Does Distilled Water Leach Minerals from the Human Body?

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Does Distilled Water Leach Minerals

 

from the Human Body?

 

AP Report on

Bottled Water: Not Good.

 

Does distilled water leach minerals from our bodies?

 

 

No, in fact,

just the opposite has been found to occur in

cellular research studies. It is a mistaken belief that drinking pure

distilled

water reduces valuable minerals from living human tissues.

ORGANIC MINERALS VS. INORGANIC MINERALS

There are two types of minerals, organic and inorganic.

Human physiology

has a biological affinity for organic minerals. Most minerals for body

functions are absorbed from dietary plant foods. A growing plant

converts

the inorganic minerals from the soils to a useful organic mineral. When

an organic mineral (from a plant food) enters the stomach it attaches

itself to a specific protein-molecule(a process called chelation) in

order to be absorbed,

and then it gains access to the tissue sites where it is needed. Once a

plant

mineral is absorbed within the body, it is utilized as a coenzyme for

composing

body fluids, forming blood and bone cells, and the maintaining of

healthy

nerve transmission.(Balch & Balch 1990)

Without a healthy organic mineral balance inside and

outside

the cells

of muscle, blood, and bone substructures, the body will began to spasm,

twitch and cramp, eventually deteriorating to a full "rigor complex",

and/or complete failure. Minerals can be likened to the key to your

car: it is

a small component, but nevertheless an essential one. And a small

amount of inorganic minerals are needed(like sodium), but food is still

the best source.

INORGANIC MINERALS FROM TAPWATER ARE "BAD NEWS".

Tap water presents a variety of inorganic minerals which

our body has

difficulty absorbing. Their presence is suspect in a wide array of

degenerative

diseases, such as hardening of the arteries, arthritis, kidney stones,

gall

stones, glaucoma, cataracts, hearing loss, emphysema, diabetes, and

obesity. The minerals available, especially in "hard" tapwater, are

poorly absorbed, or rejected by cellular tissue sites, and, if not

evacuated,

their presence may cause arterial obstruction, and internal

damage.(Dennison

1993, Muehling 1994, Banik 1989)

ORGANIC MINERALS ARE PREFERRED

It is no wonder that the body prefers the richest source of

minerals,

from organic foods, instead of the

hard-to-absorb minerals in tap water. Even if human tissue suddenly

developed the ability to absorb inorganic minerals from tap water, it

would

take an enormous amount of tapwater to supply the bare minimal mineral

quantities

for proper life functions. If(for example) the ample inorganic mineral

content

of the tap water in Reno, Nevada were modified so that it would convert

the daily Calcium requirement(RDA) from its inorganic calcium solutes,

one

would have to drink 7.4 gallons of their tap water.

DISTILLED WATER ACTUALLY ENHANCES MINERAL ABSORPTION RATES

Yes, and this is correllated to the ability of hard water

to

conduct electricity. Distilled Water will not conduct electricity(even

when 2 parts per million inorganic

minerals or less are present). Water with 5 parts inorganic content per

million

parts water(or more) will conduct electricity, completing a simple

circuit

and lighting a tester bulb. The higher the inorganic content is in a

per

million count, the less effectively water transmits organic minerals to

tissue sites. Bottled water, tapwater, reverse-osmosis filtered water,

and

carbon-block filtered water(when tested) will conduct electricity,

substantiating

that these are not the best carriers for mineral-transport and

mineral-absorption(Muehling

1994). Tapwater in the USA has been shown to contain 19 "inorganic

metals of concern"(1994 Safe Water Drinking Act), for which maximum

contaminant levels have been set.(Tone 1994) Most American tapwater

tested

falls between the ranges of 350 parts per million to over 1000 parts

per

million total contaminants.(Colgan 1993)

REPEAT THE QUESTION PLEASE...

Does drinking distilled water leach minerals from the body?

No, quite

the opposite. If inorganic minerals (and other substances like

chlorine, heavy metals, bacteria, etc.) are removed from tapwater,

by converting it into pure distilled water, the result is improved

absorption of all nutrients, including minerals, and improved

elimination of wastes at the cellular level.

REFERENCES

 

 

Muehling EC, "Pure Water Now: Its Time For Action," 2cd

Ed.,

Pure Water Inc., Lincoln, Neb., 1994:1-42.

Dennison C, "Why I Drink Distilled Water", Reprint Form

6300,

Pure Water Inc., Lincoln, Neb.,1993.

Tone J, "Your Drinking Water-How Good Is It?", National

Testing

Laboratories Inc., Cleveland, Ohio,1994:21.

Banik AE, "The Choice Is Clear," ACRES USA, Metaire,

Louisiana,

1989:37.

Balch JF, Balch PA, PRESCRIPTION FOR NUTRITIONAL HEALING,

Avery Publishing

Co., Garden City, NY, 1990:17.

Colgan M, OPTIMUM SPORTS NUTRITION, Advanced Research

Press, New York,

NY, 1993:23-24.