Ron Kosloff - Water: The Most Important Element Of All.

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Water constitutes 65% to 70% of the human body. The following list explains the many detrimental things that can happen to your body if you don't ingest enough water.

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While most of the article, "Water, The Most Important Element of All", was very good, I found the recitation of why we shouldn't drink soda as laughable. I do agree that soda consumption is probably not the best fluid to put in your body, but the reasons given are ridiculous. I could do the same thing with water, but what would it prove. In fact, let's try...

* Study Cautions Runners to Limit Water Intake (see http://www.mclean.harvard.edu/pdf/ne...nyt050413.pdf). The idea of the article is to warn against hyponatremia (water intoxication) which leads to more runner deaths than does dehydration.

* While soda will dissolve rust, water is known to create it.

* While soda is used to clean engines and remove blood, it should be noted that if you place filthy, sweaty, stained clothes in a washing machine and then add water, within a half hour, most (if not all) of that filth will be removed.

* Ships that have been found at the bottom of the ocean have been observed to be in the act of dissolving. Over a long enough period, it is reasonable to deduce that a ship sunk in water will eventually just disappear.


R. Grimes

I would just like to agree with the previous reviewer about the author's list of supposed reasons to avoid soda.

All of the myths that the author lists, save one, are completely that: myths. The excellent Discovery Channel show Mythbusters did an episode about that, including just about every one of those myths (even the T-Bone dissolving one), and the only one that wasn't total BS was the chrome bumper one. In fact, the cola worked amazingly when it came to cleaning an old chrome bumper, but everything else was total crap.

I'm not surprised the author is passing on these myths: he's a paranoid, ignorant man who believes his no-name B.S. makes him a greater authority than anyone in the entire medical profession and believes "maggots are mutations created from rotting food," and not, as every entymologist (and anybody who's passed second grade--or anyone who's not an utter fool) will tell you, simply the larval stage of the fly. (If you think I'm making this up, check out his article about antacids!)

The other authors whose articles are posted on Bodybuilding.com should demand that Kosloff's articles be removed, as none of the articles (and therefore none of the authors) have any credibility--nor does the site--as long as they share the same internet address as this idiot.

Why, this guy is one of the funniest reads to have on the internet. Compared to other outflows of his genius, the water article, however, is close to brilliant - in that with the soda part it's only like 50% nonsense.

the stomach is only capable of digesting ½ of the protein and ½ the starch you eat. Well, what then happens to all the other food not digested? The other ½ of the protein will putrefy and the starch (carbohydrate) will ferment.

this leftover food will rot in your stomach.

Rotting food can cause yeast infections, parasites and asthma

Maggots are mutations created from rotting food

One of the things that this rotting food does to your stomach is cause a horrible acid, very different from hydrochloric acid. It is an acid caused by fermentation and putrification and it can burn your esophagus.

You're going to have food allergies, because the undigested food will float around in your blood stream and your body sees it as a foreign substance and it will attack. That's called autoimmune disease; your allergies will continually get worse.

You are going to toxify and pollute your colon and your liver, the bile in your gallbladder is going to get thick and cause a multitude of problems.

drugs just cover up the symptoms. They drive the symptoms deeper and deeper into the cell

All of this is obviously founded in medicine and science.

Unfortunately it is the medicine and science of the year 1215.

It gets even more hilarious when one looks at the so-called credentials of the author...

Also recommended: the article about the great conspiracy, by the selfsame author.

The sad side: there may be actually people out there believing this drivel.

[Cajunfit]

I agree with the previous reviewers. Kosloff could have very easily "googled" to see that most of that soda bashing was indeed myth and hype.

In his new article on antacids and food combining (which is not up for review yet), he actually said something that IMMEDIATELY pulled me away from his article, and caused me to laugh outloud:

"Let's say you took garbage and threw it out, if the garbage men did not pick it up the very next week, you would be able to look in that garbage and see maggots. Maggots are mutations created from rotting food. I don't know if you're aware of that, but that's exactly what happens in your stomach."

Maggots are mutations from rotting food? I suppose that Mr. Kosloff has not yet heard of how the fly got involved in the creation of maggots? GOOD GOD! Does bb.com not have at least one article reviewer to check for these outlandish statements?

Fortunately, I do find many good articles and writers here, but some of these people need frontal lobotomies.

Best of health,

Cajunfit

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why do you let Ron Kosloff write for you??

He has mostly been incorrect and unfactual in his aricles and he is a big joke..no one really respects him on these boards

[Cajunfit]

Originally Posted by Unregistered

The sad side: there may be actually people out there believing this drivel.

I honestly believe that quite a few people will believe this. Why? Because it made the front page article section of one of the biggest bodybuilding/supplement sites on the internet.

When you start to get readership and followers of people that do actually post good articles, it can be quite easy to see how these readers would be herded into believing that bodybuilding.com actually chooses its authors and would "weed out" the crap. Unfortunately, this is not the case.

Mr. Kosloff if a prime example of why you should have a qualified reviewer for articles like this.