The best water is pure water from a distiller or R/O purifier. No need to put minerals in water. An MD fasts people on pure water for 30 days. Get your minerals from food. Kelp from the sea is loaded with trace minerals.

If you are worried, use it to make decaf green tea or a healthy herbal tea. Then you are getting your minerals from food instead of from chemicals.

Biology teaches that animals consume foods. Plants manufacture foods out of sunlight, air, water and minerals and none of them are foods. Sun, air and water are good for you even though they are not foods.

There's certainly many views on the best form of water for consumption;
personally I believe that distilled water is only good for short term cleansing as it may help pull some toxins out.

However distilled water is thought as dead as it is stripped of minerals. The concern is not so much from the lack of minerals (you can get plenty from food): the problem is that distilled water may be hard to absorb properly and hence require energy;
distilled water molecules are often clumped together irregularly and not as recognizable as pure spring water. Water needs specific minerals to help structure the water that is recognizable to the body

The best water would be natural spring water that started as rain and through splashing against rocks it mineralizes itself - also the sunlight provides wide range of wavelengths that "Vitalize" the water - also oxygenation of water would occur in a natural spring source.
This process arranges the water molecules in such way that is very absorbable and healing.

A good filtration system is fantastic to remove pollutants, but an additional step to energize the water can make all the difference.

Gadgets like the vitalizer plus are great (I have one, a bit expensive though ~$450) - some people opt to put something that has life force and minerals in the filtered water and even put it outside to absorb the sunlight.

If you can afford the vitalizer it will provide infrared, minerals and oxygenate the water - the difference is night and day (as being very light and quenching)

Mike

1. Is it necessary to put minerals into distilled water? If so, what do you use?

it is best to mix it with a little juice, like sqeezing a lemon into it. there are many ways to restructure and enliven water. i set mine out in the yard for a couple of days in glass jugs. i call it yard water. it is very good just like that. i get my minerals from herbs and food. making a light tea with herbs is good, too.

2. Does anyone know anything about the Kenmore Water Purifier?

i have one. it is good for the money. they go on sale about twice a year. it seems to me february is one of those months. it is usually a good savings, say $50 or so off of regular price.


3. Any other suggestions for a dependable way to filter water? Or another good Distiller? Or a product I haven't thought of?

if you are not prepared to spend a lot of money, then go cheap. ones like the kenmore can be had for about $100. they are disposable, basically, but can last for years. once they go bad they are hard or impossible to fix and you just buy another. to get a better one you will spend five or ten times what the kenmore costs.

I just ordered the Kenmore Water Purifier.

On the Sears web site, it was $99 (reg price $140).

It said the price was good until 1/11/2007.

Take care.