Drinking Water Safety

Well, it is both good and bad. It’s good before entering our bodies. It’s bad after entering our bodies. Bill Thornington, the owner at Green Living Store explains it well:

Chlorine, it is good or bad? Well, that depends on where it is in our delivery system. What makes it a ‘good thing’ in our municipal water pipes is because it’s effective and it’s persistent. It’s a ‘bad thing’ when it’s in our household water.

The action of Chlorine is to oxidize compounds with which it contacts. The very reasons that Chlorine is used in water purification are the reasons we should remove it before we finally use it. It is an indiscriminate killer. It kills both good and bad bacteria. It will attach the hostile bacteria, the stains in your clothes, or the good bacteria in our bodies, Vitamins C and E, thyroid hormone, your skin and hair and many other compounds important to human life. Drinking Chlorine treated tap water upsets the natural and necessary bacterial balance in your intestines and is one of the factors involved in overgrowth of Candida.

Candida acts as a natural antibiotic and is a ‘good thing.’ It helps to control the growth of adverse bacteria and is also kept in check by these same bacteria, forming a balance in the intestines. Through the use of antibiotics, swimming, bathing in or drinking chlorinated water, the essential microorganisms in

the body are killed off, allowing a bloom or overgrowth of Candida, which is a ‘bad thing.’

Why do we use Chlorine in America? The chlorination of water supplies began early in the 20th century as a response to cholera and typhoid epidemics (water-borne pathogens) which were killing many people. It worked – people stopped dying of cholera and typhoid. Instead, they began developing cancers, arteriosclerosis, heart disease and other chronic degenerative diseases, years later.

Cholesterol-bearing foods took the rap, even though people had been eating them for centuries without these problems. Newer research is pointing directly at Chlorine that has been directly associated with Heart Disease, atherosclerosis, hardening of the arteries, plaque formation and cancer causing carcinogens like chloroform, which is formed in the chlorinated steam of your bathroom shower.

Americans are just beginning to become aware of the importance of removing chlorine from drinking water, but little is said about removing it from bathing water. During the 1984 Olympics in Los Angeles, the European Olympic Committee refused to compete in the Olympic pool until the chlorine was removed and an alternate purification method was installed.

Every time you step into a hot, steamy shower, the pores of your skin open. Your body acts as a giant sponge and absorbs Chlorine and chloroform. Chloroform is also known as trichloromethane, methane chloride, or methyltrichloride. Likewise, the steam and mist created by the hot shower including chloroform is inhaled and deposited in your lungs and blood stream. Many health officials and biochemists believe that Chlorine is so dangerous that if it were proposed today for the first time, that it would be banned by the FDA.

In humans, chloroform affects the central nervous system (brain), liver, and kidneys. Chloroform was used as an anesthetic during surgery for many years before its harmful effects on the liver and kidneys were recognized. Results of studies of people who drank chlorinated water showed a possible link between the chloroform in chlorinated water and the occurrence of cancer of the colon and bladder. Cancer of the liver and kidneys developed in rats and mice that ate food or drank water for a long time that had large amounts of chloroform in it.

The key to good health is good water.

The human body is designed to run on water. Every life giving and healing process that happens inside our body – happens with water. So many common ailments and illnesses can be prevented and possibly even cured with an increased intake of healthy water. Headaches, hypertension, back pain, arthritis, ulcers, asthma, morning sickness and fatigue, to name a few. An investment in a Chlorine trap filter on your shower, tap water or a whole house system will instantly yield results in softer hair and skin, and will stop the daily attack on your body by chlorine and chloroform.