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Chris
09-13-2013, 09:42 AM
Another scandal. :rollseyes:


White House H2O evidence murky (http://www.politico.com/story/2013/09/michelle-obama-water-initiative-96703.html?hp=l4)


First lady Michelle Obama’s new drive to get Americans to drink more water may seem unlikely to make waves, but it spills into areas that have stirred intense controversy among scientists, public health campaigners and environmentalists.

Launching the latest part of her Let’s Move initiative Thursday, the first lady declared that increasing water consumption will improve the health of kids and adults alike....

...”The science and evidence about hydration and drinking water … abound, starting from headaches, but it leads to many more conditions,” White House assistant chef and Let’s Move director Sam Kass told reporters in a conference call Wednesday, citing obesity as one of the ills that could be reduced through more water consumption. “We do have a quarter of kids who drink no water under the age of 19. And over 40 percent of Americans aren’t even drinking half the water we know is recommended for optimum health.”

However, several public health experts contacted by POLITICO said they had concerns about the way the White House was framing the campaign. Those experts said the health benefits of increased water consumption are murky and there are no widely accepted criteria for how much water individuals should drink each day.

“There really isn’t data to support this,” said Dr. Stanley Goldfarb of the University of Pennsylvania. “I think, unfortunately, frankly, they’re not basing this on really hard science. It’s not a very scientific approach they’ve taken. … To make it a major public health effort, I think I would say it’s bizarre.”

Goldfarb, a kidney specialist, took particular issue with White House claims that drinking more water would boost energy.

”The idea drinking water increases energy, the word I’ve used to describe it is: quixotic,” he said. “We’re designed to drink when we’re thirsty. … There’s no need to have more than that.”

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Maybe she's been drinking...

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midcan5
09-13-2013, 11:52 AM
Just about anyone who is alive knows that hydration is critical to life, and that as our bodies lose water we face on the simple level fatigue or headache, and on another level death. For those of us who engage in marathon exercise, water and more water is a constant. So then ask yourself why Politico and the (corporate sponsored) idiot, Dr. Stanley Goldfarb (don't you love that he is a doctor, bottom of the class is my guess or maybe just greedy bastard along with fool), would challenge something the first lady duly noted? Are they partisan stupid or maybe, just maybe, a part of the doubt machine - the machine that wants to create doubt - for water is cheap while corporate drinks are profitable and make many Americans fat, and fat people are good for... well they lost me there. Always ask your self what is in the background and why. (Full disclosure I use lots of hydration sources.)


"The focus here is on ignorance or doubt or uncertainty as something that is made, maintained, and manipulated by means of certain arts and sciences, The idea is one that easily lends itself to paranoia: namely, that certain people don't want you to know certain things, or will actively work to organize doubt or uncertainty or misinformation to help maintain (your) ignorance. They know, and may or may not want you to know they know, but you are not to be privy to the secret. This is an idea insufficiently explored by philosophers, that ignorance should not be viewed as a simple omission or gap, but rather as an active production. Ignorance can be an actively engineered part of a deliberate plan. I'll begin with trade secrets, moving from there in the next three sections to tobacco agnotology, military secrecy, and the example of ignorance making (or maintenance) as moral resistance." Robert N. Proctor 'Agnotology'