Science and Technology Daily: magnetized water is pseudoscience!
Water health scam
Activated water", "ionized water", and "spectrum water", "magnetized water",
Active water", "ionized water", "spectrum water", "magnetized water", "energy water", "nano water" and so on, there is nothing strange.
I received a letter from a reader, reported that his parents spent more than 5,000 yuan to buy a self-proclaimed cure for all diseases of the Huawei active water generator, "the use of advanced electric ion separation technology, can be made into active water tap water; long-term drinking has a sustained health effects; young and old, suitable for a variety of people to use! ". This reader said angrily, "I'm simply going to be angry with these shameless liars."
In fact, as early as July 11, 2005, the Ministry of Health issued an announcement revealing that "some products related to the health and safety of drinking water (hereinafter referred to as water-related products) production and management units in the production and sale of water-related products, unauthorized use of the name of the 'ionized water machine,' claiming that it can prepare Ionized water or alkaline water, and trumpeted with a variety of health functions, and some even unauthorized identification of the health sector licensing approvals, deception, and victimize consumers." And reiterated: "Water-related products shall not claim any health care functions."
But a piece of paper does not stop the "deception, victimize consumers" behavior. Announcement of a year, blatant claims of health care functions of water-related products are still everywhere in the marketing, its common means of cooperation with the local senior citizen associations, senior citizen universities, posing as medical experts to organize free health care lectures to gullible elderly people as the main target of deception, and more and more tricks, in addition to the "active water", "Ionized water", there are "spectrum water", "magnetized water", "energy water", "nano water" and so on, there is nothing strange.
They or in fact just filtering, purification or disinfection of water equipment, can play a role in health care is not stronger than pure water, drinking water, or just labeled with plausible scientific terminology, but in fact does not meet or even contrary to scientific principles, there is no biomedical basis for cheating the lack of scientific knowledge of consumers, is the authentic pseudo-science.
There are also some people for this kind of "health care products" defense, that is water, no toxic side effects, eating does not kill, but also provide psychological comfort, and more "stimulate domestic demand, stimulate consumption, increase tax revenue", why crack down? Eat does not kill people cheat things does not mean that it does not harm people. A market value of only a few tens of dollars, a few hundred dollars of water treatment device is dressed up as a health care products, sold to thousands of dollars, tens of thousands of dollars, this is in the economic harm.
These products were originally intended to deceive people, the lack of quality control, filtration, disinfection effect is not satisfactory, but claimed that the water treated by it can be directly quoted without boiling, or claimed that "often use the treated water to clean the eyes, cataracts can be improved and improve eyesight," which leads to diarrhea, infections and other adverse consequences, this is the Harmful in terms of hygiene. Some patients are gullible enough to believe in the health care and therapeutic effects of these products and give up regular treatment, thus aggravating their condition, which is harmful to people in the medical field.