is water good for you?

Originally Posted by alpinestarhero

I'm pretty sure thats bull. If i disolve various salts in water, then distil it (a number of times to completly deionise it) then how can it remember? everything has been taken out, the water molecules jumbled about (since distillation involves passing through the gas phase). Its all random! I'm sure thermodynamics and statistical thermodynamics has something to say about this. I just fail to beleive it.

Matt

It's a line of c**p put forward by believers in homoeopathy when it was proved to them that in the dilutions they use for "treatment" there are actually no molecules of active ingredient remaining.

As much as beer is good, i think we shouldn't rule out water all together

For a start beer is mostly water

and how long would it take to die? i'm not sure, isn't it something daft like a few days without water and you will start to keel over? if so then perhaps beer could make it faster as it dehydrates you?

oh and a few ecoli wont hurt anyone, 1kilo in a year may sound fairly large, but considering we have billions upon billions in our gut at this in one year aint so bad. Microbes get a bad name (with good reason) but they are handy little fellows at times

(spent many hours doing microbiology over the last few weeks)

Originally Posted by drefraser

It's a line of c**p put forward by believers in homoeopathy when it was proved to them that in the dilutions they use for "treatment" there are actually no molecules of active ingredient remaining.

Yea, I read this on wikipedia. Im sure there is something there, but in such trace amounts that it flushes through the body. You'd need some serious analytical kit to detect anything, thats for sure.

Stupid pseudo-science numpties

Matt

Originally Posted by Draper

and how long would it take to die? i'm not sure, isn't it something daft like a few days without water and you will start to keel over? if so then perhaps beer could make it faster as it dehydrates you?

Six years is my record. Ah, those happy university days

haha that is what i have been participating in too, however the wells dried up a little bit, the first month was ridiculous though, almost daily visits to the offie for a crate of oranjebooms finest! now it's getting to end of term, everyone is realising they have left all the work till the last week, and dont have enough beer time... i am one of these people

Water is what I force my mates to drink when they've had too much booze and are getting closely acquainted with the bottom of a toilet

I'm lucky (or young) enough not to get hangovers..

I used to drink 2 litres of water a day, and as far as I could tell, it just meant I was having a leak every 5 minutes. Feel no worse for drinking when I'm thirsty instead.

depends, drinking 2 litres is maybe abit excessive, but then if you frequent the gym or whatever you maywell want lots of water

yes you can die of excessive water drinking, but i'd rather have too much than too little. Good for burning off fat aswell, keep your liver and everything nice and hydrated. just means your body doesnt have to work hard to utilise the little water it has in the body

i'm not sure whether this is a taught guide in medicine, but if its yellow drink more, if its clear you're doing alright... and if its red, well... clinic

i use to think that about hangovers, never used to get anything, i could have 2 hours sleep after beer, dbvbs, and god knows what else

i get em now and again now, and i'm only 18. i blame it on the bitter and wine and god knows what other combinations

I'd much rather sit down with a nice a cup of tea.

Originally Posted by Law

I'd much rather sit down with a nice a cup of tea.

The perfect cuppa is twice as big as a normal one

Two separate cups of tea don't taste the same, so one big one is the way forwards..


Hello, my name is Sean, and I'm a tea-a-holic.