Frank: "Water."
Fritzy: Water?
Frank: "Water's not only the most abundant nutrient found in the body..."
Fritzy: Yeah, but not the fuckin' water they got up there with all that...
Frank: "...accounting for roughly two-thirds of body weight. It is also [UI] the most important nutrient, responsible [UI] involved in nearly every body process..."
Fritzy: Yes, okay.
Frank: "...including digestion..."
Fritzy: Did they tell ya you're drinkin' fuckin'...
Frank: Listen to me.
Fritzy: They tell ya Hudson River water?
Frank: Listen to me. "Digestion, absorption..."
Fritzy: Yeah?
Frank: "...circulation, excretion."
Fritzy: That's right.
Frank: "Water is the primary transporter of nutrients through the body..."
Fritzy: That's right.
Frank: "...and is necessary for all building functions in the body. Water helps maintain a normal body temperature and is essential for carrying waste material out of the body."
Fritzy: That's right.
Frank: "Nearly all foods contain water absorbed by the body during digestion. Fruits and vegetables are especially good sources of chemically pure water..."
Fritzy: Yeah.
Frank: "...which is a hundred percent pure hydrogen and oxygen."
Fritzy: Yeah.
Frank: "The average adult body contains approximately 40 quarts of water and loses about three quarts daily through excretion and perspiration."
Fritzy: Right.
Frank: "The rate of water loss depends [UI] upon the body level of activity and environmental..."
Fritzy: Uh-huh.
Frank: "...conditions and may range from less than one quart per day for a sedentary person in a temperate climate to more than ten quarts per day in a desert. If severe deficiencies are not corrected as soon as possible, salt depletion and dehydration will occur, eventually resulting in death. There are nearly as many types of water..."
Fritzy: You got me drinkin' water right now.
Frank: "There are nearly as many types of water as there are uses for it."
Fritzy: Yeah.
Frank: "Most tap water comes from streams, rivers and lakes."
Fritzy: Yeah.
Frank: "This surface water may contain pollutants and agricultural waste..."
Fritzy: Right.
Frank: "...such as fertilizer and insect..."
Fritzy: Right.
Frank: "...residue..."
Fritzy: Right.
Frank: "...that is carried by the rainwater runoff into nearby waterways."
Fritzy: Yeah.
Frank: "Air pollution such as lead from automobiles and factory exhaust also end up in our rivers..."
Fritzy: Right.
Frank: "...and our streams."
Fritzy: Well, that's why I don't wanna drink that fuckin' river water.
Frank: Now let me read all this to ya, because this is about distilled water, too.
Fritzy: Yeah, go 'head.
Frank: "The chemicals including chloride, fluoride, phosphorous, alum, sodium, aluminates, soda, ash, carbon, and lime are frequently added to drinking water for purification."
Fritzy: Yeah.
Frank: "These substances are needed to kill bacteria." Ya understand?
Fritzy: Go 'head.
Frank: "But questions have been raised regarding potential cancer-causing effects of some of these chemicals."
Fritzy: Alright?
Frank: "Poisonous substances such as arsenic, [UI], cyanide, asbestos, common industrial wastes can combine with other chemicals in water and form substances [UI]." Funny word there.
Fritzy: Yeah, but you can't drink that...
Frank: "Boiling water, whether hot or cold tap water, bottled water..."
Fritzy: Yeah.
Frank: "...for long periods of time for purification is not recommended. Although the bacteria will be destroyed, the purest water will be lost in the form of a steam and any heavy metals or nitrates in the water will be concentrated in the final amount." Alright? That's when you boil it.
Fritzy: Uh-huh.
Frank: "Another source of tap water is well water. And like most surface water which has a relative unified mineral content, well water varies drastically in mineral content from one location to the next, but the [UI] solids in the water can range from nearly nothing to excessive extremes."
Fritzy: Whattya got, an encyclopedia there?
Frank: No, this is the nutrition book I got.
Fritzy: Oh, yeah.
Frank: It's got everything you wanna know. "Because drinking water is polluted--even rainwater, which collects atmospheric pollution as it descends--it may be desirable to purchase a home purification unit. In November, 1975, data identified 253 different specific oganic chemicals such as chloroform..."
Fritzy: So what kinda water you gotta drink?
Frank: "...pesticides in drinking water in the United States."
Fritzy: So what're they tellin' you to drink?
Frank: "The occurrence of these compounds in drinking water suggests that the only organics [UI] that are yet [UI] be present and the number of compounds could be larger. In laboratory tests the purification process of distilling and reverse osmosis was the most [UI] removing the widest range of contaminants. It is suggested that a person switching to purified water shall make an effort to provide an adequate mineral intake by eating mineral-rich foods." In other words, if you're gonna eat pure, drink pure water, you gotta make sure you're have a good mineral intake.
Fritzy: Yeah, well that guy does. He eats all those...
Frank: "Mineral-rich foods or supplementing the diet."
Fritzy: Yeah.
Frank: "The diet allows the consumption of minerals in manageable quantities that will fulfill individual needs. This is the only way to insure a proper mineral balance without taking the risk of pollutants, chemical and bacteria..."
Fritzy: Well, you're better off doin' that there. Aren't you better off with the, uh, distilled water, and then...
Frank: Yeah, but.
Fritzy: You are.
Frank: I'm buyin' the bottled water.
Fritzy: Yeah, well that's distilled.
Frank: I'm buyin' the bottled water from [UI] and, and whattya call it?
Fritzy: Yeah?
Frank: What he's got over there, that's good water.
Fritzy: You get it free over there.
Frank: Lemme look up your heart now. Enlarged heart?
Fritzy: Yeah.
Frank: Hold on. Lemme see the fuckin' book here. What is that, "E?"
Fritzy: Well, "heart."
Frank: "Heart?" A, B, C, D, E, F, G, H.
Fritzy: H. Heart.
Frank: "Heart Disease, 141."
Fritzy: Go ahead.