How to drink safely?
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I just read up something about the harmful effects in long term drinking of distilled water. I am wondering what other types of water can one drink instead? What do you call those water that we get from our tap and boiled to boiling point? Is this safe for drinking? My office here has distilled water(those blue drum-like thingy) and filtered water but the latter has a poor filtering system(I can see residues in it) X| . Thus, I am considering bringing in a boiler to the office to boil my own water straight from the tap. Any advice?:cool: Weiye Chen Life is hard, yet we are made of flesh...
Weiye Chen wrote: I just read up something about the harmful effects in long term drinking of distilled water. I am wondering what other types of water can one drink instead? Nah, there is nothing wrong with it: See this article[^]. And this article[^]. There is other evidence too that there is nothing wrong with it. The genius of the true fool is that he can mess up a foolproof plan.
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That was a very immature joke. -- An eye for an eye will only make the world blind.
Which is why we all laughed. regards, Paul Watson South Africa PMW Photography Dan Bennett wrote: He could have at least included a perforated line for easy detachment - that would be intelligent design
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Drinking proper distilled water - i.e. the stuff you might top your car battery up with, is bad for you. It has none of the minerals, salts etc that normal water has. When you drink it there is an ion imbalance between the water in your stomach and your body cells and osmodic(spelling) pressure tries to balance this up with the net result that it leaches ions out of your body and cells - bad news over a long time I'm told. Water in those dispenser things shouldn't be distilled just purified - although having seen programs on what people bottle and sell as water I would debate that. Well that's what I have been told.
This might be true if you are, for example, running a marathon, but if you are drinking pure water along with a normal diet, you won't have any problems. After all, the only way to prevent cell-wall osmosis is to drink exactly the same fluid as is already inside the cells - not very appetising!
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Which is why we all laughed. regards, Paul Watson South Africa PMW Photography Dan Bennett wrote: He could have at least included a perforated line for easy detachment - that would be intelligent design
Paul Watson wrote: Which is why we all laughed. I didn't. And I usually laugh at sick and crass humour. (Heck I've been laughing at Suicide Bomber jokes all week) but there is something very unfunny about jokes about drunk-driving. Michael CP Blog [^] Development Blog [^]
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Maximilien wrote: drinking distilled water is not good for you because ( I think ) it lacks all the necessary chemical elements that makes up "good" water. Hydrogen and oxygen? *ducks*
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I just read up something about the harmful effects in long term drinking of distilled water. I am wondering what other types of water can one drink instead? What do you call those water that we get from our tap and boiled to boiling point? Is this safe for drinking? My office here has distilled water(those blue drum-like thingy) and filtered water but the latter has a poor filtering system(I can see residues in it) X| . Thus, I am considering bringing in a boiler to the office to boil my own water straight from the tap. Any advice?:cool: Weiye Chen Life is hard, yet we are made of flesh...
There is absolutely nothing wrong with drinking pure water. Any claims otherwise are based on bad science, or slanted to make some product look more desirable. Around here it is almost impossible to drink the water, even though by government standards it is considered safe. The mineral content is incredible, and the taste putrid. Most buy bottled water that has been purified by reverse osmosis (which removes the worst offenders, but leaves some mineral content) rather than distilled water because of the taste. The pure stuff has no detectable taste, but it costs more and is certainly not harmful in any way. "...putting all your eggs in one basket along with your bowling ball and gym clothes only gets you scrambled eggs and an extra laundry day... " - Jeffry J. Brickley
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Scarily enough, that used to be all too familiar to me. :-O Anna :rose: Riverblade Ltd - Software Consultancy Services Anna's Place | Tears and Laughter "Be yourself - not what others think you should be" - Marcia Graesch "Anna's just a sexy-looking lesbian tart" - A friend, trying to wind me up. It didn't work.
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Paul Watson wrote: Which is why we all laughed. I didn't. And I usually laugh at sick and crass humour. (Heck I've been laughing at Suicide Bomber jokes all week) but there is something very unfunny about jokes about drunk-driving. Michael CP Blog [^] Development Blog [^]
Michael P Butler wrote: I've been laughing at Suicide Bomber jokes all week) but there is something very unfunny about jokes about drunk-driving. Yeah, I can see how civilians being blown up is more humorous than driving all swervy-like. Charlie if(!curlies){ return; }
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There is absolutely nothing wrong with drinking pure water. Any claims otherwise are based on bad science, or slanted to make some product look more desirable. Around here it is almost impossible to drink the water, even though by government standards it is considered safe. The mineral content is incredible, and the taste putrid. Most buy bottled water that has been purified by reverse osmosis (which removes the worst offenders, but leaves some mineral content) rather than distilled water because of the taste. The pure stuff has no detectable taste, but it costs more and is certainly not harmful in any way. "...putting all your eggs in one basket along with your bowling ball and gym clothes only gets you scrambled eggs and an extra laundry day... " - Jeffry J. Brickley
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Michael P Butler wrote: I've been laughing at Suicide Bomber jokes all week) but there is something very unfunny about jokes about drunk-driving. Yeah, I can see how civilians being blown up is more humorous than driving all swervy-like. Charlie if(!curlies){ return; }
Charlie Williams wrote: Yeah, I can see how civilians being blown up is more humorous than driving all swervy-like. I suppose it depends on your sense of humour and whether you have suffered personally from either kind of crime. The jokes I've laughed at haven't been about the death but jokes aimed at the bombers. Michael CP Blog [^] Development Blog [^]
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There is absolutely nothing wrong with drinking pure water. Any claims otherwise are based on bad science, or slanted to make some product look more desirable. Around here it is almost impossible to drink the water, even though by government standards it is considered safe. The mineral content is incredible, and the taste putrid. Most buy bottled water that has been purified by reverse osmosis (which removes the worst offenders, but leaves some mineral content) rather than distilled water because of the taste. The pure stuff has no detectable taste, but it costs more and is certainly not harmful in any way. "...putting all your eggs in one basket along with your bowling ball and gym clothes only gets you scrambled eggs and an extra laundry day... " - Jeffry J. Brickley
Roger Wright wrote: Most buy bottled water that has been purified by reverse osmosis (which removes the worst offenders, but leaves some mineral content) rather than distilled water because of the taste. Actually it removes most of the mineral content too, disolved metals and impurities above a certain size. What it does not remove is mineral disolved particles below a certain size (usually some finely disolved salts, and most disolved gasses). Any gas that disolves fully is usually too small to be filtered by reverse osmosis, thus the need to distill. Removing most minerals except fine salts and disolved gases is what gives reverse osmosis water its unique flavor... :) distilled water has some unique chemical properties, mostly due to absolutely neutral Ph which is rare outside of water, but nothing harmful. In fact if I recall, distilled water will actually reduced retained salts which normally would come from water, but now come from everything else (and so are generally higher than desired content). I did find it interesting that how stuff works[^] shows salt water as having one of the mythical properties of distilled water. I don't know how the myth started, but it may have come from the salt water dehydration. Not understanding that water passes freely through the membranes of the stomach, but minerals do not, someone may have thought it was a two way street for all things (though that would be messy internally). Because water travels across the stomach lining to dilute the salts, dehydrating the body... someone probably assumed it worked the same with distilled water, that if you drank pure water, the minerals would be exchanged through the stomach lining to balance with the pure water. Not realizing how the stomach lining works, it is easy to see how someone could get the idea, though a bit of reading would show them why it doesn't work that way -- if minerals passed through, too many other things would too and your body would be pretty messed up real fast. _________________________ Asu no koto o ieba, tenjo de nezumi ga warau. Talk about things of tomorrow and the mice in the ceiling laugh. (Japanese Proverb)
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Scarily enough, that used to be all too familiar to me. :-O Anna :rose: Riverblade Ltd - Software Consultancy Services Anna's Place | Tears and Laughter "Be yourself - not what others think you should be" - Marcia Graesch "Anna's just a sexy-looking lesbian tart" - A friend, trying to wind me up. It didn't work.
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Michael P Butler wrote: I've been laughing at Suicide Bomber jokes all week) but there is something very unfunny about jokes about drunk-driving. Yeah, I can see how civilians being blown up is more humorous than driving all swervy-like. Charlie if(!curlies){ return; }
Charlie Williams wrote: Yeah, I can see how civilians being blown up is more humorous than driving all swervy-like. It's a matter of sheer numbers.... Annually DWI (driving while intoxicated) related deaths exceed 300% the number of those who passed on 9/11. It just isn't "news worthy" to report on another DWI death because we have them about once every 30 minutes or so. But because it is so common, it is almost taboo to speak of it. Ironically, if you google on DWI issues, about 1/5 of the pages will be from a single state. New Mexico. In the early 1990's we lead the entire USA as the number 1 state in alcohol related deaths per population. I think we just dropped out of the top 10 states after 15 years. _________________________ Asu no koto o ieba, tenjo de nezumi ga warau. Talk about things of tomorrow and the mice in the ceiling laugh. (Japanese Proverb)
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I just read up something about the harmful effects in long term drinking of distilled water. I am wondering what other types of water can one drink instead? What do you call those water that we get from our tap and boiled to boiling point? Is this safe for drinking? My office here has distilled water(those blue drum-like thingy) and filtered water but the latter has a poor filtering system(I can see residues in it) X| . Thus, I am considering bringing in a boiler to the office to boil my own water straight from the tap. Any advice?:cool: Weiye Chen Life is hard, yet we are made of flesh...
Out here water quality (atleast in taste) differs by zipcodes :) I drink out of the water fountain and the blue drum at the office. At home I use Ozarka's spring water bottles. Tap water at home taste's like ;P ... ofcourse the locals don't agree :rolleyes: ... http://www.boreddude.com
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Charlie Williams wrote: Yeah, I can see how civilians being blown up is more humorous than driving all swervy-like. I suppose it depends on your sense of humour and whether you have suffered personally from either kind of crime. The jokes I've laughed at haven't been about the death but jokes aimed at the bombers. Michael CP Blog [^] Development Blog [^]
Michael P Butler wrote: >The jokes I've laughed at haven't been about the death but jokes aimed at the bombers. And the jokes we've laughed at havn't been about the death, but jokes aimed at the booze and vehicle... Kevin Shaffer kshaff03@msn.com
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Charlie Williams wrote: Yeah, I can see how civilians being blown up is more humorous than driving all swervy-like. It's a matter of sheer numbers.... Annually DWI (driving while intoxicated) related deaths exceed 300% the number of those who passed on 9/11. It just isn't "news worthy" to report on another DWI death because we have them about once every 30 minutes or so. But because it is so common, it is almost taboo to speak of it. Ironically, if you google on DWI issues, about 1/5 of the pages will be from a single state. New Mexico. In the early 1990's we lead the entire USA as the number 1 state in alcohol related deaths per population. I think we just dropped out of the top 10 states after 15 years. _________________________ Asu no koto o ieba, tenjo de nezumi ga warau. Talk about things of tomorrow and the mice in the ceiling laugh. (Japanese Proverb)
Jeffry J. Brickley wrote: It's a matter of sheer numbers.... Annually DWI (driving while intoxicated) related deaths exceed 300% the number of those who passed on 9/11. It just isn't "news worthy" to report on another DWI death because we have them about once every 30 minutes or so. But because it is so common, it is almost taboo to speak of it. There is one difference... the person who kills themselves while driving drunk isn't a victim, he is a fool, along with anyone who decided to ride with him. You are right though that the person he hit and kills is a much a victim as anyone who was in the towers. :rose: Uptight Ex-Military Republican married to a Commie Lib - How weird is that?