Quote Originally Posted by ChildhoodDream View Post
I don't care much for the taste of store bottled water. And I prefer drinking out of glass when possible.

I will also stock up on food items when the price is right that I know I will use. There are the basics

I have cut down on MEAT, sugar, salt, most "snack" foods and other "food" items that are not worth eating when you do the proper math's.

We are NOT designed for meat eating anymore then we are designed for consuming alcohol, nicotine, caffeine and other "poison's" that are popular.

But we are the humans that want what we think we want.

It's not a bad idea to get your water tested. Natural water sources like drilled wells are just like anything else in nature. They vary with the seasons. Sometimes the quality is good and othertimes not so much so. It's always been that way. I remember hearing a story from one of the local historians a few years ago. One of the offshore islands here had 10 families with 45 children back in the late 1800's. They always drank from a well that was under the influence of surface water. Some kind of disease got in there and killed off 30 of their children one winter. Truly tragic.

That's one of the reasons i prefer bottled water from a trusted and reputable source. There's a lot of testing & quality control going on behind the scenes that you never know about. We usually pick up 10 - 15 cases when it's on sale at the store. We're not purists or anything. It's just generally a more sanitary way of getting your drinking water. Maybe leads to better health if you don't consider the risks of plastic packaging.

With all due respect ... gotta call bull on consuming meat and some of the other so called poisons. I would agree that our bodies haven't had enough time to evolve so that we can safely consume some of the processed stuff.

The thing is that we're omnivores. Human children especially need meat proteins for proper growth & development. Alcohol is a food stuff as long as it's not consumed at a rate faster than our body can process it. Tobacco,marijuana,alcohol,coffee,and teas have been around since before written history.

The main point is moderation in all things. That's where we get into trouble. We don't moderate ourselves. We take things to excess. ( Lol ... myself included ... it's not like my poop doesn't stink. )

I do get the vegan thing though. Old Henry David was a big proponent of eating beans. That man loved beans. It's a lifestyle choice. It's got it's upside and downside just like any other choice.