Our bodies are composed of about two-thirds water, and water is the most precious commodity we have on earth along with air. Both pure water and air are vital to our health and well-being.
How safe is our water and what is in it? Unfortunately, most of us get our water from
Local health authorities, not many of us have access to spring water to drink. How does our body cope with the additives in the water that it does not need. Local authorities routinely add a mineral to water a common one is fluorine that is supposed to reduce tooth decay. Fluoridation of water is still in some areas a contentious issue some areas recommend that it is not given to babies. Until fairly recently a number of houses had lead or other metal taps which contaminated the water. Aluminium is routinely added to drinking water as it is supposed to remove organic materials.
Drinking water containing harmful substances can damage our health, unfortunately there is no clear guidelines exactly what is harmful and why. Tap water may contain toxins, heavy metals, pesticides, bacteria, and other microbes. Drinking bottled and filtered water is an option to avoiding tap water. However, there is not a one-stop solution to pure water, anymore than there is a one stop single cause of acne. It is question of deciding what is right for you.
Bottled water has become big business in the last thirty years but there is no regulation anywhere that says it has to be of a different quality than tap water. It is estimated globally that between twenty-five and thirty percent of all bottled water is in fact tap water. The USA has a legal requirement that bottled water has to be as safe as tap water.
Not only have you no guarantee that the water content is pure but also when you buy bottled water there may be a few toxins that you have not bargained for. Water is heavy and to cut distribution costs, that is transport cost it is stored more often than not in plastic. Plastic had allsorts of contaminants that can easily leach into the water, and they are very damaging to the body. The warmer the plastic has been the more danger there is of the plastic leaching into the water. It is safer to store the water in the refrigerator. However, you have no idea how and where that water has been stored before it gets to you.
There are several types of filters including are filtration pitchers, carbon filters within the tap, home filtration systems, reverse osmosis systems and distillation.
Ninety five percent of domestic water filters are of this type The carbon is derived from husk the of the coconut plant, which absorbs impurities as the water passes through. This form of filter comprises possibly 95% of those in use domestically. They will filter out the most deadly of contaminants, Cryptosporidium and Guardia and remove the majority of the chlorine and lead. They do not have must affect on the toxins in water. The other pro factor for this type of is that the good minerals remain in the water.
These are extremely effective at removing everything; unfortunately, what it says on the tin is correct it removes everything, the good and the bad. Drinking distilled water can also make your body acidic (it should be alkaline) because it is capable of absorbing the carbon dioxide within the body and this makes the cells acidic. Long term use of distilled water is damaging to health.
This type of water filter was developed historically to purify seawater so that sailors in submarines had drinking water.
Distilled and reverse-osmosis filters result in the purest water per se but they have the same drawbacks the resulting water is acidic. Dissolved minerals in the water are more vital than pure water, and if you remove them then they cannot support the body's immune system and metabolism.
Alkalizing filters are beneficial because our bodies thrive in an alkaline environment and this allows our bodies to detoxify more efficiently than in an acidic environment. Drinking alkaline water can help bring your tissue back to an alkaline state your in.
This type of water system does to water what a catalytic converter does to a car, it converts the water and in doing so they do not remove the heavy metals, pollutants, viruses and the chlorine that was present in the water, but they break them down so that they do less damage.
A Quantum Leap has occurred with the work of Viktor Schauberger, an Austrian who isolated the fact that water has a memory and that memory can be altered. If water passes through a magnetic field, the ions in the water are rearranged, so that H2O becomes OH and HO. When this change occurs, the minerals in the water undergo a polarisation of minerals, which in effect makes it softer and may increase the oxidation affect. However once the water has been changed it does have to be drunk immediately to have any health benefit, if left it returns to H2O.
