#Yahoo! Answers: Answers and Comments for What is healthier to drink distilled water or natural spring water? * New User? Register * Sign In * Help * Yahoo! * Mail * My Yahoo! * News * Finance * Sports Yahoo! Answers Search ____________________ (Web Search) Web Search * Home * Browse Categories + Arts & Humanities + Beauty & Style + Business & Finance + Cars & Transportation + Computers & Internet + Consumer Electronics + Dining Out + Education & Reference + Entertainment & Music + Environment + Family & Relationships + Food & Drink + Games & Recreation + Health + Home & Garden + Local Businesses + News & Events + Pets + Politics & Government + Pregnancy & Parenting + Science & Mathematics + Social Science + Society & Culture + Sports + Travel + Yahoo! Products * My Activity Sorry, you need to be Signed in to see this. Not a member? Join Here. * About + How Answers Works + Points & Levels + Community Guidelines + Leaderboard + Suggestion Board + Answers Blog * Ask What would you like to ask? ____________________ Continue * Answer * Discover What are you looking for? ________________________________________ Search Y! Answers Advanced Search 1. Home > 2. All Categories > 3. Food & Drink > 4. Non-Alcoholic Drinks > 5. Resolved Question mike m mike m Member since: November 04, 2006 Total points: 49 (Level 1) * Add Contact * Block Resolved Question Show me another » What is healthier to drink distilled water or natural spring water? Many bottles of water are labelled "spring" water or "distilled" water or even "reverse osmosis', but which type is healthiest and best to drink for a healthier body? I've read many health books that say ONLY drink distilled water. * 4 years ago * Report Abuse mystic_eye_cda by mystic_e... Member since: October 21, 2006 Total points: 124,235 (Level 7) * Add Contact * Block Best Answer - Chosen by Voters Reverse osmosis means that the water is stripped of everything that isn't h2o and then certain minerals are added back in. Spring water is gathered from natural springs and can contain any amount of any variety of minerals. I can also technically be polluted, but generally that is avoided. Some spring water is even naturally carbonated. Distilled water is water that has no (or almost no) trace minerals in it. There is some evidense that areas that have soft water have a higher incidence of heart diease than areas with hard water. Soft water has less trace minerals than hard water, distilled water has none. IMHO distilled water is probably bad for you over the long term. Your body needs trace minerals, I am sure you also receive some of the same minerals from food such as veggies but possibly not all and possibly not enough. And reverse osmosis is just too artificial for me (plus it tastes bad, like really really bad to me) Source(s): http://www.mgwater.com/lancet.shtml http://www.bhf.org.uk/questions/index.as… http://www.cwqa.com/html/consumer6.html * 4 years ago * Report Abuse 33% 2 Votes * 1 person rated this as good * Action Bar: * 2 stars - mark this as Interesting! * Email * Comment (0) * Save + Save to Yahoo! Bookmarks + Add to My Yahoo! + Add to Del.icio.us + RSS There are currently no comments for this question. * You must be logged into Answers to add comments. Sign in or Register. Other Answers (11) Show: [All Answers............] Go * Rich Z by Rich Z Member since: July 06, 2006 Total points: 115,057 (Level 7) + Add Contact + Block The thing about distilled water is that it is chemically only water and that is a certainty. Many of the bottled waters are actually pumped from rivers (like the Monongahela near Pittsburgh) or from underground aquifers that may have been infiltrated by local waste waters. Some are actually taken from the pipes of city water supplies (like Acton Mass).They are then filtered and bottled to sell. Reverse osmosis is a process for taking water and forcing it through a filter to eliminate chemicals and minerals. There are cities in Florida that get their drinking water by taking in brackish swamp water and pumping it through those filters to make clean RO drinking water. Source(s): Look up web sites that talk about the source of the water sold by Pepsi and Coke. + 4 years ago + Report Abuse 17% 1 Vote * bluechocolatedude by bluechoc... Member since: November 05, 2006 Total points: 317 (Level 2) + Add Contact + Block distilled water + 4 years ago + Report Abuse 17% 1 Vote * game guy by game guy Member since: June 08, 2006 Total points: 227 (Level 1) + Add Contact + Block Natural spring water. + 4 years ago + Report Abuse 0% 0 Votes * Paulo by Paulo Member since: December 16, 2005 Total points: 1,051 (Level 3) + Add Contact + Block Without a doubt, natural spring water is far better to drink. Choose a variety of natural spring waters so that you get the benefit of minerals. Distilled water as your regular drinking water is dangerous in the long run because it is said that the distilled water leaches precious minerals from your system + 4 years ago + Report Abuse 0% 0 Votes * redunicorn by redunico... A Top Contributor is someone who is knowledgeable in a particular category. Member since: January 25, 2006 Total points: 419,898 (Level 7) Badge Image: A Top Contributor is someone who is knowledgeable in a particular category. + Add Contact + Block Water is water. As long as their is no pollution, either is fine. + 4 years ago + Report Abuse 0% 0 Votes + 1 person rated this as good * K®ÀZÂ¥ à by K®ÀZÂ¥ à Member since: February 18, 2006 Total points: 5,838 (Level 5) + Add Contact + Block Water When In Its Purest Form, i.e. Natural Spring Water Is Healthy. + 4 years ago + Report Abuse 0% 0 Votes * frankmilano610 by frankmil... Member since: March 21, 2006 Total points: 14,574 (Level 6) + Add Contact + Block Natural spring water. + 4 years ago + Report Abuse 0% 0 Votes * eddievanhalen by eddievan... Member since: April 10, 2006 Total points: 4,370 (Level 4) + Add Contact + Block There is a difference betwen destilled water and purified water. DO NOT DRINK destilled water (like for ironing). Water that is treated through machines is purified. Water that comes from a natural source is spring water. I recommend waters that have some mineral elements in them - but do realize that this will change the taste. BTW: water is NOT water - there are huge differences, especially in mineral waters. + 4 years ago + Report Abuse 17% 1 Vote + 2 people rated this as good * The Great and Powerful Oz by The Great and Powerful Oz Member since: May 05, 2006 Total points: 7,724 (Level 5) + Add Contact + Block water is water. + 4 years ago + Report Abuse 17% 1 Vote + 1 person rated this as good * sidorczukv by sidorczu... Member since: May 30, 2006 Total points: 383 (Level 2) + Add Contact + Block i know a lady who watered her house plants with distiled water. they all did very poorly she switched to tap water and they all are doing much beter. spring water is best in my book + 4 years ago + Report Abuse 0% 0 Votes * spiraldancestar by spiralda... Member since: November 05, 2006 Total points: 257 (Level 2) + Add Contact + Block I would have thought that mineral water is haelthiest, because it contains minerals and I don't think distilled water contains any minerals. + 4 years ago + Report Abuse 0% 0 Votes Discover Questions in Non-Alcoholic Drinks * Top 10 juvenile life insurance providers in the us? * I cant quit drinking soda....? * How do you measure out coffee? I always use to much or to little and it tastes horrible, It either tastes? * What is the difference between caffeine and decaffeinated coffee? Ready to Participate? Get Started! 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