It's less healthy for you. Distilled water can pull minerals out of your body. You need those minerals.
Unless it's for a specific purpose, you probably shouldn't regularly drink distilled water.
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Unless it's for a specific purpose, you probably shouldn't regularly drink distilled water.
mrttao
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the amount of minerals in tap water are pretty trivial compared to your daily intake from food.
we are talking single digit here.
PsihoKekec
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But due to slightly higher specific density the tap water does not pull as much out of you as distilled water does. Distilled water is for technical devices and not live beings. [narrows eyes in suspicion]
Agent23
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I think it has some medical uses, too.
And drinking water with too much extra stuff in it,like minerals can be bad for your kidneys.
mrttao
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1. tap water is full of pharmaceuticals and microplastics, you could make a great argument for it not being suitable for living beings either.
2. it really isn't "pulling out".
3. we already have far too many minerals in our food (for example, sodium)
You literally need sodium. There's a reason that IVs are saline solutions.
As for pure distilled water, it does weird stuff because of osmosis, IIRC. It's why electrolytes are important. Gatorade has Sodium Chloride in it because it's designed for sport performance and to be healthy. There's a reason you can't just drink water when you have diarrhea as well.
Boiling kills stuff, but to get distilled water, you gotta boil, collect just the steam, and condense it.
I know that. But the other thing that boiling does is force out any dissolved gasses from the water.
Entirely depends on the origins of tap water. Many suburban and rural homes in the US have their own wells not tied to a central water company and the only thing in that water is the locally dissolved minerals. Neither pharmaceuticals or microplastics get down to those.
...I think you may be kinda optimistic about the micro-plastics and pharma products not being in wells, they are finding micro-plastics in fractured limestone aquifers already.
Microplastic contamination found in common source of groundwater
Microplastics contaminate the world's surface waters, yet scientists have only just begun to explore their presence in groundwater systems. A new study is the first to report microplastics in fractured limestone aquifers -- a groundwater source that accounts for 25 percent of the global drinking...
www.sciencedaily.com
And frankly not that many people in the US have their own well unless they live on a farm or out in the rural areas, very few city dwellers have their own wells.
posh-goofiness
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Between microplastics or distilled water, I think I'll take the latter. My parents had a distilled water filter as the primary source of drinking water in our house until my brother and I were teenagers. No ill health effects.
mrttao
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I said "too much", not "sodium is toxic and we don't need any".
You absolutely need sodium, without sodium you die.
But we have far far too much sodium in our food.
Agent23
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Oh, boy, a meme thread literally turned into one about our precious bodily fluids. 
You know what this means.
Now, humor aside,
1)there were leftoids trying to push the idea of mass drugging all the population.
2) Personally I drink mineral water, or boil and/or filter most of my water.
You know what this means.
Now, humor aside,
1)there were leftoids trying to push the idea of mass drugging all the population.
2) Personally I drink mineral water, or boil and/or filter most of my water.
But such a waste of good burger and fries...
it depends on how self rightous said vegan was, if their generally cool then yeah a real waste but if their the type to get in everyones face....then its worth every penny.
mrttao
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brilliant, beautiful. I want to do it now.
Agent23
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Maybe it is one of those "Impossible whoppers" made out of soy, palm oil, and estrogen.