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April 16, 2008
Water and Health: Too Much or Not Enough?
According to a new scientific review published by the Journal of the American Society of Nephrology, scientists at the University of Pennsylvania have determined that there is no evidence that drinking a lot of water has any beneficial affect to the human body, and in fact may be more harmful than beneficial. From a Yahoo News article:
Drinking a lot of water is claimed to be helpful for everything from clearing toxins and keeping organs in tip-top shape to keeping weight off and improving skin tone. At best, however, the evidence to back up these claims is weak, according to a new scientific review published in the Journal of the American Society of Nephrology.
According to Dr. Stanley Goldfarb, “There is what I call an urban myth that drinking a lot of water is a healthy thing to do and it leads to people toting around plastic water bottles all day drinking water.”
Furthermore, there are a couple of circumstances where drinking a lot of water may be actually unhealthy.
Link to Abstract of the article, entitled “Just Add Water” by Dan Negoiano and Stanley Goldfarb.
Thank you to William Mitchell College of Law student Matt Dudas for preparing this post.
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Yes I have been listening to this that drinking lots and lots of water will detoxify and keeps the body clean.But no some say its not that useful.I Don't know whom to believe.
Posted by: Alex | Apr 16, 2008 1:54:47 PM
Hello,
Firstly, I understand very much that what I am about to comment on may sound left field new age stuff and laughed at. Yet, I wonder what consequence on our water if my comment has any merit. I wonder what logics would be sparked in our minds if further basic research was taken with open minds.
From a domestic point of view the general public can access all manner of water treatment devices. Those that use them put value on their water, thereby putting value upon themselves. Doesn’t matter how good they are. The intent is there.
The emergence of a slow bonding between metaphysics and Western science is offering interesting principles that can be applied easily to many of our water issues around purity.
The use of ‘energy’ ( Ether, Prana, Chi etc ) is obviously not a whimsical notion. It has been and is a part of many daily practices of many wise people.
It seems logical then to allow this to apply to our water supply, especially to those in need. If one looked at the research and simple observations of Viktor Shauberger, the great Austrian Environmentalist, one would be far more compassionate to the theories involved.
The Vortex Energizer helps the average person to purify their water without electricity or any other power source. It relies solely on the attraction of ether. Like a radio antenna attracts a frequency, so this attracts its frequency ( of far greater significance).
I wonder if we could see the energy ( Ok some do) if our collective acceptance of this principle would be more readily acknowledged and acted on. I suspect yes, which begs the question: is it the theory that lacks merit or our judgment of it.
All the best
Dane
Posted by: Dane Tannahill | Apr 17, 2008 8:17:40 AM
