How Healthy is Your Drinking Water? (Part 2)

Most of the companies selling bottled water test their product only for suspended particles and the presence of harmful microbes. In order to avoid transport and distribution cost,these companies have bottling plants at several locations and draw water from various sources. They do not provide any details on the presence of heavy metals and other toxic chemicals and compounds . All that they do is filter the water thoroughly to remove suspended particle and just treat it with UV light or ozone to kill any bacteria present in it. As the source of water change from place to place, due to the location of bottling plant, same companies product may not be same in quality.

Therefore bottled water does not guarentee you a healthy drinking water.

The problem with pure water as I see it is pure water hydrates you but has none of the minerals and nutrients you get from the "natural" water. The poisons from all the chemicals and minerals you don't want or need cause the removal of all the good ones too.

It would seem to me that pure water would also remove the good with the bad from the body. Over the eons I doubt we had sources of actually pure water very often due to water being a fairly good organic solvent.

Brad

I found that while traveling drinking WalMart brand distilled water saved my digestive tract discomfort. Over time however I noticed the need for mineral supplements until my slow mind realized it was the habit of pure water consumption.

Now I split between spring water and distilled and all is well.

I'm thinking to use a slow sand filter at home to filter the rural water and maybe from the cistern too, mineral content should be supported, what do you think...

I used to use a product from a company now out of business. They had a colloidal minerals package that was amazing and their vitamins were plant based then vacuum dried. Not cheap but very effective. I was burned by a radiator explosion and my burns healed in less than half the time normal. My in home nurse tried to tell me I some how faked my burns because I recovered to quick. Too bad nutrition is an elective of the medical profession.

It is too bad we don't have mineral sands that pure water could leach out for our health. The body can heal more than we give it credit for but it must have the building bocks to work with.

If the medical profession is so good why do Doctors have the highest rate of heart attacks of any profession?

Brad

True. U.V is right. Some or atleast a part of the minerals and trace elements which are essential for the smooth functioning of our body comes from our drinking water.

But people living in some locations in Asia and Africa get affected by drinking water available in their place mainly due to high level of Flurides or salts of heavy metals dissolved in it. water sources near chemical industries do get contaminated to certain level.

And the places that have the longest living populations all have glacier melt water to drink and farm with. The water is so full of minerals that it looks like milk.