It's Time For Another Look At
Chlorine And Gout

We have to have a quick talk about Chlorine and Gout.

Chlorine is some nasty stuff. If you do your research (like you should) you'll see they talk about all kinds of horrible stuff happening to you like genetic mutation and cancer, not to mention just your everyday, garden variety free radical damage.

Listen to what the folks from historyofwaterfilters.com have to say:

• Chlorine is listed as a known poison; it undoubtedly has an adverse effect on our body systems. Chlorinated water has been linked to the aggravation and cause of respiratory diseases like asthma. Also, because chlorine vaporizes at a much faster rate than water, chlorinated water presents a significant threat to the respiratory system when used for showering.

The reason I wanted to include this is to demonstrate that not only drinking chlorinated water is bad, but it can soak right through your skin or you can breathe it (chloroform) and it can be just as damaging if not more. Taking a ten minute shower will deliver as much chlorine into your body as drinking 8 glasses of the same water!

Originally Chlorine started being used to clean up water-borne diseases like Typhoid decades ago. If we didn't use it now it would probably cause havoc.

So that leaves us in quite a dilemma . . . drink poison and bathe in it or get Typhoid? What's your choice?

Now for the alternative . . . Bottled Water.

??? . . . where do we start? How 'bout PET.

Polyethylene terephthalate. There is a large body of controversy around this now and I'm all for avoiding it if I can.

PET leaches in to the water or drink that is contained in it, especially when it's been left in your car on a hot day. Ever wonder what that "plastic-y" taste was? Ever wonder if it might make you sick? What about a life-time of that stuff?

I my thought: Avoid It.

The second part is this; millions of plastic bottles get thrown away every hour in the US alone . . . that stuff takes centuries to break-down and degrade!

Just like the that weird chemical taste you get from drinking bottled water, what happens to all those tiny particles that end up in our landfills and oceans? (For a reality check, go to: http://tappedthefilm.com/)

My thought: Cancer.

We weren't designed to breathe and eat petrochemicals and we've gone way beyond Chlorine and Gout.

Bottom-line: Eat Good Food and Drink Good Water.

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