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Originally Posted by swiss
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A geography course I did in accademic year 1980-1981.
They claimed it for geography, as an advance due to their subject.
http://skeptics.stackexchange.com/qu...or-your-health
There's a post in there, -1 (or is that a rating?) which agrees with what I'm saying.
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Wikipedia has this page:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hard_water
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The World Health Organization says that “there does not appear to be any convincing evidence that water hardness causes adverse health effects in humans.”[7]
Some studies have shown a weak inverse relationship between water hardness and cardiovascular disease in men, up to a level of 170 mg calcium carbonate per litre of water. The World Health Organization has reviewed the evidence and concluded the data were inadequate to allow for a recommendation for a level of hardness.[7]
Recommendations have been made for the maximum and minimum levels of calcium (40–80 ppm) and magnesium (20–30 ppm) in drinking water, and a total hardness expressed as the sum of the calcium and magnesium concentrations of 2–4 mmol/L.[8]
Other studies have shown weak correlations between cardiovascular health and water hardness.[9][10][11]
Some studies correlate domestic hard water usage with increased eczema in children.[12][13][14]
The Softened-Water Eczema Trial (SWET), a multicenter randomized controlled trial of ion-exchange softeners for treating childhood eczema, was undertaken in 2008. However, no meaningful difference in symptom relief was found between children with access to a home water softener and those without.[15]
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