Symptoms of drinking too much water

Features correspondent

Whether you've had fatigue or even dry skin, you've probably been told to drink more water as a cure.

But experts say our obsession with carrying reusable water bottles wherever we go might be causing us to drink more water than our bodies need.

In the early 19th Century, people had to be close to death before deigning to drink water.

Only those "reduced to the last stage of poverty satisfy their thirst with water", according to Vincent Priessnitz, the founder of hydropathy, otherwise known as "the water cure".

Many people, he added, had never drunk more than half a pint of plain water in one sitting.

How times have changed.

Adults in the UK today are consuming more water now than in recent years, while in the US, sales of bottled water recently surpassed sales of soda. We've been bombarded with messages telling us that drinking litres of water every day is the secret to good health, more energy and great skin, and that it will make us lose weigh

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