does anyone know if Perrier which is "naturally carbonated" from the spring has the same effects as other carbonated drinks? Does it leech the calcium from the body, etc?

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dear barb, i think 'naturally carbonated' is just a marketing term. no water comes from the ground fizzy after all. so it would have the same effect as all the others.

I don't know if this type of water is "natural" or not (seems to me that it would be completely possible for water to be "naturally" carbonated...as the distinction between natural carbonation and additional carbonation must be made by law on marketing materials)...but it seems to me that there must be an additional ingredient with phosphoric acid before the bones would be compromised, as they say happens with soda pop.

One other thing: people have been drinking this kind of water for centuries and have managed to avoid suffering from it; many people put this type of water out as "table water" at every meal, and drink it all their lives, never suffering from the damages described.

Divina

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yes, perhaps perrier and any alkaline bottled water is fine with respect to calcium - it depends if fizzy is bad in the first place, which i don't know.

soft sweet drinks such as coke are made from purified [softened] water which then has acids added so it is acidic and therefore dissolves calcium. no question they are bad, but that reasoning has nothing to do with their being fizzy.

i don't know if fizzy per se is bad, relating to the equilibrium between the CO2 and the acid and base in solution.

water does not gush out of the ground fizzy

by the way, san pellegrino is a delicious water, finer than perrier. but i don't know if such a highly mineralized water is advisable.

Anna and Divia,

Thanks for the replies. Does anyone know if animals drink from the spring they get this perrier from?

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Actually, water does come from the ground naturally carbonated. Here is the legal definition (meaning the restrictions placed on a water bottling company, like Perrier, before it can claim to be selling a "naturally carbonated" water:

I believe the spring for Perrier comes from an underground aquifer...(there are other definitions restricting the description of the springs as well...) so it is probably not likely that animals drink from this water. It would seem most practical, if a company were to actually bottle at the terminus, that they would locate their facilities right at the spring.

Divina

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Dear friends,

Well, we do have a source, natural spring of water not far from here that people go to fill their PET cans from, and it's very much carbonated and it bubbles out of the earth just like that, sparkling.

I have not been there myself yet and when I go there I'll ask the owner about animals drinking from it or not, that is really an interesting point.

HelenaZ

Divina and Helen - you have been very helpful - thank you

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Hi Barb and others,
Just to back up Divina's post:
Water does come out of the ground fizzy.
The most amazing thing is to swim in it - as you can in Stuttgart Bad Cannstatt, GErmany, and then go have a drink afterwards at the fountain.
Karin