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Does Your Water Need More Ions? The latest health fad is even more ridiculous than most health fads.
Slate ^ | March 22, 2013 | Kent Sepkowitz

Posted on 03/23/2013 8:49:17 PM PDT by neverdem

After so many years of neglect, water appears ready to emerge as a cutting-edge health food. Perhaps it’s the fault of Gatorade, that Technicolor concoction of salt, sugar, and water people guzzle to “replenish their electrolytes.” The Gatorade inventors, some dweeby physiologists, were just trying to keep football players from collapsing in the Florida heat. They could not have foreseen what was to transpire in the decades ahead as the concept of the “sports drink” took hold, and then, more bizarrely yet, water itself became a symbol of health and status. 

With each iteration, beginning with bottled waters derived from glaciers (tres European) to the recent “enhanced water,” H2O has moved closer to the first-class cabin. But the latest version is a real head-scratcher: ionized, alkalinized water. Companies such as Chanson, Kangen, and many others are in the game to sell you a gizmo for $1,000 (or $2,000 or $3,000) to run your tap water through. The devices contain electrodes that purport to realign your water, split off some hydrogen atoms along the way, and rid it of various pesky problems so that it will taste better and be healthier and your arthritis will go away. In a week. Maybe two.  

In every way, water, at least American water, is a strange target for an expensive course in self-improvement. The number of Americans sickened by tap water, leaving aside the flood-induced Milwaukee cryptosporidiosis outbreak of 1993, is minuscule. Top-notch municipal plumbing remains perhaps our greatest achievement. We confront many ubiquitous environmental risks daily, but water is not among them. It is safe and unobjectionable. Plus it’s cheap—and yet...

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TOPICS: Culture/Society
KEYWORDS: alkalinizedwater; health; ionizedwater; water
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1 posted on 03/23/2013 8:49:17 PM PDT by neverdem
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To: neverdem
Not me! No way! I don't drink water any more. I drink dihydrogen oxide. It's much better for you, plus it's organic, too.
2 posted on 03/23/2013 8:58:20 PM PDT by Standing Wolf
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To: neverdem
Hummph.

Hardly a mere dweeb re: the Gatorade: more on Dr. J. Robert Cade, UF nephrologist et al.

3 posted on 03/23/2013 9:03:27 PM PDT by cyn (Benghazi)
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To: neverdem

Leave it to people to come up with a solution to a problem they don’t have.

PT Barnum would be proud, and laughing his way to the bank of the inanity of things like bottled water and “Organic” food.


4 posted on 03/23/2013 9:03:48 PM PDT by Shadow44
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To: neverdem

Does this mean the ‘gluten fluten’ thing in o-vah?


5 posted on 03/23/2013 9:08:20 PM PDT by GOPJ (DHS HAS secured: 1.6 BILLION bullets - 2.700 tanks and 35,000 drones ...to use on American soil...)
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To: cyn

Go Gators!


6 posted on 03/23/2013 9:17:06 PM PDT by EEGator
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To: Shadow44

Remember the machines that used to be sold that would charge the air in your home with negative ions?


7 posted on 03/23/2013 9:23:21 PM PDT by BunnySlippers (I LOVE BULL MARKETS . . .)
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To: EEGator
oh, yeah! :)
8 posted on 03/23/2013 9:24:54 PM PDT by cyn (Benghazi)
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To: neverdem
Does Your Water Need More Ions?

Oh, you mean, like salt?

9 posted on 03/23/2013 9:30:48 PM PDT by ROCKLOBSTER (Hey RATS! Control your murdering freaks.)
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To: BunnySlippers
Hi, BunnySlippers, it's been awhile! Still love your name.

Btw, Slate, "ionized water" is not new.

10 posted on 03/23/2013 9:32:26 PM PDT by cyn (Benghazi)
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To: BunnySlippers

Negative ions.... izzat like what guys do around the house?


11 posted on 03/23/2013 9:34:52 PM PDT by cyn (Benghazi)
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To: neverdem

Reminds me of this old stuff. Very interesting to read about:

https://www.orau.org/ptp/collection/quackcures/quackcures.htm


12 posted on 03/23/2013 9:36:52 PM PDT by Monty22002
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To: neverdem

http://www.chem1.com/CQ/ionbunk.html


13 posted on 03/23/2013 9:39:50 PM PDT by ApplegateRanch (Love me, love my guns!©)
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To: GOPJ
Spectrum of gluten-related disorders: consensus on new nomenclature and classification
14 posted on 03/23/2013 9:45:18 PM PDT by neverdem ( Xin loi min oi)
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To: GOPJ

I have a client that I used to meet with once a month during the dinner hour. Had to quit because we couldn’t agree on a restaurant which had exactly the kind of food she thought she needed to survive. She will not eat anything that is not only organically grown but gluten, carbohydrate, fat, salt, sodium, sugar, and who knows what else free. Drank bottled water without ice cubes or lemon because she wasn’t sure how/where the lemon had been grown, whether it had been properly washed and, of course, the ice cubes were probably made with water which wasn’t filtered.

People like her just wear me out.


15 posted on 03/23/2013 9:45:38 PM PDT by Grams A (The Sun will rise in the East in the morning and God is still on his throne.)
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To: cyn

:)


16 posted on 03/23/2013 9:48:00 PM PDT by EEGator
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To: Monty22002

Thanks for the link.


17 posted on 03/23/2013 9:49:03 PM PDT by neverdem ( Xin loi min oi)
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To: ApplegateRanch

Thanks for the link.


18 posted on 03/23/2013 9:49:45 PM PDT by neverdem ( Xin loi min oi)
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To: neverdem

LOL!

Reminds me of a friend who was buying the wonders of “Oxygenated Water” for the health effects of getting more oxygen into your body.

$12 bucks for 3 ounces. Sohhhhh Stoopit!

I told her she could buy club soda for $.50 cents and there’s plenty of O2 in that.


19 posted on 03/23/2013 9:51:48 PM PDT by Vendome (Don't take life so seriously, you won't live through it anyway)
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To: neverdem

Oh noes, Ionic Change!


20 posted on 03/23/2013 9:54:47 PM PDT by bigbob
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