Why Alkaline Ionized Water Is Not Our Water Standard Yet?

So it’s not about whether alkaline water is good for us. It’s all about why we aren’t drinking it.

Well, there are reasons. One is that whenever a new way of removing obstacles to continued health and vitality is offered to the public, there is a reaction, usually - no - always - from vested interests.

Let’s take a look at this. If you were offered the opportunity to drink water that might not only help you break the acid cycle that leads almost inevitably to serious disease, that gave you a free powerful dose of antioxidants in every glass, that promised to detoxify you daily as long as you drank it, and that people reported giving them increased zest for life, would you still happy paying out for all of the supplements, painkillers, antioxidants etc that you were beginning
to see as a necessity?

If you decided to drink alkaline water every day for the rest of your life, and you were joined by a million others who used to spend (let’s say) $4000 a year on their health maintenance and acid condition remedies, don’t you think people selling those products might be a little worried?

Other water filter sellers are now faced with a new technology that they construe as threatening their continued livelihood. Its reasonable to assume that they might decide that the world can’t afford health so cheaply, and that it must be stopped before their livelihood is threatened.

The above scenario is, sadly, true to life. Large scale marketing dollars have already been spent to attempt to prevent you from choosing to own a water ionizer. The money involved is big because Im assume the spenders are terrified they will lose a lot more money if they don’t
campaign in every way possible to stop alkaline water.

These marketers would be rather depressed to learn that the World Health Organisation in June 06 voted to upgrade the minimum required standard of water supply for the whole world.No longer do they specify only clean water. Now they specify clean alkaline water. We receive a daily news sheet from the Water Quality Association of the USA (representing the water filtration industry) and it is quite obvious to us that they are worried!

However the marketers’ campaign does have an effect. They know that if you tell a lie often enough, in prominent enough places, enough people will believe it. Does anyone remember the campaign that said over, and over on the radio that Phillip Morris cigarettes cured smoker’s cough?

The smart marketers of today know it‘s all about catching the buyer’s attention, and this particular campaign uses fear of sickness as its calling card, with offers of free gifts to everyone who asks for an ‘explosive report that reveals what alkaline water sellers don’t want you to hear’!

So we’d like to spend a little time discussing the biggest claim these marketers make to assist you to make your own informed choice.

If Alkaline water is so good for you, why don’t we all have it supplied to our homes?

Our ‘normal’ water supply today is faced with many problems; deposition of toxic chemicals from the air, runoff of agricultural chemicals, infusion of medicinal compounds via recycling, increased urban encroachment on catchment areas, and the ever-increasing threat of drought, which in turn causes toxic concentration of all of the above. With lower water levels concentrating density of toxins, parasites and decaying organics, authorities are challenged as never before to maintain safe water.

They have very few tools. After primary filtration, they have only chlorine or fluoride to kill or neutralize anything still in the water. They are forced to increase chlorine or fluoride levels, often above accepted safety standards simply because their filtration systems cannot do anything else to reduce toxicity levels. They are then faced with a new dilemma. Chlorine is acidifying. If they send acidic water down the pipes, it will eat away at the copper and lead in the pipes, increasing heavy metal concentration and consumption even more. Furthermore, although the chlorine has killed organisms, the organisms are still in the water.

Tap water becomes a veritable ‘graveyard’ of bug carcasses. The only answer authorities have is
to add more lime, or calcium carbonate. This changes the pH of the water by changing the ‘balance’ of the minerals in the water to more alkaline than acid. Your water becomes laden with both acid and alkaline minerals, but the water regulator strives to keep the pH just above a neutral pH of 7. It’s easy to judge when this happens. You will smell the chlorine gas, even when it comes from an outside garden tap.

The 5 Golden Rules Of A Proper Green Diet

Is your green diet not working at maximum capacity? Is something missing from your green diet? Are you following a green diet that has not lived up to its name? If your answer is yes to any of these questions then your green diet is missing one or more of the 5 basic elements of every successful green diet.

Before we examine what the 5 golden rules of an effective and healthy green diet are, we must first understand the concept of acid-alkaline balance in our bodies.

The pH level of our internal environment affects every living cell in our body. Extended acid im-balances as well as an im-balanced body pH are not well tolerated by it and, almost invariably, lead to diseases. The point here is that our entire metabolic process depends on an alkaline environ-ment to function to its maximum potential.

A chronically over acidic pH corrodes body tissue, slowly eating into the 96,000 miles of veins and arteries like acid eating into marble. If left unchecked, it will interrupt all cellular activities and functions, from the beating of the heart to the neural firing of the brain.Above all, the acid/alkaline balance is a well known theory of the cause of overweight. It has shown that fat is actually an over acidification problem. Why? Because the body creates fat cells to carry acids away from vital organs, so these acids literally don't choke the organs to death. Fat is saving life! Fat is actually a response from the body to an alarming over acidic condition.The solution is to alkalize and energize the body and its cell system.

Changing to an alkaline lifestyle can result in a lean, trim body, while experiencing a new level of wellness, energy and fit-ness. These rules guide on how to become healthy, well balanced and fit again.

1. More Green and Yellow Vegetables and Grasses: Fresh vegetables and grasses are an excel-lent source of the alkaline salts that are anti?yeast, anti?fungal, and anti?mycotoxic. The chlorophyll (or "blood of the plant") contained in plants and grass is identical to the blood of humans, except for one atom. Green foods such as wheat grass and barley grass are some of the lowest?calorie, lowest?sugar, and most nutrient?rich foods on the planet. Also juiced, green vegetables are very cleansing. Vegetables and grasses are also loaded with fiber.

2. More Healthy (and NOT animal) Proteins: Broccoli, spinach, sprouts, garbanzo beans, tofu or fresh fish with scales and fins carry the sub?cellular units and the amino acids to make proteins in amounts that are congruent with the body's needs. Also, all green vegetables are high in calcium. Animal protein foods are unhealthy and provide more protein than is required by the human body. Our bodies are only 7 % protein. Animal protein foods often contribute factors to the body that are unneeded and then represent a challenge to dispose of (e.g., saturated fats).

3. More Alkaline Green Food Supplements: In case one shouldn't be able to completely change the diet to green and alkaline food, taking powdered alkaline supplements sprouted for maximum cell absorption is an option. With powdered greens the need to constantly eat healthy vegetables and greens disappears. Taking alkalizing, pH balancing and highly energizing green supplements is an easy way of adding 49 different grasses, vegetables, sprouted grains and leaves, as well as 125 vitamins, minerals and amino acids to your diet. If taken daily, they even allow to not changing eating habits, although it is recommended, of course.

4. More Alkali?forming Foods: Good alkali forming foods include fresh sprouts, spinach, kale, Swiss chard, avocados, lemons, limes, cucumbers, celery, cauliflower, Brussel sprouts, aspara-gus, green beans, eggplant, broccoli, fresh tomatoes, zucchini, green/red/yellow peppers, onions, okra, garlic, parsley, watercress, cabbage, squashes, soy beans (tofu), garbanzo beans, raw almonds, Brazil nuts, hazel nuts, sesame seeds, flax seed, sprouted grains and legumes. Green juices from all green vegetables and their tops are highly alkaline. Also, vegetable broths are extremely alkalizing to the body. These need to be yeast?free and preservative?free.

5. Drink Plenty of Alkaline Ionized Water: You can alkalize water in two ways; by adding alkaline minerals or by using a alkaline water ionizer. Water alkalizing drops formulae also work, although they do not clean or ionize the water. You should look for one that has proven beneficial. Using drops, all you need do is add some alkaline water formula to your drinking water to change it pH balance to alkaline. Alternatively a home water ionizer attached to your tap or to your cold water line, filters your water of all major impurities including chlorine and then separates and removes acid minerals, giving an unlimited stream of purified and powerful alkaline water. The magnetic process it employs gives a number of important side benefits. The water molecules are greatly reduced in size, offering far greater hydration ability. The minerals in the water are negatively charged, making them far more effectively absorbed. The water is also loaded with bound oxygen and negative hydrogen ions that are nature's original antioxidant. The latest water ionizers employ Far Infrared (FIR), emitting ceramics to help energize, soften and disinfect the water.

By following these five simple guidelines you can successfully implement healthy green diet that is operating to its maximum potential. By doing so ,you support all vital cellular activities and func-tions in your body and create new levels of healthiness, energy, wellness and fitness. It is that easy!

How Fluoride In Your Water Effects Your Brain

In 2007, the question of how fluoride affects the developing brain gained renewed attention from researchers around the world. Research teams from Brazil, China, India, Italy, Mexico, and the United States conducted important new analysis, including 3 new studies investigating fluoride’s impact on childhood IQ (1a,b,c), and several new animal studies investigating fluoride’s effects on learning, memory, and behavior (1d,e). The studies, which strengthen the concerns expressed by the US National Research Council in 2006, further highlight that it’s not just the teeth, but the brain, that may be impacted by too much fluoride during infancy and childhood.

As noted in a review presented this fall by Harvard scientists Philippe Grandjean and Anna Choi:

“In humans, only five substances have so far been documented as developmental neurotoxicants: lead, methylmercury, polychlorinated biphenyls, arsenic, and toluene. From this evidence, including our own studies on some of these substances, parallels may be drawn that suggest that fluoride could well belong to the same class of toxicants, but uncertainties remain” (1f).

While uncertainties remain — as is common in science — several of the studies published this year made important advances in addressing some of the shortcomings of previous research. In particular, a study (1a) linking high-fluoride (5 ppm) water to reduced IQ among a group of Mexican children made important steps in the right direction by simultaneously controlling (via multiple regression analysis) for other key factors known to affect IQ, including parent’s education, income, and childhood lead exposure. In addition to controlling for these factors the Mexican researchers helped eliminate a source of bias by “blinding” the psychologist conducting the IQ tests so that the examiner did not know which children had, or did not have, high fluoride exposures.

According to the authors:

“We found that exposure to F (fluoride) in urine was associated with reduced Performance, Verbal, and Full IQ scores before and after adjusting for confounders. The same pattern was observed for models with F in water as the exposure variable…. The individual effect of F in urine indicated that for each mg increase of F in urine a decrease of 1.7 points in Full IQ might be expected.”

In addition to assessing the effect of fluoride on IQ, the Mexican team studied the effect of arsenic as well and found similar results. Based on their data, the authors conclude that

“fluoride and arsenic in drinking water have a potential neurotoxic effect in children. It is urgent that public health measures to reduce exposure levels be implemented. Millions of people around the world are exposed to these pollutants and are therefore potentially at risk for negative impact on intelligence. This risk may be increased where other factors affecting central nervous system development, such as malnutrition and poverty, are also present. The risk is particularly acute for children, whose brains are particularly sensitive to environmental toxins. Furthermore, it would be advisable to reexamine the benefits of fluoride given the documented health risks.”

While some pro-fluoride supporters may attempt to dismiss the results of this study — since the levels of fluoride in the water (5-9 ppm) are higher than the levels added to water in fluoridation programs (0.7-1.2 ppm) — it would be short-sighted to dismiss such important findings on this basis. After all, the study was able to detect a statistically significant effect within a rather small (n=155) group of children. Since individuals vary widely in their sensitivity to chemicals, it is plausible, and indeed likely, that — if fluoride can cause IQ loss at 5 ppm in a small group of children (e.g. hundreds) — it could also cause IQ loss at lower levels in a much larger group of children (e.g. many millions).

Moreover, as noted by Dr. Kathleen Thiessen, a panelist from the National Research Council’s review of fluoride, there is “almost certainly overlaps” in the daily doses ingested by some of the Mexican children in the study and the daily doses ingested by some American children – especially when considering the myriad other sources of fluoride exposure now available in the US.

REFERENCES:

1a) Rocha-Amador D, et al. (2007). Decreased intelligence in children and exposure to fluoride and arsenic in drinking water. Cadernos de Saude Publica 23(Suppl 4):S579-87.

1b) Wang SX, et al. (2007). Arsenic and fluoride exposure in drinking water: children’s IQ and growth in Shanyin county, Shanxi province, China. Environmental Health Perspectives 115(4):643-7.

1c) Trivedi MH, et al. (2007). Effect of high fluoride water on intelligence of school children in India. Fluoride 40(3):178-183.

1d) Bera I, et al. (2007). Neurofunctional effects of developmental sodium fluoride exposure in rats. European Review for Medical and Pharmacological Sciences 11(4):211-24.

1e) Chioca LR, et al. (2007). Subchronic fluoride intake induces impairment in habituation and active avoidance tasks in rats. European Journal of Pharmacology Oct 25; [Epub ahead of print]

1f) Choi A, Grandjean P. (2007). Potentials for developmental fluoride neurotoxicity. XXVII Conference of the International Society for Fluoride Research, October 9-12, 2007, Beijing, China.

Source: Fluoride Action Network

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