On Sun, 22 Mar 2009 11:14:52 -0700, Annette Taylor wrote: >The article is here: > http://shop.snyderhealth.com/article_info.php?articles_id=6
This is a curious article. Since it is geared towards a lay/popular audience it doesn't use the traditional citation of sources and it is unclear whether any actualy research is being referenced. There probably is research that bears upon this point but it is likely that it was conducted long ago. One reason why I say this is because on https://books.google.com there is book that addresses this very point. It is "A Manual of Pharmacology and Its Applications to Therapueutics and Toxicology" by Torald Hermann Sollmann and it was published in 1922. The following quote is from pages 770-771: |Distilled Water.-This is more injurious than ordinary water to the |lower animals and to excised tissues; partly because of the total |absence of salts (especially of calcium, thus probably altering the |permeability of the plasma membrane; R. H. True, 1914); and partly |because it often contains traces of copper and ammonium compounds. |This toxic action can not occur by the drinking of distilled water by |higher animals, which obtain their salts from food rather than from |water: The salts of the food would in all ordinary cases be more than |sufficient to cover the deficiency of salts in the water. The statements, |which are occasionally made, that the drinking of distilled water leads |to toxic effects, are therefore entirely groundless: Distilled water is |often drunk exclusively on ships, without any bad results. Nor is distilled |water detrimental in nephritis (Marcus, 1907). http://books.google.com/books?id=slZKAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA770&dq=%22metabolic+effects%22+%22distilled+water%22&lr=&num=100#PPA771,M1 or http://tinyurl.com/dg6wjg Of course, there has probably been research since 1922 that might cause one to qualify the above statements (NOTE: if one is doing an extended fast with nothing but water, then perhaps concerns may be warrented) but it appears that there were folks back in the first couple of decades of the 20th century that were arguing against the drinking of distilled water. Prehaps a search of the historical literature is warranted. -Mike Palij New York University [email protected] --- To make changes to your subscription contact: Bill Southerly ([email protected])
