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| drinking cleen unkontaminated water now deemed bad for yore helth |
| 2005-11-18 |
| Posted by:muck4doo |
| #9 AP is our resident Water expert. |
| Posted by: Sock Puppet O´ Doom 2005-11-18 17:54 |
| #8 Pure water can be so pure, that it needs to oxidize just a trace of something to obtain a chemical equilibrium... |
| Posted by: BigEd 2005-11-18 13:33 |
| #7 I lived in a small mountain town a few years back. The local ground water was so pure it wasn't fit for drinking, or so the county govt told us, so they mixed it with some "normal" water. Turns out it was fine for human consumption, but was eroding the archaic pipe system the city had, go figure. EP |
| Posted by: ElvisHasLeftTheBuilding 2005-11-18 13:05 |
| #6 Too much Chromium .... Call |
| Posted by: BigEd 2005-11-18 11:46 |
| #5 Walkerton. Two drunks running a water treatment plant, victims of right wing government cutbacks. |
| Posted by: john 2005-11-18 11:41 |
| #4 There might be a point to this. There are lots of variables to what we call "clean water". Big difference between distilled, purified, and especially de-ionized (ultra pure, de-gassed) water. Usually you can only get de-ionized in small quantities at a water treatment plant, because it goes right through you. Drink a pint, and five minutes later you need to urinate a pint. Water with some oxygen and CO2 in it tastes better and is retained by the body much longer. Distilled water is of course fine to drink, but lacks a lot of the minerals found in purified water, so shouldn't be consumed for an extended period of time. Even purified water is defined by what isn't in it, not by what is. Far inland, for example, there may be almost no iodine in the local water, which is why table salt is iodized. Other missing minerals may contribute to long-term deficiencies. In this case, it is likely that for some reason the locals are just overhydrating, drinking more water than they should for some reason. It would be smart to find out why, as there is probably a good, underlying reason why they are doing this. |
| Posted by: Anonymoose 2005-11-18 10:45 |
| #3 There was a similar study that concluded the same thing about breathing too much clean air. No problem. I ride my motorcycle a lot, so I usually get my required daily intake of hydrocarbons. |
| Posted by: Bomb-a-rama 2005-11-18 10:41 |
| #2 A couple years back someone did look into the health craze about drinking 'x' amount water a day. Couldn't find a single scientific study to justify the position. Write the hype up as a 'modern' old wives tale. Then there is hyponatremia. |
| Posted by: Ulineng Snumble9989 2005-11-18 09:25 |
| #1 There was a similar study that concluded the same thing about breathing too much clean air. Absolutely shocking. |
| Posted by: Rafael 2005-11-18 08:10 |