RE: Re: drinking water, potassium chloride, etc.

April 6, 2006

Distilled water is worse than RO and not recommended at all. It does get

confusing with all the issues. I personally have an ionizer but there is

controversy on that as well. It does filter out a lot of stuff because it

is a carbon filter. Most people down here with WAP try to use carbon

filters.

Allyn

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Subject: Re: drinking water, potassium chloride, etc.

I use tap water with a Brita carbon filter in a pitcher. My town uses

well water and ground water, and the Brita filter removes most of the

chlorine. I keep an eye on the web page for my town -- so far we do

not have fluoride added; although the county is pushing it, so far my

town has resisted. If they do start using fluoride, I will have to

get a filter for that (more expensive!) or start using all bottled

water. Hopefully it won't come to that!

I buy Gerolsteiner and/or Apollonius (sp?) naturally sparkling mineral

water from Europe. I have read that in France and Germany, the laws

regarding water are more stringent than here. I was addicted to pop,

but weaned myself off by using this naturally sparkling water, because

it's the bubbles I love! I make the ginger ale from NT and mix it

with the sparkling water and filtered water (to cut cost -- the German

water is pricey, although not bad when I think of what I used to spend

on Diet Coke!) There is a high mineral content in the German water,

so I figure that helps, too.

Ann

>

> I am wondering what solutions people have found for drinking water.

> Here are some basic points that I have *heard* but feel are valid

> concerns:

>

> -bottled spring water is an unknown risk. Some are totally unprocessed

> from springs and we don't know much about those areas where they may

> be getting the water before bottling.

> -carbon filtration is not good on un-sterilized water

> -water softened with sodium chloride is not good for us due to high

> sodium content (and the recommendation is to use an REverse Osmosis

> (RO) unit)

> -Reverse Osmosis water strips minerals from your body, because of it's

> low mineral content

>

> So, does anyone know anything about using potassium chloride to soften

> your water, and then not using an RO unit? I know that the potassium

> is better for our local lakes, etc. than sodium (the sodium is

> actually illegal for those of us by a lake in my area), but how is it

> for our bodies?

>

> -what about distilled water? And, this is high cost; does anyone

> distill their own?

>

> Thanks,

>

> Hartland, Michigan

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April 7, 2006

Wow, neat site!

Contrex looks like an interesting choice with 486mg of Calcium per liter.

At my weight I'm due 2 L a day and I could use an extra 972mg Calcium.

I've seen this locally, I'm going to try to remember where.

-Lana

On 4/6/06, annbekins <annbekins@...> wrote:

>

> I found this site which describes the contents of various bottled

> waters: http://www.aquamaestro.com/step1.asp

>

> But I would not buy anything from this website -- the prices are high,

> $24 to $30 for a case of 12. I can get Apollinaris and Gerolsteiner

> for much less at Trader Joe's, for around $12 a case.

> Also, they are on sale sometimes at my local grocery store and the

> health food store.

>

> Ann

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