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From: gfk@bridge2.3Com.Com (Gregory Kendall)
Newsgroups: sci.bio,sci.med
Subject: Re: Drinking water
Keywords: distilled
Message-ID: <203@bridge2.3Com.Com>
Date: 5 Dec 88 18:36:50 GMT
References: <3065@ingr.UUCP> <4467@mtgzy.att.com>
Reply-To: gfk@vision.3Com.com (Gregory F. Kendall)
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In article <4467@mtgzy.att.com> norm@mtgzy.att.com (n.e.andrews) writes:
>In article <3065@ingr.UUCP>, murray@ingr.UUCP (Douglas Murray) writes:
>> Because of concern about the quality of the tap water in our area, I have
>> been buying distilled water for drinking and cooking.

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>I wouldn't drink much distilled water for fear of leaching
>minerals out of my body.

Someone correct me if I'm wrong, but my understanding is that just about
everything moved across a membrane in the body goes by active transport,
rather than the passive transport mechanism involved in leaching, esp.
anything excreted by the kindneys. In short, I doubt that leaching
occurs much from the body.

>
>--Norm Andrews, attmail!mtgzy!norm