Afraid to Drink Water?Afraid to drink water? You should be. If you take a look at this water you may think that you are looking at one of the scariest looking type of water supplies imaginable.
But in actuality, it is what we can't see in our drinking water that is the scariest.
Over 1 Billion people around the world don't have access to safe drinking water. Developed countries have essentially eradicated diseases such as cholera, typhoid and malaria, but in developing nations, these and other waterborne illnesses kill 5 million people each year and six thousand children every day. So what does make our drinking water unsafe? Contaminates such as chemicals and bacteria are majorly dangerous for children and the elderly. Children are particularly vulnerable to these diseases. Their younger bodies take in large amounts of this water filled with such contaminates and their immune systems are not strong enough to fight off these contaminants. Guardia and typhoid bacteria are still a large threat for many communities. Over two million children a year are killed by such diarrheal diseases. 90 percent of these are children under the age of five. But what about in developed countries. What risks to we have from our own modern water supply system and should we be afraid to drink water from our own taps? The answer is absolutely. In fact just the presence of chlorine alone is setting you up for many health problems now and latter in life. Chlorine is used to combat microbial contamination, but it can react with organic matter in the water and form dangerous, carcinogenic, cancer causing, solutions. According to Dr. Joseph M. Price, MD, in Moseby's Medical Dictionary, "Chlorine is the greatest crippler and killer of modern times. It is an insidious poison". Chlorine itself is a fatal poison. Chlorine kills all forms of biological life and will not leave a trace of itself afterwards. Research has shown that chlorination is directly related to an increase of cancer risk. studies at Harvard University using a technique called meta-analysis reports these new findings. Drinking chorinated water over long periods of time give you an risk increase of twenty one percent of contracting bladder cancer and a thirty eight percent increase in rectal cancer. With these types of test results, it becomes obvious why we should do what ever we can to remove this catalyst for such life threatening diseases. This alone should make you afraid to drink water, without even mentioning other chemical additives that I will talk to you about in detail later. Taking the simple step of letting your water sit and allow the water to evaporate off the top of your water for an hour or so will make a great difference. This will though leave what are known as chlorohalides. These are the chemical compounds that have formed from the chlorine reacting with metals and heavy metals and are now so much more solidy bonded into your drinking water. To achieve the complete purification that is needed to confidently remove these contaminents, we are either looking at distillation or the use of a very expensive, high quality reverse osmosis water filter. After this you should't be afraid to drink water. "So you would think!" This is where we have really created a situation battling our effect on Mother Nature. The human body was never designed to receive completely pure water. It is most importantly now deficient in those essential minerals and trace elements vital to the nutricional requirements of our biological system. The human body has difficulty functioning and grows tired if it is deficient in what we call electolytes. Without them our electrical communication system cannot function correctly. Also much of the calcium and magnesium that is essential for good bone structure ad nerve function come through a good water supply. Distilled and over purified water cannot of course deliver this necessity to our bodies. Now we are experiencing new diseases like osteoperosis and the like. So we really have woven ourselves into a trap. How do we ensure that our water is pure as well as being filled with these essential minerals and trace elements? It can be done and it is very easy to achieve actually, but this is another whole subject which I cover further on. Just for now I hope that I have given you some vital inside imformation that will help you to not be afraid to drink water as you now know there is something that can be done about it. Which one will you choose?
Warmly, Mike King
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