Drinking Tap Water with Chlorine May be a Health Risk!
You'd be amazed how many water municipalities add chlorine to their drinking water to get rid of microbes. This is an inexpensive and highly effective disinfectant, but what you probably don't know is the dangers of chlorine in our body. Chlorine my be going into your body everyday if you are drinking tap water or even bottled water.
While chlorine is an inexpensive and effective drinking water disinfectant, it is also a poison and we are drinking it, washing in it and cooking with it. Did you know that chlorine gas was used with deadly effectiveness as a weapon in the First World War? The gas would severely burn the lungs and other body tissues when inhaled, and is no less powerful when ingested by mouth.
Researchers have now linked chlorine in drinking water to higher incidences of bladder, rectal and breast cancers. Reportedly chlorine, once in water, interacts with organic compounds to create trihalomethanes (THMs) — which when ingested encourage the growth of free radicals that can destroy or damage vital cells in the body. Most of the water we drink ends up in the bladder and/or rectum, so THMs in drinking water are particularly damaging to these organs most.
The link between chlorine and bladder and rectal cancers has long been known, but only recently have researchers found a link between common chlorine disinfectants and breast cancer, which affects one out of every eight American women. A recent study conducted in Hartford, Connecticut found that women with breast cancer have 50-60 percent higher levels of organochlorines (chlorine by-products) in their breast tissue than cancer-free women.
But don't think that buying bottled water is any solution. Much of the bottled water for sale in the U.S. comes from public municipal water sources that are often treated with, you guessed it, chlorine. A few cities have switched over to other means of disinfecting their water supplies. Las Vegas, for example, has followed the lead of many European and Canadian cities in switching over to harmless ozone instead of chlorine to disinfect its municipal water supply.
Here's some Tips
- Stop Buying Bottled Water! It may not be any better than the water you get from your tap and all those empty plastic bottles are ending up in landfills... they are horrible for the environment!
- Carbon Filters will removed most of the Chlorine from your tap water... a simple and cost effective way for drinking tap water.
To Your Health!
Scott OBrien
Independent Shaklee Distributor
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