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Doesn't drinking distilled water in significant quantities remove important minerals from your body?

JohnJamesRambo 8y ago
No that is a common myth. Food has plenty of minerals etc compared to what you get via tap water. https://www.healthline.com/health/can-you-drink-distilled-water https://www.healthline.com/health/can-you-drink-distilled-wa...
- gorilla_fight 8y ago
  From the very article you linked to: "Because it doesn’t contain its own minerals, distilled water has a tendency to pull them from whatever it touches to maintain a balance. So when you drink distilled water, _it may pull small amounts of minerals from your body, including from your teeth._" How does this contradict lr4444lr's claim "drinking distilled water in significant quantities remove important minerals from your body"? Are you arguing it is a matter of degree, that while distilled water does remove minerals from your body, the "myth" is that it is significant? > Food has plenty of minerals etc compared to what you get via tap water. How many minerals do you receive from food and how do you know this is sufficient? There is research showing a (weak) correlation between hard water (high in mineral content, as opposed to the low/zero mineral content of distilled water) and cardiovascular health, eczema, and dermatitis: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0048969781800472 https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S004896978... Studies of water quality and cardiovascular disease in the United Kingdom https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0013935103000689 https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S001393510... Ecological association of water hardness with prevalence of childhood atopic dermatitis in a Japanese urban area https://www.jacionline.org/article/S0091-6749(16)30187-7/fulltext https://www.jacionline.org/article/S0091-6749(16)30187-7/ful... Association between domestic water hardness, chlorine, and atopic dermatitis risk in early life: A population-based cross-sectional study
  - JohnJamesRambo 8y ago
    Upon further research I have changed my stance, I had never seen this WHO report before. It’s old but they recommend not drinking water less than 100 ppm. https://www.who.int/water_sanitation_health/dwq/nutrientschap12.pdf https://www.who.int/water_sanitation_health/dwq/nutrientscha...
dade_ 8y ago
Not true, but misinformation is probably a major factor.
krastanov 8y ago
The minerals you can get elsewhere, but it seems some people get surprised by the taste of demineralized water and dislike it.
- matwood 8y ago
  Correct. I remember seeing a show about how Dasani (IIRC) drinking water is made. The person leading the show around said something along the lines that 'at this stage the water is so pure it does not taste good, so next we add minerals back in.'
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No that is a common myth. Food has plenty of minerals etc compared to what you get via tap water. https://www.healthline.com/health/can-you-drink-distilled-water https://www.healthline.com/health/can-you-drink-distilled-wa...

gorilla_fight 8y ago
From the very article you linked to: "Because it doesn’t contain its own minerals, distilled water has a tendency to pull them from whatever it touches to maintain a balance. So when you drink distilled water, _it may pull small amounts of minerals from your body, including from your teeth._" How does this contradict lr4444lr's claim "drinking distilled water in significant quantities remove important minerals from your body"? Are you arguing it is a matter of degree, that while distilled water does remove minerals from your body, the "myth" is that it is significant? > Food has plenty of minerals etc compared to what you get via tap water. How many minerals do you receive from food and how do you know this is sufficient? There is research showing a (weak) correlation between hard water (high in mineral content, as opposed to the low/zero mineral content of distilled water) and cardiovascular health, eczema, and dermatitis: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0048969781800472 https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S004896978... Studies of water quality and cardiovascular disease in the United Kingdom https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0013935103000689 https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S001393510... Ecological association of water hardness with prevalence of childhood atopic dermatitis in a Japanese urban area https://www.jacionline.org/article/S0091-6749(16)30187-7/fulltext https://www.jacionline.org/article/S0091-6749(16)30187-7/ful... Association between domestic water hardness, chlorine, and atopic dermatitis risk in early life: A population-based cross-sectional study
- JohnJamesRambo 8y ago
  Upon further research I have changed my stance, I had never seen this WHO report before. It’s old but they recommend not drinking water less than 100 ppm. https://www.who.int/water_sanitation_health/dwq/nutrientschap12.pdf https://www.who.int/water_sanitation_health/dwq/nutrientscha...

dade_ 8y ago

Not true, but misinformation is probably a major factor.

krastanov 8y ago

The minerals you can get elsewhere, but it seems some people get surprised by the taste of demineralized water and dislike it.

matwood 8y ago
Correct. I remember seeing a show about how Dasani (IIRC) drinking water is made. The person leading the show around said something along the lines that 'at this stage the water is so pure it does not taste good, so next we add minerals back in.'

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