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Leo,
thank you so much.When I mentioned I used mineral water, probably I used the wrong term, I think it is spring water. The thing is, all bottled water here is called “mineral water”, so I’m not sure about this.I found this link.. I’m not sure if it’s ok to share it here? It is a non-profit website.It contains the characteristics of bottled water all over the world.This is the one I useIt seems to be good, or at least the best available here. The characteristics seem to be close to the ones you describe in your text.About the water retention.. it really puzzles me, because I’m very careful about everything I eat and drink, I avoid added chemical compounds as much as possible, i never drink soda, my food is always the less industrialized as possible and i avoid things which I know to contain much pesticides.I consider I’m barely overweight (I’m 1,78m tall and weight around 75kg). A lot of overweight women have better looking legs then I do. And it is not cellulite.. i’ve seen a professional in massages for this kind of thing, she said it is not cellulite but water retention (even though both may be related), and asked me if i ingested too much salt… but No! i don’t.So this really intrigues me. I don’t take contraceptives, which may cause water retention. I’ve done a lot of research on this subject and could not reach any conclusion.Whenever you can write something on this topic, Leo, I’m very eager to read it.Thank you, once more.I think there’s been a devaluation of some kinds of knowledge for some time. Mainly, current generation seems to think that anything worthwhile is machine made, and anything related to handcraft is some kind of excentricity.
This involves some kind of renegation of the past, maybe an urge to get rid of the parents’ and grand parents’ shadow.People always seem surprised when they see a young woman like me doing crochet, commenting that it’s something their grandma’s like to do.I think this applies to tea… why ‘waste your time’ learning about tea quality, water, ‘complicated proceedings’ like specifications of brewing, if you could just go to the market and buy some ready tea in a plastic bottle? why bothering if it’s white or green?they just don’t know what they are missingsome countries will value more something that looks foreign and devalue anything traditional…like here in Brasil, there’s so much abundance of fresh fruit that most people won’t bother eating them, while in Europe people will pay a fortune to have a couple of bananas or a watermelon.I call this ‘colonization syndrome’… buying something industrialized seems fancier than having a handcrafted object.Or something from a foreign country seems better, no matter the quality.Sad.But i think this kind of thing reaches some equilibrium point… for example, when handcraft is so devalued that it will begin to disappear, it may acquire a high value, because there will always be people interested in rare things.Maybe i took a big detour on the subject, but i think these subjects are related.
