So Iit seems to me that? there are a couple of different takes on the topic
1) one is (Toby's, WHO's) the scientific sort of take, saying (according to
some studies and deduction from nature) that animals and plants don't usually
"drink" distilled water and that distilled water can actually drag? minerals
and other important substances out of? organisms' bodies, thus depleting them
of those vital substances and making them sick in the long rung if consumed
regularly
2) On the other hand there seem to be another trend based on people own
experiences, drinking either evaporated water or even distilled water,
declaring of having done that for years and still being alive and kicking,
not depleted at all. Even Jody declares that from a scientific point of view
(I gather):
[Jody's quote] "I have heard many times that drinking distilled water can be
harmful
BUT I come from a different perspective. I actually study body
chemistry (includes body pH, but also measures other factors of the
urine & saliva) and our protocol includes exclusively using distilled
water. It is considered higher energy water in terms of bringing
nutrients into the cell. Other waters aren't necessarily bad, but they
have less ability to transport nutrients that are needed because the
molecules are already carrying minerals (not necessarily the ones that
particular body needs to bring in.)
This protocol has been used for decades extremely successfully and
people on it do not experience hair loss, or degenerative diseases
that are often attributed to distilled water in some other articles
I've read. The articles I've seen have not been based on scientific
findings but are conclusions the author came to based on disparate data."
[end of Jody's quote]
quite a few people drinking distilled water seem to have benefitted from it
without
apparently experiencing mayor health problems, accordingto Jody's experience,
which he declares
having some more solid scientific grounds (I am not a scientst by the way!)
SALS3's experience with distilled/evaporated water seems also relevant to me.
What I find interesting in his view is when he mentions that he (we) actually
obtain most of
our nutrients from the food we eat, so we should be able to compensate their
deficiency in
water. But according to the WHO's paper, some experiments have shown that
even when animals have
been given approriate food while drinking demineralized water, they have
presented mineral
losses.....
So are these two views contradictory? If not how could they be reconciliated?
And what about the scientifc position expressed in the WHO paper and the also
scientific stance
expressed by Jody?
Is there something WHO scientists have missed out?
All the best
Antonio
-----Original Message-----
From: Toby Hemenway <toby@patternliteracy.com>
To: permaculture <permaculture@lists.ibiblio.org>
Sent: Thu, 25 Sep 2008 1:52 am
Subject: Re: [permaculture] distilled water
Rain water and ice are full of dissolved minerals, organic compounds,
dust, pollen, debris, etc., etc. (see the Designer's Manual on this).
They are not pure water, and a far. far cry from distilled. About the
only occurrence of distilled water in nature is just as water evaporates
from bodies of water and, occasionally, from plants, although most
evapo-transpired water has solutes in it. Within moments, "distilled"
evaporating water picks up all kinds of stuff from its environment.
Ain't no pure in nature.
I don't like city water either. And I agree that stainless and glass
(and maybe fired clay of the right type) are the best vessels for water.
I lived with rainwater catchment for ten years and loved it. But