We all use it every day--from the baby's first cry to the old man's last breath. Water! The one element you need the most and suspect the least. If this shocks you, do not be surprised, as millions of Americans are still unaware of this "aging process," and indulge in it freely. Multitudes suffer from all the above diseases, and unknowingly contribute to this cause daily. Somehow the shots, pills, vitamin capsules and balanced diets add only brief spurts to well-being.
All Water Is Not The Same
Ther are at least nine different kinds of water. Some kinds can harden your arteries, form gall stones and kidney stones, bring on early senility, and all the diseases I mentioned earlier. Other kinds of water carries into the system, the other carries out. Let me classify these nine kinds of water. They are-hard water, raw water, boiled water, soft water, rain water, snow water, filtered water, de-ionized water and distilled water. Hard water is water containing excessive lime salts, that is, carbonates and sulfates of calcium and magnesium. Sodium, iron, copper, silicon, nitrates, chlorides, viruses, bacteria, chemicals and many other harmful inorganic minerials and chemicals may also be present. Most all the water we drink comes from public water systems or wells. Any water that has run through, or over ground is hard water to some degree. The longer it filters through the soil, the harder it gets and the more harmful it may become for you. Some cities take water from rivers and lakes or mountain reservoirs. They call it soft water. But soft water from such sources is soft only in comparison to water which is harder. I recall that each year the earth's rivers carry to the sea five billion tons of dissolved minerials and other unnumbered millions of tons of carbon compounds and factory pollutants. "And ocean life is on the decrease," according to Jacques Cousteau.
A False Type Of Water
There are also the hard waters which are called "mineral waters"--that is, waters fromcertain mineral springs--well known for teir medicinal effects. Practically all kinds of "bottled" water is hard water. The reason mineral waters have this so-called medicinal effect is because the body tries to throw off the excess minerals which invade it as intruding foreign deposits. Actually, a form of dysentery exits, as the organism tries to eliminate and expel this unusual condition. To subsist on this type of water could be detrimental. Raw wateris water which has not been treated in any way. Raw water contains millions of viruses and bacteria and is densely inhabited in every drop. True, properly chlorinated water kills most germs and viruses, but it can also kill cells in our bodies. The only safe rule to follow individually is to distill drinking water.
Boiled Water Is Not The Answer
Boiled water is advised by some health authorities. Boiling removes none of the inorganic minerials, although it does kill the bacteria in raw water if boiled at least 20 minutes. But the dead bodies of these germs are carried into the system when the boiled water is used. Such dead materials furnish a fertilized soil for rapid and lusty propagation of germs already in the body. By drinking boiled water one may avoid live disease germs, but still takes on bacterial soil for the growth of other bacteria. While raw water is an aquarium filled with deadly microorganisms, boiled water is a graveyard of dead germs.
The Impurity Of Rain Water
Rain water, which has been distilled by the heat of the sun, should contain no mineral matter and no germs. But when it falls from the clouds as rain, it falls through air filled with bacteria, dust, smoke, chemicals, mud and minerals. By the time it reaches the earth as rain water it is so saturated with decaying matter, dirt and chemicals that its color becomes a yellowish-white. If rain water is allowed to stand it becomes filthy because of the rotting animal matter in it. I discuss it only because some "nature faddists" are so ignorant that they advise the use of rain water on the basis that it is "natural"
Snow Is Unclean
Snow water is melted snow. It, too, picks up minerals, chemicals and radioactive fallout such as Strontium 90. Snow is frozen rain. Freezing does not destroy bacteria. Snow looks white and clean, but it contains as many germs, minerials and pollutants as rain water. Remember the dirt left form melting snow in the spring? How the dirt of what has melted! Try melting the cleanest snow, then note the filth in the water. Each snowflake contains some form of air pollution.
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by: Dr. Allen E. Banik
Everyone needs to know the truth about water and the safe and unsafe ways to consume it.