Water

[woodelf]

We are advized to drink at least 8 glasses of water a day, but as I no longer drink bottled water but tapwater kept in a container in fridge. But where I live it is hard water containing lime scale and seeing what it does to inaminate surfaces, I'm wondering what it is doing to my insides...? Ta Muchly.

[mastif]

the body needs minerals aswell as vitamins, don't worry about the lime it won't harm you, any way have you seen the amount of lime that builds up around and in a natural spring?!!!!!!

[bensmum]

I'm sure I've read somewhere that some of the deposits in hard water are good for you. Anyway have you tried a water filter jug like Brita? You can get slimline ones which fit in a fridge. I have been using one for years now and it certainly helps keep the kettle scale-free.

[Ethel]

My tap water is very hard - I keep a chilled jug in the fridge and drink it no problem.

Both my grandparents lived to be 99, my mother lived to be 93 and I'm still going strong - so don't worry about it.

I drink a lot of water because I prefer to - but it is a myth that you need to drink 8 glasses a day. You need two to three litres of fluid per day to keep healthy - but a lot of this comes from food - broccoli is 80% and meat 50% water, for example - and the fluid we drink can be tea, coffee, fruit juices, anything non-acoholic. It all counts towards the recommended levels of fluids we need.

[tickledtrout]

I read that brita have recently brought out a filter that fits on to the tap. Don't know what the price is, but their filters for kettles and jugs work

[daffy654]

It is a fallacy that you need to drink that much water,have a read of this article,you may be surprised!

http://style.uk.msn.com/fashionandbeauty/bebea utiful/article.aspx?cp-documentid=6775927

[naky-nag-nat]

It has been scientifically proven that if we drink 1 litre of water each day, at the end of the year we would have absorbed more than 1 kilo of Escherichia coli bacteria found in faeces, in other words, we are consuming 1 kilo of faeces remains a year.

However, we do not run that risk when drinking wine (or rum, whiskey, beer or other liquors) because alcohol has to go through a distillation process of boiling, filtering and fermenting.

'cheers' ;o))

[tickledtrout]

Interesting article that, Daffy. Have read something similar before about coffee and tea could be included in the advised amounts for what we drink

[Eve]

We have a big Brita filter in our fridge and the difference in the water is amazing and it comes out lovely and chilled.

It's a big box one which takes up most of one shelf in the fridge but is so worth it. It has a nozel on the end you just turn and put your glass under for the water to come out.

This is the one and it's currently on offer...

http://www.debenhams.com/webapp/wcs/stores/ser vlet/product_10001_10001_62252_208031_-1

[puddicat]

We are so lucky here the water is fantastic its soft and wonderful to drink, when i lived in yorkshire we had to chip the limescale of the kettle and didnt dare drink the cloudy gloop in a glass!!!!

[crazy legs]

Tap water cotains a type of oestrogen which can cause breast cancer, apparently. It comes from the pill, the estradiol stays in the system.

[Ice.Maiden]

I agree with daffy - there's no ned to drink such vast quantities of water. Crazy legs is on the right track as well. Flouride added to tap water could be highly toxic, despite advertisements saying otherwise. You're better off drinking water that's been bottled at the source, with no additives put into it.

[Solarjunkie]

If you live in a hard water area, then you have mineral water on tap, you lucky people! Bone building calcium is why people pay a fortune for spring water in bottles that are filling up landfill sites.
Leaving tap water in the fridge for 24 hours improves the taste amazingly - try it. I presume much of the chlorine evaporates.