Drinking Water Helps Reduce Heart Disease Risk Want to lower
your risk of having a heart attack? Drink more water, and less
of everything else, new research reports. Researchers at Loma
Linda University in California found that people who drank at
least five glasses of water each day were less likely to die
from heat attack than those who drank two or fewer glasses per
day. In contrast, people who drank a lot of other fluids (soda,
juice, coffee, tea) were more likely to die from heart attack
than those who drank less, with high levels of non-water
drinking women associated with more than a two-fold increased
risk of death. Officials at the college said the results of a
study to be published in the American Journal of Epidemiology
reveal that drinking high amounts of plain water is as important
as exercise, diet, or not smoking in preventing coronary heart
disease. “Basically, not drinking enough water can be as harmful
to your heart as smoking,” said Dr. Jacqueline Chan, principle
investigator and lead autho