I believe water treated with reverse osmosis may be better for you especially if the local water is suspect or hard and at worst does no harm. I think any concerns come from the realm of magical thinking. "It's a process I don't understand and it seems like magic. Maybe it has other magically bad effects."
Just drink pure rain water and vodka. You'll be right. -- Charles On Mon, 14 Dec 2015, 12:41 AM Udhay Shankar N <ud...@pobox.com> wrote: > On Tue, Dec 8, 2015 at 7:09 PM, Nikhil Mehra <nikhil.mehra...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > Minerals. I believe the issue was that there were more than enough minerals > > in the water. Anyway, bit of an off the cuff email. Let me round up the > > material I collected at the time and write a more detailed email to you. > > > > So, anyone want to comment on the health effects (good and bad) of long > term use of RO treated water? > > The scientific consensus at this point seems to be that it is overall a > good thing. Most of the folks saying it is a bad thing tend to quote this > study [1] but that is a suspect one [2]. WHO itself seems to contradict it > in this paper [3]. > > Udhay > > [1] http://www.who.int/water_sanitation_health/dwq/nutrientschap12.pdf > [2] > > https://www.wqa.org/Portals/0/Technical/Technical%20Fact%20Sheets/1993_ConsumptionOfLowTDSWater.pdf > [3] http://apps.who.int/iris/bitstream/10665/43836/1/9789241563550_eng.pdf > -- > > ((Udhay Shankar N)) ((udhay @ pobox.com)) ((www.digeratus.com)) >
