I think there are many people who are walking around with water intoxication.
Take a look around, I see people walking into the grocery store with a water bottle, I go to the bank and people can't walk from their car into a bank without a water bottle.
Look up water intoxication, it IS serious.

Seriously! There's nothing quite as exciting as awaiting your thank-you note from the planet.

Soon there will be waterholics anonymous. We have reached the point of no return in what to eat and drink, which by all reports is nothing.

2,300 mg of salt is one teaspoon. My mom is supposed to be on a low-salt diet. We try, we really do, but salt enhances flavor, makes food more interesting. One teaspoon a day is hard, even with homemade food.

Or eat and drink any damn thing you want. Think of all the time you'll save not reading health-related articles. It will roughly balance the time lost to ill health.
But at least you will have enjoyed yourself, instead of sucking on organic broccoli.

Drink water only when you're thirsty. You get enough in the food you eat and the coffee or tea, etc., you drink.

Salt? I watch what I add to what I cook and don't eat processed food. They need to stay out of our kitchens.

I'm stuck on a 2000 mg a day diet. It sucks , especially with my wife watching. Yes, I do cheat once in a while when she is not around.

I have a bottle of Poland Spring sitting here right now - next to my M&Ms.

I'm not in the market for any advice on what I eat or drink.

I stick to a low salt diet as much as I can. But I get really thirsty. I work in a building full of little Ladies who keep their heaters on 75 even in the middle of summer and still swear they are cold. I come out of their rooms simply drenched and thus must replenish what I sweat off.

And if at all possible avoid Seattle.

I had to live there for almost two years in the early 60s. It was pre-Century 21, so the city still had much of its charm. But the people were so far left it made one's hair hurt.

These Birkenstocky types still prevail there.

Most people carry bottled water because we are supposed to drink a certain amount of water each day and when we want to drink some it is not always available in potable form. I gave up drinking fountains when I was a kid. And who sees a drinking fountain any more?

You could be collapsed on the sidewalk and no one would offer you water. And in restaurants you must request it.

Go find another cause to rant on. This one's a loser. And so are you. Period.

I'd ad "read less newspaper" to the headline.

Gay men masquerading as women-slayers and bottled water are the two most successful scams perpetrated on the American Woman in our country's history.

Whenever possible I drink bottled water because what comes out of the tap is provided by my local government. I drink distilled water. Don't want that brain eating amoeba.

How 'bout this, Nanny Katy....

Dictate less, mind own beeswax more.

'K??? How 'bout that?!

How about we take American Ingenuity and shove it in the Bureaucrats Wazoo?

Save your money on store bought bottled water and simply boil your own, thats what i do-not to save money, but because i don`t trust bottled water to be all that clean.

If the town I live in could keep our water from smelling and tasting like chlorine I wouldn't drink bottled water-I even get it for the dogs. What I eat is my own business, quit naggin'.
Mrs. Cow

I don't care for salt.

Hot peppers of all variety haunt my every waking moment.

Feel the burn.

Once spent 3 months in the hospital recovering from a nasty logging accident. The most painful part was the bland food.

Eat what you like.

No one gets outta here alive.

Are there any urologists among us? I suspect that Katy the dietician's theory about reducing our fluid intake might not match guidance from doctors who focus on our urinary tracts.

Ever wonder what those big white blocks you see in pastures are about or why salt was in times past a form of currency?

Most bottled water comes from public water supplies. Mine comes from a 500 foot deep well, and not in bottles. Much better than the cr*p that comes in plastic bottles.

#19 is exactly correct.

I get kidney stones, so I have to make sure I drink alot of water. Not too much, not "water intoxification", but my urologist clearly stated most people DO NOT DRINK ENOUGH WATER.

Not to be gross, but your urine should be very light yellow. If it isn't, you're not drinking enough water. Talk to your doctor, don't take my word for it. Plenty of water cleanses toxins from the body. My urologist states with a smile "The solution for pollution is dilution!".

I also think that dietician is wrong that drinking water is hard on your heart. Water OUTSIDE your digestive and urinary tract, such as people who hold water in their lung areas or lower body extremities, is an issue, and water collects there BECAUSE the heart is weak, it doesn't make it weak.

She writes that bottled water is $5.50. Where ?

I drink distilled water. Never add salt to food. Don't eat fast food.

I know someone that had a heart attack because she washed the electrolytes out of her body by drinking too much water.

A recent Cochrane Collaboration meta analysis on studies of sodium restriction and health concluded there was insufficient evidence to recommend that the general public restrict their intake of salt to 2300 mg./day. (This does not include people with certain medical conditions.) Until I see evidence from some well-designed studies which indicate the contrary, I'll just assume that the idea we all have to go on a low sodium diet is more Nanny-state-ism propoganda.