We can Stop Wondering Why Kids Have Health And Mental Issues

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A recent Harvard research report appears to explain why.

The results found that a little more than half of all the participants weren't getting sufficient hydration. Boys were 76 percent more likely than girls and blacks were 34 percent more likely than whites to be inadequately hydrated.

The researchers also noted that nearly one fourth of the participants reported drinking no plain water at all.

The red emphasis is mine, of course. As those of us on this discussion board are regularly reminded by MC, dehydration adversely affects not only our digestive system, but our overall health, our immune system, and most importantly, our brain. It's no wonder that so many kids are increasingly being diagnosed with such a wide spectrum of health and mental issues these days.

U.S. kids aren't drinking enough water

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[cinemom]

I recommend two books on the topic of the body's need for water by Dr. F. Batmanghelidj:

Your Body's Many Cries for Water
Water for Health, For Healing, For Life: You're Not Sick, You're Thirsty!

Has anyone every read either of these? Interested in your thoughts if you have :)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8xweziIaUMo

[Blueberry]

I remember reading Your Bodies Many Cries for Water. My impression was it's largely an observational book of the doctors, which is important, but wish more research had been done. The part about diabetes and the doctors observation that it helped with the condition, reminded me of the old saying for diabetes - being that it is the thirst disease.

Undoubtably clean water is key to good health, particularly for us and our GI condition. I've been reading about EZ water, H3O2 which is somewhat common, and has a negative charge. It's thought to explain why our bodies have a slight negative charge. Interesting stuff, which health wise is important to have for improved circulation. I first learned about it from this interview of Professor Gerald Pollack. He is one of the few researchers on water remaining I believe.

"The Fourth Phase of Water - What You Don’t Know About Water, and Really Should"

http://articles.mercola.com/sites/artic ... water.aspx

[Betsbrooks]

I read "The Body's Many Cries for Water" by Dr. Batmanghelidj recently. I borrowed it from a library, but you can get a free pdf online at https://keychests.com/mods/filesaveas.p ... rubrgiotzn . I had mixed feelings. His theory is pretty simple, and it sounds very believable and could be right, but he doesn't back it up with anything. There's a lot of ranting and complaining about the American Medical Association dismissing his theories. He was an immigrant from Iran who came to the U.S. after being released from prison for his support of the Shah - he treated fellow prisoners with water because medication was not available. Maybe that made him less able to understand why he was being frozen out.

I think sometimes people are ahead of their time, and he may be, but he probably harmed the chances of his theory being accepted by writing many, many letters to the AMA and the NIH and criticizing them for not believing him.

It reminds me of the skepticism about probiotics that has only recently started reversing. I read that the medical acceptance of probiotics was harmed by the fact that there was a booming business being done by alternative health practitioners. In the eyes of the medical establishment, that tainted the concept for a long time and probably kept valid research from being done.

I am glad for the healthy skepticism I read on this forum, combined with open-mindedness and realism about the limits of current knowledge! But we will have to be careful. One good thing, I think, is there's not commercialism and no saleable diet that might brand us as a group of faddists.