Re: water intoxication (was RE: Carpal Tunnel)

[Dick Margulis <margulisd -at- comcast -dot- net>]

TW tie-in:

"Half your body weight (in ounces)" is ambiguous and meaningless in most 
of the world. Do the math: what this actually means is approximately 
one-thirty-second of your body weight, or, in round numbers, three percent.

People are just as confused by percentage as they are by fractions; but 
expressing the recommendation as "three percent of your body weight" is 
unambiguous and it comes out the same no matter what units of 
measurement you are familiar with in your particular culture.

If you know that a pound of water is a pint (two cups) and that a 
kilogram of water is a liter (or litre)--things anyone who got past 
seventh grade should know--then you can work out for yourself what 
volume you should drink.



Leo Hill wrote: