The Pure Water Newsletter #8, 2000 Issue
The Pure Water Newsletter
#8, 2000 Issue
"Improving the Quality of Life through the Quality of Water."
News and Views about Water and Health from http://www.purewaterinc.com/
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IN THIS ISSUE
- Welcome!
- Translation in 5 Languages!
- Water in the News
- Featured Article: THE IMPORTANCE OF PURE WATER TO YOU AND YOUR FAMILY... BY DR. BILL MISNER, Ph.D.
- Distilled Water Tip
- Previous Newsletter
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Water in the News!
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FOX - If Your Neighbors Get Cancer, Will You?
This question greeted New Yorkers two weeks ago when its state health department released the first ever zip-code-by-zip-code map of breast cancer incidence. But it comprises part of a nationwide effort to use geographic maps of cancer prevalence to identify hidden risk factors for developing disease.
http://www.foxnews.com/health/042000/cancermap.sml
CNN - Tap water toxic, Argentine city says
The Argentine city of Bahia Blanca has warned its 420,000 residents to avoid using tap water because it says it is laced with toxic bacteria that cause skin irritation and possibly neurological damage.
http://www.cnn.com/2000/HEALTH/04/26/argentina.water.reut/index.html
Science News - More Waters Test Positive for Drugs
Over the past decade, European chemists have been documenting widespread pharmaceutical contamination of their lakes, streams, and groundwater. In San Francisco, U.S. and Canadian scientists offered preliminary confirmation that traces of drugs, excreted by people and livestock, similarly pollute American waters.
http://www.sciencenews.org/20000401/fob1.asp
CNN - Water quality suffers on Nebraska tribal lands
The United States has one of the safest drinking water supplies in the world, but the percentage of contaminated drinking-water wells on Native American reservations in Nebraska far exceeds national and regional averages, scientists from the University of Arkansas report.
http://www.cnn.com/2000/NATURE/04/11/water.quality.enn/index.html
THE IMPORTANCE OF PURE WATER TO YOU AND YOUR FAMILY...
BY DR. BILL MISNER, Ph.D.
PURE WATER IS A MATTER OF LIFE OR DEATH (Muehling 1994)
Water, the most abundant fluid on earth, is also the most abundant fluid found in human beings. Ninety-seven percent of Earth's 326 million cubic miles of water is found in the ocean leaving less than 1% of the remaining 3% available for drinking water. It is interesting to note that the percent of water content in both humans and earth are similar at between 66-75%. A newborn baby is 90% water by weight while a full-grown average adult measures around 70%. Likewise most animals and foods exceed 60% of their measured weight as water. Some seeds and insects are exceptions to these percentages weighing from 5 to 48% water.
WATER IS IMPORTANT FOR SURVIVAL!
The average person can survive for 60 days without food but only 2 to 3 days without water. How much water do we need to live? A sedentary person needs only 5 pints water per day while a construction worker laboring in hot or humid conditions may use up to 20 pints during an 8-hour shift. The rapid turnover of fluids derived from drinks and food are estimated to equal 50 pints per week for an active athlete's needs beyond what is necessary for life. In test after test, it has been reported the dramatic deterioration in performance when only a small percentage of an athlete's water weight is lost during an exercise event. During exercise, sweat losses of 3% water weight accounted for 10% loss in performance!(Colgan 1990) In a separate study, runners fasted overnight then asked to run a 5000 meter time trial. Times were a full minute slower, the difference between 1st place and dead last.(Colgan 1993) On a more serious note, when body fluid losses approach 12-15%, death occurs.(Muehling 1994)
WATER MAY BE A BIOCHEMICAL FRIEND OR A TOXIC FOE...
Water is composed of two transparent gases, 88.89% Oxygen and 11.11% Hydrogen, by weight. H2O is the formula for water in a gaseous state. The actual liquid is formed when several of these molecular gases are linked together with a hydrogen bond after being compressed to 1/1642 of their original volume. While water is easily formed in remarkably tight bonds due to the sharing of electrons between 2 hydrogen molecules and one oxygen molecule, the "Y" shaped H2O is said to be extraordinarily stable with the positive charge at the top of the structure and the negative charge at the bottom. In simple terms this means that water won't pull apart, unless you put it in an airtight tube and exerted over 5000 lbs. pressure. That equates the stability of this simple fluid to the tensile strength of most metals! Since it literally won't break apart its stability maintains its formula of H2O, I.E. it won't break down easily into H3O or H2O2. Pure water formed during condensation prior to rain, for example, has a nearly neutral ph of 7.0. Since pure water has no acidity or alkalinity, it manifests a very strong polar attraction and affinity toward any and all positive(+) charged, negative(-) charged, or neutral molecules in the immediate environment. WHATEVER organic or inorganic compound it touches, it attracts, adjoins, it dissolves making an ideal carrier. Thus pure water can be a life-giving friend, but polluted water is a deadly foe.
HOW PURE RAIN WATER IS TOXIFIED EN ROUTE TO THE TAP.
Initially condensed rain is like a "Super Sponge", absorbing everything it touches. At the moment of condensation, no impurities are present, but as it falls through the earth's atmosphere it rapidly collects noxious pollutants before it strikes the ground. As it percolates through the soils, rain water picks up all sorts of non- organic ground minerals, agricultural herbicides, pesticides, nitrates and microbial organisms from animal feces and raw human sewage. As it flows into lakes, streams, and rivers, the contaminated fluids further add to their toxicity by absorbing some of the massive corrosive chemicals dumped into the ground-water table by 240,000 industrial sites in the USA.
Water treatment plants intercept and siphon from reservoirs, lakes, aquifers, and streams the polluted water to screen the larger solid wastes and attempt to kill most(but not all) micro-organisms by chlorination. From the treatment plant, it travels through pipes which "donate" lead, cadmium, copper and several other harmful chemicals. The best drinking water flowing through the tap in the USA measures approximately 350 parts toxic contaminants per million parts(ppm) of water while the worst is said to exceed 1000 ppm. When one considers that for each toxic contaminant per million parts of water that the body must DETOXIFY 600,000,000,000,000,000 (Quadrillion) molecules from the living tissues. All optimal metabolic functions are dependant upon macronutrient calories, micronutrient enzymes and coenzymes in a hydrolyzed solution of pure water, or to the degree that the water is polluted, the metabolism for energy production is diverted, becoming inefficient, resulting in fatigue, degenerative disease, or tissue death. Our body of living cells is a filter for toxic substances not used in normal metabolism which are discarded or deposited clogging cellular function, degenerating tissue growth, and, when these toxins are allowed to accumulate result in tissue necrosis or death. Reversing this process by drinking pure distilled water is the treatment-of-choice. Hospitals are known to use purified drinking water for heart patients, kidney patients, and new born infants. Drinking pure water, and its affinity for dissolving and removing toxic substances may account for the increasing anecdotal reports of relief from degenerative diseases, kidney stones, arthritis, and immune system relapse. Specifically, exposure to an environment full of toxic substances in the air we breath, the foods we eat, and the water we drink may also account for diseases caused by increased tissue free radicals.
FREE RADICAL BUILDUP: THE CAUSE AND EFFECT OF DISEASE, BUT KEY TO A SOLUTION FOR HEALTH AND QUALITY OF LIFE.
The real reason toxic substances are harmful to us is they accumulate, react harmfully, and eventually destroy human tissue cells in the form of free radicals. Free Radicals have an extra electric charge which attracts them to other cellular proteins and nucleic acids which are found in each cell's DNA code. When a free radical makes contact with a tissue structure it is neutralized leaving the target molecule altered forming additional free radicals in a multiple of unrestrained "chain reactions". Free Radicals are known to build-up from exercise metabolism, inhaling polluted air, drinking contaminated tap water, and exposure to normal radiation or sunlight. Free Radicals are the number #1 suspected causes of fatigue, premature aging, impaired immunity, atherosclerosis, cardiovascular heart disease, and cancer.(Garrison & Somer 1995) Only tissue stored antioxidants, such as vitamin A, C, E, and Super Oxide Dismutase, are known to neutralize free radical reactions. Free radical(FR) build-up occurs when incoming FR's exceed tissue antioxidant stores. The obvious solution is to decrease FR intake by drinking pure water, eating organic food, breathing clean air, and avoiding prolonged exposure to sunlight.
THE FREE RADICAL INVASION FROM THE TAP: A REAL AND PRESENT DANGER TO HUMAN HEALTH!
The National Wildlife Federation detailed in a 1994 report how commonly used agricultural pesticides, herbicides, and other agricultural chemicals contribute to cancer, impaired immune system, fertility disorders, and behavioral problems in children. Once in our bodies, these toxic substances may act as "hormone copycats", mimicking either estrogen or testosterone. Farmers dump 600,000,000 pounds, or 3 pounds per person per year annually in the ground water table of the USA.
Modern Industry in America unloads 10 times the amount of contaminated water as all the households combined. Every day 240,000 industrial plants pump 245 billion gallons of toxic solutions in to the water shed. Every year 500 new toxic chemicals are found in the tap water in addition to the 12,000 new toxins introduced in the past 20 years. Each of them, such as derivatives of mercury, arsenic, lead, cadmium, and PCB's, are implicated free radicals causing cancer, atherosclerosis, cardiovascular heart disease, cellular mutations, birth defects, kidney damage, loss of coordination, slurred speech, headaches, and gastric disorders. While our water treatment system does little-to-nothing to remove them, their application of chlorine to destroy water-born microbes creates an additional free radical toxic accumulates further endangering human health.
CHLORINE: BACTERIOCIDAL OR HOMICIDAL?
Chlorine makes the water look good, taste good, and smell good, but what does it do at the cellular level? As a potent poisonous gas it affectionately bonds with water lingering long after killing most bacteria. Chlorine has been implicated (Conn 1991, Muehling 1994) as a potential contributor to cardiovascular heart disease. Chlorine reacts with decaying vegetation to form Chloroform or Trihalomethane(THM) which is a known carcinogen. THM's are blamed for over 10,000 deaths each year in the USA. Dr. Joseph M. Price, M.D.(1984) authored a book, CORONARIES/CHOLESTEROL/CHLORINE, which presents sterling evidence linking chlorinated water with coronary disease and strokes. The EPA has recently recognized the dangers of too much water contaminated by THM's and has established the maximum contaminant level at 100 parts per billion, but is expected to lower THM's to 50 ppb soon.
Chlorine chemically bonds with any protein it touches making skin dry-flaky, hair brittle and lack luster. When we shower or bathe in chlorinated water THM's bond with the body's largest organ, the skin, accessing internal tissues 100% through the eyes, nose, mouth, and genital areas and as much as 8.6% through the forearm skin.(American Journal of Public Health 1984) Some estimates state that a 10 minute shower allow Chlorine or THM permeation equivalent to 8 glasses of water! The skin is particularly vulnerable to increased permeation when wet, heated, injured or irritated. For less than $60.00, a granulated carbon shower head may be installed which will remove 99.9% of all THM's and Chlorine byproducts. But what about our drinking water and all the rest of the tap water toxins? Can I buy good drinking water at the store? How do I know the water I buy there is safe to drink?
EFFECTIVE, EFFICIENT WATER TREATMENT CHOICES
How clean do you want your drinking water to be? Toxic organic and inorganic contaminates consisting of metals, pesticides, bacteria, virus', protozoa, and gross alpha and gross beta radioactives +.4 microns have a natural affinity for drinking water. One system has been shown to remove nearly all the contaminates.
Water distillation with carbon filtration reduces toxic contaminates 99.96% or from 550 parts per million to as low as 2 parts per million. Water distillation, in a class by itself, removes 99% of inorganic minerals from the treated water supply. No other system can match distillation for quality and consistency of removal of harmful inorganic mineral solids.
Other treatment protocols tout limited claims on improving water quality. The highest quality carbon block filtration system reduces contaminants 95.4% or from 550 ppm. to 25 ppm, however it fails to remove the hard water minerals such as calcium and sodium. Thus, if you have hard water of 3 grains[51.3 ppm], the original sample 550 is only reduced to only 76.3 ppm leaving the hard water minerals complete passage through the carbon filter. For every grain of hard water, 17.1 ppm of hard water mineral contaminates will pass through a carbon block or granulated carbon filter system.
Reverse Osmosis(RO), on the average, reduces incoming tap water of 500 ppm contaminants to a range of 20 to 40 ppm. As these units are used, bacteria may form within the filter or they may "clog up" over time allowing pathogenic microbial migration plus reducing the rate of toxic substance removal from your drinking water."[Colgan M, OPTIMUM SPORTS NUTRITION, Advanced Research Press, New York, NY, 1993;24.]
CONCLUSION: PURE WATER FOR HEALTH AND QUALITY OF LIFE.
As a prime necessity for maximum in metabolic life-support, any compromise from pure drinking water will severely limit the optimal health and the production of energy. When 400 gallons of blood a day flow through organs, body tissues, and working muscles in order to help each of us deal with space in time, the thought of stagnating this process with toxic tap water can be equated with slow-motion suicide. The pure water which enhances life in terms of quality and quantity is no longer a luxury but an absolute necessity!
DR. BILL MISNER, Ph.D.
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Distilled Water Tip
Canning.
Distilled water is excellent to use in canning. Not only do fruits and vegetables retain a more natural color, but their flavor is better. Housewives have reported more success in the sealing of jars and a much lower spoilage rate because the water is sterile.
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- Featured Article: 10 Best Foods for Longevity BY Eric Harr
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