Distilled water... BIG MISTAKE.

^ umm...so you're assuming they are not allowed to do anything to treat that water?

Oh well might as well roll with it.

Dont know about drinking it but I use it for making pickles helps them come out real crisp.

JoRocka wrote: »

sheepotato wrote: »

I prefer the taste of reverse osmosis water, but I've been drinking distilled water since I was a child and I've never had anything happen to me.

Distilled was way safer for me than the public water supply, our municipal water supply is down river from catfood factories.

you do realize that any plant/factory that discharges into a river must meet EHP effluent criteria and that any plant/factory that intakes for consumption must also treat their water to certain standards for safety and meet min/max criteria.

This is not new- nor excitable. Every water you consume everywhere was taken from a source that is or was up or down stream from some other source.

They treat the water coming and and out of facilities- it's fine.

I didn't realize this was a necro'ed thread when I added my response.

Of course I realize they treat the water, but they also send out a report to the users once a year with a list of contaminates. I know that they are measuring contaminants in Parts per Million on the report, so it's not a very high concentration of anything, but as a preference I do not drink the local tap water. It's nothing new, and I realize all bottled water comes from a municipal source before it's treated and packaged.

I was only saying I would drink distilled water over my current municipal water anyday. Maybe it's just seeing what the river looks like before it's treated, or it's proximity to the nuclear power plant that stores it's waste on site. Just something about it gives me the heeby jeebies about drinking it.

soapsandropes wrote: »

Drinking slightly acidic or alkaline water will do nothing for you. Your body is excellent at buffering things so that your blood pH remains stable. Distilled water can pull minerals and salt out of body if you drink too much of it, that it why is it is not recommended that you drink it.

It's also why drinking out of a fresh stream tastes so delicious. We're craving the minerals.
Which for the non-chemical-pronouncers means it's toxic! Fancy that.

uh oh... the only water provided in my office is gallons of distilled water... O_o

This is why I laugh at the people that say tea or coffee (you know, water with something else in it) doesn't count as water. So I guess for them, only distilled water counts as water.

babynew wrote: »

WOW...
HOW,can anything PURE be bad for you?

Pure cyanide is pretty bad for you.

I used to make my kids formula with distilled water when they were babies. Never once did the doctor tell me to avoid distilled water. She preferred I use the distilled water over tap water. There are no chemicals in distilled water, and there aren't any used in the process of distillation. This is ridiculous!

diannehunt944 wrote: »

I've been drinking it for months and feel fine and am not dehydrated nor mineral deficient . I am in FB groups with folks who have been drinking Distilled Water for 30+ years; I think if they were going to die from it, they would have by now.

It doesn't 'leech minerals' from your body. It is exactly the same as rainwater. I buy the Pureau water from Woolies, but when I move to the bush I will distil my own.

Distilled water and rainwater are nowhere near alike. Rainwater has many, many dissolved solids in it. Ever heard of acid rain?

UsedToBeHusky wrote: »

I used to make my kids formula with distilled water when they were babies. Never once did the doctor tell me to avoid distilled water. She preferred I use the distilled water over tap water. There are no chemicals in distilled water, and there aren't any used in the process of distillation. This is ridiculous!

The formula would contain all the necessary minerals and whatnots, so there's no need to have those present in the water. And as the tap water could potentially be contaminated, the doctors would obviously tell you to use a 100 % safe source instead.

That has nothing to do whether or not one should drink pure distilled water or not. There's no harm in drinking it. Nor are there any mysterious benefits to be had. If your local tap water is potable, I wouldn't bother with anything else.