We tried meeting daily health recommendations for a week

WSS staff members Grace Yarrow '19 and myself, Sadie Rhomberg '18 wanted to do an experiment, with inspiration from Buzzfeed. Together we chose to drink water and walk a certain amount of steps each day. We found many different daily water intake recommendations depending on factors like gender, amount of activity and weight. After looking through many websites we decided to divide our weight in half an...

Growing up, I was always told to drink eight glasses (two liters) of water a day, by worksheets from the USDA in science and health classes from elementary school. More recently, I’ve heard murmurs of people trying the “10,000 steps a day” recommendation by Fitbit. Of course, these supposed health “requirements” sparked my interest, which is what led Sadie and I to sacrifice our free tim...