Drinking Water - by Bill Sardi

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Drinking Water - by Bill Sardi JoAnn Guest Sep 17, 2005 11:31 PDT

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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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JoAnn Guest

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AIM Barleygreen

" Wisdom of the Past, Food of the Future "

 

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