Fluoride has been added to municipal water for 55 years because some children might benefit if they had problems with tooth decay. Now we know that fluoride is a major neurotoxin and many municipal water treatment plants are removing it.
Research shows that the pineal gland is a major point of accumulation of fluoride in the body. The pineal is known to have a major role in the onset of puberty and reproduction and in the production of the hormone melatonin. And recent research indicates that the pineal plays a role in calcium metabolism, parathyroid function and susceptibility to postmenopausal osteoporosis, cancer, psychiatric diseases and to the process of aging.
Major source of fluoride include:
- Drinking water
- Bones in ground meats
- Skins of fish
- Processed foods
- Bottled drinks
Restrict your intake of these foods and purchase the right kind of water filter to reduce fluoride to safe levels
Chlorine has long been the chemical of choice for water saftey. Who doesn’t remember swimming in a chlorinated pool or drinking water with that funny chlorine smell? The fact is that it has saved many lives… but there is a negative side. There are secondary problems created when the chlorine actually kills those nasty little organic germs in the water. They are known as disinfection-by-products (DBPs), and they are potent carcinogens… and that’s a very bad thing.
So, the EPA has established some new standards that have required water treatment plants to either retool (a very expensive solution) or revise. The option being chosen is to replace chlorine with chloramine, which is a combination of chlorine and ammonia. Well, have you ever noticed the labels on bleach and ammonia? Well that’s because the chloramines created are a toxic nerve gas. Can you believe they really put this stuff in our water?
There are few studies about the effects of chloramine and no studies about the long term effects. Can you believe they so carelessly put this stuff in our water?
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Water is one of the best solvents on good old planet earth. That means that lots and lots of things easily dissolve in it… and that means that there is no such thing as natural pure water. In other words, pure H2O doesn’t exist naturally. Even typical home distillers don’t remove 100% of the things dissolved in water. It’s important to understand that basic science fact because some of the things dissolved in water are good for you and some of the things are not.
The issue is not to have pure water. The real issue is that the water be safe. The water you drink, cook with, and bathe in should be free of the things that can make you sick, cause cancer, cause birth defects, etc. Whatever you rely on to provide you, your family, or your business with safe water must reduce all unsafe contaminants to safe levels.
That’s why it’s important to know what the unsafe contaminants are, what safe levels of those contaminants are (not necessarily EPA standards), and what various water filtration devices actually do. For example, some popular water filters reduce cyst contamination by 95% or even 99%, but the real safe level is that it be reduced by 99.9999999%. There is no point in buying filters that don’t result in safe water.
All Natural Sources of Water Are Contaminated.
That’s a bold statement, but water is an incredibly powerful solvent and lots of different things get dissolved in it. In nature, there is no such thing as “pure” water. Something is always dissolved in it. So, the issue is not “pure” water, but “safe” water. There is actually safe and unsafe contamination. Unsafe contamination over extended periods of time leads to serious health risks including cancer, nervous system disorders, liver and kidney damage, reduced immune system function, and even birth defects.
The sources of unsafe contamination include, but are not limited to:
- acid rain
- storm water runoff
- pesticide runoff
- industrial waste
- minerals like arsenic
- bacteria, molds, and cysts
- drug residues
- agricultural runoff
- leaking septic systems and sewage pipes
- petrochemicals
More information about water contaminants is available in the articles library at www.thebestwaterfiltration.com
Water filters really have become the rage. The question is how does the average consumer know which water filters to buy? A few of the options for consumers include, but are not limited to the following.
- Pitcher-type filters
- Faucet add-on filters
- Water distillation systems
- Sediment filters
- Reverse osmosis filters
- Ionizing filters
- Point of use filters
- Shower filters
- Whole house filters
The list goes on… and it’s really difficult to know what the right thing to do is because there are so many conflicting claims among filter and filtration system manufacturers. Each one claims that they are better than the rest, but the truth is that there are major differences. In order to make an effective decision you need to know the following.
- What all the possible contaminants of water are.
- The condition of your water and the contaminants in your water.
- The acceptable level of each type of contaminant in safe water.
- The types of contaminants each model of water filter or water filtration system treats.
- The effectiveness of each filter in treating each type of contaminant.
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