This is probably irrelevant, but I read somewhere that there are no
traditional people who take water straight. All know traditional
peoples only took water that was altered by making tea with it, sun
tea or boiled. A culturally universal belief: 'raw' water is bad for
you. (I do not think this was because of fear of parasites.) Of
course, I have no idea when the canteen was invented. Allan in WV
where we preferred our water distilled from corn mash

On Thu, May 5, 2011 at 6:20 AM, william <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> River water is aid to be "soft" compared to well or spring water, so not
> much mineral there.
>
> I don't see why they would have needed extra minerals, since they didn't
> drink coffee or have heart disease.
> BTW I use the chelated glycinate for heart problems; it works, but I dump
> the powder from the capsules on my tongue, since the capsules are said to
> contain free glutamate, a neurotoxin.
>
> William
>
> On 05/05/2011 05:45 AM, Dr Ben Balzer wrote:
>>
>> So, did the water intake of hunter gatherers or our paleolithic forebears
>> contain significant amounts of minerals or alkali?
>> Is this worth accounting for when considering their diets?
>>
>> I've found it hard to find the composition of pristine rivers.
>> The composition of mineral waters of the world are listed here
>> http://mineralwaters.org/index.php
>> Australian mineral waters ironically have almost no minerals due to the
>> nature of the rocks they filter through and their ancient geological age-
>> the minerals are long gone.
>>
>> Perrier http://mineralwaters.org/index.php?func=disp&parval=1953
>> Evian http://mineralwaters.org/index.php?func=disp&parval=923
>> Apollinaris http://mineralwaters.org/index.php?func=disp&parval=211
>>
>>
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