Hi gator,

Like everything else, you will find both opinions.

If you could see what's in the bottom of my water distiller when it shuts off, you would know which is good. I wouldn't drink anything else.

I've not researched which is best, but I usually drink bottled or filtered just because it's readily available to me. Lillian posted a list of good dietary habits and said no tap or distilled water. Here's her post...

//www.curezone.org/forums/m.asp?f=188&i=522

I have heard that the problem with distilled water is that it pulls out minerals, including trace minerals that are not available without a prescription, like lithium.

Most people get most of their lithium from the water that they drink. Vegetables are an additional source, but water is the major source. In other words, virtually everyone reading this post has lithium in their bodies, and needs to in order to be happy and comfortable. (People think that lithium is only for manic depressives, but this isn't true. Lithium plays many roles in our bodies.)

Lithium is just one example. Long story short, according to my research, in order to stay healthy we should drink water that comes from the ground and isn't distilled.

hg

WATER IS VERY CONFUSING. I THINK DISTILLED WATER IS THE ONLY WAY TO GO. I MAKE MY OWN DISTILLED WATER USING AN DISTILLER. IF YOU DECIDED TO DRINK DISTLLED WATER AND YOU BUY IT. MAKE SURE IT IS STEAM DISTILLED. THERE IS SUPPOSE TO BE A BIG DIFFERENCE BETWEEN DISTILLED AND STEAM DISTILLED ACCORDING TO NORMAN WALKER. HE HAS AN JUICER NAMED AFTER HIM. JUST GO WITH WORKS BEST FOR YOU.

GOOD LUCK

FAITH

Dr. Schulze , Dr. Christopher and Dr. N.W. Walker think that Distilled water is the best to drink.
The following if from http://www.herbsfirst.com/NewsLetters/Distilledwater.html. Go to that page to read the whole article.
***** I like the way Dr. N.W. Walker explains water and the use of minerals in the body. In his book "Water Can Undermine Your Health" (Norwalk Press, Publishers, Phoenix, Arizona, 1974), he quotes, "What happens to the minerals in the water?"

Once the liquid, whatever it happens to be, reaches the liver it is completely divested and cleared of everything whatever that was a component part of the liquid, except only the hydrogen and oxygen which, together, form the water molecule.

Water containing nothing but hydrogen and oxygen is pure water, and this is the only kind of water which the blood and lymph can use in their work. Both the blood and the lymph require pure water to assist them in their functions.

Distilled water is the purest water you can have. Whatever mineral and chemical elements were present in the water when it first reaches the liver, are segregated by the anatomizing processes in the liver and either passed on into the blood stream or are filed away as reserve material. The liver has no selective ability to determine whether the item which comes to it is "alive" or inactive, whether it is constructive or detrimental.

...The expression that distilled water leaches minerals from the body is entirely inaccurate. It does not leach out body minerals, it collects and removes minerals which have been rejected by the cells of the body and are therefore nothing more nor less than debris, obstructing the normal functions of the system. ***

http://www.herbsfirst.com/NewsLetters/Distilledwater.html