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Nancy2 > wrote:


> Just a note: If you have a commercial soft water system in your home,
> make sure you don't have that soft water in the line to the pot
> filler. You should always use regular cold water in a cooking pot.

Hard water interferes with soap, so people put in water softeners. The
most common ones I've seen simply replace the "hard" minerals (usually
calcium and magnesium) with sodium. However, many people are on diets
where they have been told to reduce their sodium intake. Thus, using
softened water for drinking and cooking will increase sodium intake.
The harder the water coming into the house, the more sodium will be in
the softened water. If you periodically dump a huge bag of rock salt
into your water softener, that's what kind of water softener you have.

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Dan Abel
Petaluma, California USA