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On May 5, 2011, at 5:50 AM, Allan Balliett <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> 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 had never heard that and would be *extremely* surprised to learn it was true.
--
Robert Kesterson
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> 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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