The human body is made up of around 70% water; around 85% of your brain, 80% of your blood, and 70% of lean muscle. Like all living organisms, the human body survives via an ongoing flow of energy, and water is the fuel, lubricant and the coolant that your body requires to function optimally.
These days more of us are aware of the importance of drinking water for hydration and good health, but which water is actually the healthiest option?
Some nutritionists and natural health advocates such as Raw foods guru David Wolf and natural health advocate Daniel Vitalis endorse spring water in glass jars while Gabriel Cousens, M.D., favours restructured distilled water and Brian Clement of the Hippocrates Health Institute recommends a living water system.
With so many options from which to choose, which is really the best? Vitalis points out that drinking water that has undergone reverse osmosis or which has been distilled can lead to health problems because it has been demineralised, as does F. Kozisek, in the paper World Health Organisation (WHO) Guidelines for Drinking Water Quality:
“Recent epidemiological studies of an ecologic design among Russian populations supplied with water varying in TDS suggest that low-mineral drinking water may be a risk factor for hypertension and coronary heart disease, gastric and duodenal ulcers, chronic gastritis, goitre, pregnancy complications and several complications in new-borns and infants, including jaundice, anaemia, fractures and growth disorders.”
Natural Spring Water has always been seen to be the best source of healthy drinking water, but as most of us do not have a nice little local spring or aquifer from which we can drink water, Nobel laureate Dr Henri Coanda spent six decades studying Hunza water, believing that its unique viscosity, high alkaline pH, exceptional active hydrogen, abundant colloidal mineral content and surface tension was what made it so healthy. Japanese scientists tried to recreate Hunza water based on his research, using Russian electrolysis technology and created ionised water.
Unfortunately, many experts believe that ionised water should be avoided as it contains a much higher alkaline pH than natural spring water, which is not considered to be good for us.
It seems then that even the experts cannot agree on which drinking water is best, so I guess I will just stick to my own method, which is to drink water from my mains water cooler which is attached directly to my main water supply and fitted with a triple action carbon filter – this way I get all the goodness and none of the contaminants, and lovely chilled water whenever I want.
