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Date: | 11 Sep 1996 17:57:58 -0400 |
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... As I walked down the aisles, I was amazed at all of the condiments
available to make food taste like something other than what the food is
supposed to taste like.
<People put such **garbage** in their shopping carts and then into their
mouths>
I've gotten a lot of mileage out of America's bad eating habits. ...
antacid, laxatives.
<My favorites are all of the antacid commercials they run on TV,
especially the new ones that say you can take one and eat anything you
want (with two women meeting for lunch), and the taxi drives who has just
wolfed down a SAD double cheesburger, fries, and a milk shake....>
Back to condiments and other new observations on the route to raw...I
don't
use them very much. .... My love for carrots is waning..that's strange
because I have loved them for a long time.
<I went through a jucing phase where my wife and I would go through 25#
of carrots a month. That lasted for the better part of a year. Has anyone
elso noticed this phenomenon of food "phases" ?
....
Question...what are the opinions of people here on the various water
options. Distilled? Spring? Filtered (with Brita or something like
that)
I don't drink tap water any more because of the chlorine and other
unknowns. Sometimes the water even smells bad. (at work) Fortunately we
have bottled water; here we use spring water.
* Pros: Presumably its filtered and because of the dissolved minerals, it
won't pick up much from the container.
* Cons: There are no regulations on bottled water, so there's really no
guarantee on what's in it.
Distilled water.
* Pros: You know what's in the water. Nothing else but H2O.
* Cons: Because there's nothing else it it, it can easily leach out
chemicals from the container. I've noticed that the plastic in some of my
exercise water bottles smell. I don't put in plain distilled water in
these.
As far as filtering your own water... This depends on what your water
source is and what you want to eliminate.
* RO: I'm on a well at home. All of the water I use goes directly back
in the ground. Because of that, I have a reverse-osmosis system (with
pre-and post-filters. I think at least one of them is some type of carbon
filter). This is the least expensive system to run--it runs on house
water pressure; once a year I replace the filters. This uses (wastes) one
or two units of water for each unit of RO water it makes. If I weren't on
a well-septic system I might have chosen a different type of purification
system.
* Steam distillation: This will really remove everything. The system must
be vented, however, to eliminate the volatile organics which will
otherwise contaminate the distillate. This is more expensive and still
requires some maintenance.
* Carbon block filters: These might be the best general purpose choice; so
meone has a web page on water purification that goes into a lot of
detail. Britta probably has one.
Mark Rothstein
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