Although the FDA has worked out new regulations to differentiate the different types of water by labeling them under different categories, such as spring water, sparkling water, mineral water, ect. Several years ago, I was doing some research on my own, to learn if distilled water was the best choice for my family. No, in fact, just the opposite has been found to occur in cellular research studies. It is a mistaken belief that drinking pure distilled water reduces valuable minerals from living human tissues. There are two types of minerals, organic and inorganic.
Human physiology has a biological affinity for organic minerals.
Most minerals for body functions are absorbed from dietary plant foods. A growing plant converts the inorganic minerals from the soils to a useful organic mineral. Once a plant mineral is absorbed within the body, it is utilized as a coenzyme for composing body fluids, forming blood and bone cells, and the maintaining of healthy nerve transmission. Tap water presents a variety of inorganic minerals which our body has difficulty absorbing. Their presence is suspect in a wide array of degenerative diseases, such as hardening of the arteries, arthritis, kidney stones, gall stones, glaucoma, cataracts, hearing loss, emphysema, diabetes, and obesity.