Jun 23, 2011
Drinking is bad for you…
…and that includes drinking water, according to the 1882 book Every Day Home Advice and The Practical Business of Life, Containing The Best and Most Practical Advice in Household Management…
(via Questionable Advice)
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How much of today’s health advice will seem this ridiculous in another 150 years?
all of it
those people of 2045 will look back and stumble upon articles about coffee being bad for you. while they laugh because they survive on caffeine alone.
I’ll admit I’m a water addict. If I don’t have it readily available, I get panicky. If I don’t have enough of it, I get cranky. I love my water.
And, while my grandma wasn’t alive yet in 1882 when this was written, she does often comment on people ALWAYS having water with them now. “No one goes anywhere without their bottle or big cup of water anymore. We didn’t do that. Our kids could make it through church and back home without a sipper cup.”
Now, having said that, I had to take a drink of my water. Which is now gone, so I must go refill.
You sound just like my husband, who goes nowhere without his bottle of water. It drives me nuts!!!!
Mine’s a cup, not a bottle. I’m sure that makes it ok. :)
I’m soooo with you Lynnette. I have my big Nalgene at my elbow right now and it needs a refill. I got panicked the other day at the grocery store because I thought I’d left it somewhere in the store.
There might be something to it, though. Lots of water dilutes the stomach acid, making it more difficult and take longer to digest food, which means the acid is in your stomach longer, which leads to gastric reflux, for which are prescribed medicines to make your stomach produce less acid, which just exacerbates the problem. There, that’s my crackpot theory of the day.
I wonder if gastric reflux was such a widespread problem in the days of yore (25 years ago) when people weren’t convinced they were chronically dehydrated and had to drink water ALL THE TIME?
I rarely drink water and I rarely have reflux….you might be on to something. ;)
I tend to take the opposite perspective. “Axiom: the best place to conserve water is in your body. It keeps your energy up. You’re stronger.”
why did you have to bring Axiom into this?
To be fair, given what was in the water at that time (giardia, worms), they may have been right.
Checkmate.