rick++ wrote:
> This new advice works against convention diet advice.
> For about 15 years the diet advisers have been
> advocating drinking a gallon of liquid a day to speed
> weight loss. I read recently this is no longer
> considered a useful diet method (like most
> diet fads), but the practice has become highly ingrained
> to the point where I see women guzzling their water
> in inappropriate places like church services, important
> business meetings, and symphony concerts, etc.
>
Rick, I respect your comments, but in this case you might be
misinterpreting something.
Many people drink fluids, esp. water during meetings - male/female,
20s/50s, fat/thin. People get thirsty in hot rooms. It has nothing to do
with diets - at least where I am. Where I work, I will dehydrate (pee
test) if I don't drink. Conferences have water bottles or pitchers of
ice water available. Speakers have a glass of water / water bottle
handy. I was at a public meeting last night, and the assembly people had
several empty water bottles in front of them (4+ hr meeting when I left,
and they were just starting "new business").
I've refilled some of those bottles many times over, stuck them in my
pocket, and go to more meetings.
Couldn't vouch for church services or symphony concerts, though. Usually
concert halls have no food / no beverage policies.
Just a different perspective.
Dot
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"After 26 hours 38 minutes, we accomplished our mission, and the next
day were fortunate to read about our adventure in the sports section of
the local papers rather than the obituaries."
-Dean Karnazes recounting their running of the WS100 trail in winter.