Re: OT: Sturgeon General warns even moderate drinking causes cancer

On 2025-01-05 18:12:17 +0000, The Horny Goat said:

On Sun, 5 Jan 2025 09:43:33 +1300, Your Name <YourName@YourISP.com>
wrote:

 "Fresh mountain water" is full of minerals and compounds collected on
it's travels downstream that will be bad for you if drank to excess.
Even if it was 100% pure water, it will still be bad for you to drink
too much of it.

 Well sure - you need to drink water (or some other liquid) every day.
 Immersing yourself in 4 cubic meters of it (about the size of your
typical elevator booth) is likely to drown you.

Yes, most animals need to drink water in some form, but just drinking too much water in a relatively sort timeframe can be highly dangerous - it's called "overhydration" and "water intoxification". Quite a few people in various countries have even died from doing that, and in some cases it was due to the idiotic and *incorrect* "expert advice" to drink at least X litres of water a day.