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To: E. Charters who wrote (88724)	8/12/2002 11:14:52 AM
From: Probart	Respond to of 116756

Well tell me then, is my portfolio overweight if gold stocks make up 64.27% of such portfolio and such stocks are sitting their on free meal? If overweight what would you reduce the % to? Started eating in 1995, weight gain picked up in December 2000, balooned in April 2001. A little bit on the fat side I suppose, but still lumbering along. VBG

To: E. Charters who wrote (88724)	8/12/2002 4:36:42 PM
From: Richnorth	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 116756

Is the mineral-water business trying to get consumers to drink as much bottled water as possible????? Is there "gold" in the bottled-water business???? ========================== TOUTED AS "FACT": Drinking 8 cups of water a day is good for your health Bunkum, says controversial new study Researcher says the only certainty is all that liquid will have you making embarrassing dashes to the toilet In a controversial new study, an American researcher has said that drinking eight glasses of water a day has no real health benefits - it only makes one go to the toilet more often. Newspaper articles, health and beauty magazines have often advised drinking at least eight full glasses of water a day totalling two litres for optimal health, an approach called 8 x 8 by proponents. But Dr Heinz Valtin, of Dartmouth Medical School in New Hampshire, said there is no scientific evidence to back up this advice, which has helped create a huge market for bottled water. 'After 10 months of careful searching, I have found no scientific evidence that supports 8 x 8,' said the author of several textbooks on the subject of human water balance. Writing in the American Journal Of Physiology, Dr Valtin, a kidney specialist, said people forget that the food they eat also contains some water. The Food and Nutrition Board of the National Research Council has recommended that people take in about one ml of water for each calorie of food eaten. This adds up to two litres on an average 2,000-calorie diet. But the National Research Council also noted that much of this is already contained in food. 'I did 43 years of research on that system, the osmoregulatory system. That system is so precise and so fast that I find it impossible to believe that evolution left us with a chronic water deficit,' Dr Valtin said. If a person gets low on fluid, the body compensates by bringing fluid back out of the kidneys and by slowing the loss of water through the skin, he said, adding that thirst kicks in long before dehydration starts. 'It does it very quickly and very accurately and it does so in minutes,' he said. He said he and colleagues became concerned after seeing dozens of newspaper and magazine articles urging people to sip water all day. 'I started talking to my colleagues and asking them 'Do you know of any evidence for this?' 'Invariably, they said, 'No, I think it's a myth',' Dr Valtin said. The journal asked him to review all the scientific studies he could find and he concluded that someone, obviously misinformed, has been telling people to drink large amounts of water when most do not need to. 'I am referring to healthy adults in a temperate climate leading a largely sedentary existence,' he said. 'Persons with certain diseases must have large volumes of water - kidney stones are probably the most common example.' The rest can just drink enough to slake thirst, and this includes coffee, tea, and even beer, despite their diuretic effects, he added. He hopes people will be relieved of the guilt of not getting enough water, and of the expense of buying bottled water to drink throughout the day. 'Then there is the inconvenience of constant urination, the embarrassment of having to go to the bathroom all the time,' he added. And overdoses of water can cause water intoxication that can lead to confusion and even death. Water intoxication is one deadly effect of taking the drug Ecstasy, for instance, because it makes people thirsty beyond their physical needs.