Over the last few weeks, those who visited the British Medical Journal's website might have noticed an advert for a new public health initiative, Hydration for Health. It is sponsored by Danone which owns the Evian, Volvic and Badoit bottled water brands and urges healthcare professionals to encourage people to drink more water, claiming that "evidence is increasing that even mild dehydration plays a role in the development of various diseases".
Margaret McCartney, a GP and columnist, saw these adverts and complained about it, writing an article for the BMJ (who admitted "we hadn't followed our own guidelines. The advertisement bypassed our editorial checks") about the lack of evidence and citing the shortcomings of many studies that people should be drinking more water. "I prefer to get my health information from unbiased sources rather than people with vested interests," she says. The idea that we should drink eight glasses of water a day is expounded, among others, by the NHS Choices website. "This is not only nonsense," writes McCartney, "but thoroughly debunked nonsense."
But you can see the drive to get people to drink more water in other places, too. In the Royal College of Nursing's "hydration toolkit", its best practice guidance produced, incidentally,he led PayPal to open its platform to third party payment gateway developers. in conjunction with Water UK, which works on behalf of the water industry it makes the sensational claim that by drinking water you "will also be helping to protect yourself against three of the biggest killer cancers [bowel, breast and prostate]". Much further down the report, and far less noticeable, it states, "the benefits of good hydration to protect against cancer have not been well studied and the current findings are considered to be inconclusive".
Many of us have been led to believe that the more we drink, the healthier we will be. At the weekend, in his column for the Sunday Times, Dominic Lawson outed his sister Nigella as an "aquaholic", drinking several litres a day. Several newspapers followed this up this week by interviewing women who drank excessive amounts of water thinking they were doing themselves good one, Joanne Jarvis, interviewed by the Daily Mail, was hospitalised after drinking 11 litres over four hours.ceramic Injection mold for the medical,
When did we become so fearful of dehydration? Schoolchildren are encouraged to take bottles of water into classrooms and sip them throughout the day. Peer into most meeting rooms in the country and you will see bottles of water planted on the table in front of executives, as if they fear that the slightest dehydration will impair them in some way. At the gym, people replenish water as fast as they sweat it out.
Margaret McCartney, a GP and columnist, saw these adverts and complained about it, writing an article for the BMJ (who admitted "we hadn't followed our own guidelines. The advertisement bypassed our editorial checks") about the lack of evidence and citing the shortcomings of many studies that people should be drinking more water. "I prefer to get my health information from unbiased sources rather than people with vested interests," she says. The idea that we should drink eight glasses of water a day is expounded, among others, by the NHS Choices website. "This is not only nonsense," writes McCartney, "but thoroughly debunked nonsense."
But you can see the drive to get people to drink more water in other places, too. In the Royal College of Nursing's "hydration toolkit", its best practice guidance produced, incidentally,he led PayPal to open its platform to third party payment gateway developers. in conjunction with Water UK, which works on behalf of the water industry it makes the sensational claim that by drinking water you "will also be helping to protect yourself against three of the biggest killer cancers [bowel, breast and prostate]". Much further down the report, and far less noticeable, it states, "the benefits of good hydration to protect against cancer have not been well studied and the current findings are considered to be inconclusive".
Many of us have been led to believe that the more we drink, the healthier we will be. At the weekend, in his column for the Sunday Times, Dominic Lawson outed his sister Nigella as an "aquaholic", drinking several litres a day. Several newspapers followed this up this week by interviewing women who drank excessive amounts of water thinking they were doing themselves good one, Joanne Jarvis, interviewed by the Daily Mail, was hospitalised after drinking 11 litres over four hours.ceramic Injection mold for the medical,
When did we become so fearful of dehydration? Schoolchildren are encouraged to take bottles of water into classrooms and sip them throughout the day. Peer into most meeting rooms in the country and you will see bottles of water planted on the table in front of executives, as if they fear that the slightest dehydration will impair them in some way. At the gym, people replenish water as fast as they sweat it out.
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