The Now Show - Marcus Brigstocke On Bottled Water

[JDLupus]

You should hear Marcus Brigstock on coffee.

[badboyblood123]

yay first dislike :(

[Vildasnaga]

But distilled water can be harmful, since its pure its absorbed into the bloodstream and it reduces the mineral concentration in it, blood cells then try to pump out their minerals to put the blood concentration levels back, but if you drink too much distilled water eventually your blood cells will die from having secreted too much of their own minerals to try and keep the balance.

[hejcoze]

@Vildasnaga Nope.

[Vildasnaga]

@hejcoze Really? Well forgive me if im inclined NOT to believe your single blinding word of wisdom. You either:

- Have no real idea

- Know but are too much of a snob to say

- Are a troll

[hejcoze]

@Vildasnaga Since osmolarity is regulated by distribution of Na, K, Cl and proteins, I don't see how distilled water could be damaging in that sense. I could understand Ca, Mg, F deficiency due to poor diet and drinking distilled water only, but not hemolysis.

[fatmikecj]

@Vildasnaga No he's right. Unless you only drink water with the exact ionic concentrations of extracellular fluid, which you don't unless you're a vampire, water will make very little difference to the ionic concentrations of intracellular fluid unless you drink galons of it all at once. Salty water on the other hand will increase the ionic concentrations of extracellular fluid causing osmosis to draw water from inside cells thereby dehydrating you. Don't drink sea water.

[kangasheila123]

Did you know 'Evian' spelt backwards is 'Naive' - those tricky bottled water marketers. >.<

[MoonlightDoom]

@kangasheila123 Or it could be it comes from Evian in France where the water is sourced and bottled. But I will forgive you lack of geographical knowledge :)

[kangasheila123]

@MoonlightDoom Yeah, well i didn't that's why i didn't geography, LOL.

[StylesDark]

i did a test in school to see which water was the cleanest, Evian was the worst and tap water was 2nd best out of 5.

[ZarlanTheGreen]

Water has taste.

[Gamesman001]

@ZarlanTheGreen Pure water has no taste. The impurities are what give it taste.

[ZarlanTheGreen]

@Gamesman001 "Pure water has no taste. The impurities are what give it taste."

That may be true, but given the fact that you generally can't find anyone mad enough to drink deionized water, that doesn't really matter.

Any water you would drink, does have taste.

I don't mind nitpicking, but if your going to do it, do it properly, so there is no risk of being misleading.

[Gamesman001]

@ZarlanTheGreen Distilled water is pretty close to pure and has no taste (except for what it picks up from the container) which is what I was referring too. But the more pure it is the less taste it has. My grandfather put in a well (using a well-point and a sledgehammer) and that was the coldest purest water I ever drank. In fact he lived not far from the famous Poland Spring in Maine. Which was kind of appropriate since he was born in Poland.

[MrShakes42]

Well tho i agree with how wasteful it all is, my tap water in england used to taste like chlorine, not so nice tbh

[thenarstar]

A bottle of 'spring water' is water from a particular spring (which probably supplies the tap water for the local area). But, 'bottled water' is apparently just that. Water from a tap at the factory, put in to little bottles and sold to thick people.

[Gamesman001]

@thenarstar Actully any water near the spring can be called "spring water" even if it's pumped up from a well. The location gives it the name not the source.

[ZachValkyrie]

is it just me or do the aliens sound suspiciously like the daleks?