The shame about the movement to more awareness around what we eat and drink is that there are a lot of theories around that can gather up quite a bit of steam even though they are not backed up by proper peer reviewed modern science.
One such theory is that of the alkali diet.
You will be aware of the PH scale that lists things from being 0 through to 14 depending on whether they are considered to be acidic or alkaline.
Water Coolers: To Neutralise Or Not?
Each step up the chart in either direction increases the acidity or alkalinity by a factor of ten so a 1 is ten times more acidic than a 2. Water is usually around a neutral 7 but can go a few points either way without being a problem.
There is a theory in the alkaline diet concept that we are becoming more acidic due to the food we eat and the water we drink. People who believe in this are against reverse osmosis (RO) water filtration systems as they remove minerals and ‘neutralise’ the PH of water. They will argue that this is dangerous to the human body and your system.
They say that it will cause necessary things like calcium and other minerals which are essential to your body to be taken away or stripped out, removed by this ‘acidic’ water.
Water Coolers: With Or Without Minerals
I have even heard them complain that minerals were supposed to be in water – this seems a bit weird as water itself has no minerals they are just picked up when the water passes through its journey to us over rocks and down rivers etc.
They also complain that it makes water ‘tasteless’ this also seems weird to me as water itself has no taste and once again the taste is just what it picks up o its journey to us – most of it being chlorine being added to our council supply.
I am not a believer in the alkaline diet argument against reverse osmosis (RO) on the basis of acidic water but I would invite you to do your own research and that does not mean just Googling it and believing any site you find.
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