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Debunking research from the University of Pennsylvania proved irresistible to CBS' Nancy Cordes and ABC's Ned Potter (embargoed link). "In fairness, your mom was not wrong but there is no proof that she was right either," Potter pointed out. If one drinks eight glasses of water a day, does it fill the stomach to aid dieting? "No conclusive studies." Flush toxins from ones kidneys? "No conclusive studies." Improve skin tone? "No conclusive studies." CBS' Cordes could not resist: the study "throws cold water" on long-held beliefs…that "just do not hold water"…"the findings may be hard to swallow"…cherished beliefs "could be all wet."
"Where did the idea of eight glasses a day even come from?" Cordes wondered. "Nobody really knows." Tyndall Report's understanding is that this is a pro-abstinence teaching of the Seventh Day Adventist Church on the theory that a quenched thirst would not be tempted by the demon booze. Are there any Adventists out there in our readership? Is all that water really your idea?
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