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Old Sat, Sep-25-04, 13:39
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But like the article pointed out that stuff you hear is just myth. It's the sort of garbage they print over and over in women's magazines. This guy has been studying thirst and water usage in humans for a long time:

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"I did 43 years of research on that system -- the osmoregulatory system. That system is so precise and so fast that I find it impossible to believe that evolution left us with a chronic water deficit," Valtin said.


And lets read this again:

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Thirst kicks in long before dehydration starts, he added.


We've got a lot of years of programming to overcome by the crappy junk science (shoot, calling it junk is glorifying, its nonsense... it's spouting myths) writing in magazines and marketing hype from bottled water companies.
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