What have they been pounding into our heads for years now? "Your body needs at least 8- 8oz glasses of water a day to work properly". I have to say I was a little shocked the other nite when on the "Evening News with Katie Couric" they announced "Recent research shows this just is not true". I have to laugh out loud at this one. Here we are fighting about whether "bottled" water is better than tap, what the plastic from the water bottles is doing to the environment, and now they're saying we don't need it anyway! Well, that's not exactly true, but we don't need as much as they have been telling us we need. If your urine is dark, drink more. If your urine is clear, you're drinking too much. It's that easy.
What's funny is one of the doctors I have been getting a newsletter from for quite awhile, has been preaching this now shocking news about water for a few years. While regular medicine calls him a quack regarding many issues, this is another one he can now rack up on his "I was right" side. For me as a lifelong dieter, I will continue to drink water along with all the other liquids I consume because I drink it to flush my body, not to hydrate it.
Feel free to leave your comments concerning how you feel about this news. I put it up there on the scale with "Mammograms Don't Save Lives", altho I thought that was a really stupid piece of journalism.
Don't Drink The Water?
Which One?
I am standing in a gas station mini-mart about 1:00 am after helping a friend out with his project, dieing of thirst, in front of the bottled water. After all the research I've done, and all the articles on bottled water I've read,(see article on http://www.productsandservicesultd.com ) I don't know which one to choose as the healthiest choice. I don't trust any of them! Now I know some of them are just glorified tap water, some can say they are 'spring water' if they come from a manmade hole in the ground (one near a dumpsite), and the reverse osmosis ones that have been stripped of all the good stuff along with the bad. Now I drink a lot of water and unfortunately, I'm not always home where I have access to what I know is good, filtered water. (See the 'e-spring' at http://www.lbeamish.qhealthbeauty.com ) I can understand why consumer's are clammoring for consumer labels on the bottles, and why the International Bottled Water Association is fighting it so hard! What one would I choose if I really knew what I was doing?
I finally ended up with a bottle of 'Fiji-Natural Artisian Water'. It wasn't that I think it's the best. I just know what the others are. Are these the same Artisian's that used to make Olympia Beer?
I figured good for me or not, it took me on a little vacation in my mind to the Fiji Islands. That was more than the others had to offer.