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There is a health crisis going on today right beneath your nose. You and nearly every person living in an industrialized country faces daily contact with thousands of dangerous materials both intentionally added and mistakenly found in food, water, air, cleaners, clothing detergents, metal fillings, prescription drugs and so on.
You may hear this list so often it's lost meaning. And don't forget pen
ink, broken light bulbs, old mercury thermometers that contain enough
to poison an entire lake for generations, paint from old houses, and so
on. The list is mind boggling. Toxins shown to cause cancer are everywhere. Now women have a 1 in 3 chance of contracting some form of cancer. Men have a 1 in 2 chance.
Mercury ("silver" fillings, coal production, vaccines), lead (paint)
and cadmium (batteries) are the three big ones many already know about.
Did you know that perchlorate (rocket fuel), chromium 6 (dyes,
pigments), arsenic (rat poison), and chlorine (added to tap water,
swimming pools) are commonly found in toxic water?
The picture is grim. Here is a snapshot:
WHAT'S ON TAP?
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US drinking water contains over 2100 toxic chemicals which are known to cause cancer.
Over 100,000 toxins are present within our environment.
There is a 1 in 3 chance that women (1 in 2 for men) will contract some form of cancer.
19 major U.S. cities have highly polluted drinking water.
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Source: Clean Water Action Project of 2002, the Ralph Nader Group |
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At the same time there is a water crisis
going on in the United States. Tap water is used for making food,
cleaning food, brewing coffee and tea, and so on. And even if you drink
bottled water, the problem is that most bottled water comes from tap water. Even if the water has been filtered, your food isn't. Deadly toxins known to cause cancer enter the food supply every single day.
19 CITIES IN WATER CRISIS
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Source: Natural Resources Defense Council
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The red ovals above are 13 of the 19 cities in water crisis.
BLUE- Water Quality and Compliance
GREY- Local Knowledge of Water Conditions
GREEN- Source Water That is Protected From Toxins
Main, Caustic Chemicals Found in Tap Water: Perchlorate (rocket fuel),
Chromium 6,
Arsenic (rat poison),
Chlorine (tap water, swimming pools)
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These contaminants are very dangerous. Here's why.
PERCHLORATE (Rocket Fuel)
Perchlorate
ingestion interferes with the iodine thyroid gland. Thyroid
disturbances can effect metabolic rate. And severe iodine deficiency in
pregnant women can result in neurological defects and goiters in
infants. Perchlorate can also cause ADD and lower IQ. Source: EnvironmentCalifornia.org, Cleanwateraction.org, and Awwa.org
CHROMIUM 6 (used for plating, dyes, pigments, leather tanning, wood preserving)
Chromium
6 has been found at 1,036 of the 1,591 National Priority List sites
identified by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). Chromium 6 Related Diseases include Liver Cancer,
Kidney Failure,
Respiratory Distress,
Circulatory Problems,
Gastrointestinal Ailments,
Reproductive Problems,
Brain and Major Organ Cancers.
"Erin
Brockovich," the famous Hollywood movie starring Julia Roberts,
popularized the caustic and lethal effects of Chromium 6. P.G. & E,
the company that is scrutinized in the film, were knowingly using
Chromium 6 in their facility even though they knew it was contaminating
the drinking water of the surrounding town. Source: Center for Disease Control and Univ of California Davis
THE FILM THAT MADE CHROMIUM 6 INFAMOUS
ARSENIC (wood preservative, rat poison, glass, alloys)
Ailments include Bladder, Lung, Skin, Kidney, and Liver Cancers
Causes damage to Central and Peripheral Nervous Systems, Heart and Blood Vessel Damage
Causes Serious Skin Problems, Birth Defects and Reproductive Problems
Recently Judged to Be Unsafe At Any Level in Drinking Water
Still Found In Drinking Water 22 Million American Homes
The statistics below are based on best estimate of average arsenic levels for systems that found arsenic. Systems with all non-detects excluded. That means when there's no sensor level, it isn't listed.
Source: National Safety Council
ARSENIC LEVELS FOR 25 STATES
WETTER WATER. IS IT MIRACLE WATER?
As
these toxic dangers mount, scientific and medical researchers have been
seeking and studying miracle healing waters for decades. High elevation
regions such as the Hunza in Pakistan, Villacabamba in Ecuador,
Badenbaden in Germany, and others have been reputed to have healing
waters for many generations. The fact is people who live in these
regions and drink the water are known to live long, healthy, active
lives well over 100 years of age. For ages, man has made pilgrimages to
these remote regions in order to drink their "healing waters."
For
over three decades, Dr. Patrick Flanagan has studied the remote regions
of the world where centenarians live long, healthy, active lives. While the diets in these regions differed dramatically, Dr. Flanagan discovered the amazing fact that the drinking water in these regions was almost identical to that which came from frozen glaciers
that had melted. This water, known in some circles as "glacial milk,"
displays some very distinct physical differences from the water that
most of the civilized world is drinking.
The surface tension of glacial milk is much lower. We call this WETTER WATER. Why? Because this
water can be absorbed directly into the cells of the body with much
greater ease facilitating hydration, nutrient uptake and toxin removal.
We see examples of wetter water all the time, like when you add soap or
rubbing alcohol to water. The water moves faster and is more
"slippery." But you can't drink water with soap or rubbing alchohol in
it!
Wetter water has a lot of
benefits. Water wetter allows seriously harmful waste materials such as
heavy metals (mercury, cadmium, lead, etc.) to come out of cells more
easily. In remote regions there is much less pollution and you might
argue someone living there wouldn't need it. Unfortunatley in our
industrialized society, toxin removal from the body is more necessary
than ever. Toxins are everywhere in the home -- including the materials
used to make them! Tens of thousands of toxic chemicals have found
their way into the food supply since the 1940's. It may take decades
until the full effects on humans are known, but the mass extinction of
species in the plant and animal kingdoms is a clear indication
something very serious is happening.
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