Does Your Body Cry for Water?

Dr. F. Batmanghelidj (no, he is not a superhero), author of the best-known book called Your Body's Many Cries for Water states that many of the worlds illnesses can be cured by simply consuming sufficient water. He claimed that drinking pure water can help reduce blood pressure, lower cholesterol, improve looks, reduce stress, prevent headaches and even cure Aids. Okay, the last one was just thrown in there, in the hope that Jacob Zuma would stumble across this blog and quote it.

Now, I read his book, Your Body's Many Cries for Water (just the introduction and the cover) and there might be some truth to his statements. I believe that we are too quick to grab the bottle of aspirin or any other over the counter socially acceptable drugs at the first sign of a headache, toothache or body ache.

So my experiment and I encourage you to do the same, is over the next 1 month, try at minimum to guzzle 8 glasses of water a day. I never figured out the size of the glasses but I’ll leave that to the tumbler dimensions available to you. If you have a headache, back pain, need to get into the mood etc. consume more water and test if his theory works. Send me your comments. If it does work, we maybe, just maybe, can bring down those evil money grabbing medical aid businesses sooner rather than later.

... Me