William T Goodall wrote:
An old friend of mine who used to be in the merchant navy
(junior engineer on crappy oil tankers under flags of
convenience) claimed that the terrible state of his teeth
(they were crumbling - bits used to break off and he'd spit
them out) was due to drinking distilled water for months at
a time at sea. Or it might have been because he never went
to the dentist...
I have heard that distilled water isn't very good for you,
because it's so much purer than your body that it tends to
suck the vitamins and minerals out of your body through
osmosis... and then I decided to check to see if it's just
an urban legend... and apparently it is:
http://www.tafkac.org/faq2k/medicine_113.html
Oh, well. :-)
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