Drinking Water

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Drinking Water

JoAnn Guest

Sep 21, 2004 19:44 PDT

 

Drinking Water

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Water, water, everywhere, but none fit to drink.

Less than 1 percent of the world's water is suitable for drinking.

About 80 percent of the world's diseases are linked to impure water.

 

Don't think modern man is immune from the effects of contaminated

water.

 

Chlorine, one of the most toxic chemicals on the planet, when added

in small amounts to tap water, prevents the problem of typhoid and

dysentery that still plague mankind in undeveloped populations. But

chlorine produces its own by-products when combined with organic

materials. These toxic chlorine by-products accumulate in organs

like the kidneys or bladder that filter or store water. The result

is an

increased risk of bladder and kidney cancer.

 

Some experts estimate more than 20,000 cases of these types of

cancer occur annually from water chlorination. If you drink tap

water, and you don't filter out the chlorine at the faucet, over the

long haul you are exposing yourself to an avoidable health risk.

 

This is not to mention the problem of cryptosporidium, a nasty

parasite which cannot be killed by chlorine and which has

contaminated various municipal water supplies, resulting in sickness

and even death. Filter your tap water!

 

As for all that hype about distilled water, think again. Distilled

water kills all the undesirable organisms, but it also removes

essential minerals, not only required for taste, but also for health

maintenance.

 

Tap water is softened by adding sodium, to replace calcium and

magnesium, so we will not have scum on our bathtub and our skin

after showering, so that our water heaters won't develop sediment,

and so our dishwashers and clothes washers will produce sudsy water.

 

So tap water is really designed for washing machines and water

heaters, not humans!!

 

We pay the price for drinking soft water with high blood pressure ---

a malady that strikes 50 million Americans.

 

We have so over-loaded our canned foods and water with sodium that

it is nearly impossible to reduce salt consumption below 3000-4000

milligrams per day.

 

If Americans consumed less than 2300 milligrams of salt per day,

hypertension would probably cease to exist.

 

Filtering your water at the tap won't alter its mineral content.

Distilled water has no sodium, but it doesn't have any of the

electrolyte minerals, calcium and magnesium, that are so important

for proper heart function and bone formation.

 

Drinking water without calcium and magnesium is asking for problems

like kidney stones, osteoporosis and even sudden death heart attack!

 

The best source of water is bottled spring water, that is, if you

can find a bottled mineral water that is low in sodium, rich in

magnesium, and balanced with calcium.

That is really a difficult task, one that has led me on a worldwide

search. To find out more, read my upcoming book IN PURSUIT OF THE

WORLD'S BEST WATER.

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