugar badness usually takes away the goodness- but nutritionally, I believe u still get to count it. Like im sure if u drink cordial, u still are drinking 3 quarters of the glass of the water u put in

I never drink water, I get dizzy from it, and pass out.
As long as you hydrate- you could eat watermelon and no water at all, and you'd be fine.

Tea is fine too, it does NOT dehydrate you, so yes, tea is fine.