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"Simple tasks such as buying a water filter for your drinking water and replacing your cleaning products with all-natural ones can make an enormous difference in your body's toxic load. The Pulse • Buy a water filter for your drinking water and switch your household products to more body-friendly ones. O Do 35 minutes of restorative exercise. If you can, do it outside. O Continue adding probiotics to your morning smoothie or taking them with it. O Continue taking a multivitamin and an adaptogenic formula. • Continue playing with your rhythm of eating." - Frank Lipman, Mollie Doyle, Spent: Revive: Stop Feeling Spent and Feel Great Again (Get the book.)

"Even when dairy products are homogenized and pasteurized, it clogs arteries, but drinking water is the real point here. A person with a 200-cholesterol count can die of artery blockage, whereas another guy who has 400-cholesterol count and who does not have the proper nutrition, doesn't have a heart attack because he drinks reverse osmosis drinking water. It's a falsity that the cholesterol gives you a heart attack. It doesn't. If one has scarred arteries and 100-cholesterol count, the arteries are going to clog." - Kenneth W Thomas, Ron Gilbert, Gerd Schaller, Side Effects: The Hidden Agenda of the Pharmaceutical Drug Cartel (Get the book.) "What do you have to say about the drinking water these days? " Kevin L. Snead: "The most important thing is to drink a lot of good water and not the filtered water or cleaned with reverse osmosis125. That is just junk. And tap water is 125 Reverse osmosis: a process used to purify the drinking water totally junk. Even when they say they clean up the water, it is definitely not clean. It has all that chlorine in it that clogs our arteries causing heart problems in the end for the older population. That is not clean." - Kenneth W Thomas, Ron Gilbert, Gerd Schaller, Side Effects: The Hidden Agenda of the Pharmaceutical Drug Cartel (Get the book.)

"The Safe drinking water Act The Safe drinking water Act (sdwa, 1974) sets safe levels for toxic substances in drinking water. For general information, contact the epa Safe drinking water Hotline at 800/426-4791 (9:00-5:30 est, Mon.-Fri.). For specific information on the Contaminant Candidate List and the contaminant identification process, contact the U.S. epa, Office of Ground Water and drinking water, Mailcode 4607, Washington, DC 20460; phone 202/260-3029; fax 202/260-3762; or E-mail Washington.evelyn@epamail. epa.gov." - D. Lindsey Berkson, Hormone Deception (Get the book.)

"Aluminum in drinking water has been associated with an increased risk of the illness. The American Journal of Epidemiology reported results of a study in which researchers investigated the effects of aluminum and silica in drinking water. The researchers' findings support the hypothesis that drinking water with high concentrations of aluminum increase Alzheimer's disease risk. This is not conclusive proof, but it raises enough suspicion to encourage you to avoid impure drinking water and other potential sources of heavy metals." - Holly Lucille, Creating and Maintaining Balance: A Woman's Guide to Safe Natural Hormone Health (Get the book.)

"So get an inexpensive filter for your drinking water, as well as the water you use for bathing and cooking. As much as possible, try to cut back on your bottled-water habit. Manufacturing these bottles consumes tremendous quantities of petroleum, and more than three-quarters of the 70 million bottles of water we purchase every day in this country go straight to the landfill, where they generate dangerous fumes. Filtering your own water at home is much better for the environment." - Deirdre Imus, Growing Up Green: Baby and Child Care: Volume 2 in the Bestselling Green This! Series (Green This!) (Get the book.)

"Chlorine Chlorine is the primary disinfectant used to purify drinking water. Let me make it absolutely clear that I am not advocating eliminating chlorine from the purification process. That would be stupid. Chlorination controls many water-borne diseases, including typhoid fever, cholera, and dysentery. When chlorination was stopped in Peru, for instance, there was a cholera epidemic of 300,000 cases. However, it should be understood that: • Chlorine is one of the most toxic substances known." - Jon Barron, Lessons from The Miracle Doctors: A Step-by-Step Guide to Optimum Health and Relief from Catastrophic Illness (Get the book.)

"There is chlorine in our drinking water, in our showers, in our swimming pools, and in the water used to irrigate our crops. It is highly recommended that you use a water purification system not only on your drinking water tap, but for the whole house, and if out to eat, avoid drinking restaurant tap water. Were chlorine and fluoride the only chemicals we had to worry about, that would be bad enough." - Craig Pepin-Donat, The Big Fat Health and Fitness Lie (Get the book.)

"According to some experts, this is exactly what is happening: Municipal drinking water supplies have tested positive for agricultural runoff. drinking water that contains pesticides will obviously have an adverse effect on our immune system and health. As destructive and prevalent as uncomplementary stress is, its positive aspect is that we have control over it. Understand it and take steps to eliminate it, with the Thrive Diet as your guide. complementary stress I call the right amount of stress to stimulate renewal and instigate growth within the body complementary stress." - Brendan Brazier, The Thrive Diet: The Whole Food Way to Lose Weight, Reduce Stress, and Stay Healthy for Life (Get the book.)

"TCE is regularly detected in breast milk, and 10 percent of Americans now have detectable levels of TCE in their blood, from exposure through drinking water as well as breathing it in from the air around us. One of our most significant contacts, however, comes from taking showers. Exposure from breathing TCE released when shower water converts into shower steam is even higher, say experts, than what we get through drinking tap water or breathing TCE." - Donna Jackson Nakazawa, The Autoimmune Epidemic (Get the book.)

"The breakdown of the poorest and most directly exposed regions creates a global security threat: • Epidemics of infectious diseases spread over Africa, Asia, and the Americas owing to heat waves, outbreaks of agricultural pests, and contaminated drinking water. • The waves of migration to relatively well-off regions overload the local resource base and create conflict with the established populations. • Terrorist groups, nuclear proliferators, narco-traffickers, and organized crime form alliances with unscrupulous entrepreneurs and expand the scale and scope of their activities." - Ervin Laszlo, Quantum Shift in the Global Brain: How the New Scientific Reality Can Change Us and Our World (Get the book.)

"The reasoning was thus: the area was restricted from public use, and the localized contaminated groundwater did not affect public drinking-water supplies since drinking water in the area came from public water storage sources. Cleaning it up was not a priority. A decade later, in 1995, the same year that LaShekia Chat-man, who lived amid this constellation of contaminated locales, was diagnosed with lupus, the DEC finally began full remediation at the East Delavan site two blocks away from her home. Much of the TCE- and PCB-contaminated soil was turned up and excavated from the facility." - Donna Jackson Nakazawa, The Autoimmune Epidemic (Get the book.) "First, they gave the mice drinking water that contained a fairly high dose of TCE. The dose was, in fact, about double what a worker in a dry cleaners or tannery might be "safely" exposed to under standards set by both EPA and Occupational Safety and Health Administration standards. For four weeks Gilbert and Pumford monitored the mice. "We had no idea what kind of immune-system alteration we might see," says Gilbert. So they did a whole battery of tests to look at what was happening with some of the cells in the mice that would tell them if there was, indeed, an autoimmune reaction." - Donna Jackson Nakazawa, The Autoimmune Epidemic (Get the book.)

"When we ask representatives of our government to establish safe levels of bacteria in our drinking water, they do not select a level at which a substantial proportion of the population will contract cholera and dysentery; instead, they set a level that guarantees none of us will be infected. The case is similar with official standards for other contaminants. We do not choose a level at which 20 percent of our children will develop lead-induced brain disease from lead in the water. We choose a level that ensures the safety of everyone." - Caldwell B. Esselstyn, Jr., M.D., Prevent and Reverse Heart Disease (Get the book.)

"Traces of Prozac and Valium were also reported to have been found in Lake Mead, the Nevada reservoir that supplies drinking water to Los Angeles and Phoenix.92 (One wonders if this extra supply of antidepressants explains why the citizens of those cities have a reputation for being particularly laid-back and mellow.) It's a situation that would have made the late physician-novelist Walker Percy very unhappy. Well, actually, proud and unhappy." - Charles Barber, Comfortably Numb: How Psychiatry Is Medicating a Nation (Get the book.)

"In an effort to improve children's health, the EPA has targeted a wide range of environmental threats, including indoor air quality (from building materials, toxins used in chemical cleaners); outdoor air pollution (from vehicle emissions, secondhand tobacco smoke, dry-cleaning fluids); pesticide use (both at home and in schools); and lead (in paint, drinking water, and toys). Scientists are beginning to link these and certain other common exposures—like heavy metals, pesticides, dioxins, flame retardants, and PCBs—to different health problems." - Deirdre Imus, Growing Up Green: Baby and Child Care: Volume 2 in the Bestselling Green This! Series (Green This!) (Get the book.)

"Calcium and magnesium in drinking water and risk of death from hypertension. Am. J. Hypertens. 12(9), 894-899. 105. Joffres, M. R., Reed, D. M., and Yano, K. (1987). Relationship of magnesium intake and other dietary factors to blood pressure: the Honolulu heart study. Am. J. Clin. Nutr. 45, 469^175. 106. Ascherio, A., et al. (1992). A prospective study of nutritional factors and hypertension among U.S. men. Circulation 86, 1475-1484. 107. Witteman, J. C. M., et al. (1989). A prospective study of nutritional factors and hypertension among U.S. women. Circulation 80, 1320-1327. 108. Song, Y." - Ann M. Coulston and Carol J. Boushey, Nutrition in the Prevention and Treatment of Disease (Get the book.)

"Even after the building of the Aswan High Dam in the 1960s, several years of high flood gave way to panic in 1987, when water levels in Lake Nasser behind the dam wall fell so low that Egyptians feared a loss of drinking water and electric power. The fragmentary record of Old Kingdom flood levels, from ancient lake levels in the Fayum Depression west of the Nile and from pharaonic sources, tells us that Nile floods were exceptionally high just as Egypt became a unified state in about 3000 B.C." - Brian Fagan, Floods, Famines, and Emperors: El Nino and the Fate of Civilizations (Get the book.) "Most ancient Mayans obtained drinking water from circular sinkholes in the limestone, from swampy depressions, or from bottle-shaped cisterns with plastered rims that caught water during the wet season. Irregular rainfall plagued Maya farmers. A dense forest once mantled the southern lowlands, where some of the greatest Maya cities flourished. Mahogany trees towered as high as forty-five meters above the ground, interspersed with sapodillas (now a source of chewing gum) and breadnuts. Abundant avocado and other fruit trees grew in the lower and middle layers of the forest." - Brian Fagan, Floods, Famines, and Emperors: El Nino and the Fate of Civilizations (Get the book.)

"Reductions in environmental lead exposure in the United States since the 1980s, through controls on gasoline emissions and pipes that supply drinking water, could reduce the potential impact of lead to cataract development. The extent to which lead might contribute to cataract, worldwide, is unknown. Lead exposures early in life can accumulate in bones. As bones thin with age, they not only release calcium but also other stored minerals like lead. Therefore, if lifetime lead accumulation is high, anything that increases osteoporosis could increase lead exposure." - Ann M. Coulston and Carol J. Boushey, Nutrition in the Prevention and Treatment of Disease (Get the book.)

"Some scientists estimate that approximately 560,000 people each year become sick from contaminated drinking water, and kids drink more water per pound of body weight than adults, so they're at an even higher risk. Make filtering your water a priority. If you have the money, I recommend installing an under-the-counter reverse osmosis system, which eliminates not only the chlorine but also the other toxins present in the water system." - Deirdre Imus, Growing Up Green: Baby and Child Care: Volume 2 in the Bestselling Green This! Series (Green This!) (Get the book.)

"The Doubles of Ani and His Wife drinking water in the Other World and then we come to the great culmination—the "Chapter of Coming Forth by Day in the Underworld," wherein the soul and the universal being are known to be one: "I am Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow, and I have the power to be born a second time; I am the divine hidden Soul who createth the gods, and who giv-eth sepulchral meals unto the denizens of the Underworld of Amentet and of Heaven. I am the rudder of the east, the possessor of two divine faces wherein his beams are seen." - Joseph Campbell, The Hero with a Thousand Faces Joseph Campbell (Get the book.) "There follow the "Chapter of not Letting the Soul of a Man be taken from him in the Underworld" and the "Chapter of drinking water in the Underworld and of not being Burnt by Fire," Fig. 21." - Joseph Campbell, The Hero with a Thousand Faces Joseph Campbell (Get the book.)

"Magnetizing your drinking water breaks its surface tension, making it wetter and more useable by your body. In addition, there's a strong secondary benefit. Applying a magnetic field to water raises its pH. This is of vital importance as we will see chapter 13. General Recommendations • You need to treat the water that comes into your house to remove the chlorine, fluoride, chemical residues, heavy metals, bacteria, parasites, etc. in your water. And you need to remove all of these toxins not only at the tap where you drink, but also where you bathe and shower. So how do you do it?" - Jon Barron, Lessons from The Miracle Doctors: A Step-by-Step Guide to Optimum Health and Relief from Catastrophic Illness (Get the book.) "Fluoride At the risk of being accused of being a Luddite, let's take a look at the use of fluoride in our drinking water. Exactly what is water fluoridation? In fact, all watet contains some fluoride. Fluoridation is the process of adjusting the level of fluotide in the water supply to theoretically protect against tooth decay. This concentration varies from 0.7 to 1.2 parts per million (ppm). While it is true that "organic" fluoride itself is present natutally in soil, water, plants and many foods,' the "industrial" fluotide used in water fluoridation is a toxic waste product." - Jon Barron, Lessons from The Miracle Doctors: A Step-by-Step Guide to Optimum Health and Relief from Catastrophic Illness (Get the book.)

"Because drinking water was viewed as unsafe, fruit booze was what everyone drank. Sir John Fontescue has pointed out that the English were always drunk; they drank no water, except for religious purposes. As U. R Hendrick wrote, "fruit growing in America had its beginning and for two hundred years had almost its whole sustenance in the demand for stirring drink." Historians have long noted that it was a radical shift for Americans to begin eating their fruit rather than drinking it. Only among the affluent were high-quality fresh fruits appreciated." - Adam Leith Gollne, The Fruit Hunters: A Story of Nature, Adventure, Commerce and Obsession (Get the book.)

"These are all examples of points of exposure: a playground with contaminated dirt, a contaminated spring used for drinking water, contaminated soil where fruits or vegetables are grown, or an apartment overlooking a large bus station. Population: A group of people living in a certain area, or the number of people in a certain area or group. Receptor population: People who live or work in the path of one or more chemicals and who could come into contact with them. (See also Exposure pathway." - Deirdre Imus, Growing Up Green: Baby and Child Care: Volume 2 in the Bestselling Green This! Series (Green This!) (Get the book.)

"He says to avoid or eliminate any sources of aluminum exposure: aluminum cookware, utensils, or foil; underarm deodorants; drinking water and any juices or drinks packaged in aluminum-lined cartons. Cut out those vitamins as well as bottled water packaged in bottles with aluminum across the top. Dr. Hodes suggests a brain and body detoxification program, which should include a supervised fast. "Now don't attempt to detoxify on your own," he warns. " - Gary Null and Amy McDonald, The Food-Mood Connection: Nutrition-based and Environmental Approaches to Mental Health and Physical Wellbeing (Get the book.)

"Arsenic Arsenic is present worldwide in drinking water, and there have been documented cases of industrial pollution in several countries. In children, arsenic poisoning can lead to mental retardation, emotional disturbances, and in some cases death, while ingestion of arsenic-contaminated water has long been recognized to cause peripheral neuropathy in adults? damage to the nerves of the peripheral nervous system." - Peter J. Whitehouse and Daniel George, The Myth of Alzheimer's: What You Aren't Being Told About Today's Most Dreaded Diagnosis (Get the book.) "Today exposure to lead—whether it be in drinking water, in paint, in contaminated dust, or in soil—poses a significant health risk to the neurological development of young children and adults, although adults are more resistant to the effects of poisoning. Lead, a heavy metal, is most toxic to children under six years old, because it is easily absorbed into developing bodies, where it interferes with the growth of the brain and other organs and systems." - Peter J. Whitehouse and Daniel George, The Myth of Alzheimer's: What You Aren't Being Told About Today's Most Dreaded Diagnosis (Get the book.)

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