10 REASONS TO DRINK TAP WATER

[tanya]

I almost always drink bottled water, only I make sure purchase brands that are fortified with nutrient rich additives like Barley, Hops, Wheat, and other wonderful things my body needs every day.

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I try once in a while, but to no avail in my house. I had some beer left over from Bo and my last hiking trip. Hubby put it in the fridge. I am in Kanab and get a call from my youngest son! A lecture about how he will not have an alcoholic for a Mother! I explain to him that I might drink 20 beers in a year, but he is still worried! Darn DARE school programs. So if I am going to drink one it will be hot and hid in my bedroom. The fridge is NOT safe!

However! I am allowed to drink red wine since it's good for my heart.

Ah to have such love!

[REDFOX]

Most bottled water that is sold has been through a reverse osmosis system. I have been drinking RO water for the past 25 years. I up graded my system to a high flow glass filler with a 20 gallon tank last year. This system is fed with softened water. When the water contaminations occur every year, I don't have to boil my water. RO water is the purest water, even the healthy minerals are removed during this process. I have installed numerous systems residentially as I am a plumber and have been in the industry for 21 years.

[DesertDuke]

I am a Toxicologist and I drink tap water unless I want to buy some bottled water sometimes for convenience. And, from now on I will drive down to S. Utah to get that bottled water from your Chevron Tanya.

For fluoridation it depends on the natural levels. Some areas of the country have high levels of natural fluoride and some areas have very little natural amounts. One should be trying to achieve a specific level and not just more is better. However, I say that having no idea what the natural levels are here. I demineralize my teeth with 8 diet cokes/day and call it good.

IntrepidXJ is right about anything being toxic. That is the entire basis for Toxicology and the theory came from a 15th century Swiss doctor named (and I'm not kidding with this) Philippus Aureolus Theophrastus Bombastus von Hohenheim

[jman]

Tsk tsk...water is for poor people! ;)

[tanya]

I am a Toxicologist and I drink tap water unless I want to buy some bottled water sometimes for convenience. And, from now on I will drive down to S. Utah to get that bottled water from your Chevron Tanya.

For fluoridation it depends on the natural levels. Some areas of the country have high levels of natural fluoride and some areas have very little natural amounts. One should be trying to achieve a specific level and not just more is better. However, I say that having no idea what the natural levels are here. I demineralize my teeth with 8 diet cokes/day and call it good.

IntrepidXJ is right about anything being toxic. That is the entire basis for Toxicology and the theory came from a 15th century Swiss doctor named (and I'm not kidding with this) Philippus Aureolus Theophrastus Bombastus von Hohenheim

What a sweetheart!
Wonderful posts everyone!

[Scott P]

I just opened up yahoo and coincidentally, this was the article featured:

http://health.yahoo.net/articles/ora...isk-cavities#1

[dmMatrix]

Tsk tsk...water is for poor people! ;)

BEST POST EVER!!!!!

[dbaxter]

I noticed when we were in Zion a couple of weeks ago that they had a sign up that they don't sell bottled water at all within the park, precisely because of the waste the plastic generates.

Grand Canyon has implemented the same policy. After I heard about the new policy, I started paying attention to the trash on the side of the road-Looked to be similar to what was going on inside the parks. Mostly water bottles tossed out. Too bad :-( but good for the parks. I no longer buy water bottles because they're so expensive-relatively.

http://www.mnn.com/food/healthy-eati...-bottled-water