Michelle Obama talks about how drinking water is healthy for you. Conservatives explode in outrage.

[Sava]

electrolytes

[Elok]

The article's writer is a moron because he thinks drinking water is good for us?

Sodium, fat, and carbohydrates are all, to some extent, "good for us." The trick is getting the quantities right. Now, it's quite difficult to die from drinking too much water--you have to drink a ridiculous amount, ignoring strong warning symptoms, before your brain swells up, jams your medulla down into your spine and kills you--but it's not at all obvious that drinking more than is strictly necessary will provide significant benefit.

[Hauldren Collider]

It won't produce a benefit, it'll just make you piss more. It passes right out of your body.

[Aeson]

If you drink more water, you will generally drink less of other things. And likely eat less as well. Even if you don't, adding water to your system will dilute whatever is in there, making nutrient uptake somewhat more difficult.

Since most Americans are fat-asses and/or eat/drink too much crap, I think it's pretty safe to say that there would be a net benefit to health if everyone drank an extra glass of water a day.

Plus it will help the fluoride in the water make us more docile and easier to control.

[DaShi]

This was very irresponsible of Mrs. Obama:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Water_intoxication

Hopefully, some concerned republicans will come forward and ban this deadly substance before the democrats kill us all.

[notyoueither]

It has been talked about in the Paleo/Primal community that the proscription of eight 8oz cups of water a day is silly. Not only is there no scientific evidence supporting it, the 8 by 8 rule came from a 1945 recommendation; it is ridiculous on its face as it assigns the same amount of water for a 110lb woman as a 200lb man. Realistically, our hunter-gatherer ancestors did not hang around the watering hole all day getting their 64 ounces of water.

Deep end, meet Al. Al, this is the deep end, you are now floating around in it.

[Aeson]

They didn't have internet back in the Paleo did they?

[notyoueither]

Al Gore was a faint gleam in a very long ago progenitor's eye.

[MrFun]

Do you need Michelle Obama to tell this to you, ****wit?

You're an idiot.

[MrFun]

Sodium, fat, and carbohydrates are all, to some extent, "good for us." The trick is getting the quantities right. Now, it's quite difficult to die from drinking too much water--you have to drink a ridiculous amount, ignoring strong warning symptoms, before your brain swells up, jams your medulla down into your spine and kills you--but it's not at all obvious that drinking more than is strictly necessary will provide significant benefit.

No shit, captain obvious.

Where did you get the idea that the First Lady is telling us to say, drink 50 gallons of water a day?

[SlowwHand]

I think it should be obvious that I'm not the idiot here.

[regexcellent]

It has been talked about in the Paleo/Primal community that the proscription of eight 8oz cups of water a day is silly. Not only is there no scientific evidence supporting it, the 8 by 8 rule came from a 1945 recommendation; it is ridiculous on its face as it assigns the same amount of water for a 110lb woman as a 200lb man. Realistically, our hunter-gatherer ancestors did not hang around the watering hole all day getting their 64 ounces of water.

Holy **** dude, you're still doing that paleo diet bull****? Seriously now?

[Aeson]

Now they can bring back water-boarding as a health treatment for prisoners, right?

[SlowwHand]

It's actually like a spa.

[onodera]

Holy **** dude, you're still doing that paleo diet bull****? Seriously now?

I like to imagine all paleo girls are wearing fur bikinis and a big bone in their hairdos. Makes the mental image much more tolerable. And sexy.