The More Water The Better!

Paula · Post by **Paula** » Mon Dec 20, 2004 3:12 pm

Are you drinking enough water? Water is a very important fluid to the body, with-out enough we can become dehydrated? Drinking water daily removes excess water weight? Did you know that? Drink To Your Health...

A Karenina · Post by **A Karenina** » Mon Dec 20, 2004 8:21 pm

Very true. It is really good for us. I'm terrible at drinking enough water - I reach for coffee or tea without thinking.

I wonder about the sparkling waters or flavored waters for sale. Does it help if you drink those, or is plain water better?

Bill Sikes · Post by **Bill Sikes** » Tue Dec 21, 2004 2:57 am

A Karenina wrote: Very true. It is really good for us. I'm terrible at drinking enough water - I reach for coffee or tea without thinking.

I wonder about the sparkling waters or flavored waters for sale. Does it help if you drink those, or is plain water better?

Too much water can kill you - however, you'd probably have to drink 25+ pints to achieve that effect (no, you would not explode!).

Tea and coffee both contain (at a guess) about 99% water.

Tap water (in the UK) is as good as bottled water.

gmc · Post by **gmc** » Tue Dec 21, 2004 3:43 am

posted by bill sikes

Tap water (in the UK) is as good as bottled water.

So good coca cola bottled it and tried to sell it, must surely be high up on the list of the marketing faux pas of recent times.

Paula · Post by **Paula** » Tue Dec 21, 2004 6:11 am

Poland springs I prefer. We have good well water, but on the road its poland springs. Water is so good for us.

Sparkling and carbonated waters, i had read deplete calcium, these waters probably act like drano?

Peg · Post by **Peg** » Tue Dec 21, 2004 6:28 am

I cannot bring myself to drink water. I've tried and just can't do it. Even tried adding a little lime juice and a little lemon juice and still can't drink it.

I know I should.

Paula · Post by **Paula** » Tue Dec 21, 2004 6:48 am

Peg, I cannot believe you? Well that says you have never needed weight watchers? I didn't drink enough water in my earlier years, but it is awareness now that we should?

Hey not every-one can stand it? But we really need it?

Bill Sikes · Post by **Bill Sikes** » Tue Dec 21, 2004 8:29 am

gmc wrote: (tap water) So good coca cola bottled it and tried to sell it, must surely be high up on the list of the marketing faux pas of recent times.

Somehow or other, they managed to "purify" the tap water and add bromates in a quantity to exceed the legally permitted level. Um.

Paula · Post by **Paula** » Tue Dec 21, 2004 9:25 am

Bill, are you drinking enough water? I recently had my water tested, we had some bacteria in it...Everyone should sanitize their wells every year or so? We drink water here non-stop. We have lived to see how "not drinking water" has hurt people? Merry Xmas...

Bill Sikes · Post by **Bill Sikes** » Tue Dec 21, 2004 9:46 am

Paula wrote: Bill, are you drinking enough water?

I don't know. I usu. have a glass in the morning, and a mug of tea - then more tea, or coffee, during the day, probably about 6 mugs, then some beer or cider during the evening... then there's the water in any fruit or juice I might have... maybe about 1 imperial gallon per day (4.51 litres approx)?

Paula wrote: I recently had my water tested, we had some bacteria in it...Everyone should sanitize their wells every year or so?

I don't see how you can do that.... if there are bacteria in the water, they're getting in somehow.... is foreign matter getting into your well? As you are/were a farm, could runoff be affecting the water? How near to the well are drains, slurry pits or whatever? What is the surface geology to the depth affecting your well?

Is the well covered with a light-proof cover? I've never known anyone "sanitize" their wells - does this mean tipping something down them?

Paula wrote: We drink water here non-stop. We have lived to see how "not drinking water" has hurt people? Merry Xmas...

Top up your fluid intake at Christmas with some not-drinking-water! Merry Christmas to you.

Tombstone · Post by **Tombstone** » Tue Dec 21, 2004 11:27 am

Paula,

What do you think of Dr. Batmanghelidj and his http://www.watercure2.org/ website? Interesting read - and a lot of testimonials.

Paula · Post by **Paula** » Tue Dec 21, 2004 1:09 pm

I'll have to check that out, right now i need to leave for a bit...l will look...

Paula · Post by **Paula** » Tue Dec 21, 2004 1:12 pm

Bill Sikes wrote: Somehow or other, they managed to "purify" the tap water and add bromates in a quantity to exceed the legally permitted level. Um.

Thats crap water, it shouldn't be called water, it is recycled toliet water?

Bill Sikes · Post by **Bill Sikes** » Wed Dec 22, 2004 2:40 am

Paula wrote: I recently had my water tested

In the UK that may have a different meaning from that intended!

Bill Sikes · Post by **Bill Sikes** » Wed Dec 22, 2004 2:42 am

Tombstone wrote: Paula,

What do you think of Dr. Batmanghelidj and his http://www.watercure2.org/ website? Interesting read - and a lot of testimonials.

Oooh! Glyconutrients!!! Ooops, sorry, wrong thread.

Paula · Post by **Paula** » Wed Dec 22, 2004 5:37 am

Tombstone wrote: Paula,

What do you think of Dr. Batmanghelidj and his http://www.watercure2.org/ website? Interesting read - and a lot of testimonials.

Water cure is a scam...just another gimmick.

Bill Sikes · Post by **Bill Sikes** » Tue Feb 01, 2005 4:01 am

Anonymiss wrote: Coffee and tea, though they both contain water, actually dehydrate you, as the caffeine (I assume the tea is normal tea, not herbal caffeinne-free) acts as a diurectic and so anything you intake is not of much benefit.

"You cannot be serious" (TM). If you were in the desert, and had only tea to drink, would you die of dehydration? I don't think so!

capt_buzzard · Post by **capt_buzzard** » Tue Feb 01, 2005 7:33 am

Bill Sikes wrote: Too much water can kill you - however, you'd probably have to drink 25+ pints to achieve that effect (no, you would not explode!).

Tea and coffee both contain (at a guess) about 99% water.

Tap water (in the UK) is as good as bottled water.True.

capt_buzzard · Post by **capt_buzzard** » Tue Feb 01, 2005 5:57 pm

Anonymiss wrote: :-2 I was merely pointing out that if you have a choice between plain water and coffee/tea, your best bet is to drink plain water if you wish to be well hydrated - not that you'd die drinking tea. Since we are both sitting at computers right now, I have a hunch that neither of us is stranded on a desert island, so it's a pretty safe bet that all you have too do is get up, go to the sink, turn on the tap, and voila. Extreme cicumstances aside, I have to support the argument for 'plain is best'.Most of this so called Still water you get in shopping malls comes from the Tap. Its just another fadd.

Bill Sikes · Post by **Bill Sikes** » Wed Feb 02, 2005 3:04 am

Anonymiss wrote: :-2 I was merely pointing out that if you have a choice between plain water and coffee/tea, your best bet is to drink plain water if you wish to be well hydrated - not that you'd die drinking tea. Since we are both sitting at computers right now, I have a hunch that neither of us is stranded on a desert island, so it's a pretty safe bet that all you have too do is get up, go to the sink, turn on the tap, and voila. Extreme cicumstances aside, I have to support the argument for 'plain is best'.

Yes, but you said "Coffee and tea, though they both contain water, actually dehydrate you, as the caffeine (I assume the tea is normal tea, not herbal caffeinne-free) acts as a diurectic and so anything you intake is not of much benefit. " - coffee and tea are quite clearly OK if you want to be "well hydrated", although of course they do contain other substances apart from H2O. However, the other substances, especially in tea, are beneficial to health. Nothing wrong in drinking water, though, despite what W. C. Fields is reputed to have said about it.