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Shangstar

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Posted: Oct 12, 2009 - 01:55 PM

Doesnt steam based distillation also remove all nutrients and minerals? I have heard relying too much on this eventually causes your hair to fall out and your nails to go brittle.

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Posted: Oct 12, 2009 - 05:14 PM

^ doubtful. highly.

Shangstar

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Posted: Oct 12, 2009 - 05:34 PM

it might depend on how active one is. If youre in to serious sports, and sweat a lot, then the salts you lose through the sweat wont be replaced by distilled water alone, which apparently, does cause hair loss.

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Posted: Oct 12, 2009 - 06:55 PM

^ u forgot the part where by eating a healthy diet, u're getting all the vitamins/minerals your body needs regardless of one's physical activities.

Shangstar

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Posted: Oct 12, 2009 - 07:14 PM

yeah i thought about that. I have a friend who suffered from it here in Shanghai - he was a mad runner. Eating well etc is good, but when sweating a lot you lose salts fast, eating alone wont replace the salts fast enough, they need to be in the water to be quickly replaced. With food, it needs to be digested first. over time, the time lapse, apparentlty, damages hair folicles. We're talking about serious sports people, especially in the summer here. Sure if you dont do too much serious exercise, and eat a balanced diet, you can probably live on distilled I presume.

....personally, I am a slob and drink boiled tap water! Nothing wrong with me yet. I have 6 fingers on each hand just like everyone else.

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Posted: Oct 12, 2009 - 07:25 PM

^ if u cover 5 miles/day, 7 days/wk, then yeah, i can see how it *might* be a prob. but for 99.99% of us, drinking RO water is nothing to worry about.

never mind the fact running 5miles/day isnt good for u to begin w/...

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Posted: Nov 01, 2009 - 03:24 PM

Shangstar wrote:

Doesnt steam based distillation also remove all nutrients and minerals? I have heard relying too much on this eventually causes your hair to fall out and your nails to go brittle.

No, not true. Another name for distilled water is called Rain. Don't believe the marketing hype. If your diet is SO poor you need trace minerals from water you have more urgent problems.

C'mon water is friggen water! What's the problem aside from marketing misinformation and too much time on your hands to worry about dumb things?

Some cities have banned bottle water as it is too damaging to the environment.

"San Francisco, Los Angeles, Phoenix, Chicago, St Louis and many other cities have recently jumped on the "ban bottled water" bandwagon, making it illegal to spend city dollars on bottled water.

The realization that bottled water is seldom of higher quality than tap water has caused a major shift in public opinion. "It causes 60 million plastic bottles A DAY to be manufactured, transported and then disposed of in U.S. landfills. It's killing our planet, and for no good reason..."
-Eric Olsen, Natural Resources Defense Council

Bottled Water's environmental impact:

* 60 Million plastic bottles a day are disposed of in America alone!
* Massive amounts of greenhouse gases are produced from manufacturing the plastic bottles.
* Millions of gallons of fuel are wasted daily transporting filtered tap water across America and around the world.
* It requires 3 times as much water to make the bottle as it does to fill it... it is an exceptionally wasteful industry."

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/07/09/australians-ban-bottled-w_n_2 28678.html

THINK who sells bottle water? Drink manufactures such as Coca-Cola and Pepsi. Millions and millions of dollars are spent each week on advertising campaigns to give the perception that these bottled waters come from some sparkling mountain spring or pristine underground aquifer, when in reality many of them come from a municipal water system just like your tap water does. (Duh) Both Pepsi's Aquafina and Coke's Dasani are bottled at one of many bottling plants across North America where municipal tap water is used as the source, as is the case with most leading brands.

Let's worry about organic farming screwing up the world instead. Chemical free my arse!

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Englishwang

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Posted: Nov 17, 2009 - 11:28 PM

For people from this community who are going to have their sample water tested at DirectWay store at 511 West Beijing road, please make sure of enough water before setting out. And to reach good communication effect, it will be helpful to make an appointment previously with some of the English representatives of DirectWay. For more details, please PM me.