RE: Carpal Tunnel

["Beth Agnew" <Beth -dot- Agnew -at- senecac -dot- on -dot- ca>]

Thanks for the Snopes thing. Interesting. If one reads it correctly, the
doctors who claim foul on "drink lots of water" have not done studies on it
either. The information Snopes presents about Dr. Batmanghelidj is incorrect
as well. He has documented research on over 5000 patients in one study
alone.

True, unless a study is correctly designed you can get skewed results. That
goes for research both pro and con a subject.

There is some belief that water has a placebo effect, and even if that is
true, then it's worthwhile doing. Shenanigans is in the eye of the beholder.

--Beth

-----Original Message-----
From: eric -dot- dunn -at- ca -dot- transport -dot- bombardier -dot- com
[mailto:eric -dot- dunn -at- ca -dot- transport -dot- bombardier -dot- com]
Sent: Tuesday, September 21, 2004 3:03 PM
To: Beth Agnew
Cc: TECHWR-L
Subject: RE: Carpal Tunnel


Beth Agnew wrote on 09/21/2004 02:36:48 PM:
> Bottom line is to drink a LOT more water than
> you normally do, because most of us are chronically dehydrated.

Any studies pointing to the science of showing we are "chronically
dehydrated" and of accumulated toxins?

I have to call shenanigans if it's the standard naturopath explanation of
toxin accumulation/elimination. While using lots of big words and
scientific sounding processes, they can never explain WHICH toxins are
being affected nor can they point to which ones could be measured in
output to prove the claims.

Interestingly, the 8 glasses of water "myth" is found on Snopes.
http://www.snopes.com/toxins/water.htm

But, I suppose follow whatever works for you. After all, belief in a cure
is almost as effective as the medicine in many cases (placebo effect).

Eric L. Dunn
Senior Technical Writer


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