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- AmnesiacJack, on 10/27/2009, -1/+11That's why I only drink mountain dew.
- Propethic, on 10/28/2009, -0/+8Imagine a world without zinc
- askantik, on 10/28/2009, -0/+6I have 2 different multi-vitamins... one with 2.25 mg and one with 5 mg... nowhere near the 15 in "a common brand of men's multi-vitamin." You'd have to be eating loads and loads of fortified cereal (even though one of the boxes of cereal in my cabinet that is fortified contains no zinc...) and taking like 2 or 3 of those "common brand" multi-vitamins... Or drinking tons of zinc-laden water. The article doesn't really say how much zinc in tap water is too much (or tell us what the allowed amount is by the EPA, though this link says 5mg/L http://www.epa.gov/safewater/contaminants/index.ht ... At 5 mg/L, you'd have to be eating essentially nothing but fortified foods AND drinking a ***** ton of water. However, I'd still like to know how high the levels were in the water they tested... If your water had say, 15mg of zinc in a L of water, I could see how that would start to be a problem.
Either way, I'm sure it won't be long before we have the anti-science brigade who are somehow convinced this is just another "scare tactic." AKA, please don't tell me about potentially ***** up stuff, just let me keep being ignorant...
Meh. :[ - blitzkriegpunk, on 10/28/2009, -1/+6Damn communists, trying to steal our precious fluids.
- montrey, on 10/28/2009, -1/+4Mountain Dew is made with water....dot dot
- xero69, on 10/28/2009, -0/+3FTA: "The danger, according to new research, is greatest for people who drink water from private wells that use galvanized pipes or tanks"
So most reading this probably need not worry. - captininsanity, on 10/27/2009, -1/+4Mountain Dew has Brominated Vegetable Oil in it. It's pretty hard to do, but an overdose on that stuff is pretty bad.
"In one case, a man who drank eight liters of Ruby Red Squirt daily had a reaction that caused his skin color to turn red and produced lesions diagnosed as bromoderma."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brominated_vegetable_ ... - swantamer, on 10/28/2009, -0/+3I'd try to kill myself with a gun . . . oh wait, the firing pin . . .
- Metalcastr, on 10/28/2009, -0/+3Lots more corrosion.
- Barackalypse, on 10/28/2009, -1/+3That's why you run the water to clear out the pipes before you drink it.
- erkokite, on 10/28/2009, -0/+2I tried to come up with a way to relate this title to David Bowie's Magic Dance, but I can't.
- stonebear, on 10/28/2009, -1/+3Reverse osmosis FTW; it gets that, fluoride, and all those drugs they don't have to test for too. I use a Crystal Quest tabletop model for drinking water alone; its the best $125.00 I ever spent. Customer service is virtually non-existent though, so caveat emptor.
- AmnesiacJack, on 10/28/2009, -2/+4Ass holes mountain dew forms on leafs and other low to the ground items every morning where I live. Dew as in water, morning dew, you know.
Mountain Dew would be a whole other story (hence the capital M and D). - directedition, on 10/28/2009, -0/+2"Come back zinc, Come Back!! Thank god i live in a world of car batteries, telephones and hand guns!"
- JiGMeister, on 10/28/2009, -0/+1Hey, at least they wont get psoriasis!
- AmnesiacJack, on 10/28/2009, -0/+1Actually I did it on purpose because it's easy to draw out trolls who think they are gonna come into the topic and teach some one something.
No different than laying bait for a grammar Nazi. - iancgi, on 10/28/2009, -0/+1Actually to the contrary you are the one being extremely ignorant to how toxins work. Many toxins can accumulate in your body over time and NOT kill you at all, that's how most toxins work, that's how things like lead poisoning and mercury poisoning work.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mercury_poisoning
The poison does not kill you but it does cause a lot of harm to your body, brain, and nervous system. But hey if you want yo ride the brainwash train and believe any amount of mercury is good for you be my guess, its your body of water what do i care if you ***** it up or not. Just dont spread disinfo in my presence because you will be met with truth and will have a hell of a time beating that. - DreadPirate, on 10/28/2009, -1/+2FLarsen - very good point. Even stuff that is good for us can be poisonous in high-enough doses. Humans cannot eat bear liver because it actually has too *many* vitamins in it - a person can be killed by vitamin overdose.
- FLarsen, on 10/28/2009, -0/+1I know mercury doesn't easily leave the body, but you still have to reach a dangerous amount before it will start to cause problems. Some mercury leaves your body, so just keep how much you eat under that level. Both of those points have to do with dose.
I know mercury poisoning doesn't necessarily lead to death. My point is that, regardless of what it leads to, it's still dependent on *how much* of it there is in your body.
Brainwash train? I love biochemistry, so why would I not want to get as accurate information as I can? And how did you turn my point that poisons are dependent on dose into "any amount of mercury is good for you"? That's the *opposite* of my point.
"Just dont spread disinfo in my presence because you will be met with truth and will have a hell of a time beating that."
http://imgur.com/poqct.jpg - phyx726, on 10/28/2009, -0/+1BRAINS!!
- FLarsen, on 10/28/2009, -1/+1ALL poisons are defined by *dose*. You can't just say there's mercury in something and think you've made a point. You have to say *how much* of it there is.
- anawnymoose, on 10/28/2009, -1/+1That was the worst "nu uh I was talking about something else" backtrack I've ever seen. Come on, who do you think you're fooling?
- iancgi, on 10/28/2009, -1/+1This is a good point but NOT the case with mercury
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mercury_%28element%29 ...
mercury is extremely toixc at all levels - FLarsen, on 10/28/2009, -1/+1If that was true then you would be dead. You're showing a lot of ignorance of how poisons work.
Even ***** VX gas has a safe level. - FlyingSquidwolf, on 10/28/2009, -0/+0ur clever
- iancgi, on 10/27/2009, -3/+3All that means is that youve substituted zinc for mercury
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/artic ...
zinc is actually something our body needs in low doses, all mercury does is destroy ur mind - askantik, on 10/28/2009, -2/+1No, but it might explain you.
- Frogger4Truth, on 10/28/2009, -6/+3this would explain the last election
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