If you're spoiling for a fight, here's a good way to start one. "Hey," you should say to your aunt who drinks eight glasses of water per day or your college buddy who swears by colonics or your best friend who insists on only natural cures, "you know that's a myth, right?"
I'd follow up by handing Jane Brody's list of medical misapprehensions to the person whose belief system you've just shattered. I'd do that knowing they're probably to ticked off to read it right that second. But maybe, just maybe, they'd get to it shortly after sputtering about how they just know they're absolutely right.
If you're a person who likes to keep the peace, I'd say nothing. And if your water swilling aunt tosses glass number seven in your face, don't say you weren't warned.
