Water mumbo jumbo

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From: " loganruns73 " <loganruns73@y...>

Date: Mon Dec 20, 2004 11:24 am

Subject: Re: Perrier pH WAS: Al's diet - was Fats

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FWIW, the Essentia brand has a pH of 9. It is small-clustered water

AKA ionizated or microwater.

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There are many companies that are marketing various kinds of water

which are not different from regular water but which are more

expensive. Mineral waters and spring waters have specific attributes

based on the dissolved minerals. However, waters that are advertised

as ionized, microwater, small-clustered, oxygenated, etc., etc. are

generally rip-offs.

What does is meant by microwater? Are the molecules smaller? They

can't be. What is small-clustered? Little droplets vs. big droplets?

Impossible to determine and impossible to test or prove. Ionized

water means that there are ions of some mineral. Duh. All surface

water contains ions in contrast with rain water which almost pure.

Oxygenated water is water which has been treated with oxygen.

Ozonization (treatment with ozone O3) will kill bacteria and it is a

common way of purifying water. However, drinking any water with

residual hydrogen peroxide (H2O2) would be foolish because it only

generates free radicals as it decomposes into the oxygen free radical

(O:) and H20. It is these free radicals that kill the bacteria.

Treatment of water with oxygen O2 basically cannot do more that

areation would not do, and not enough oxygen dissolves in the water to

be of more benefit than taking an extra breath.

When you select your drinking water, select a spring water that is

pure and not too high in minerals (e.g., a mountain spring water) to

avoid the risk of kidney stones that can occur with waters that have

many dissolved minerals. The southern US has a higher incidence of

kidney stones than the north and it is known as the " stone belt " .

http://www.urologyinstitute.com/html/kidney_stones.html

http://www.mayoclinic.org/kidneystones-jax/

Tony