Mainstream Media Attacks Water; Recommends People Drink Soda Instead!
by Mike Adams
(NaturalNews) As proof that mainstream health
information continues to become increasingly detached from reality, the
mainstream media (MSM) has launched a new wave of misinformation designed to
discredit the health benefits of drinking water! Just today, for example, Fox
News ran a story entitled, *Skip the Water, Have a Soda Instead*. <http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,345576,00.html>
)
Other news organizations, such as the Chicago Tribune also jumped on the
bandwagon, declaring that drinking eight glasses of water a day has no health
benefits <http://www.naturalnews.com/health_benefits.html>
whatsoever.
This latest wave of attempts to discredit water <http://www.naturalnews.com/water.html>
comes from -- no surprise -- the /Journal of the American Society of
Nephrology/. Nephrology means "the study of kidneys," for all the non-medical
folks reading this, and the aforementioned journal caters to medical
professionals *who earn their living from kidney problems caused by dehydration
<http://www.naturalnews.com/dehydration.html>
!* Thus, this campaign to tell people to stop drinking water <http://www.naturalnews.com/drinking_water.html>
is a fantastic way to boost kidney problems (including kidney stones <http://www.naturalnews.com/kidney_stones.html>)
and generate more repeat business for kidney specialists. What a coincidence,
huh?
That's how money is made in the medical industry these days, by the way: Rig
some junk science, announce it as scientific fact, and wait for the mainstream
media <http://www.naturalnews.com/mainstream_media.html>
to jump on the bandwagon and declare water to be dangerous, or drugs to be safe,
or sunlight to be deadly, or whatever current nonsense they're spewing that
drives more customers into their offices to be poisoned by medication, radiation
or chemotherapy <http://www.naturalnews.com/chemotherapy.html>.
Think about it, for a moment. It is now the position of conventional medicine <http://www.naturalnews.com/conventional_medicine.html>
that:
• Water is bad for you. • Sunlight is bad for you. • Nutritional supplements are
worthless. • Herbs are dangerous and might kill you. • Meditation and prayer has
no medical benefit.
And what, might you ask, do these doctors <http://www.naturalnews.com/doctors.html>
recommend that patients do to enhance their health? Here's what they recommend:
• Poison your body with chemotherapy. • Slather your skin with sunscreen that
blocks vitamin D production. • Take medications that cause permanent liver
damage. • Drink processed beverages <http://www.naturalnews.com/beverages.html>
and eat processed, cooked foods. • "Manage" your biochemistry with medication <http://www.naturalnews.com/medication.html>,
not nutrition. • Have your breasts surgically removed to prevent breast
cancer...
Gee, it's no surprise, then, to learn about this latest finding that "water has
no health benefits."
Every living system on Earth needs water
This hilarious finding comes as quite a shock to the more than one trillion
living beings on this planet (animal, human and otherwise), all of which somehow
happen to need water as their No. 1 nutrient. Nobody bothered to tell all the
deer about this research, it seems, because last time I checked, they were still
running to the local stream and drinking some water. They were not waiting in
the drive-through at McDonald's, hoping to order a Coke.
It's a good thing these nephrology experts aren't gardeners. I can't wait to see
the results they'll get when they stop watering their gardens. Or their lawns.
If water has no health benefits, they should avoid drinking all liquids for a
few days and see what happens. (Hint: They will go into a coma or die, which
will of course help ensure they never publish stupid science articles again.) I
wonder whether they give water to their own children, or if they cause them to
be dehyrated, too?
The Truth About Water
The truth is that *water is a vital substance* for your body, and *most people
are chronically dehydrated*. A lack of water causes back pain, poor cognitive
function <http://www.naturalnews.com/cognitive_function.html>,
asthma, inflammation and many other diseases. In fact, I think part of this new
attack on water is designed to descredit the work of the Water Cure doctor, Dr.
Batmanghelidj, who wrote books like /Your Body's Many Cries For Water/ and was a
genius doctor who really understood the power of naturopathic healing.
You can download that full report right here, free of charge, at this link: <http://www.naturalnews.com/Index-SpecialReports.html>
I was one of the last people to interview the late Dr. Batmanghelidj, and I
listened in awe as he shared his research and stories about "The Healing Power
of Water."
In the special report mentioned above, you'll learn:
• Which common ailments and "diseases" are actually caused by dehydration
• Why many doctors use water-regulating antihistamines to alleviate pain
• How Dr. Batmanghelidj unintentionally discovered water's healing properties
• Why most people are chronically dehydrated and suffer from symptoms of
dehydration that are labeled "diseases"
• Which ingredients in soft drinks <http://www.naturalnews.com/soft_drinks.html>
deplete the body's water reserves
• Why thirst is not a reliable indicator of dehydration
• Why the body produces cholesterol and how water keeps it in balance
• Why Dr. Batmanghelidj believes the public is being mislead about AIDS
• How dehydration impairs mental functioning
• Why some organizations want to withhold alternative health information <http://www.naturalnews.com/health_information.html>
from the public
• How lack of water causes depression
• Why popular beverages are no substitute for water
• How dehydration causes the vascular system to constrict, leading to
hypertension
• How to recognize signs that your body is starting to dehydrate
• Why restaurants push you to drink disease-promoting soft drinks
• Why and how water effectively treats pain and inflammation
Download it now at:
http://www.naturalnews.com/Index-SpecialReports.html
The idiocy of modern medicine
The truth about these latest attacks on water is that *conventional medicine
doesn't want people to prevent disease with water, herbs, nutrition <http://www.naturalnews.com/nutrition.html>,
sunlight or anything natural*. The more people get healthy, the fewer
"customers" there are to rack up profits for drug companies, hospitals, doctors
and yes, even kidney experts (who should know better).
Looking at today's headlines on water, you just have to laugh: The Chicago
Tribune declares, "Water's benefits questioned by scientists," for example. It's
a headline that should probably be rewritten to say, "Kidney Doctors Recommend
Dehydration!"
Want kidney stones? Stop drinking water and start drinking soda. That's what Fox
News <http://www.naturalnews.com/Fox_News.html>
recommends in their headline.
You know, when the MSM <http://www.naturalnews.com/MSM.html>
gets this unbelievably stupid, and mainstream medicine goes to such outrageous
lengths to try to discredit natural substances like water, it makes me wonder
just how insane this world has really become. Is the public really so stupid
that people will believe these fraudulent headlines? I hope not. Then again, one
of the side effects of dehydration is a decline in cognitive function. It seems
like the journalists have been dehyrated for long time now, huh?
I can't wait to see what they'll come up with next. They're already attacked
water, sunlight, plants and nutrition. What's next, air? Will tomorrow's
headlines declare, "Breathing is bad for your health?"
Don't think it won't happen. There is no limit to the stupidity of modern
medical science.