I hate it when people spread rumors and lies with no scientific or research supported facts. I got this email from my friends several months back, and since seeing this post, I added all the emails in the chain under a distro list of "people that send me bullshit", and I plan on sending all of them a detailed counter-argument to their nonsense. That 75% statistic is bullshit, along with most of those other "facts". So what if the pH is 2.8. There's something they teach in high school in chemistry called "concentration". I think that's all that needs to be said.
<QUOTE>Many of the notions (and dubious "facts") presented in that e-mail seem to have been taken from the book Your Body's Many Cries for Water, by Fereydoon Batmanghelidj. He arrived at his conclusions through reading, not research, and he claims that his ideas represent a "paradigm shift" that required him to self-publish his book lest his findings "be suppressed.''</QUOTE>
Counter to first part:
http://www.snopes.com/toxins/water.htm
Counter to second part:
http://www.snopes.com/cokelore/tooth.asp and
http://www.snopes.com/cokelore/acid.asp