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ON A trip to a science conference in Bulgaria, Jasmine Parkinson came across a bottled drink in a service station. It was raspberry flavoured mineral water by Adelholzener. Large letters on the bottle claimed that it contained "15 times more oxygen" than standard Adelholzener mineral water.
Nowhere on the bottle did it explain why water with extra oxygen is better. "Correct me if I'm wrong," Jasmine says, "but I understand that fish gain oxygen dissolved in water through their gills. However, as I do not have gills in my stomach, I fail to see how this is going to benefit me."
Whatever those benefits may be, it turns out that the oxygen content of Jasmine's mineral water is as nothing compared with the OxyFresh water that Garry Kirkham discovered at oxyfresh.com.au. This tells us: ...
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