RE: My 3 day food log, and thriving on little calories.
Real human food is not habit forming
Great answer! I agree entirely. We tend to crave sweet/carb-y/salty/fatty foods. I rarely crave something like brussels sprouts or asparagus despite the fact that I like them both immensely.
Completely remove all cooked foods from your diet, and you'll quickly find out how addicted you are to heterocyclic amines (HCAs) and polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs).
There's actually a heck of a lot of known carcinogens that we consume fairly often. Drinking hot liquids, cooking meat at high temperatures, eating processed meats, red meat, eating most cooked carbs, drinking alcohol, re-heating cooked vegetables, etc.
This makes a pretty convincing argument for uncooked vegan foods, as most carcinogens get eliminated from that list.
Structured water: google it. Or even better, pick up a book about it and start reading. Other people have commented about this as well.
I'm having a hard time on this one. It reminds me a lot of Pi Water which was popular in the 90's and got debunked.
Most of the articles I can find about structured water seem to be trying to sell me something. Of those that aren't trying to make a profit, I still had a hard time coming up with any scientific evidence to support the claims. The sites make a wide variety of claims that are inconsistent from one site to the next, with some appealing to spirituality/mysticism while others use scientific terms but fail to provide any detailed explanation or any sort of credible studies to support the claims.
"Structured water is wetter for better absorption and hydration."
"Wells around sacred sites or places of worship have structured water because of the healing energy of the location and all the prayers, intentions, and meditations done around the place."
Based on what I've read so far, I suspect that placebo effect is the cause of any perceived health improvements caused by drinking structured water. The placebo effect is of course a very real thing, and can lead to positive health improvements. That said, if you're aware of any peer-reviewed papers on structured water I'd be curious to read more.
Thanks for your response!
You are very welcome! :) and thank you for coming by. You will find the answers you are seeking about water. And you’re right... too many search results are just to capture our attention and sell us a product. This distorts the truth.
As for “structured” water, here is one way you can determine if a body of water is better “structured” for hydration or not: put a drop of the water onto your skin. How quickly does it absorb into your skin? Does it even absorb into your skin at all? Does the drop travel across your skin and fall off onto the ground? Does it travel an inch or so and then stop because it has absorbed into your skin?
No peer-review necessary. I have found in most cases of information where I have dug deep until I couldn’t dig any more (which has only been like half a dozen subjects) I ultimately found that the ideas and scholars who demanded (or supplied) “peer-review” papers were also people who barely understood (or even identified!) the fundamentals of the subject they were studying.
Back to structured water.
Let’s say you have 2 different sources of water bottled in separate glass containers, and you have a type of soil that you want to “hydrate”. The bottled water that is structured most in harmony with the soil structure is the water that will soak into the soil quickest. In some cases, they water will not even soak in... it will run-off the surface instead.
I hope this helps you understand the idea behind “structured” water better. Thanks again for the comment and asking a question that many other people are thinking without asking! :)