Water

[chad]

Since you can't drink juice or hardly anything I was wondering how you all did water?

Distilled water is good for fasting when you are trying to get junk out of your body. Spring water had minerals in it.

I saw some stuff called smart water with electrolytes in it. Can you drink it?

I also would advise against tap water because HFI/DFI people supposedly have trouble clearing heavy metals out of their system.

I use a filter on the tap water I use to make pasta (well, actually the pasta I used to make, I haven't figured out what all I can do with that yet. I always knew the tomato sauce got me but didn't know exacly why.)

[charlie]

Megan has water, our tap water is very good and milk by the gallon.
We do plenty with pasta, its one of Megs favourite meals, can you have dairy? if so I always make a creamy sauce with cheese or she loves pasta and tinned mackerel which is so easy. Chicken and creamy sauce goes down well.
I make spaghetti bolognese with beef mince slowly stewed in homemade beef stock ( just boiled beef bones) then add 1 tsp of herbs and a bit of grated cheese on top sometimes. I think it is a case of slowly re-educating your taste buds and accepting that you won't be getting pretty red sauces or brightly coloured food.

[colormist]

I drink all waters that aren't sweetened. It's not like I can be picky when I'm thirsty. I've had smart water a few times, but I don't notice any increased intelligence from drinking it--but I do like the gold fish on the label. I also drink tap water (city water that's softened) all the time and haven't noticed any issues. I typically only have issues if I don't drink much liquids at all.

[chad]

I once read a book on water by Paul Bragg. He said the great lakes first nations people who drank heavy water their skeletons are all crudded up with mineral deposits.

So he says drink distilled water.

His first patient was in the UK. An older couple was sick and takeing all kinds of meds. He got them on natural food and one of the first things he did was get them on distilled water.

They were cured.

There are many challenging concepts here with this. One is that if you are over nurished it can lead to malnouising. Like if your stomach is clogged up with undigetsted fructose. It messes up your entire metabolism.

So, instead of leading the horse to water where it might not drink so to speak, you have to make the horse hungry first.

Like if a sick kid doesn't want to eat the mom is craming chicken soup down the kids throat when what he kid really needs is to just not eat till they are hungry and drink water.

But not tap water full of mercury.

That is anothe Paul Brag story. He goes on a canoe trip and fasts and after about 2 weeks passes what later turned out to be a quarter cup of mercury.

[julienc]

I drink tap water, and I'm quite confident that it isn't "full of mercury."

I don't mean to sound snotty, but Chad, please be careful with slinging around accusations about things you once read a book about. Especially something like the merits of tap water. You can read about most anything these days, and I post the link below just to illustrate this point:

www.chetday.com/distilledwater.htm

We're all here to try to help each other, especially in the arena of Fructose-related issues.

I apologize if this sounds petty (I haven't had my caffeine yet today), but this post just really rubbed me the wrong way this morning.

[chad]

To Julienc-
Sorry, I didn't make it clear that the mercury he had was from the way they used to treat polio.

However, I am not the only one to raise the mercury issue with fructose, both in getting it from the fructose, and your body not being able to get rid of it so well cause of the fructose.

Think of it this way, I am saying to take advantage of as many things as you can. Small improvements that you make some might have more of an impact than you think.

It isn't just the mercury it is the clorine too. Why load your body down with extra to process for no reason.

Water can have a big impact. In texas where there is alot of lithium in a certain area hardly anyone gets Bipolar. They don't know why but when they shot lab rats with lithium they were sedated. Lithium is similar to chromium, and chromium helps with metabolic problems like we have similar to diabetese. Chromium is used to prosess sugar.

I think chicks can go totally overboard with sugar especially.

Then you seasaw your pancreas with too much too little insulin. Syndrom X metabolic syndrome is alot worse for HFI/DFI people I think.

Others I imagine think bottle water is decadent. Our exchange student told me so and I started useing one of those pitchers to filter water.

[charlie]

Chad, life is limited enough. Eating is bad enough, I'm sure a bit of tap water aint going to kill anyone on here, they have to get their toxins from somewhere!!!!!