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Yes, I’ve tried Perfect Water from Quixtar / Amway
Posted: 14 May 2008 05:29 PM   [ Ignore ]   [ # 290 ]
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Mr/Ms Moderator…
You may delete my profile now, please.  I’ll move on now, and won’t bother your narrow reality.  Life’s too short to play where I’m not wanted (boo hoo).  Have a happy life.  I’m a liittle hurt…. very little.  Bye now.!.! 

Thanks to all those who were crodial and really wanted to learn something, that’s been refreshing.

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Posted: 15 May 2008 12:48 AM   [ Ignore ]   [ # 291 ]
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TexasIBO - 14 May 2008 05:29 PM

Thanks to all those who were crodial and really wanted to learn something, that’s been refreshing.

Yes, there’s nothing like a refreshing crodial. Made with perfect water, of course.

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Posted: 15 May 2008 12:54 AM   [ Ignore ]   [ # 292 ]
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Since TexasIBO claimed that it was ‘just water’ and was advertised as such, I’d call that us teaching him something. However, since he then just left rather than discuss it, I don’t think he learnt anything…

Oh, and no, your profile won’t be deleted. If you’re leaving, it doesn’t really matter either way, does it?

Unless, of course, you use the same name on other forums and are slightly worried that people will google your username and find this thread.

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Posted: 15 May 2008 01:26 AM   [ Ignore ]   [ # 293 ]
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According to that “Why Buy Perfect?“ advert their water is:

* Purified by a proprietary 15 step purification process.

* Remineralized to incorporate trace minerals and electrolytes.

* Ionized for enhanced alkalinity.

* Microstructured for optimum hydration.

* Oxygen rich and empowered by MBO proprietary technology.

Interestingly the water I usually drink is:

* Purified using a scientifically tested and government regulated 15 step purification process.
(Buffered using lime, flocculated, clarified via sedimentation, filtered with a 4 stage process, treated for biological contaminants with chlorine and ozone, ionized with UV, fluoridated, remineralized to remove hardness, phosphatized to reduce lead content, and stored under positive pressure to prevent external contaminants from re-entering.)

* Remineralized to incorporate essential trace elements.
(Fluoride for example.)

* pH adjusted for enhanced alkalinity.
(First stage of purification, as acid water is more likely to leach impurities out of the environment.)

* Microstructured for optimum hydration.
(All my water incorporates two covalent bonds separated by an average angle of approximately 104.5°, has a differential electronegativity in its main components that gives it a significant dipolar moment, it is also self-adhesive for greater specific heat capacity.)

* Oxygen rich and empowered.
(I ensure all my water is roughly 89% oxygen by weight, and insist that it has extra 100% pure oxygen dissolved in it under pressure (1 atmosphere). Furthermore all the oxygen used is 100% natural and free-range, I brook no synthetic oxygen in my water. Finally, my water is perfectly at liberty to make its own decisions, and has been vested by me with the authority to mediate all my cellular functions as it sees fit - and you can’t get much more empowered that that!)

So the only real difference I can see is that the water I use comes out of a tap and costs the equivalent of 0.025 cents per fluid ounce.

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Posted: 15 May 2008 02:03 PM   [ Ignore ]   [ # 294 ]
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I don’t drink tap water
it tastes funny
it had fluoride in it - A nasty poison
Probably chlorine too - A very nasty poison
and it give me a headache.*

I drink purified, filtered and UV’d water
that costs 25 cents a gallon

or for bottled water I get 25 ounce bottles
at 29 cents a bottle

1 thing you learn if Britain is that when you
go abroad ‘Don’t drink the water.‘  There was even a sit com
of that name.
It’s very true here in Arizona, the tap water is undrinkable

*The water I drink might still have fluoride and chlorine in it
but at least it doesn’t give me a headache.

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Posted: 15 May 2008 03:23 PM   [ Ignore ]   [ # 295 ]
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Meh. I’ve been drinking my tap water here in this town for decades. It’s hard enough to cut diamonds with, and most newcomers to town can’t stand it, but by golly, it’s what I’m used to.

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Posted: 15 May 2008 03:33 PM   [ Ignore ]   [ # 296 ]
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In Scotland, we have soft water.
I think it’s delicious.
When there was the MoH visit, Chary was surprised to find that he liked the water.

Numm.
*goes to get a glass of water*

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Posted: 15 May 2008 03:52 PM   [ Ignore ]   [ # 297 ]
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Hi, I just came across this thread and thought I would give my experience. I don’t know all that much about the science aspect though, but a few days ago I got to try Perfect, and had never heard of it before. I wasn’t even sure what was so special about it. It sounded like maybe it would have an affect on athletes, maybe they would notice it slightly after a lot of use.

So I did the three tests before hand. Now when it comes to stretching, yes after doing one stretch you could stretch a little further the second time, but definitely not this much. After doing yoga I have learned it takes a lot of stretching and deep breathing and over time you improve your flexibility. Although heat will quickly improve your flexibility, hence Bikram yoga. ANYWAYS. I also did the balance test and with little effort someone was able to knock me over, it was pretty sad haha. Then I was given 1 oz of water, drank it (tastes just like water), and did the tests immediately. For the helicopter I was very surprised and I almost turned around backwards, much further than before. Then the bending over test I dropped down quite a bit further with ease! It would have taken a long and steady amount of stretching to go that far. Then the balance test. He could not budge me, he tried to jump and put all of his weight down on my hand and although my fingers struggled, I didn’t feel like my body was gonna go anywhere, I didn’t counteract or anything.

So anyways, I thought I would share that with you. I am getting a bottle of my own soon, so I will definitely being doing tests on friends.

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Posted: 15 May 2008 05:54 PM   [ Ignore ]   [ # 298 ]
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Boo - 15 May 2008 03:33 PM

In Scotland, we have soft water.
I think it’s delicious.
When there was the MoH visit, Chary was surprised to find that he liked the water.

Numm.
*goes to get a glass of water*

Scotland’s water is actually quite tasty compared to most of the world. We used to live in Cheshire and the water tasted manky. France doesn’t fare much better.

See, we get so much rain, the Water Board checks it all and only puts the best stuff in the taps. We have the cream of the crop.

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Posted: 16 May 2008 02:30 AM   [ Ignore ]   [ # 299 ]
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JustAVisit - 15 May 2008 03:52 PM

Hi, I just came across this thread and thought I would give my experience.

Not to be rude, but having found this thread, couldn’t you have perhaps tried reading it? What you have described is a subjective response to a set of before/after tests involving “Perfect Water”. There is no better way to have a placebo effect than to do an exercise, take a pill/potion/whatever that is supposed to improve your performance at that exercise, then try it again.

So anyways, I thought I would share that with you. I am getting a bottle of my own soon, so I will definitely being doing tests on friends.

Please be a bit more careful in doing so. Why not set out 10 plastic cups, numbered 1 to 10 and get a friend to fill - sight unseen by you - half with Perfect Water and half with ordinary bottled water at random[*] and keep a note of which is which. Then, without ‘waterboy’ around, get five other friends to pick a drink, try the before/after tests, then put a big tick or cross on the cup if they did or did not experience an improvement, respectively. When you’ve done that once, rest a while, then do it again with the remaining 5 cups.

Now get your first friend back and see whether the cups improved your performance are the same as the ones he/she filled with Perfect Water. Because if you can’t tell the difference between PW and any other water without knowing beforehand, then it’s probably because there is no difference.

[* put the numbers 1 to 10 on separate bits of paper, crumple them up and put them in a bag, your friend should pick out all ten numbers and alternately fill the cup indicated with Perfect or ordinary water so as to not end up with all the cups of one type cooler or less settled than the other.]

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Posted: 16 May 2008 03:34 AM   [ Ignore ]   [ # 300 ]
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Don’t do this all at once, obviously.. 10 glasses of water at once will make for some interesting sloshing sounds.

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