Water is the source of all things and a necessity for our survival. With the continuous improvement of consumption levels, drinking water issues have gradually been valued by people, and more and more people have begun to choose scientific drinking water. Moreover, recently, many experts on the Internet have suggested that teenagers should not drink pure water for a long time, and this issue has attracted the attention of netizens. So, is there any scientific basis for this statement? What impact will teenagers drink pure water for a long time have on their bodies? Let’s take a look together.
Currently, most of the pure water that people drink is bottled and barreled pure water. National Standard GB 17323-1998 " Bottled Drinking Pure Water " defines bottled drinking pure water as: water that meets the water quality standards for daily drinking water as raw materials, and is prepared by distillation, deionization or ion exchange method, reverse osmosis method and other appropriate processing methods, sealed in a container, without any additives, and can be consumed directly. After purified water, the content of various harmful pollutants is significantly reduced, but at the same time, the content of mineral elements that are beneficial to health is also reduced. So does drinking pure water have an impact on the health of adolescents?
In the positioning navigation experiment and learning ability experiment, the escape latency period of the rats in the normal dietary and normal drinking water group in the early training period was shorter than that in the positive control group, the normal dietary pure water group, and the low-magnesium dietary pure water group (P005). The escape latency period of each group tended to be stable in the later stage of training (late 2d). Although there was no statistically significant difference between the groups, the trend still exists. The researchers found that the development of neural tissue (such as hippocampus) in the low-magnesium diet pure water and normal diet pure water group may be relatively hysteresis compared with the normal diet normal drinking group, but the degree is relatively mild. When the magnesium content in food is insufficient, the effect of drinking pure water is more obvious.
In addition, drinking pure water for a long time may also have a certain impact on the bone health of adolescents. The bioavailability of calcium in water is equivalent to or may be higher than that of calcium in milk and dairy products. Studies have shown that the mineral contents of calcium, bicarbonate , sulfate and other minerals in water can have a comprehensive impact on bone health, and long-term drinking of pure water is negatively correlated with bone health. The water quality composition that is beneficial to bone health should be that it has both rich bicarbonate and calcium content and has a low sulfate level.
In addition, the Department of Nutrition and Food Hygiene of Peking University School of Public Health published a "Qualitative Evidence-Based Study on the Impact of Pure Water on Health" in 2020. The study showed that long-term drinking of pure water is related to the risk of cardiovascular disease, and is related to the lack of cardiovascular protection factors such as calcium and magnesium in pure water.
Therefore, from the above research results, we can conclude that drinking pure water for a long time will not only reduce the learning ability of adolescents, but also have an adverse impact on the bone health of adolescents. The most important thing is that drinking pure water for a long time will also increase the risk of vascular diseases. Therefore, teenagers should avoid drinking pure water for a long time when drinking water on a daily basis.
