William ChopsWestfield wrote:

>>> By the way, water this pure is considered by us to be a toxin. If
>>> drunk in sufficient quantities it leaches all the salts out of your
>>> system and makes you very ill (dead eventually)
> 
>> But are there really *that* many more impurities in "drinking water"
>> to make a difference.
> 
> I don't think so.  [...]  The "ultra pure water is deadly" theory
> is (I believe) something of an urban legend...

Can't be immediately deadly:
http://www.herbsfirst.com/discriptions/drinkdistilled.html
http://www.ecclesia.org/truth/water.html
(IIRC, it is sold in US supermarkets as drinking water, too. Even with the
FDA being what it is, one can assume that this means it is at least not
immediately deadly... :)

OTOH:
http://chetday.com/distilledwater.htm

And something more balanced:
http://www.cyber-nook.com/water/distilledwater.htm

Seems one of the major (long-term) problems with drinking "pure" water is
that it has a much higher potential to get contaminated on the way to your
mouth.

Gerhard
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