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Americans are living in a new age of health consciousness.
There is hardly anyone that is not taking a variety of nutritional
supplements or trying a new diet or home exercise machine
to make them look better, lose weight or achieve optimum health.
This expanded health consciousness has lead to an unprecedented
pursuit of natural or holistic approaches even within the
established medical community. It is no wonder that American’s
spend more than $30 billion a year on nutritional supplements,
herbs, homeopathic medications and the like. Today, tens of
thousands of physicians, chiropractors and health practitioners
are even including such supplements in their practices. It
is becoming more common every day to have a patient leave
the doctor’s office with a nutritional formulation in
hand as part of a particular health therapy. Unfortunately,
despite the new openness within the medical community to explore
the benefits of nutritional and natural remedies, most practitioners
overlook or underemphasize the single most important element
of any health program…water. No matter what the specific
health or fitness goal, one cannot achieve the maximum benefit
from any health program without drinking the right kind of
water in the proper amount. All experts agree, that next to
the air we breathe, water is the most important thing we will
ever put in our bodies. It is surprising that so much time
and money is being spent on supplements, organic foods and
natural remedies (some of which are very subtle and delicate)
but little attention is given to the quality and effect of
the water with which those items are taken.
One of the reasons for this is that Americans pride themselves
in having very high quality water from every tap and assume
that all water is the same. A thorough study of water in America
and the world in general tells a different story. A few well-placed
hours on the Internet show that
 the world is in an unprecedented
water quality crisis as well as water shortage. Depending
on what part of the country one lives in, it is easy to find
trace amounts of nitrates, pesticides, heavy metals, radioactive
compounds, petrochemicals and parasites coming from the local
municipal water supply. The toxins and free radicals in these
waters are made significantly more toxic to humans by the
addition of chlorine -- a compound mandated by the public
health department. The Environmental Protection Agency now
reports that individuals who drink and bath in chlorinated
surface waters (i.e., water from lakes, rivers and shallow
wells) have a 50% greater likelihood of getting cancer in
their lifetime.[1] [2] Most
consumers are surprised to learn that one can absorb up to
600% more contaminants in your body in a ten-minute shower
than in all the water consumed in a day.[3]
In January 2000, Sixty Minutes, the investigative TV program,
reported that as many as 100 million Americans were drinking
water contaminated with MTBE, a gasoline additive that has
been leaching into our water supplies since 1992. MTBE is
believed to cause cancer in concentrations as low as 10 p arts
per billion and unfortunately local water companies are helpless
to remove it. Because of such contaminants, two out of every
five households now have a water filter or drink bottled water,
as will be discussed later, with no assurance of safety. The
problem is that the average consumer and even most medical
professionals do not know what is the best way to treat water
or the best source of water to drink.
As indicated above, failure to heed what type of water one
drinks can negate or diminish the benefit of whatever supplements
or health protocol is being followed. However, there is a significant difference between
water purification systems and the type of water they produce.
Depending on the type of system one uses and the way one drinks,
it can positively or negatively affect one’s health.
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[1] “Cancer Incidence and Trihalomethane
Concentrations in the Public Drinking Water System”,
George L. Carlo. American Journal of Public health, Vol. 74,
No. 5, 1984, pp. 479-484.
[2] “Organic Chemical Contaminants in
Drinking Water and Cancer”, American Journal of Epidemiology,
Vo. 110, 1979, p.420.
[3] “Showers Pose a Risk to Health”,
Ian Anderson, New Scientist, 9/18/86.
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