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Message: <blockquote data-quote="der_kluge" data-source="post: 2186582" data-attributes="member: 945">What the heck is "ambient radiation", and yes, radiation levels have increased ever since we started testing nuclear weapons in the western deserts of Nevada, Arizona, and New Mexico. What does that have to do with how water can help me lose weight? And yes, we eat 100% more artificial food additives than our medieval ancestors did, who ate none at all.  And *gasp* we live longer than they do, because we eat better than they do. Yes, medical science has a lot to do with it as well, but we're all taller and generally a heck of a lot healthier. Kids today develop faster than kids two generations ago did. Compare your average 12 year old girl today to 12 year old girls 20 years ago. Amazing stuff.Here's the deal. My body and your body is already 98% water. There's all kinds of water in every food that we eat. Your body is an amazing machine that can deal with all kinds of impurities in food. It can siphon out the nutrients we don't need from the nutrients that we do. Simply put, if your body doesn't need it, you're just going to get rid of it. Drinking extra water is not going to help you get rid of stuff faster. There is no organ in the body which stores "bad stuff" until a torrent of water comes along to get rid of it.Consider this: Most medieval peasants didn't drink very much water. Most of it was fairly unclean, and quite dirty and nasty. Ale, mead, and wine were far more common. Are you suggesting that if I lived solely on drinking, say, iced tea, that I would wither away and die? That somehow any alternative to water is not acceptable? Saying that I can lose weight by drinking 8 glasses of water a day is not unlike suggesting that I can lose weight by drinking 8 glasses of Diet Coke a day. Both have zero calories, right, or are there too many "unnatural" things in Diet Coke that would fool my body into beleving that it wasn't getting the right stuff in order to flush the impurities down the drain?</blockquote>

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