Sport What is the best form of water to drink?

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Water is water is water. Drink it. Doesn't matter if it comes from a filter a tap or a river
 
I drink Alkaline Water. They say it's a myth that it's good for the body but it cured me & my mom's joint pains. Had glowing skin too.
 
Doesn't distilled water cause a hypertonic or hypotonic state or something crazy like that where if you drink too much of it it causes cells in your body to start exploding? Or is that only if you put it through an IV? Maybe that's only if you put it in an IV. Ok ignore me.
 
Red_Panda said:
Doesn't distilled water cause a hypertonic or hypotonic state or something crazy like that where if you drink too much of it it causes cells in your body to start exploding? Or is that only if you put it through an IV? Maybe that's only if you put it in an IV. Ok ignore me.
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If you drink too much water compared to salt (or other solutes) the salt concentration inside your cells will be higher than outside, this will cause water to flow in by the process of osmosis.. which you don't want. Though you won't get this from drinking distilled water as long as you get enough salts (or other solutes) elsewhere.
 
tracyclang said:
If you have good tap water and a safe well drink that. Save the oil for other uses not making more plastic
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That's why I love my Sigg water bottle =D Save plastic, AND save the time washing glasses all day. Just give it a good scrub with dish soap and a bottle brush at the end of the day, let it dry over night. Mmmm tap water.
 
RO water isn't good for drinking, nor is distilled. the lack of mineral content is why.

tap water, or carbon filtered tap water, or spring water...or 'drinking water' are all fine.
 
I only eat ice freshly hewn from the Swiss Alps. I like to season it with marjoram and honeysuckle, but will on occasion sprinkle it with pixie dust.

If that's outside of your budget, consider spring water, or, I suppose, for those of you who are broke asses, from the tap. :sad2:
 
Here are some compounds that may be in your drinking water:

Analgesic meds (ibuprofen, etc.)
Hormones from birth control pills
High blood pressure medication
Heart medication
Cholesterol medication
Anti-depressant medication
Antibiotics
ad infinitum ...

Basically, whatever meds you pee out will remain in the water because water treatment plants do not have the ability to filter out hormones and medications.

Here are a few chemicals that are added to most drinking water:

Liquified chlorine
Fluorosilicic acid
Aluminium sulphate
Calcium hydroxide
Sodium silicofluoride

The problem with RO and distilled water is that there is no trace mineral content, and that's not good. RO wastes a lot of water, too.

But I can't really answer your question. Calgary's tap water is pretty good (we're rated an A+), although we still fluorodate the water, and I don't like that. Regardless, it's still better than bottled water. And it's VERY hard because our water comes directly from the Rockies and is loaded with minerals. Tastes really good, too. But you get hard water mineral build-up in no time.
 
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