Bottled Water

[Praxius]

bah, I can't be bothered with reducing bacteria or bugs in the water.... they make you strong and help keep your immune system healthy by giving it something to work on regularlly and reduces how much you get sick.

Some parents like to antibacteralize their kids all over the place, wash their hands, clean their water, scrub them head to toe.... might as well throw them in a plastic bubble while you're at it. Children gotta play in the mud, get a little sick here and there.... pick their noses and eat the boogies, make mud pies and all that good stuff. Keeps their immune system nice and strong.

Then you get older and start constantly cleaning yourself all the time, spraying chemicals and removing crap from your water, adding stuff to them to "make you healthier" then what normal water would do, and then when you hit 80 years old you get smacked with a flu and die.

Game Over Man.

 

[#juan]

Our system claimed to too. The assumption was that we had a crack somewhere letting the little buggers through, we never could figure out how they managed. Nothing quite so fun as drawing a bath and then having to skim out leeches.

We did a lot of investigating. On Gabriola we were buying 60 litres of bottled water every week for drinking and cooking. We finally settled on the Rainfresh system. In the Rainfresh system the water passes though three separate filters including the ceramic filter that stops and kills bacteria. (.3 microns) The chances of there being a crack are very remote.

 

[Lester]

Our system claimed to too. The assumption was that we had a crack somewhere letting the little buggers through, we never could figure out how they managed. Nothing quite so fun as drawing a bath and then having to skim out leeches.

Why skim them out consider bloodletting as an added bonus(costs an extra $3 a month though:lol

 

[karrie]

Wow!! That is expensive!! Then I'll rather continue buying filtered, bottled tap water for $2.50 for 10 liters. Such a bottle lasts me about a week.

$2.50 multiplied by 4 weeks a month, and again by 4 months.... that's a cost of $40, and you probably don't cook with it. Juan has two people in his household, plus can probably cook with it, so, he's probably going through filters faster than you would (I think you're single... right?). It sounds like it wouldn't take long to be worth it for you. And save you the labor of hauling bottled water.

 

[karrie]

bah, I can't be bothered with reducing bacteria or bugs in the water.... they make you strong and help keep your immune system healthy by giving it something to work on regularlly and reduces how much you get sick.

Some parents like to antibacteralize their kids all over the place, wash their hands, clean their water, scrub them head to toe.... might as well throw them in a plastic bubble while you're at it. Children gotta play in the mud, get a little sick here and there.... pick their noses and eat the boogies, make mud pies and all that good stuff. Keeps their immune system nice and strong.

Then you get older and start constantly cleaning yourself all the time, spraying chemicals and removing crap from your water, adding stuff to them to "make you healthier" then what normal water would do, and then when you hit 80 years old you get smacked with a flu and die.

Game Over Man.

I grew up drinking slough water. Filtered, yeah, but, like I said, when the tadpoles can get through, how much good is it really doing? Anyway... I shoveled cow ****, drank slough water, played in the mud. I had cats and dogs in the house. Helped farm grain. You couldn't dream up a much 'dirtier' childhood for a kid to challenge their immune system on.

Now I have an autoimmune disease that leaves me housebound much of the time. my siblings all have it and/or variants, such as my sister whose spine is slowly fusing together. My mom, dad... all of us with arthritic autoimmune illnesses. So, no, challenging your immune system regularly doesn't necessarily seem to be the holy grail for a tip top immune system.

 

[#juan]

FAQs about bottled water.

http://www.cela.ca/faq/cltn_detail.shtml?x=1506

I liked this one: You could be paying for your own tap water.

If bottled water is not labeled as spring or mineral water, it can come from any source, and be treated to make it fit for human consumption. This type of bottled water may come from a well or even a municipal water supply.

 

[Praxius]

I grew up drinking slough water. Filtered, yeah, but, like I said, when the tadpoles can get through, how much good is it really doing? Anyway... I shoveled cow ****, drank slough water, played in the mud. I had cats and dogs in the house. Helped farm grain. You couldn't dream up a much 'dirtier' childhood for a kid to challenge their immune system on.

Now I have an autoimmune disease that leaves me housebound much of the time. my siblings all have it and/or variants, such as my sister whose spine is slowly fusing together. My mom, dad... all of us with arthritic autoimmune illnesses. So, no, challenging your immune system regularly doesn't necessarily seem to be the holy grail for a tip top immune system.

Well I was told it was more so for children when their immune systems are strong and adaptive. I just keep on with the practice for myself. So far so good, but that's just me. Not everyone is the same.

Although come to think of it, I can't remember the last time I scratched my arse and then sucked my thumb.

 

[karrie]

Although come to think of it, I can't remember the last time I scratched my arse and then sucked my thumb.

And I can guarantee, the day your kid plays in the sand at the local park (also known as the communal cat litter), you'll be busting out hand sanitizer. lol.

 

[Praxius]

Porbably..... I could just take them to the beach instead so they can suck on some dried up sea weed and shells.