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Topic: The Top 6 Foods To Avoid
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D for Defiant
Knowflake Posts: 345
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Registered: May 2006
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posted July 13, 2006 04:36 AM
 
As for the water we drink...Do many of us still believe in pure water? There's been a theory that says that pure water is "dead water"- since all the "impurities" have been eliminated, so are all the natural nutrients origianlly existed in the water being "purified". Then the "pure" water becomes acidic- whose PH (?) is below the standard for healthy human consumption. Some say the "right" PH(?) should be around 7 (e.g. evian), one of a "holistic healer(?)" said to me recently that the PH should be exactly 7.4, but I'm not sure how reliable that information was. Even bottled "alkaline/oceanic(??)" water is available now, and has become more and more popular in my territory (in East Asia)- which is scary. They've been drinking alkaline (forgive my non-native, inaccurate English) water! What's your knowledge on the water we drink every day? Some types of water are definitely to avoid! ------------------
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TINK
Knowflake Posts: 3079
From: New England
Registered: Mar 2003
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posted July 13, 2006 07:37 AM
It's true about Aquafina. If you look at the label it reads "municipal water source".  Dasani too. They're bottled by Pepsi and Coke. Figures.I'm a reformed protein isolate junkie. At one point I was probably eating 4 or 5 portions a week. I truly feel better after breaking the habit. Good Lord though - the difficulty in explaining to people the difference between miso and a fake hotdog. The looks of confusion and horror! I have a pharmacist friend who still thinks I'm nuts. "But soy is good for you! But the Japanese have been eating soy for centuries!" sigh. Not protein isolate burgers they haven't. IP: Logged |
trillian
Knowflake Posts: 3848
From: The Boundless
Registered: Mar 2003
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posted July 13, 2006 03:37 PM
Tink  I used to eat a lot of that stuff too. Veggie burgers at work at least three times a week. I really don't miss them. If I'm at a cook-out, I marinate portabellas and have those instead; much yummier. I still use tofu sometimes, which is far less a worry than the processed soy that's used to make the burgers, etc. D, as for the water we drink, I've read that the healthiest is reverse osmosis. You'd have to have an apparatus in your home to create it, though. I'm afraid I don't know much about it, though when I'm out of a rental and into my own place I'll look into it more seriously. In the U.S., many water supplies are treated with fluoride and cholorine. Fluoride poses so many potential health hazards that it's been banned in many countries. In the U.S., if you'd like to check the fluoride levels in your tap water, you can go here:
http://thyroid.about.com/library/articles/blfluoridefinder.htm?nl=1  ------------------
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Johnny
Knowflake Posts: 1507
From: Colorado, USA
Registered: Nov 2004
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posted July 14, 2006 06:13 PM
Thanks for that link, Trillian. Looks like my county dumps flouride into the water, too. Amazing the kinds of things that get forced down our throats (literally!) under the guise of "health." Disgusting.Ooh, prevents cavities!! How about we all just brush our damn teeth!? Makes me so effing angry. And isn't the flouride that they dump in the water a by-product of the aluminum-manufacturing industry, a substance toxic enough that it would be considered hazardous waste if they couldn't sell it to be added to the water supply? Can't remember where I read that.... The things that go on in the name of money. IP: Logged |
D for Defiant
Knowflake Posts: 345
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Registered: May 2006
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posted July 19, 2006 05:21 AM
trillian,I'll log onto the link you gave us after the major academic events at the end of this month- I have to study and my time management is terrible  Here in Taiwan, all our tap water suppliers add fluoride to the water, and worse, the tap water cannot be consumed without being boiled- so most of us end up drinking boiled (then cooled down) fluoride-contained tap water which, after the process of boiling, has been said by one "health expert" to be cancer-inducing with some element I don't know what to call in English ------------------
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