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03-02-2006, 12:55 PM
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Big Fishy
Join Date: Nov 2005
Location: new jersey
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Drinking RO/DI water is good or bad?
I heard that its bad to drink RO water and you will get sick. if its so purified why is it bad to drink??
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03-02-2006, 12:58 PM
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Eat more PIE
Join Date: Mar 2002
Location: Florida Panhandle
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It isnt I drink mine all the time and love it.
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03-02-2006, 01:12 PM
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Big Fishy
Join Date: Feb 2006
Location: Denver, Colorado
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I think you are mistaking bad for you with bad tasting, truly well distilled water is nasty, you don't drink it because the lack of minerals equals a lack of flavor that's all. Now RO water is pretty tasty because it will take sulphur and other nasty flavors out of the water, pretty much the same thing as filtered water.
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03-02-2006, 01:20 PM
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Rockin-Roll Mod
Join Date: Sep 2005
Location: Coal Valley Illinois
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Iv herd its' because it lacks minerials, and flouride for your teeth a so forth. someone will chime in!
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03-02-2006, 01:21 PM
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Milkshake Man
Join Date: Jan 2005
Location: SW Florida
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Originally Posted by Brent Cone
Iv herd its' because it lacks minerials, and flouride for your teeth a so forth. someone will chime in!
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I will ask my mom later about the teeth part she would know......
Tim
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03-02-2006, 01:43 PM
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Big Fishy
Join Date: Nov 2005
Location: new jersey
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so if you brush your teeth with a flouride toothpaste and take a multi vitamin its very good to drink RO water....
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03-02-2006, 03:23 PM
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Shark
Join Date: Jan 2005
Location: maryland
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If you have never cut some bourbon or whiskey with a splash of it, I highly recommend it. 
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03-02-2006, 04:51 PM
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The Bitter Mod
Join Date: Apr 2005
Location: Atlanta
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If you have never cut some bourbon or whiskey with a splash of it, I highly recommend it. |
There's no need to go and ruin a good bourbon with water. Next you'll be singing the praises of blended malt whiskey. 
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03-02-2006, 07:30 PM
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Oh no...not again!!!
Join Date: Feb 2004
Location: Colorado Springs
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I spent a few years on submarines and our only choice of water was out of the still. Bleh .1 ppm chlorides made it taste terrible but we lived.
When you made coffee a pinch of salt was added to flavor it.
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03-02-2006, 08:14 PM
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BIG SMELLY MOD
Join Date: Dec 2004
Location: Livingston Parish, Denham Springs, Louisiana
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You can drink all You want. better yet drink the waste water coming out of the RO/DI, No worst then the water to start with. You can just drink all the goodies with less water intake.
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03-02-2006, 08:21 PM
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Dragonfly
Join Date: Dec 2005
Location: Bemidji MN
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you never know what nuclear scientist came up with the RO/DI...
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03-02-2006, 10:43 PM
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I've got the REEF rash!
Join Date: Nov 2004
Location: New Jersey
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It's ok to drink but it taste terrible!
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03-02-2006, 11:58 PM
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Big Fishy
Join Date: Aug 2005
Location: Kansas City
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You guys are crazy, it lacks any flavor which is nice. Add a couple ice cubes to get your "flavor" back if you like. Interesting to see the sediment when the cubes melt in RO/DI water. On the bad side, the flouride loss is not great, as the absorption of that free radical through the gums *will not* be as great as the absorption through the digestive tract. I would venture that most of us wouldn't drink it long enough to make a siginifcant impact to our intake however.
With that said, drink up!
-Ken
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03-03-2006, 04:45 AM
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The Muddy Mod
Join Date: Dec 2005
Location: Uxbridge, MA
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I used to work a lot of labs where there was RO/DI water, and they used to say that it was so low in minerals that it's like a mineral sponge and will suck them out of your body, just like it will do with copper pipe. Any time they (the filters) come with a drinking kit, it takes the drinking water right after the charcoal filter.
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03-03-2006, 09:20 AM
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Big Fishy
Join Date: Nov 2005
Location: new jersey
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so its bad to drink it for a long period of time i guess
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