Evidence wishy-washy for health benefits of water

Okay, one more time.

Do you think they have any idea about what has "health benefits"?

They don't even understand water which has only two elements, oxygen and hydrogen, is ubiquitous and has been around way longer than most foods.

Do you really think they can understand the more complicated stuff?

If your answer is "Yes," do you understand that you are severely retarded?

"There is no clearcut scientific rationale for the average healthy individual to drink a lot of water -- and it may be downright harmful -- according to two kidney experts.

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.

'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,' Dr. Stanley Goldfarb, of the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, told Reuters Health.

'The source of this is the complementary and alternative medicine worlds. If you go on the internet and look up water-drinking and its health implications, that's what you encounter,' Goldfarb said...

Goldfarb also said there is no rational basis for the widespread belief that people need to drink eight glasses of water a day, and it is unclear where this recommendation came from."

Just as there is, with certainty, no rational basis for most diet, weight loss, nutrition and fitness advice.

If you want rational advice, then go here, an oasis of sensibility in a desert of stupidity and crookedness.