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Healthy Water... The #1 Ingredient For Healthful Longevity
Charles Strand, Water Quality Specialist
The importance of “healthy water” and the location of that water may very well be the most beneficial health information we can learn. The simple fact that our body is over 70% water tells us how extremely important water quality is. Without an abundant intake of healthy, chemical free water, every other wellness effort is, to a large degree, in vain.
While every health and wellness expert will agree on the importance of “healthy water”, most have different opinions on its definition and source. The fact is that “healthy water” is no longer a matter of opinion. There is now enough credible scientific data on the subject for a logical and reasonable conclusion. The healthiest water does not come from your tap, in a bottle, or from distillation or reverse osmosis… it comes from “selective filtration”. All tap water in America contains trace levels of synthetic chemicals, heavy metals, parasites, and/or chlorination byproducts that pose significant health risks. We can either filter out these poisons prior to consumption, or we can force our body to become the filter.
Many water consumers have switched to bottled water under the false assumption that it is purer and better than tap water. The truth is that bottled water is only required to be “as good as” tap… not better. Also, the federal guidelines that govern bottled water quality only apply if it is transported across state lines. Most bottled water is bottled and sold within the same state in order to avoid regulation. It is an industry built on deception. Bottled water is currently the fastest growing and most profitable segment of the entire beverage industry.
"Companies that market bottled water as being safer than tap water are defrauding the American public." U.S. FDA
The old school of thought was that water treated with distillation or reverse osmosis was the healthiest. This belief is now known to be untrue, as well. Both of these methods were designed over 40 years ago for industrial purposes, as they are “de-mineralizing” processes. Once you strip the trace minerals from water, the pH drops and the water becomes aggressive or acidic. Water by nature will always seek to balance its pH. If we consume de-mineralized water, that water will pull minerals from our body, primarily calcium, to seek balance.
There are several very credible research reports and books that stress the more recent opinion that long-term consumption of de-mineralized water can in fact be dangerous. Dr. Zolton Rona‚ author of The Joy of Health‚ states, "The longer one consumes distilled water‚ the more likely the development of mineral deficiencies and an acid state." Dr. Paavo Airola‚ cancer expert and author of How to Get Well and Cancer... Causes‚ Prevention and Healing, also reports, "Long-term consumption of distilled water eventually results in multiple mineral deficiencies."
Home water filtration is no longer a luxury… it is a necessity!
The most recent and most effective technologies for truly healthy water are “selective filtration” systems that can distinguish between contaminants and trace minerals. Not only are they the most convenient and the most economical; they also produce the best tasting water.
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