Re: Is Pure Water Bad to Drink?

From: Jeff (kidsdoc2000_at_hotmail.com)
Date: 07/21/04 

Date: Wed, 21 Jul 2004 08:23:36 -0400

"MelbaTatum" <melbatatum@wmconnect.com> wrote in message
news:20040721050618.22465.00000178@mb-m11.wmconnect.com...
> I'll start with a brief summary, then let you read and would like your
> comments.
>
> The gist of this posting is that Distilled Water (or RO water or pure
water) is
> said by some experts to be damaging to the body, used in long term. That
> because pure water is so corrosive, so active in leeching out minerals and
in
> creating an acid environment that it prematurely ages and damages the
body.

This is utter bull***.

The concern about distilled water is that it does not contain trace
minerals.

> When I read this, I thought....probably that is nonsense. But, I got out
my pH
> tester I used for my fish tank and I decided to check and see if Pure
Water was
> acidic or alkaline. I tried first my tap water and it was mildly alkaline
at
> 7.4 pH. Next I bought a gallon of distilled water and it tested acidic at
a pH
> of 6.2. Then I tested the gallon of Reverse Osmosis filtered water which I
> usually buy (and refill myself) at WalMart. It also tested quite acidic at
6.2
> pH. This got me thinking, "Is this guy onto something, here?" Here is the
link
> to an article by a Dr.Zoltan Rana,

You body has these neat things that keep the pH of your body in the proper
range: kidneys. That right. Drink a little too much acid (or make too much
acid) and you will literally pee out the extra acid.

> http://www.mercola.com/article/water/distilled_water.htm

If you are citing an article by that *** Mercola, you aren't thinking
much at all. Mercola is a total idiot. His site can't be trusted for
anything.

> Btw, I have nothing to sell to you nor anything to buy. I suggest us folks
get
> out our pH tester and test the "pure" water we are drinking. I tend to
agree
> now that our main drinking water source should be slightly alkaline and
> definitely should not be acidic. Here are some quotes from the above link,

(Garbage quotes from Mercola deleted).

The pH of water doesn't tell you how pure it is. Only how acidic or alkaline
it is. And as long as the water tastes good, the pH is ok.

Jeff