can you drink RO/DI?

[Cranky When Wet]

Originally Posted by zoaElite

Stop believing stuff on the internet (Haha Iroonnnyyyy), there are no vitamins in tap water. Vitamins are organic compounds produced biologically, you don't find them in tap water only in them in the food you eat. This myth about having to drink tap water to get your mineral content/ vitamins is unbelievably wrong.

A single 50g serving of Swiss cheese contains 480 mg of Calcium which equates to about 1.19 e-2 mols of calcium or 7,211976048000000000000 molecules (7.2e21). Calgary water has 200 ppm of dissolved minerals (Including Calcium, Magnesium, sodium...). 50 mL of water is 50g, at 200 ppm 0.02% of that is minerals or 0.01g, this means that there are about 2.49e-4 mols of minerals or 1.49e20 molecules (using the heavier weight of calcium to calculate).

What does it all mean Basil!
Well for every 1 calcium molecule in cheese there are 0.02 dissolved hardness molecules in water (again this includes Calcium, Magnesium, Sodium, Potassium...). So you would have to drink 2.5L of water to match 50g of cheese and I'm still comparing apples to oranges here as that's pure calcium in cheese and an accumulation of all hardness minerals in water.

The major advantage to drinking RO water is that you know it's ONLY water, a proper RO unit will filter out not only all the minerals but containment such as chlorine, chloramine, VOC, bacteria, viruses, lead and anything else your worried about.

Don't listen to me though, my opinion is bias as I used to sell these units. .

Love your "biased" opinion and sound, logical, good sense! Yeah, I really want to swill chloramine to get an atomic particle of a mineral I get reams of by eating a handful of raw almonds or a whack of nice, dark green, leafy things. As for electrolytes, I rather like what many Canadian athletes are doing: chug back a glass of coconut water! It's loaded with medium-chain triglycerides that are converted by your liver immediately, and effortlessly, for that much-needed energy... Of course, it's hard to say what kind of water said coconut is floating in... arrrrgh... again, we need to make our own to be really safe!

Needless to say... clean water is a luxury for most of the world now. Enjoy it if you can. It's your body and your choice.

I fully support drinking, and using, the absolutely, cleanest, purest water I can get.

'Nuff said, Bunny >:-)

[BC564]

NO I am saying that Edmonton doesn't as you listed those two together....Chloramine final solution is huge in the states.....

[lastlight]

It's a well-documented FACT that ro/di water will literally leech the BONES right out of your body. I know a lot of big-boned people drink upwards of 2L/day and some have now landed modeling contracts.

Knowledge is key everyone. Educate yourselves and GET SEXY!

[sphelps]

Originally Posted by BC564

NO I am saying that Edmonton doesn't as you listed those two together....Chloramine final solution is huge in the states.....

I'm pretty sure they do, everywhere I look tends to say so anyway. Where do you get all your info from?

http://www.freeh2otesting.com/chloramination.htm

http://www.hc-sc.gc.ca/ewh-semt/pubs.../index-eng.php

http://www.nrsc.ca/print.php?news.8

http://www.aquasanacanada.com/Water-FAQs-sp-11.html

[BC564]

Actually Sphelps...I have to apologize..... I was just having a discussion on it...and Edmonton does produce Chloramines....so I stand corrrected.....they are using Sodium Hypo solution for their free chlorine but they are also adding ammonia to the plant distribution system...so Edmonton is on the chloramine list.......and so is Red Deer..........Victoria........Wetaskiwin........

But Calgary definitely does not.

[sphelps]

Agreed, but they probably will be soon, especially as the city continues to grow.

[BC564]

My Info? I just sat my butt in the office of the guy that designed the plant......when in doubt......go to the top..

[MitchM]

For you people that are using your R/O units for drinking - are you also sanitizing the R/O unit at least every 6 months?
If not, you should start. Bacteria will accumulate in your systems.
We have a separate R/O unit for our drinking water here (we're on a well) and the instructions state that sanitization every 3 - 6 months is recommended.


Mitch

[howdy20012002]

I am pretty sure that most, if not all, stores that have the fill stations for the bottled waters plants use RO filtres on the water they sell (they don't have artisian wells beneath each and every superstore..lol)....so based on that, I dont' really see how it could be medically bad for you.
just my 2 cents
Neal