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Some well or treated tap water tastes unpleasant. If unpleasant water is assigned to a negative number and pleasant water assigned to a positive number then distilled water, with "no taste" should be a zero. And by that measurement I have no problem saying distilled water tastes better than unpleasantly flavored water.
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Guildedagain
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Heard that you're not supposed to drink distilled water because distilled water will pull minerals out of your body as it goes through. Water is alive. I heard it can be detrimental to your health, but good luck finding that info now.
A Birkey water filter doesn't remove minerals, just poisons, some of them anyway.
www.healthline.com
A Birkey water filter doesn't remove minerals, just poisons, some of them anyway.
Can You Drink Distilled Water?
Learn about the uses of distilled water, including its side effects, potential benefits, and more.
www.healthline.com
Color me envious.I love fridays when crabs finally start coming into the shallows. (I keep 3 pots at the marina at work. Haven't paid for crabs in 14 yrs and average a 1/2 bushel a week. (Around $120 worth right now)
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Yep! Seafood, fresh! Mayonnaise! Light white wine if you like that!! -But why " Fridays"???I love fridays when crabs finally start coming into the shallows. (I keep 3 pots at the marina at work. Haven't paid for crabs in 14 yrs and average a 1/2 bushel a week. (Around $120 worth right now)
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Or not.... https://www.yahoo.com/autos/florida-man-passenger-crash-fedex-172900159.html
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I heard that too, don't drink distilled water.(I don't know exactly why.)Now you make me want to volt-test my water, just in case...."4.52 ohms, underwound water, probably Teisco...Don't drink that!"Heard that you're not supposed to drink distilled water because distilled water will pull minerals out of your body as it goes through. Water is alive. I heard it can be detrimental to your health, but good luck finding that info now.
A Birkey water filter doesn't remove minerals, just poisons, some of them anyway.
Can You Drink Distilled Water?
Learn about the uses of distilled water, including its side effects, potential benefits, and more.
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Fridays....because throughout the week, I bait my crab pots, checking them every 2 days, while emptying them into a holding crate. By Friday, there are usually enough to take home to a have a nice feast w/ friends. Eating crabs is typically a weekend affair. There's more prep, cleanup, time spent picking crabs at the table, and beer (lots of it) than you'd want to deal w/ on a weekday work night.
...and no mayo.....just a bowl of drawn butter and another w/ vinegar. (I use neither, but they are customary in these parts.)
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I am going to express an opinion that the harm, if any, from drinking distilled water is not that it leaches minerals etc. out of your body. Rather it fails to replenish minerals that were leaving anyway and would normally be replaced by tap or some other non-distilled water.
Perhaps a subtle distinction that only matters to me
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Yes!! Just because it doesn't PROVIDE your body with minerals, doesn't mean when they're not there that it bleeds your body of the minerals it already has. That's silly. And if you eat good food and take a supplement, you get enough minerals to sustain you. That's my thought.
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Tap water in Finland beats most bottled waters anywhere both in taste and content.
www.thewaterdeliverycompany.com
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"Since distilled water doesn’t contain its own minerals, it has a tendency to pull them from whatever it touches to maintain a balance. So when you drink distilled water, it may pull small amounts of minerals from your body, including from your teeth."
"Storing distilled water could be more of a problem. Distilled water can pull in minerals from any material it touches. This means it can absorb trace amounts of plastic or whatever substance is in the container that’s holding it."
"formaldehyde, phthalates and acetaldehyde, antimony could migrate into the water in the bottle."
"antimony is classified as a possible human carcinogen by the International Agency for Research on Cancer. Studies have also noted an increase in blood lipid levels after oral exposure, which indicates that long periods of exposure to large amounts of the substance may increase cholesterol and reduce blood sugar levels."
I'd never recommend distilled water for consumption, highly likely to do you harm for no perceivable benefit.
Human health/diet is something I've been researching since the 70's.
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Well, we all gotta die of something.....
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I'd rather not see LTG fall into the trap of "dueling sources" but since you put quotes around that perhaps you could provide a citation? Since there is either a disagreement about facts or about what words mean that would help determine where the disagreement was.
If by some chance your source is https://www.healthline.com/health/can-you-drink-distilled-water note that it says
That article, as a whole, does not recommend against drinking distilled water.
Also note https://nutriteam.com/pages/does-distilled-water-leach-minerals-from-my-body says
My issue is how do the minerals get leached? I would be surprised if the kidneys or intestines were involved and, if you are drinking water what else is there?
The "living tissue" distinction is of interest because intact teeth are not normally considered living tissue. There are substances that we eat or drink that can "leech minerals" from teeth and distilled water may be one of them but then so are carbonated soft drinks and any food or drink with a high acidity that remains in contact with teeth long enough.
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Opposite info is all the rage these days. What was bad is good and vice versa. Taking an Aspirin a day was good, now it's bad. Butter substitutes were good, now they're bad. Eggs were bad, now they're good. Nuts were bad now they're good, etc.
The 1st two lines of quotation can be found in the link I provided originally, within the 1st few paragraphs.
www.healthline.com
The leaching of antimony and effects here.
packagingeurope.com
I recently ate at somebody's house that made a giant pot of spaghetti in an old old large tall aluminum pan. I hadn't seen anyone use one of those in years, linked to Alzheimer's back in the 70's, generally thought to be gross and unsafe, then, but apparently not anymore.
When I went to research it, I found out that "the old results can't be replicated now" and that they sell gobs of aluminum cookware now and that only in Canada and Europe are they finding it's harmful or at least elevates aluminum levels in food, especially with high acid foods such as tomatoes or lemons.
Links to Alzheimer's no longer in effect here apparently, even while in the top 10 countries in the world for the affliction.
The 1st two lines of quotation can be found in the link I provided originally, within the 1st few paragraphs.
Can You Drink Distilled Water?
Learn about the uses of distilled water, including its side effects, potential benefits, and more.
www.healthline.com
The leaching of antimony and effects here.
Antimony and bottled Water
Nuria García Batista, a researcher at the AIMPLAS Food Contact Department and Elena Aurecchia Giménez, a researcher at the AIMPLAS Chemical Laboratory, look at the issue of antimony migration in PET bottles.
packagingeurope.com
I recently ate at somebody's house that made a giant pot of spaghetti in an old old large tall aluminum pan. I hadn't seen anyone use one of those in years, linked to Alzheimer's back in the 70's, generally thought to be gross and unsafe, then, but apparently not anymore.
When I went to research it, I found out that "the old results can't be replicated now" and that they sell gobs of aluminum cookware now and that only in Canada and Europe are they finding it's harmful or at least elevates aluminum levels in food, especially with high acid foods such as tomatoes or lemons.
Links to Alzheimer's no longer in effect here apparently, even while in the top 10 countries in the world for the affliction.