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- From: jrt@omega.kcr.uky.edu (J. Randall Thompson)
- Subject: Re: water purification/is drinking pure water bad for you?
- References: <1992Sep10.163055.5506@engage.pko.dec.com>
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- Date: Fri, 11 Sep 1992 22:31:15 GMT
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- In article <11SEP199214163448@ariel.lerc.nasa.gov> seove@ariel.lerc.nasa.gov (ERIC OVERTON) writes:
- >In article <1992Sep10.163055.5506@engage.pko.dec.com>, moroney@ramblr.enet.dec.com writes...
- >>>2. I've heard in a couple of places that drinking mineral-free (e.g.
- >>>distilled) water is bad for you. This has always sounded bogus to me
- >>>but some of the explnations are semi-plausible (that the pure water
- >>>messes up some osmotic balance and actually drains minerals from your
- >>>system). Does anyone have reliable information about this?
- >>
- >>This is an urban legend. A normal diet has plenty of minerals so it would
- >>be nearly impossible to leach the minerals from your system, and also once
- >>the water hits your stomach it is no longer pure so the osmotic balance
- >>argument doesn't apply either.
- >>
- >>-Mike
- >
- >You would probably have to drink a bathtub full of water to
- >benefit from the mineral contents.
- >
- >Eric
-
- But please, *don't* construe this as medical advice. *Don't* drink
- a bathtub full of mineral water. I'm sure Eric doesn't want to
- get sued by someone who developed hyponatriemia because of his
- "net-side" (god, how I hate that word) advice.
-
- --
- [] J. Randall Thompson jrt@kcr.uky.edu []
- [] University of Kentucky, Lexington, Kentucky []
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