If you stop to realize that water everywhere on the planet has
minerals dissolved in it, the answer to "Is mineral water healthy"
becomes obvious. (The answer is yes.)
The answer is yes because
humans have evolved to require minerals. It's just that simple. As it
happens, some of the healthiest and longest-lived people on earth live
in the high mountains where they drink water so full of minerals that it
looks cloudy.
What humans don't require, and should get out of their water, is all the industrial contaminants we're faced with today.
Recognition
of the fact that there is lots of "junk" in our water is what has led
to the bottled water phenomenon, which has a huge environmental impact.
In the United States, it is said that 60,000,000 plastic water bottles
are manufactured each day. It is also estimated that 50,000,000 of those
bottles end up in our landfills! Not good!
Is there a better way to get water that has the minerals we need, and that doesn't have the chemicals we don't need?
The
answer to that question is also "Yes". The right kind of home water
filtration unit can provide us with healthy mineral water without
dangerous toxins and contaminants.
There are two major kinds of
home water filtration systems sold in the U.S. They are reverse osmosis
systems and carbon filtration systems. They both will get rid of most of
the unwanted chemicals. They each have their advantages and
disadvantages. Some of the claims made for each of the two types are
selling points that make a big deal out of things that don't really
matter-but that's a story for a different article.
If both systems
will give you clean, pure water, which do you choose? For my money, the
carbon filtration units are superior. Here are just 4 of the reasons
why:
1. The top-of-the-line carbon filtration system from the
leading supplier costs less than $.10 per gallon to operate. Reverse
osmosis units generally cost between $.25 and $.35 per gallon. (Both
systems provide a separate faucet at the kitchen sink, so that you're
only filtering water you're going to drink or cook with.)
2. Carbon filtration units are typically less expensive to purchase than reverse osmosis systems.
3.
Reverse osmosis units waste a lot of water. Without getting into the
mechanics, a lot of the incoming water can't get through the filtering
process, so, depending on the unit, some 3 to 10 gallons of water is
sent on down the drain and wasted for every gallon purified.
4.
Getting back to where we started: "Is mineral water healthy?"-reverse
osmosis units filter all the minerals out of the water. The Calcium,
Magnesium, and Potassium our bodies need... all gone.
Demineralized
water is un-natural, and many scientists think it's not at all good for
us. Not just because it doesn't have the minerals we ought to be
getting, but because it's acid-alkaline balance is shifted toward acid,
and a healthy human body needs to be slightly alkaline.
In fact, the body will leach minerals out of our bones to keep our blood at the proper level of alkalinity. Also not good!
Given these facts, I installed a carbon filtration unit to protect my health, and that of my family.
Discover the best home water treatment today.
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