You mean, like this guy? :)
Posted on 01/04/2018 6:12:37 PM PST by SJackson
In case you haven’t noticed, Silicon Valley is obsessed with health, or at least the appearance of health. You can see evidence of it just about everywhere, including internet-connected juicers and new medical “breakthroughs,” but rarely is a new trend as obviously flawed as “raw water.” Raw water is untreated, unfiltered water pulled from Earth and bottled for consumption by people willing to pay absurd prices for it. The best part? It’s probably going to make them all sick anyway.
Unlike other healthy eating trends, like consuming only raw fruits and vegetables or insisting upon antibiotic-free “clean” cuts of meat, raw water is actually the opposite of clean. It’s not pure in any way, shape, or form, and the only thing natural about it is the fact that potentially deadly bacteria has yet to be removed from it. It is, simply put, the dumbest food trend to come along in a long, long time.
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As Business Insider reports, raw water is catching fire in California’s tech hubs, selling for nearly $30 per gallon. That’s pretty funny considering the fact that it takes more work to produce the clean, disease-free water lining the shelves of your local 7-11 for $1 per bottle than it does to funnel unfiltered dirty water into a glass jug and sell it for ten times the price.
Proponents of raw water suggest that the filtering and sterilization process that most bottled water goes through actually kills off good bacteria that our bodies may benefit from. You’ll have a hard time finding any studies that support that notion, but it doesn’t take a genius to work out that, even if drinking sterile, pure water doesn’t contain “good” bacteria, that’s a small price to pay for not contracting cholera, Giardia, or E. coli.
The best (or worst) part about this whole raw water trend is that it actually leads to water that expires just like other foods. Even the most vocal raw water proponents admit that you have to drink any raw water you obtain within a couple months of its bottling or it’ll turn its bottle green with algae, like the inside of a fish tank. That sounds just great.
In a recent New York Times piece about the raw water trend, Dr. Donald Hensrud of the Mayo Clinic sums up the burgeoning movement nicely. “There are people, just like with immunizations, that don’t accept the status quo,” Dr. Hensrud says. Raw water drinkers are basically anti-vaxxers. Enjoy your diseases, everyone!
I believe most well water is fine, that has been my experience. Most flowing water in areas that are not populated is also fine for that matter. I have known people that have had medical or dental issues though so depends on the source like anything else. I am not willing to drink untested and or untreated water with someone else choosing the source, that is just me.
Having your own spring is one thing. But if you are downriver from others, or drinking for bottles without knowing the source....I would be much more cautious.
I’ve got some raw yellow water for sale ...
The answer to raw water’s danger is to boil it.
So did I when I visited my grandparents. However I’d no more drink Silicon Valley ground water then I’d drink the ground water from the chemical plant town I grew up in!
“Back in the day” the cold water we pulled up with the old hand pump on the farm tasted great, after you got the rust cleared out.
You mean, like this guy? :)
Exactly like that guy. Though he also looks like half the “handsome” men on the covers of romance novels. ha ha...
I was lucky. I fished the Madison River in Montana for years
and would drink the water every time. THEN a friend who lived in Bozeman saw me drinking the water and he went “postal” ——— “What the hell are you doing?”
I now carry and use ‘LifeStraw”.
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Bingo ......burp, fart.
Isn't that an unfortunate phrase, based on the recent fires in Cali. I am deeply offended. If I was from Cali, I'd be triple-dipple deeply offended
Admit to not understanding what is and isn’t raw water. European mineral water bottled at a source, is that water raw or not? Is all mineral water boiled and sterilized?
Organic Pastures in CA is so overly tested I trust them implicitly. We have been drinking their raw milk for 6 years now. It’s real live food with its own enzymes and good bacteria and it tastes fantastic. A true natural healthy food. I cannot digest pasteurized milk, cream, or ice cream. No problem with real milk which comes with all you need to digest it. Yum.
Intestinal parasites deserve a safe warm human to live in.
This is a good thing for them
Exactly my thought! My grandfather put his well pump in a spring on his property and my other grandfather had a well that ran a few hundred feet deep. Couldn't tell you how much 'raw' water I drank from the tin cup grandpa left hanging at the spring...
Doctors used to say selenium was poisonous. There are many health experts these days that would disagree.
In other lunatic news, some quack in Oregon is forming a tribal healing organization that claims to use traditional healing methods to fight disease. He also is using this to get around any anti-quackery laws in the state, but claiming it’s part of native culture or religion or some such. To use a phrase once used by Mencken, it’s nature’s way of dispensing with the botched.
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