[Health&Healing] Chorinated Tap Water

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This absolutely amazes me... I have seen this posted on several

groups, and it just floors me... Unless I am mistaken, the tone of

the article suggest that cancer fighting nutrients are really bad

because they mix with chlorine to become these horrible mutations

that have been, " tormenting the water treatment and chlorine

industries for years. "

 

What else does one expect when you are using a deadly, cancer

causing substance like chlorine!! Of course anything good, when

contaminated by chlorine is going to wind up being bad.

 

The nutritional communities don't need to adjust around this, we

just need to stop using chlorine.

 

Other comments?

Misty L. Trepke

http://www..com

 

 

Cancer fighting nutrients become deadly when combined with

chlorinated tap water

 

Some of nature's most valuable and essential anti-cancer and

anti-disease phytochemical nutrients which are commonly found in

food have been discovered to form deadly cancer causing substances

when consumed or combined with chlorinated tap water. This discovery

includes familiar foods including soy, fruits, vegetables, tea, many

health products, and even some vitamins. Research has proven that

these essential nutrients are the exact same families of compounds,

that even in infinitesimal amounts have been tormenting the water

treatment and chlorine industries for years.

 

Recently, a joint study was undertaken in Japan by research

scientists at the National Institute of Health Sciences and Shizuoka

Prefectural University. They determined that natural organic

substances originating from foods, including fruits, soy, and green

or black tea, react when tap water is chlorinated, forming dangerous

cancer causing compounds. These deadly compounds have been named MX,

which stands for " unknown mutagen " , and are similar to the already

well-known and more easily detected cancer causing THMs

(trihalomethanes).

 

The Japanese scientists specifically mentioned that their studies

showed that MX is created by the reaction of chlorine with natural

organic plant phytochemicals such as catechins, which are contained

in tea, and flavonoids which are found in fruit. Since Japan has an

extremely high consumption of tea, fruits, and soy products, it is

easy to see how high amounts of residues from these foods would end

up in their wastewater treatment and water recycling systems.

 

Earlier studies by scientists in Finland in 1997 determined that MX

is 170 times more deadly than other known toxic byproducts of

chlorination, and was shown in laboratory studies to damage the

thyroid gland as well as cause cancerous tumors.

 

THMs are known to be created by the reaction of chlorine with humic

and fulvic acids, which are the final breakdown products of

vegetation, including decayed leaves and organic matter. Humic

substances are the same as soil humus, of which the fulvic fraction

is water soluble and readily transported into streams and waterways,

as well as utilized nutritionally by plants.

 

Very recent scientific discoveries have identified and clarified the

composition of fulvic and humic acids as containing a significant

amount of nutritional phytochemical groups including hormones,

sterols, fatty acids, polyphenols, and ketones, which subgroups

include but are not limited to: flavins, flavonoids, flavones,

tannins, catechins, quinones, isoflavones, tocopherols, etc.

 

These compounds are some of the most valuable and promising anti-

cancer nutrients found in our foods and health supplements. Coenzyme

Q10 is a quinone, vitamin B-2 is a flavin, vitamin E is a

tocopherol, citrus bioflavonoids including hesperidin, quercetin,

and rutin are all flavonoids, green tea contains catechins, phenols,

tannins, and isoflavones. Potentially all of these substances, and

many more, are implicated by chlorination.

 

Amazingly, is has been discovered that these phytochemicals remain

intact, concentrated, and intricately combined within humic

substances; which are valuable remnants of nature's protective

substances contained within fruits, flowers, pollen, nuts and seeds,

as well as vegetative parts including roots stems, bark, and

leaves. Even the plant nucleic acids, RNA and DNA remain intact.

 

To comply with EPA rulings, water treatment plants have had to

develop special techniques to scrub the seemingly dubious organic

residues from water prior to treatment with chlorine. There is

nothing wrong with the organic substances themselves, it is chlorine

that is at fault for turning them into the deadly THM and MX cancer

cocktail. Reality is that the organic substances have been shown to

be highly beneficial combined with pure drinking water in trace

amounts.

 

The bottom line is this: when water treatment facilities remove these

substances, they are throwing the precious baby out with the bath

water, and the remnants that remain are turned into cancer causing

agents by chlorination. To make things worse, it is certain that the

fresh plant foods we eat similarly react with the chlorinated tap

water we drink with our meals, creating toxins. This means that

fresh fruits and vegetables, green salads, green tea, black tea,

herb teas, soy products, vitamin pills and various health

supplements, and even some pharmaceutical drugs, all can be

implicated in combination with chlorinated water.

 

The deadly cancer causing agents which are produced are extremely

toxic in infinitesimal amounts, so small and obscure that they are

extremely difficult to detect. Very little chlorine is required.

When the concentrations of phytochemicals are high, such as in

concentrated health supplements, or even fruits and vegetables

coming from more fertile soils, the deadly combination with

chlorination intensifies.

 

It has been known by the water treatment and chemical industries for

many years that chlorine reacts negatively with natural organic

compounds. These industries call these compounds DBPs (disinfection

by-products) which are known to cause cancer in populations whose

drinking water contains them. THM the most commonly known DBP, is

known to cause a high incidence of bladder cancer and also to cause

spontaneous abortion of fetuses.

 

The Environmental Protection Agency has continually tightened their

restrictions on THMs in drinking water, and even tighter

restrictions are just around the bend. Yet it is interesting to note

that the many government agencies and chlorine industries have

conveniently neglected to take a serious look at food, health

supplement, and pharmaceutical drug consumption preparation, and

production relating to use of chlorinated tap water.

 

There is good reason for the public to seriously examine and

question this entire issue. Many years ago laws were passed making

chlorination of water mandatory. Now, the chlorine industry and

government agencies must continue their existing policies, because

if sudden or drastic changes are made, the legal liabilities would

be staggering. Certainly some government or industry personnel have

known or theorized about these problems and have been covering them

up for many years. However, if anyone were to admit to it, the

consequences could be disastrous. This predicament could make the

tobacco industry scandal seem insignificant in comparison.

 

Another area needing thorough scrutiny relates to pharmaceutical

drug safety studies normally performed on animals in the laboratory.

It would be reasonable to surmise that good laboratory practices and

procedures would require that such studies be performed using highly

purified drinking water for animals. It would be reasonable to

believe that drug companies would not take the chance of

jeopardizing clinical studies using chlorinated tap water. Of course

chlorinated tap water is a common denominator within the human

environment. Educating people to the dangers of chlorine would be

admitting to knowledge of the problem, which could invalidate past

studies and certainly raise serious legal problems.

 

This whole chlorine issue should come as no real surprise to any

biochemist. During the last century, chlorine has been combined with

many other normally safe organic substances to form some of the most

powerful deadly toxins known, such as dioxin, DDT, PCBs, etc. The

bottom line is that the real culprit is chlorine, not the substances

with which it reacts.

 

Although chlorine has essentially eliminated the risks of waterborne

diseases such as typhoid fever, cholera and dysentery, there are many

pathogens that are not controlled by chlorine. Other and better

methods of water treatment exist. Many alternatives are already used

throughout the world. Ever tightening EPA regulations have forced

the water supply industry in the USA to look into alternative

methods for disinfecting water.

 

For years, environmentalists have battled the water treatment

industry and large chemical companies in an effort to ban the use of

chlorine in drinking water. This ongoing battle has been a big

source of revenue for both sides. As word of the problem spreads to

the general public, something might actually be done about it.

 

As this message spreads, it will no doubt shake the very foundations

of the chlorine and water treatment industries, let alone the

government agencies that are implicated along with them. There

certainly should be cause for serious alarm within the nutritional

supplement and food industries, as well as those segments of the

medical industry that might awaken to the dilemma.

 

This message is of utmost importance to the general public, because

chlorine will one day, in the near future, be exposed as a major

cause and contributor to cancer and degenerative disease. Chlorine

will also be found to be responsible for damaging the body's immune

and hormonal systems by mutating the food-based plant estrogens and

phytochemicals that support those systems. A healthy immune system

should be your first and best line of defense against waterborne

disease.

 

Recer, P; Water chlorine byproduct may be cancer risk; June 18, 1997;

Associated Press

 

Christman, RF; Kronberg, K; Singh, R; Ball, LM; Johnson, DJ; Report

259: Identification of Mutagenic By-products from Aquatic Humic

Chlorination; North Carolina State University

 

Rhomberg, L Ph.D.; Risk In Perspective: Are Chemicals In the

Environment Disrupting Hormonal Control Of Growth and Development?

April 1, 1996; Harvard Center for Risk Analysis

 

Japanese data related to MX and the Shizuoka Prefectural University

has been extracted from various abstracts published by the American

Water Works Association (AWWA), and the National Institute of Health

(NIH).

 

Plant phytochemicals and nutrient groups can be determined from

information within the Organic Chemical Tables; Chemical Abstracts

Service (CAS), a division of the American Chemical Society.

 

 

For six years, the professionals at the EPA have been telling the

world that fluoride is killing people. Their site:

http://www.fluoridealert.org/hp-epa.htm

 

WHY does fluoridation continue? See:

http://www.worldnewsstand.net/2002/article/10-12.htm

also: www.trufax.org

 

 

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