[.ca] Your Body's Many Cries for Water (ISBN 1903571499)

From Amazon.com:
As a result of extensive research into the role of water in the body, the author, a medical doctor, believes that he has found chronic dehydration to be the cause of many conditions including asthma, allergies, arthritis, angina, migraine headaches, hypertension, raised cholesterol, chronic fatigue syndrome, multiple sclerosis, depression, and diabetes in the elderly. According to Dr. Batmanghelidj, the body possesses many different thirst signals. A dry mouth is not a reliable indicator of your body's water needs. He describes a variety of more reliable ones, and helps you learn to understand when your body is calling for water. In this way, he claims you can prevent, treat, and cure a variety of conditions of ill health, at no cost, with what he calls nature's miracle medicine: Water. The author explains how much water one needs to drink a day to stay healthy, and why tea, coffee, and sodas are not good substitutes for water.

One of the Few Most Important Health Books Written:
Without condescending to read it, I had pooh-poohed the idea of this book for years. "Who needs to be told to drink water?" I thought. "Everyone already knows that." Then one afternoon, by accident, I saw it on a reshelving cart at a bookstore, and flipped through it. My new reaction was, "Oh, my God!" There I stood, as a Ph.D. scientist, looking at the book I'd made fun of, and I felt like a fool as I read key sections in several chapters. I bought two copies (one to underline, with marginal notes; the other to lend out), and read through it in one sitting, after which I looked up Dr. Batmanghelidj in Virginia and phoned him for an extended conversation. I found him very congenial, unpretentious and blazingly competent. Since that day several years ago I have recommended this book to hundreds of people, and I've provided free copies to many doctors, dentists and youth counselors. Cocky, presumptuous health practitioners, even more arrogant than I had earlier been about this subject, find this book easy to dismiss if they haven't read it, and I identify with their foregone-conclusion mentality, having been there myself prior to understanding this book. To the rest of you, whether you believe you're knowledgeable about health issues or not, I can only plead with you to read this book and take it seriously. In my case, I had been repeatedly plagued by headaches and lower-back pain before reading it, but not once since applying its recommendations. The orthopedic section alone is worth the price of the book. If you know anyone with asthma, it would be tragic not to buy a copy of this for them. In short, though I have read literally hundreds of books on health and nutrition, I consider this book to be, without doubt, one of the very few most important and immediately practical ever written.

Dr. Batmanghelidj's motivation:
I bought this book from here on Amazon.ca where I buy almost all my books as I really enjoy this customer friendly site. I am writing this review because the Author seems to sell this book with negitivity toward the medical profession of which is quite deserved. It is strange then to find this Author has written sevearl books to enhance your health as he cares so much more about than your health than your family physican. I question this as with all his books he changes a few sentences for the main points are the same. Drink water and don't be afraid of salt. If that is the message of this book then way is Dr. Batmanghelidj so intent on making huge profits of the ill and those suffering from pain? Can he be satisfied with a DECENT profit? He is making huge amounts of money, much more than the locale GP. All he needed to do would be to write one book instead of taking advantage of the suffering public. I must say I lost respect for him. His pockets must be fairly deep. Does drinking more water help with painful medical conditions? The answer is yes, it does. At least in my case I am happy with the outcome. Our first nine months are those which find us completely incased in water. So it is a simple conclusion really that we are all very dehydrated as children and adults. I thank the good doctor for making the message available to us but as I said I think he is a little too interested in money has has no room to belittle the medical community while he has several titles to books that are 98% the same message. Only thing is you have to buy each book that offers a protential of offering new or more help.

Deaf to my Body's Cries!:
These are WORDS OF WISDOM, self-published at his own expense and because of the conspiracy to keep water a SECRET, by a True Compassionate Saint, Scholar and Genius. I was not a healthy person before discovering water. Thanks to water, I have cured myself of cancer of every major organ, leukaemia, anaemia and hyperchromatosis and auto-immune disorders such as lupus, scleroderma, multiple sclerosis, rheumatoid arthritis, Wegener's granulomatosis, Addison's disease, Crohn's disease, Sjogren's syndrome,Goodpasture's syndrome, and Grave's Disease. I also had suffered from Parkinson's Disease and Diabetes I and II and Hepatitis A, B, C, and D. Specialists were of no help - they accused me of hypochondriasis (and refused to test me for it although they referred me to a psychopharmacologist who prescribed several drugs - none of which were generic - thus supporting the conspiracy of the pharmaceutical industry and the government and the American Medical Association to keep America drugged and TOXIC)and told me that my tests were NORMAL and NEGATIVE - and refused to talk to me when I asked WHO the arbiters of NORMAL were? WHO determines whether or not your red and white blood counts are "NORMAL"? I have not been able to get an answer to this question. Do we have tests for EVERY viral and bacterial infection out there? NO! But with water, we don't NEED tests or harmful drugs because water is THE CLEANER PAR EXCELLENT. Think about it - when you spill a substance, do you THINK about what it is before sponging it up? NO. You don't need to think with water - it is natural and clear. It is odourless, colourless and tasteless. It is the perfect substance. If more people drank water and listened to their dying dehydrated cells' calling out for the ELIXER OF LIFE, we would be a 3H - happy, healthy and hydrated! Don't let the naysaying of a few quacks who are only in it for the money deter you. Take your life into your own hands - drink water - lots and often!

He's a quack:
The man doesn't believe that AIDS is "caused by a virus." It says so right there in this book. He also hasn't published any real studies about his "water cure." If the effects were as dramatic as he says, the medical world would be all over it, just like they always tell everybody to exercise and eat well. I have no doubt that chronic dehydration is bad for you, and I'm sure that drinking only water and rarely caffeinated drinks or alcohol is better for you, but this guy is just ridiculous.

just a thought:
I ordered the book but haven't read it yet. I had to rate it or else I couldn't post so I gave it 5 stars just because I think the water idea is a good one. I was reading the last post and thinking along the same lines and then it came to me. Most people that have a health problem would be looking for answers to their specific problem, and probably wouldn't even give a book about anything else a second glance. Therefore by writing a lot of different books with a different health problem in the title, more people would eventually get to learn about this.