SHOULD WE HAVE MINERAL TRACES IN WATER?
There is a popular belief with no scientific proof that it is healthy for the water we drink or use for cooking to have some minerals in it. Meanwhile, loose statements of this nature usually never give us answers to questions similar to the following:
1. Of the several dozens of minerals that science has identified, what set or subset of them should we have in the water that we use for drinking and cooking?
2. What is the total amount of each of the selected minerals that we should take daily, assuming that we are ever told or even know the total that is coming into us from each of the following sources?
a. Water piped into our homes
b. Water that comes naturally in the meat, vegetables, fruits and other foods that we buy from the market.
c. Water in products of the packaged water, alcoholic and nonalcoholic industries. We normally take it for granted that the firms in these industries would do the right thing. However, an occasional scandal about some fatal chemical in the marketed product may cause a firm to withdraw all existing supplies in the market, as happened in Europe several years ago to Evian (a famous bottled water) and later to Coca-Cola. Occasionally, part of an insect or some debris may be found in a bottle of beer or in a a bottle of some soft drink and the mater is often settled quietly through compensating the buyer. Obviously, under the increasingly predatory world conditions of today with its increasing volumes and varieties of pollution, it is healthy to be highly discriminating about whatever we take into us, even if this caution is seen by others as somewhat paranoid.
One must be bear in mind that the minerals that we need to take into our bodies must be in trace amount only. Therefore, the indefinite amounts getting into us from the various sources are silently destroying our health. It is only occasionally that the harm is obvious, as was the case in Bangladesh and Guam.
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1. Of the several dozens of minerals that science has identified, what set or subset of them should we have in the water that we use for drinking and cooking?
2. What is the total amount of each of the selected minerals that we should take daily, assuming that we are ever told or even know the total that is coming into us from each of the following sources?
a. Water piped into our homes
b. Water that comes naturally in the meat, vegetables, fruits and other foods that we buy from the market.
c. Water in products of the packaged water, alcoholic and nonalcoholic industries. We normally take it for granted that the firms in these industries would do the right thing. However, an occasional scandal about some fatal chemical in the marketed product may cause a firm to withdraw all existing supplies in the market, as happened in Europe several years ago to Evian (a famous bottled water) and later to Coca-Cola. Occasionally, part of an insect or some debris may be found in a bottle of beer or in a a bottle of some soft drink and the mater is often settled quietly through compensating the buyer. Obviously, under the increasingly predatory world conditions of today with its increasing volumes and varieties of pollution, it is healthy to be highly discriminating about whatever we take into us, even if this caution is seen by others as somewhat paranoid.
One must be bear in mind that the minerals that we need to take into our bodies must be in trace amount only. Therefore, the indefinite amounts getting into us from the various sources are silently destroying our health. It is only occasionally that the harm is obvious, as was the case in Bangladesh and Guam.
chidebe26@gmail.com,
chidec2001@yahoo.com
+234-8125074686 (Calls)
+234-8037108507 (Chat)
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