Choose distilled water

Water, water everywhere – but which water should we drink?

When I told you about how many of today’s bottled waters, labeled as “pure” and “spring water,” actually come right out of a faucet (“Bad To The Bone” 4/30/03), several members wrote to suggest a way to make sure your drinking water is free of unwanted elements.

As a member named Wally put it: “How about drinking distilled water? That should be pure.”

Good call, Wally.

Distilled water is probably the closest thing to true, pure water – two parts hydrogen, one part oxygen, and nothing else. There was a time when you could probably find clean water that was unadulterated. But today the sad reality is that most all of the available drinking water is contaminated by pesticides, herbicides, and nitrates from fertilizers – not to mention additives such as fluoride.

That’s why hospitals, for instance, use distilled water in kidney dialysis machines and other equipment – because only distilled water is guaranteed to be as close as possible to 100 percent pure.

Fortunately you can easily purchase distilled water at many grocery stores. But there’s a convenient way to eliminate the middle-man, by distilling water yourself at home. This can be easily done with a product we’ve recommended to you before, called the Waterwise Distiller 9000. With the Waterwise you can be absolutely certain that your water is clean and fresh. For more details click here: http://www.agora-inc.com/reports/WAT/W600CB04/home.cfm

The only thing for certain about our water anymore is that if you’re not drinking filtered or distilled, it’s a virtual certainty that you’re ingesting contaminants. I just thank goodness we can’t see them. We’d probably never drink another drop.

To Your Good Health,

Jenny Thompson
Health Sciences Institute