Hello!
Drinking solely distilled water DOES leach minerals out of your
body. The fact that people who do this, don't drop over dead
immediately, means nothing.
I never SAID that drinking normal tap water replaced or supplied
ALL your minerals. Tap water mineral concentrations vary wildly
across the country. Studies DO show, however, that the communties
with the HIGHEST mineral concentrations in the water, have the
LOWEST rate of fractures. In fact, when the mineral concentration
is HIGH enough, the fracture rate DROPS as you age, instead of
increasing like "normal". In other words, the OLDEST people have
the strongest bones, NOT the younger people!
I take appropriate mineral supplements, myself.
As to salt, since the average American diet provides MORE than 3
or 4 times the necessary amount of sodium, the fact that your
distilled water drinking diet didn't put your sodium levels into
the danger range, means nothing.
Since I work 80 hour weeks, I'm afraid I don't have time for a
more detailed response. For more information, please just do web
searches, as I don't have time to look up sources right now.
Karl Kristianson
Evening Karl,
>Drinking distilled water as your primary water source can be
>unhealthy.
That is a very bold statement, considering the millions that
are doing
it not. When I first started drinking a gallon PLUS water per
day, two
different nurses told me, "you better be careful, you will leach
all the
sodium out of your body". About three months later, after a
blood
analysis and my sodium reading was 147, I ran into these people
again. Here is what I told them.
>>This will leach minerals out of your body
>That is exactly what we want it to do, is it not?
You DON'T want distilled water to leach minerals out of your
body, if you are NOT replacing the necessary ones.
"you have underestimated the ability of the human body to
take care of
itself".
At one time, my sweat was not even salty. Yes, the body can
conserve many
elements, when it is working right.
>This will leach minerals out of your body
That is exactly what we want it to do, is it not?
>(many of which would be replaced by drinking normal, mineralized
water).
If this stuff exist, it must be a some rare mineral springs
at some
remote place.
We do have a community in my state called, "Mineral Wells". They
make all
kinds of claims for the water there.
> If you want to do this, please remember to take mineral
supplements to
> replace
>the lost minerals.
Using my non-engineering logic to interpret that statement
says,
If you drink normal water you do not need to take the mineral
supplements. Which ones do we not need to take if we drink this
"normal
water" you reference.
I have well water and city water and don't drink distilled
water except
when I run out of my reverse osmosis water.
Still, I think the whole world is confused on water. I have
drank
water from creeks, rivers, slews, and potholes.
None of it has ever made me sick. I have watched many wild
animals drink
from mud holes when a super clear stream was nearby.
Seems to me the wild animals are the only ones that have
enough instinct
to drink the right water.
By the way, I have a friend that is a retired chemist. He
worked for the
city treatment plant all his life. He says exactly the same thing
you
said. Does that mean that you are a water treatment chemist.
<grin>
Wayne
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