Alkaline Water – Scam Or Not?
Tuesday, October 26th, 2010There is a large group of people that think that drinking acidic water will result in a lot of different problems in our bodies, and for this reason they will recommend you to purchase an alkaline water purifier in your home just for the sake of reducing the acidity in your drinking water, but also make it actually alkaline.
Another group of people think that the fuss around alkaline water is just a scam, and doesn’t really reflect anything else but the opinions of the companies that are selling the alkaline water purifiers.
There is virtually no scientific evidence of the fact that drinking slightly acidic water would be detrimental. After all we have stomach acids, and for most of us the level of that is too low already – we might even benefit from acid water. Another thing is that a lot of different foods and drinks that we use on a regular basis, are more acidic than the water that is acidic according to people who need a water purifier. Orange juice is slightly acidic, apples are acidic. These are supposed to be good for you.
The problem is that even if there isn’t much scientific evidence right now, there might be some in the future. Most of the things we know today about medicine, will be proven wrong in the following fifty years. The same has happened to a lot of things – for example the majority still thinks that eating animal fats will give you heart attacks, even though in the past few years the research has been very clear no such danger exists. The danger of animal fats was also doubted 50 years ago when the first research implied that there might be one..
Our bodies were meant to adapt to the surroundings as much as possible, but the pollution in our world is simply overwhelming even for the most successful adapters. A few hundred years ago there was virtually no pollution and one could drink water from a river with no problem. In such a short time, our bodies have not adapted to the change yet, and there might be problems included in drinking acidic water that we don’t know of.


