Would You Like A Can Of Salt With That?

So I can get used to eating lunch at 2pm and dinner at 8:30pm, and, although it pains me, I can get used to the dollar being worse than the Euro. I can even get used to the music being about five years behind. But one thing I cannot get used to is the pound of salt that comes when you buy water. You know those Aquafina commercials that stress how their water has nothing in it, and their nutritional facts label has only zeros on it? And that goes for all water whether only purified or from natural springs, it has nothing in it, just clean, crisp, refreshing water. Well not in Spain. Here, they add a lot of stuff to their water. Sodium, Calcium, Magnesium and Bicarbonate are the most common ingredients they contain. So basically I am paying to drink salt water. All of us students were so excited when we found a 1.5 liter bottle of water at the market for only .20 Euros. That is until we found out that a serving contained about 50mg of sodium per liter. Now I’m not very good at math, in fact I have yet to fulfill a science requirement at Denison, but when there is water here that has 0.8mg per liter and water in the U.S. that has nothing in it, I’m going to go with that cannot be good for you. I mean doesn’t salt make you more thirsty? And isn’t water supposed to hydrate you and quench your thirst? So essentially, isn’t adding sodium to the water going to make me more thirsty? Why would they add anything to water in the first place? There is absolutely no water here without additive ingredients. So it makes me wonder if everyone has a sodium deficiency. Last time I tasted the food though it was extremely salty. And the water labels say for those that lack sodium in their diets. I could be completely wrong but isn’t there basically sodium in everything? Aren’t people watching their sodium intake, not looking for more? And to think that I used to laugh at the Aquafina commercials thinking that it was stupid of them to advertise their water as having nothing in it. First thing I’m doing when I get back to the U.S. is buying a bottle of water and drinking it without wondering if I’m going to die of a heart attack at an early age.