The chlorine in salt is toxic to plants.  That is why the water from ion type
softners should never be used on plants.  However water from a magnetic softner 
is
fine on plants, in fact some experiments have shown that plants will grow better
with that than the water before it gets restructered.

Marshall

[email protected] wrote:

> Well, it really doesn't make sense that distilled water would diminish the
> bodies mineral content. Especially since the SAD diet of most people doesn't
> include much water anyway.
> You get most of your minerals from your food.
>
> The only KNOWING  about water I have is: don't drink water from a softener.
> I've seen what that water did to my neighbors' tomato seedlings.
>
>                                                         Chuck
>
> This tagline isn't really very witty and it runs on and on and you'd probably 
> be
> much happier reading some other tagline. Most of them aren't half as 
> depressing
> as this one. Don't say I didn't warn you.
>
> On Wed, 16 Oct 2002 08:18:07 -0400 (EDT), [email protected] (larry tankersley)
> wrote:
>
> > Dear list...
> > Well I'm still trying to get a definitive answer to DW being good or
> >bad as drinking water. Man it's hard to KNOW things.
> > Below is a link to what DR. Mercola has to say about it [ I notice none
> >of his references are from science journals ] On the other hand Dr Weil
> >says just the opposite,and that DW is what he drinks !   Any of you
> >folks know of controlled studies dealing with this question?
> > SEE LINK BELOW
>
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