Hi,
Distilled water seems to be the most refined product like white flour or pure cane sugar, lacking in certain essential ingredients that the body needs to utilize it properly.
For many centuries the human organism has been consuming water that has included many ingredients that it has picked up along the way from the oceans, clouds, mountains, springs, streams, rivers, and delivered to us in it's most natural state.
But in recents decades, so many unnatural things has happened to the sources of our water supply that we now must either seek the most natural sources of water or purify the adulterated water that flows to us.
A really excellent book, The Drinking Water Book: A Complete Guide to Safe Drinking Water by Colin Ingram
http://print.google.com/print?id=3D0...6btnG%3DSearch approaches the safety of our drinking water in a very clear, level-headed way.
My favorite part of the book is a two page cross reference chart that shows one what type of purifying device removes what kind of pollutants.
Whether it's Microoganisms (Bacteria, Viruses, or Cysts), Minerals (Toxic metals, Nitrates and other non- metals, or Abestos fibers), Organics (Volatiles, orPesticides, PCBs, herbicides, and other non volatiles), Radioactives (Radon,
Uranium and radium, dissolved, or Uranium and radium particles), Additives (Chlorine, Floride, Mineral alkalizers and floccuulents, or Organic additives), or Tastes and smells (Hydrogen sulfide and other volatiles, Dissolved minerals, or Mineral and organic particles), Colin shows us to what degree of an effect on our drinking water filtering devices using Granulated Carbon (GC), Block Carbon (BC), Redox + GC, Redox + BC, Bacteriostatic + Carbon, Redox + Bact. + GC, Batch Distillation, Water Flow Distillation, Batch Distillation + Carbon, Water Flow Distillation + Carbon, Reverse Osmosis (RO) + GC, Reverse Osmosis (RO) + BC, RO + Bacteriostatic + Carbon, RO + Rerdox + GC, RO + Rerdox + BC, RO + Rerdox + Bact., + GC, Ultraviolet (UV), UV + GC, UV + BC, UV + Redox + GC, and UV + Redox + BC has.
While it is true that distillers such as the Batch Distillation + Carbon filter and the Water Flow Distiller + Carbon filter removes all the pollutants that one can find in our water supply,
CuZn water purifiers
http://www.simply-natural.biz/cookwa...er-filters.php (CuZn means copper zinc and is a redox or reduction-oxidation chemical exchange process in which toxic metals in the water are exchanged for the harmless copper and zinc. The copper-zinc in the filter also traps chlorine, various tastes and smells and greatly reduces the various microorganisms [aiding the granulated activated carbon contained in the rest of the filter to complete the elimination of microorganisms from your potable water]!
Another great water purification and filtration device is The Wellness Water Filter
http://www.simply-natural.biz/cookwa...er-filters.php which in addition to the copper zinc (KDF) and activated charcoal medias, there also is a natural and volcanic rock component that adds soluble silica to the water, something that almost no other water purifier in the world contributes to it's water treatment.
Sometime, when you are at your local natural supermarket, buy either a bottle of Trinity (Springs) Geothermal Bottled Water ttp://www.trinitysprings.com/products/default.asp?page=gbw or
Fiji Water
http://www.fijiwater.com/ which both have high constituents of soluable silica in them.
Those of you who have been practicing macrobiotics for a while should be able to tell the difference between these and other bottled waters, and then you can quickly see the value of a Wellness Water Filter.
Be Well.
Cool Dude