27th January 2007, 2:52 PM
Actually lazy, it can happen. Too much of anything can kill you. Water included. For example, enough in the blood stream will dilute the cells and cause them to burst. You'll drown in your own fluids. As a lesser, more plausible example, if you are extremely dehydrated, drinking water too fast when you finally get some is a bad idea. Your dried up cells will burst, and you will die. Drink it slowly, over like an hour, so your body can adapt.
We are biological machines. Water is nothing more than a part of that machine, it isn't a magical elixer that is always a good. You can have too much, or clog up parts of the machine it isn't supposed to go in, like your lungs.
We are biological machines. Water is nothing more than a part of that machine, it isn't a magical elixer that is always a good. You can have too much, or clog up parts of the machine it isn't supposed to go in, like your lungs.
"On two occasions, I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." ~ Charles Babbage (1791-1871)