The best way to fiqure out how much water you should drink a day is to take your body weight and divide it in half. That number is the amount of ounces you should drink a day. If you are exercising, every 20 min you should consume another eight onces of water.The best way to hydrate yourself is pure, clean water. Take your Portable Water Filter with you to the gym or on walks. You will be much happier drinking from your filter bottle than a water fountain. Soda and sports drinks have extra calories and sugar that should be avoided.
Archive for November, 2006
How much water should you drink?
Thursday, November 30th, 2006What is Healthy Water?
Wednesday, November 29th, 2006Very simply, this means that we should “take out the bad” and “leave in the good.” In his book Healthy Water for a Longer Life, Dr. Martin Fox researches the relationship of Heart Disease and Cancer to drinking water. He concluded that the best water we can get is Hard Water (high mineral content) with an alkaline PH. This will reduce the risk of Heart Disease and Cancer Mortality.
However, he goes on to state that the true definition of “Healthy Water” is much more complex than “take out the good and leave in the bad.” As it turns out, it is actually possible to alter water’s structure thus creating “Healthier Water.”
For example, it has been discovered that:
– Drinking Water with elevated PH is beneficial
– Declustering water (reducing surface tension) renders the water more “bio-available” thus improving the transfer of nutrients to cells and the removal of waste from cells.
– North Pole water (water exposed to the north pole of a magnet) has a calming and healing effect and will help to overcome infection since it retards the growth of cells.
– South Pole water does the opposite: it’s stimulating and encourages the growth of human cells, plant cells, and even pathogenic cells, such as bacteria.
– Mixed pole water (both poles) seems to offer the best of both worlds and can be used for general health improvement.
10 Reasons To Filter Water:
Wednesday, November 29th, 20061) It is vital to consume good clean water. Your body does more work to remove chemicals and minerals that can be found in most water.
2) It reduces the risk of epidemic diseases that can contaminate water.
3) Tap water could potentially be contaminated with over 2,100 known contaminants including several poisons. According to the CDC, this number is much higher.
4) Bottled water is not an affordable alternative. In many cases, it is also not any better quality than tap water.
5) Water treatment companies cannot control outbreaks of dangerous bacteria. Frequently, in Water Districts around the country press releases are sent out about potential tap water dangers.
6) Filtering your water as you drink is the only way to ensure that you are drinking contaminant free water.
7) Cancer causing toxins can be found in drinking water.
For proper mental and physical development in children clean drinking water is a must!
9) 480,000 cases of learning disorders have been contributed to lead found in drinking water according to the EPA.
10) Severe birth defects have been known to be caused by pregnant women drinking unfiltered lead contaminated water.
The 10 Reasons found above should make filtering your water a priority in your daily grind. It only makes sense and it couldn’t get any easier. All it takes is a filtered water bottle to have safer water than water found in bottled water while not sacrificing the convenience. Plus it’s more affordable considering one filter treats 40 to 80 gallons!
Are Chloramines In Your Tap Water Giving You Lead Poisoning?
Tuesday, November 28th, 2006Many water companies have started treating public water supplies with Chloramines, which is a combination of Chlorine and small amounts of Ammonia. This combination creates three known varieties of chemicals: monochloramine, dichloramine, and trichloramine. The chloramines can easily be filtered with your average carbon or charcoal filter.
However, there is a much larger health risk caused by this chemical combination that, without the proper filtration, could cause the body to absorb lead. Chloramines have been found to eat away at lead. This lead is contained in solder which was/is used to connect water pipes (especially in homes), as well as actual service lines, and these deposits end up in the water supply.
The health effects of Chloramines are linked to kidney damage, miscarriages, nervous system damage, anemia, high blood pressure, brain damage, and reproductive difficulties. Plus, chloramines leach copper into public water supplies. An long-term exposure to copper can cause liver damage, kidney damage, headaches, stomach problems and dizziness, among other things.
The best way to combat both chloramines and potential lead and copper contamination is with a granular activated or other carbon-based filter. Make sure that you are purchasing a filter or portable water filter that is more advanced than your traditional carbon filter. These Advanced Portable Water Filters not only filter chlorine and chloramines, but they contain chemicals that are also effective in reducing the amount of heavy metals such as lead, mercury, and copper in the water.
The Bottled Water Addiction
Tuesday, November 28th, 2006Almost everyone has picked up a bottle of “designer” water at one time or another. It started as a convenience, when making a pit stop for gasoline, restroom, and munchies while traveling. If you’re really thirsty, nothing can take the place of water. When you’re away from home, grabbing a bottled water from the refrigerator makes a lot of sense…it’s so easy to take it with you. Not to mention the fact that no one in their right mind would enjoy drinking from the typical service station or convenience store drinking fountain. In the first place, the basin is usually almost full of water that has already traveled through someone else’s mouth. The reason for this backup is the three wads of old chewing gum, a peach pit, six cherry stems, and thirty or forty sunflower seed shells that other previous users left behind. Pretty hard to focus on how refreshing the drink is.
So, occasionally, while out and about, everyone from time to time grabbed a bottle of water packaged by a soft drink company or even a water bottling company. It could have been started by someone selling “spring” water. Then, when the big guys noticed how much water was being sold, and how little regulation there was on bottled water, everyone started to get into the act. Now, the bottled water business seems as big as the soft drink business. We are constantly bombarded by bottled water advertisements and commercial messages. Maybe brainwashed is a better word.
Now, it is amazing how many people you know or see that only drink bottled water. It is almost like a status symbol. Everyone carries a bottle of designer water everywhere they go, and drinks it exclusively, even at home. And it’s not like bottled water is universally safer or more healthy. Bottled water is much less regulated than tap water in the United States. As much as half of the bottled water sold is just bottled tap water, maybe with some extra sodium or other really healthy additive to make it taste better. Maybe it’s time to face the facts: we’re hooked. The brainwashing has gotten to us to the point where we’ve become addicted to bottled water. Take a look around, and notice what percentage of people you see in their daily activities are drinking bottled water, and I think you’ll agree. It’s time to move away from this philosophy, and move to something that is healthy for our bodies instead of cool. We must make sure we are drinking clean, pure water from some kind of water filter product. Whether it’s a home water filter or a portable water filter, make sure that your body is getting the correct amount and correct type of water.
Just How Clean is Bottled Water?
Monday, November 27th, 2006In an article by PBS Frontline the topic was “What’s in Your Water Bottle?” The article includes information on safety and lots of interesting facts about just how clean some bottled waters really are.
If you want to eliminate the risk of disease or harmful chemicals than you should avoid bottled water. After testing 1,000+ bottles of water (comprised over 100 different brands) nearly a third of them were contaminated with synthetic organic chemicals and bacteria. The obvious choice over bottled water is a filtered bottle. You know it’s properly filtered because you’re filtering it as you drink!
The World Health Organization (WHO) warns that bottled water is inherently a non-sterile product that’s stored longer and at warmer temperatures than tap water. The WHO says that these conditions lead to micro-organisms growing at higher levels. These microorganisms pose a threat to infants, pregnant women, and patients living with low immune systems.
The clear alternative to eliminate the threats found in bottled water is to filter water as you drink it with a Portable Filtered Water Bottle.
Are Water Filters Necessary?
Sunday, November 26th, 2006Never before has there been as great a need for water filtration, not only at home, but more importantly when away from home. America’s tap water is, in some cases, highly contaminated with toxic chemicals including heavy metals, organic compounds, chorine and other chlorinated compounds, pesticides, and virtually thousands of other known harmful contaminants. EPA reports show that US water supplies do contain over 2500 cancer causing agents.
In today’s society, especially in America, we use or are exposed to approximately 80,000 toxic chemicals every day. With, over 1,000 new toxic chemicals being developed every year, it is more important than ever to make sure the water we use is safe. We are learning the hard way that all these toxic chemicals are finding their way into our drinking water supplies. There is no “new water” because the planet simply recycles old water over and over, and as we use more and more synthetic chemicals, the levels in our water supply will increase proportionately. It is important to make sure you keep ahead of this curve and use water filters whenever you can. Not just at home or when it is convenient, you must filter your water all the time!
Our water treatment facilities, that have been in use for decades or in some cases a hundred years or more, were not designed to remove, detect, or filter synthetic chemicals or heavy metals like lead. Get a Level 2 or greater water filter bottle, and you no longer have to worry about lead. Municipal water treatment is the same it has been for well over 100 years: The water flows through sand to remove visible particles, and then chlorine is added to kill most of the bacteria. Nothing is done to filter for synthetic chemicals! Does that sound like something you want your family to drink?
When at home, you must make sure you have some kind of installed system or at very least a refrigerator system. But unless you never leave your house, you must also make sure you have enough portable water filters when you are away from home and traveling. How many times do you find yourself drinking from a water fountain at the gym or in the park because you are thirsty? Take a quick drink from the garden hose when you are out in the yard? What do you drink when you go traveling to other cities or countries?
Keep a water filter bottle at work, and one in your car. Make sure you have one in your gym bag. Most importantly, get your kids hooked on drinking pure water right now, it really will save their life!
Alternatives to bottled water
Saturday, November 25th, 2006Most people don’t know about alternatives to bottled water. If asked, many would say the only alternative is tap water. However, most people would agree that this option is only a last resort, mainly because of the common “bad taste” associated with tap water. There is a more affordable, more convenient way to get great tasting water while you are away from home; filtered water bottles. These are the greatest inventions ever! You get the convenience of being able to fill them up anywhere and they are more affordable than bottle water. Each filter lasts 40 to 80 gallons and you just replace the filter and keep using the bottle once you use the filter up. If you or someone you know drinks lots of bottled water this product will make you wonder why you spent fortunes on bottled water.
How Safe is your Water?
Saturday, November 25th, 2006Water flows to your home through a vast network of underground pipes that are often decades old with loose joints and broken pieces, allowing additional contamination from groundwater laden with industrial chemicals. Dozens of chemicals and live organisms are found in unprocessed tap water in major cities. For example, in 1993, in the city of Milwaukee, 400,000 people became ill from drinking water that had been found to contain the deadly parasite cryptosporidium. The term “deadly” is used in this case, because 104 people died!
Why risk being contaminated from something that you can filter for yourself? Are you going to trust governments and businesses and 25-year-old underground pipes to keep you and your family safe? You can keep Biological Filter Bottles in your house, the car, the kids’ backpack, and your travel bag. The Biological Bottle, with the .2 sub micron hollow fiber membrane filtering ability, will filter this deadly parasite out of the water. You no longer have to wonder what exactly is in your water when you drink it.
FDA Warns of Bottled Water Dangers
Saturday, November 25th, 2006The FDA turned up more scary information about perchlorate, which is the by-product of rocket fuel production. At certain levels, perchlorate can cause a variety of health problems, including thyroid disease. It has been found at contamination levels in water sources for many consumer products, including milk, lettuce, and bottled water.
Perchlorate is both a naturally occurring and manmade chemical. It is found naturally in nitrate fertilizer deposits in Chile. Most of the manmade perchlorate is found in US manufacturing of products such as pyrotechnics, gunpowder, fireworks, road flares, and it is the primary ingredient in solid rocket fuel. In recent years, there has been an increasing interest in perchlorate levels found in soil, runoff water, and water sources around the country. More importantly are the health effects this chemical has at different levels.
The FDA has released some of their initial study data. You will see from the chart that many places all over the country have differing levels of contamination. The FDA is currently working with the EPA on reasons for the contamination. The EPA, along with other federal agencies, are also studying health effects of perchlorate so they can determine at what levels this chemical is harmful.
The best thing you as a consumer can do is contact your local municipal water supply to see if they have information and/or test results relating to perchlorate in your tap water. Make sure you always have your water filter bottle, and don’t buy bottled water unless you are familiar with the source of the water used. In many cases, bottled water is manufactured in one or two areas, and delivered all over the country. Make sure you ask where the water actually came from. Otherwise, it’s best to only drink water from sources close to home, like your tap water. You can always get that bottled water taste by filtering as you drink from your portable water filter.