Drinking pure, uncontaminated, natural spring, river or well water is an important part of the Optimum Airola Diet for optimum health.
Avoid prolonged drinking of distilled water, which has become a fad recently, motivated by the universal water contamination. Distilled water is totally void of all minerals, and prolonged use of it may leach out the body’s own mineral reserves and lead to severe mineral deficiencies and such diseases as osteoporosis, diabetes, tooth decay and heart disease. It has been proven by extensive world-wide studies that where people drink naturally “hard” or heavily mineralized water, there is a lesser incidence of the above-mentioned diseases. Minerals, as they are naturally present in drinking water, have been an essential part of man’s mineral nutrition since the beginning of man’s life on this planet.
Contrary to what some “experts” claim, inorganic minerals in natural waters are effectively absorbed and well utilized in human metabolism. And they do not cause hardening of arteries, kidney stones or other supposed diseases. Quite to the contrary! We need both inorganic and organic minerals for optimum health. Hunzakuts, considered the healthiest people in the world, who never had any hardening of the arteries, kidney stones, tooth decay, arthritis, osteoporosis or heart disease, have for 2,000 years been drinking water so heavily mineralized with lime and other inorganic minerals that it is milky in appearance. This is perhaps better evidence than any quasi-scientific reasoning.
Unfortunately, it is becoming more and more difficult to obtain uncontaminated pure natural water in this poisoned world of ours. Most places now sell bottled spring or purified waters. See that natural minerals are left intact in the purification process. If you are forced to drink distilled water, add natural minerals to it, such as pure sea water – 2-3 tsp. of sea water to a quart will do. But, if you can get it, we recommend using pure, uncontaminated, naturally mineralized spring water.
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