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WHAT KIND OF WATER ARE YOU
DRINKING?
TAP? (recycled
toilet water)
Is Your Water Even Safe to
Drink?
More than 240 million
Americans use water from contaminated public water systems
every day, according to the Natural Resources Defense Council
(NRDC). The Centers for Disease Control (CDC) estimates
that almost 1 million people in America fall ill
annually from water contaminated with harmful
microorganisms and about 900 die from drinking contaminated
water.
According to Environmental Working Group,
since 2004, testing by water utilities has found 315
pollutants in the tap water Americans drink,
according to an Environmental Working Group (EWG) drinking
water quality analysis of almost 20 million records obtained
from state water officials.
More than half of the chemicals
detected are not subject to health or safety
regulations and can legally be present in any amount.
The federal government does have health guidelines for others,
but 49 of these contaminants have been found in one place or
another at levels above those guidelines, polluting the tap
water for 53.6 million Americans. The government has not set a
single new drinking water standard since
2001.
Physicians
for Social Responsibility reports that over 75,000
toxic synthetic and chemical compounds can be identified in
this country's water sources, though only a fraction
of them are targeted for regulation.
The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)
recently documented approximately 83,000 violations of
water quality standards by municipal water systems,
featuring over 21,000 contaminants, organic and inorganic,
over the past 30 years, almost 200 of them already proven to
be linked with adverse health effects.
This doesn't even take
into account the known
chemicals of chlorine and fluoride that is
put into the water on purpose that have serious
adverse health affects.
If you are not convinced about the dangers
of chlorine in your tap water, here's an extract from: Dr.
Zoltan P. Rona MD MSc:
"Most people never give it a thought.
After all, our elected public officials keep assuring us that
chlorinated city tap water is completely safe for human
consumption. Numerous scientific studies report that
chlorinated tap water is a skin irritant and can be associated
with rashes like eczema.
Chlorinated water can destroy
polyunsaturated fatty acids and vitamin E in the body while
generating toxins capable of free radical damage (oxidation).
This might explain why supplementation of the diet
with essential fatty acids like flax seed oil, evening
primrose oil, borage oil and antioxidants like vitamin E,
selenium and others helps so many cases of eczema and dry
skin.
Chlorinated water destroys much of
the intestinal flora, the friendly bacteria that help
in the digestion of food and which protects the body from
harmful pathogens. These bacteria are also responsible for the
manufacture of several important vitamins like vitamin B12 and
vitamin K. It is not uncommon for chronic skin conditions like
acne, psoriasis, seborrhea and eczema to clear up or to be
significantly improved by switching to unchlorinated drinking
water and supplementing the diet with lactobacillus
acidophilus and bifidus.
Chlorinated water contains
chemical compounds called trihalomethanes which are
carcinogens resulting from the combination of
chlorine with compounds in water. These chemicals, also known
as organochlorides, do not degrade very well and are generally
stored in the fatty tissues of the body (breast, other fatty
areas, mother's milk, blood and semen). Organochlorides can
cause mutations by altering DNA, suppress immune system
function and interfere with the natural controls of cell
growth.
Chlorine has been documented to
aggravate asthma, especially in those children who
make use of chlorinated swimming pools. Several
studies also link chlorine and chlorinated by-products to a
greater incidence of bladder, breast and bowel cancer
as well as malignant melanoma. One study even links the use of
chlorinated tap water to congenital cardiac
anomalies.
Anything you can do to filter tap and
shower water that eliminates or even minimizes chlorine would
certainly be helpful and possibly curative for some immune
system problems."
References:
Fackelman, K.A., Hints of
a chlorine-cancer connection. Science News; Flaten, T.P.,
Chlorination of drinking water and cancer incidence in
Norway. International Journal of Epidermiology; Messina
V., Chlorine and cancer. Good
Medicine
And if you don't already know
by now about the Dangers of Fluoride
CLICK HERE
Are you
feeling safe about the water you
drink?
Is Bottled Water Any Safer Than Tap
Water?
Unlike tap water, where
consumers are provided with test results every year, the
bottled water industry is not required to disclose the results
of any contaminant testing that it conducts. A four year
study done by the NRDC found that of 103 brands
of bottle water tested, one third contained levels of
contamination. 103 bottles is a pretty
extensive list of bottled water! In any grocery store
you would hardly see even 20 different
brands.
This pretty much means your
particular brand of bottled water that you drink could
possibly be contaminated!
Environment Working Group did
lab tests on 10 different kinds of bottled water. The
study's lab tests on 10 brands of bottled water
detected 38 chemicals including bacteria,
caffeine, pharmaceutical prescription drugs, fertilizer,
solvents, plastic-making chemicals and the radioactive element
strontium.
"In some cases, it appears
bottled water is no less polluted than tap water and, at 1,900
times the cost, consumers should expect better,"
said Jane Houlihan, an environmental engineer who co-authored
the study.
The NRDC found the contents of one
bottle, labeled "Spring Water," actually came
from an industrial parking lot next to a hazardous waste
site! Imagine that...
Is Your Water Making You Sick and Tired... and
FAT?
As wonderful as
clean pure alkaline water is for you and your health
the wrong kind of water can actually make you sick and
tired....and fat. What??? Fat???
Yes! Your water, like just about everything else you
take in, must be electron rich and alkaline. Pretty
much all tap and most bottled water available for
drinking is acidic, and this in turn will make your body
acidic and when your body is acidic it creates fat to bind the
acid to keep the acid from eating through your tissues and
vital organs and arteries.
With acidic water you're
never going to reach your ideal weight or ideal state of
health. To be truly healthful your water must
also be alkaline. When you drink acidic water
your body has to pull its reserves of alkaline substances just
to neutralize the water that should be neutral in the first
place.
Drinking alkaline water
washes away acids and wastes, helping your body to stay
alkaline. By providing alkaline water to neutralize and
remove acidic waste from the tissues, you stop the
body from taking alkaline substances away from other body
parts like calcium from your teeth and bones,
magnesium from your muscles and sodium and potassium from your
sodium potassium pump and the cell can let go of the fat it
was using to bind the acid to protect itself.
Most all tap water is
acidic....in the 5.8 to 6.0 range. Ideally you should be
drinking around 9.5 pH to flush out acidic waste buildup in
the body. Remember it takes 20 parts of alkaline
to neutralize just 1 part acid so drinking acidic
water just compounds the problem.
Is Your Water Aging You?
You've heard of
antioxidants haven't you? Anti meaning
negative value ( - ) Oxidant is a molecule that has
one electron missing, causing it to be unstable. It is
also called and free radical. A free radical is
corrosive. Like a bad guy, it goes around vandalizing
and causing cellular damages in the body resulting in toxic
effects.
These free radicals if
left roaming rampant in the body without control, will result
in cell deterioration and destruction, and ultimately
resulting in all kinds of diseases. Some of the diseases
which are the direct result of this enemy are, strokes,
arterial inflammation, arthritis, macular degeneration,
Alzheimer's, and many more. The cancer-causing free
radicals are called carcinogenic.
Our entire being, every
cell in our body, needs oxygen to help release energy from the
food we eat. Whether it be from proteins, carbohydrates
or fats. In the process, it creates a byproduct called
"oxidation".
While oxygen is
essential to life itself, oxidation is the "dark side"
of oxygen that most people don't know about.
Oxygen is chemically reactive and under normal biochemical
reactions, can become unstable. It oxidizes neighboring
molecules, causing them to be unstable.
This is the same process
that causes iron to rust or a cut apple to turn brown, just by
its mere exposure to oxygen. In the same manner, oxygen
can cause "rusting" in our body which is the root cause of
many degenerative diseases.
If oxidation can rust on
such a strong material like iron, just imagine what harm it
does to our vulnerable body. But thank God, there is
provision to counteract this
corrosion...anti-oxidants!
Anti-oxidants are
molecules that have several electrons that can be easily
detached without being unstable. It donates an
electron to the free radical that has one electron missing,
thus neutralizing it and rendering it
harmless.
The body can produce its
own anti-oxidants. However, if the body is being
constantly attacked by free radicals faster than the natural
production of anti-oxidants, destruction sets in.
To aid our body in
keeping its "anti-oxidant tank" full, so that we can easily
counteract oxidation, we can supply our body with foods that
are rich in anti-oxidants....but not only foods...your
water should also be anti-oxidant rich
too!
When it comes to measuring the
oxidation levels of your water anything higher than zero
oxidation reduction potential, more commonly called
ORP, is oxidizing and aging. Anything with a
negative (anti) oxidation reduction potential (ORP) is an
anti-oxidant and reverses aging. It's that
simple!
+ ORP =
Aging
- ORP =
Anti-Aging
If Your Water Has a + ORP
It IS Aging You!
Dr. Robert O.
Young in his book The pH Miracle for Weight Loss lists quite a
few brands of water both bottled and tap and includes the
source of the water along with the pH and ORP of
each of the brands. Here are some of his findings (more
are in his book):
The Higher the ORP the More Aging It
Is
|
Brand or
Type |
Source and
Features |
pH |
ORP |
|
Propel Fitness Water |
Processed Water with Minerals
Added |
3.37 |
+305 |
|
San Pelligrino |
San Pelligrino, Italy Spring
Water |
4.49 |
+449 |
| Perrier |
Perrier, France |
4.91 |
+478 |
| Pelligrino |
San Pelligrino, Italy Sparkling Mineral
Water |
5.28 |
+392 |
| Hawaiian Islands |
Natural Filtered Spring
Water |
5.36 |
+618 |
| Aqua Diva |
Tuscany, Italy
Natural Mineral Water |
5.78 |
+611 |
| New York City Municipal Water |
Filtered Tap Water |
5.81 |
+440 |
| Aquafina |
Filtered Municipal Water |
5.96 |
+431 |
| Badiot |
St. Galmier, France Natural Sparkling
Water from a deep water table through a 1500 ft.
fissure |
6.0 |
+426 |
| Ferrarelle |
Mountains of southern Italy natural
spring water |
6.1 |
+428 |
| Valverde |
Italian Alps spring water |
6.22 |
+402 |
| Spa |
Reine River, France spring
water |
6.23 |
+418 |
| Deja Blue |
North American purified or filtered tap
water |
6.28 |
+434 |
| Poland Spring |
Spring water |
6.31 |
+390 |
| Hawaii Water |
Reverse Osmosis filtered spring
water |
6.38 |
+386 |
| Chateldon |
Auvergne, France natural spring mineral
water |
6.58 |
+358 |
| Fiji |
Fiji Islands spring water |
6.65 |
+406 |
| Blue Moon |
Processed filtered tap water |
6.65 |
+365 |
| Voss |
Norway, artisan water |
6.67 |
+357 |
| Penta |
Micro-ionized |
6.7 |
+789 |
| Fonyodi |
Budapest, Hungary natural spring
water |
6.8 |
+502 |
| Arrowhead |
spring water |
6.83 |
+359 |
| Eon |
Natural Springs, Mount Shasta deep ice
pack water, reverse osmosis and carbon filtered,
ozonated |
6.84 |
+578 |
| Laurisia |
Italy, melted snow that seeps up
through a volcanic rock grotto |
6.87 |
+398 |
| Calistoga |
Mayacmas, Sierra, Nevada and
Polomar mountains near San Diego, California, spring
water |
6.93 |
+404 |
| Crystal Geyser |
California's Mount Whitney spring
water |
6.93 |
+404 |
| Lissa |
Italy, natural mineral water |
6.96 |
+398 |
| Smart Water |
Vapor-distilled water with minerals
added |
6.97 |
+368 |
| Volvic |
Natural mineral water filtered through
volcanic rock |
7.07 |
+407 |
| Whistler Water |
Ozonated glacier water |
7.18 |
+419 |
| Dasani |
North American purified tap
water |
7.2 |
+378 |
| Nariwa |
Japan, spring water from Magnetic
Mountain |
7.3 |
+303 |
| Tynant |
Bethania, Wales, UK natural mineral
water |
7.3 |
+396 |
| Scottish Natural Mineral
Water |
Campsie Falls, Lennoxtown, Scotland,
natural mineral water |
7.36 |
+408 |
| Ice Age |
Ozonated glacier water |
7.39 |
+378 |
| Thames River |
London, Thames River |
7.42 |
+405 |
| Buxton |
Buxton, England artesian water drawn
from 4500 feet underground |
7.42 |
+400 |
| Brecon Carreg |
Brecon National Park, Nottingham,
England spring water |
7.42 |
+391 |
| Absopure |
Irish Hills, Michigan spring water,
ozonated, ultraviolet |
7.48 |
+455 |
| Evian |
Evian, France |
7.53 |
+390 |
| Natural Value |
Sacramento, California spring
water |
7.54 |
+381 |
| Zephyrhills |
spring water |
7.57 |
+362 |
| Cloud Juice |
"800 drops of Tasmanian
rainwater" |
7.58 |
+367 |
| Treewater |
Pickens, West Virginia reverse osmosis
or filtered water and ozonated water |
7.65 |
+453 |
| Barraute municipal water |
Quebec, Canada municipal
water |
7.79 |
+483 |
| Dannon |
Natural spring water |
7.84 |
+546 |
| Waiwera |
New Zealand artesian |
7.87 |
+356 |
| Canadian Mountain |
Melted glacier |
7.96 |
+364 |
| Aqua Hydrate |
Utah, purified water with minerals
added |
7.96 |
+358 |
| Vittel |
Vosges, France spring water |
7.98 |
+402 |
| Coumayeur |
Mont Blanc Massif (in the Alps) natural
mineral water |
8.02 |
+410 |
| Palm Springs municipal
water |
Filtered and chlorinated tap
water |
8.13 |
+515 |
| Acqua Panna |
Tuscan Apennines of Northern Italy, 25
miles north of Florence natural spring water |
8.2 |
+523 |
| Iceberg Water |
Newfoundland melted icebergs |
8.31 |
+326 |
| Evermore |
Artesian |
9.23 |
- 57 |
| Trinity Geothermal Water
Original |
Artesian |
9.55 |
+330 |
| Trinity Natural Mineral
Supplement |
Artesian |
9.88 |
+316 |
| Kangen Water |
3 layer carbon filtered and
ionized |
9.5 |
-
387 |
Bottled water is an oxidant (aging).....most of
it is acidic too!
Kangen water
is an antioxidant (anti-aging)....and it is highly
alkaline!
If you are looking to age
faster....bottled water will get you there first!!!
Which man is younger? What
you are looking at here is Enagic Founder Hironari Oshiro and
his US advisor. How old would you guess Mr. Oshiro is versus
his advisor? The typical response is 40-45 for Mr. Oshiro vs
65-70 to his US advisor. The fact is both of them are the same
age. Both of them are 66 years old in 2007. Mr. Oshiro
has been drinking kangen water for the past 18
years.
What Is Kangen Water?
Kangen water is the most
powerful water in existence created from
Enagic's truly progressive water technology. Not only do
these amazing devices filter harmful chemicals out of tap
water, but through the process of ionization produces
Kangen ionized alkaline waters and acidic type
waters as well. These waters can be used for various purposes
which include drinking, cooking, beauty, and
cleaning.
Kangen is a Japanese
word best translated into English as "Return to
Original", which means several things. First, it
describes water returned to the state in which was often found
in nature before the earth became polluted. Second, it implies
that it will help to return you body to it's original
condition when you were young, including all of the organs and
skin.
Kangen water is a powerful antioxidant, perhaps
more powerful than any single food or vitamin supplement
because Kangen water contains active hydrogen which supplies
huge amounts of extra electrons to our body. Most other water electrolysis
equipment will NOT create active hydrogen in their
water, therefore, the equipment merely produces
ionized alkaline water, not true Kangen
water.
Kangen water is also known to
have small clusters of 5 to 6
water molecules, as a result of the
electrolysis process....making it a Super Hydrating water!
You can taste the difference in your first glass. Tap
water is typically 12 to 15 molecules per cluster. That is
over double the size of Kangen water.
Small clusters
also mean that your body can readily absorb the
minerals in this water into your cells in mere
seconds. Reverse Osmosis, Distilled and tap water
will slosh around in your stomach and often flush key minerals
out of your body because they lack these important
properties.
This is particularly important
for your metabolism since smaller elements pass through cell
membranes more easily and eliminate acidic wastes and toxins
from your body more effectively. With this water, your body
will enjoy the quicker cellular hydration and
super waste elimination.
The electrical charge of Kangen
machine re-arranges healthy minerals that are naturally
included in your tap water. As a result, Kangen water
contains essential minerals, such as Calcium,
Magnesium, and Potassium, in an ionic form that can be
assimilated immediately into your
body.
Kangen is a trademark of Enagic Inc. of Japan,
where more research has been done on drinking water than
anywhere else. Kangen has become a household name in
Japan and is now mostly used to describe pure, healthy,
alkaline drinking water which is rich in minerals,
purged of impurities and ionized through electrolysis to
obtain active hydrogen which is abundant in "extra" electrons.
These extra electrons impart strong anti-oxidant properties to
the drinking water.
The Ionizing Unit 
How the Ionizing Units Work
Kangen Water is first purified, then given
an electrical charge to recreate electron rich water.
It's molecular formula shifts from
H2O to H+ OH- In plain old
English.... It's now living water
again.
The ionizing unit, about 12" high, 11"
wide, and 7" deep, is an electrical appliance connected to
your kitchen water supply to perform electrolysis on tap water
before you drink it or use it in the kitchen for cooking or
cleaning.
A special attachment redirects tap
water out of the faucet through a plastic hose into the unit.
Inside the unit, the water is first filtered through activated
charcoal. Next, the filtered water passes into an electrolysis
chamber equipped with 7 platinum-coated
electrode plates (the most electrode plates of any
non-commercial unit - and you will see the importance of that
later) where electrolysis takes place.
Cations, positive ions, gather at
the negative electrodes to create cathodic water (reduced
water). Anions, negatively charged ions gather at the positive
electrode to make anodic water (oxidized water).
Through electrolysis, reduced water
not only gains an excess amount of electrons (e-), but the
cluster of H20 are reduced in size form about 10 to 13
molecules per cluster to 5 to 6 molecules per
cluster.
The restructured water comes
out of the faucet, and the oxidized water comes out of a
separate hose leading into the sink.
What the Ionization Unit
Produces - Oxidation Reduction Potential
Comparison:
After electrolysis of the water
inside the unit, restructured alkaline water comes out of the
cathodic side and oxidized acidic water comes out of the
anodic side. Compare these measurements of these three types
of water tap water before electrolysis, the restructured
water, and the oxidized water.
Oxidation Reduction
Potential (ORP)
The Kangen machine with 7 electrode
plates is the only non-commercial machine capable of achieving
the high and low end numbers in this table.
| Water
Type |
Oxidation Reduction
Potential |
pH |
What it
Means |
| Neutral pH
Filtered Water |
+400 to +500 mV |
7 |
Slight oxidation
potential |
- Restructured Ionized
Water
- (alkaline)
|
-250 to -600 mV |
8.5 to
9.5 |
Strong reduction
potential, contains a mass of electrons that can be
donated to free radicals. (Anti-oxidant) |
- Oxidized
Water
- (acidic)
|
+700 to +1100 mV |
2.5 to 6 |
Strong oxidation
potential, a shortage of electrons giving it the ability
to oxidize and sterilize |
Oxidation Reduction Potential
(ORP) is even more crucial than PH!
Traditionally we have judged the
properties of water from the standpoint of pH, in other words
whether water is acidic or alkaline. According to Dr.Yoshiaki
Matsuo Ph.D., the inventor of the ionizing unit, "in my
opinion, oxidation reduction potential is
more important than pH".
The pH of tap water should be
at a pH of 7 (neutral), unfortunately
though most municipal tap water not only has
abundant contamination, it's pH range is between 5.8 - 6.0
(acidic) and is highly oxidizing (a + ORP which is aging).
When tap water is run through the Kangen machine it is
first filtered with a 3 layer carbon filter,
removing impurities yet leaving the minerals in
tact, then it is electrolyzed in the
unit, resulting in restructured
water (smaller water clusters resulting in better
hydration) with a pH of 8.5 to 9.5, depending on what pH
setting you select, and has a high
- ORP which is anti-aging.
By electrolysis you can obtain
reduced water with negative (anti) oxidation
reduction potential (- ORP) that is good for the
body. You are drinking highly alkaline water also rich
in anti-oxidants! This not only aids you in
flushing acids and toxins from your body but also
reverses aging!
So if you're
ready to:
-
Flush toxins and
acidic waste from the body
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Alkalize your
body
Disarm free radicals in your body -
Increase stable oxygen in your body
Lose
weight -
Reverse aging and
disease
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