09-03-2012, 03:04 AM
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Originally posted by oink
Before anyone makes an important decision based on the belief that distilled water is bad for health, they should do their own research. That belief is disputed and what little research I've done causes me to seriously question that belief.
Pua`a
S. FL
Big Islander to be.
I would be skeptical of any studies too since it would be too difficult to account for the missing minerals being supplemented by food or unprocessed salt (like sea salt). But I used to clean and restore ancient Roman coins and we used distilled water to leach the ground minerals out of them during the cleaning process. Regular water had no unusual effect but distilled water was like a mild acid when you change it daily. Watching distilled water leach out 2000 years worth of mineralization (whereas ground water had no effect) was all the proof I needed to make the personal choice to limit my consumption.