Bottled Water Has No Minerals

[jaideeguy]

I think that it is safe to say that at least 95% of the water consumed in this country [and others] is distilled or reverse osmosis and therefore mineral-less. It makes me wonder if we can become difficient in necessary primary and trace minerals?? and would suppliments be approptiate??

I often get muscle cramps that will disapear immediately after taking calcium, magnesium....which leads me to believe that maybe I'm deficient in these or other minerals.

any educated/informed comments welcome......

[Briggsy]

Lots of fresh vegetables should do the trick.

[monty]

Indeed veggies are the prime source of minerals.

But for example people working hard in the heat, are having a good workout, and who are trying to replace the lost liquid with water treated by reverse osmosis (can be several liters per day in this climate) can quickly drain their body of minerals...So much so you'd need to eat so much vegetables there won't be much place for other food

[jaideeguy]

I agree that veges and other food items give minerals and monty's remark that our bodies can be depleted of minerals......so, are ther any suppliments/tinctures that can replace these needed minerals....added to reverse osmosis water?? or taken separtely??

Most multi vitamins contain some, but not all of the RDA for minerals. are there any multi mineral suppliments?/

[MisterMan]

I have friend who work in a recompression chamber. It was from them I learned that yes none of this cheap bottled water has minerals and even when people on a dive boat drink the water unless they add the electrolyte powder pack then it is not going to help them stay hydrated nor decrease their chance of getting bent.

I thought it was quite interesting as I never knew this.

The solution for me is to only buy Minere or the other MINERAL water.

Sure its a bit more expensive but I feel more hydrated, less thirsty etc.............

[dumball]

I use orange flavoured 'Royal D ' in my drinking water , contains a lot of mineral/vitamin supplements , hate drinking tastless water .

[H2oDunc]

Not exactly correct. If you pay that little bit extra and buy Mineral water, like Nestles then you get the minerals your body need. When its hot and you are doing any physical activity the a sachet of electrlite powder is advisable. You are right thought that reverse osmosis has no minerals and drinking lots of it can deplete the body very quickly of the minerals it has stored.

[QED]

Wow I must be stupid. I drink about 6 litres of this kind of water every day, I didn't realise that it was actually bad for me!!

Can someone elaborate on the electrolyte thing, and where can I buy them.

Thanks.

//Edit// Actually it's 6 bottles, which I have just checked equates to 9 litres

Edited December 30, 2008 by QED

[jaideeguy]

The cheapest electrolytes can be bought at almost any pharmacy...they are called oral rehydration drinks [ORD] and provide potassium, salts and sugar ...cost= under 5 THB per pack.

cheaper by the box....

but ORD only provides potassium, good for rehydration and I drink it regularly in the heat of summer here. What I am concerned about are all the other minerals that are lacking [and necessary for health], like calcium, magnesium, and many others, plus the trace minerals.

Ground water provides most if not all of the main minerals and trace as well. I was wondering if there is some kind of additive [tincture or powder] that will replace minerals that are removed by reverse osmosis??

[edwardandtubs]

It's true that RO water may leech minerals from the body but the amount is so small that it's not worth worrying about. Compare the mineral content of a bottle of mineral water to that of a few cabbage leaves and you'll see that as long as you eat a healthy diet you'll have more than enough minerals to offset any leeching by RO water.

[jaideeguy]

Can anyone explain to me why I get muscle cramps unless I take a magnesium suppliment. The effect is almost immediate, which indicates a magnesuim deficiency to me. I do take a good quality daily vitamin/mineral suppliment, but the amounts of magnesium [and other minerals] are quite small.

I did a 'google' on mineral suppliments and didn't find anything except expensive 'health food' mineral suppliments. There was one that used desalinated sea water with minerals, but that was quite expensive. Seems like it could be a good selling product in places that are dependent on reverse osmosis water.

[MisterMan]

D Champ or something like that was what we used on dive boats. But they are very sweet and I think have artificial sweetener or sugar.

Are you sure Nestle water has minerals in it?

Just stick to Minere!

[edwardandtubs]

D Champ or something like that was what we used on dive boats. But they are very sweet and I think have artificial sweetener or sugar.

Are you sure Nestle water has minerals in it?

Just stick to Minere!

Minere is owned by Nestle. Nestle Pure Life of course has no minerals.

[syd barrett]

R.O. water is safe to drink. Minerals come from food. Anyone eating three square meals a day with vegetables or bread or bananas will not need to worry about minerals.

I remember reading a stupid article in the BKK Post about how drinking distilled water would kill you. Rubbish!

[whiterussian]

plasticiers used to fix plastics into bottles, packaging, dildos, you name it.. also leech a chemical that mimics a female hormone.

http://www.google.com/search?q=plastic+bot...amp;startPage=1

especially under heat/hot sun.

yum yum.

Add to that the residual female hormone from 'the pill' now flowing through the treated water (in the west)... and we have mutant fish and men with tits!! (and you thought it was the cheeseburgers!). Still, at least we arent in Iraq where the depleted uranium will hang around in dust and dirt for thousands of years, producing generations of mutated humans.

Still, they had it coming, sitting on our farang oil. oops. off on one again, where me pills?

Plastic bottles:

They can be used to provide drinkable water from well water under full sun though - killing the nasties:

http://www.google.com/search?q=plastic+bot...amp;startPage=1

Edited January 3, 2009 by whiterussian

[BarryM]

Doc assured me there are more minerals in a mouthful of carrot than a crate of mineral water.

[Phuket_Brad]

Being an Environmental Engineer specializing in water treatment system and a specialist in nutrition, I can say that the percentage of minerals a human gets through water compared to diet is so small that any person with a good healthy diet including an average amount of fruits, vegetables, and fiber, that the amount of minerals supplied by water intake is almost unmeasurable. Living in the tropics and also polluted cities, the amount of bad contaminates including biological, makes for the prevalent use of water systems like RO that in deed do remove up to 99% of minerals and all the the other harmful contaminates. It is much wiser to drink RO water, or water that has been run through an RO system and re-mineralization, as to other options that may not remove the more serious contaminates.

[relayer]

I'm also of the opinion that, as long as you're eating a balanced diet, you shouldn't have to worry about any "mineral deficiency" from drinking RO water...