General Health Tips Part 2. Tap water !

At Greenhearts we exert a great deal of energy , generating sweat, getting the heart pumping while enjoying good games of badminton!. Lots of emotions , laughter, sometimes frustration & even spurts of anger is generated for some!! Whatever the case, there's an unavoidable thirst for water or liquids in exercising! A vital ingredient when exercising or just healthy everyday living! I'm sure you haven't escape reading or hearing about the health experts slogan "Drink More Water!!".
That brings us to an interesting experience I had with our so called "beautiful Melbourne water". You can drink it off the taps just neat! I had always drank from the taps at home normally thru a water filter! Cooking & boiling has always been done with cold tap water(to kill germs etc!). Recently a relative of mine brought to my attention, her experience with a distilled water retailer who did an experiment on her tap & filtered water! Well this was where I started taking notice! Below are the results of the experiments and it was repeated at my house with similar results!

An electrode was put into tap water, filtered water & distilled water to determine the result! See below!! The glass on the left was just tap water. The glass in the middle was pure distilled water. The glass on the right was her filtered water! The resultant tap water was foul smelling & looked really dirty! Of course there's the additional flouride & chlorine which goes with tap water too! Really put me off tap water! The pic on the right below is just more samples of resultant tap water.














At my house we used a filtered system where the filter(see below) gets replaced between 6-9 mths. But the water from this filter was just as bad as the tap water after the experiment! I suppose it may not mean too much since many people survive on tap water without much problems but its only my opinion that it doesn't sit too well with my body if I continually take in the Melbourne tap water knowing what the contents are! Any one interested can let me know & I'll get this guy to do the experiment at your place! The picture on the far right shows what my "white" kettle looks like inside! I guess that proves the quality of the tap water!








After the experiment at my kitchen I immediately decided to try out the distilled water which was on offer! It was called Refresh & delivered to households. I also use supermarket sold Nobles pure water(see below) which proved to be just as good! Apparently a lot of the so called bottled spring water is just as bad as tap water! I did not have any available atthat time for the gentleman to test!
Please contribute any experiences or information relating to health issues for us to share on this Greenhearts website for the benefit of all our friends, which may be of good use to us all.! HAPPY DRINKING! In fact I may start a new website to share these health issues & experiences if there are enough responses to these issues!