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Cleansing Waters: Shower, Pool, Jacuzzi and Spa

The American Journal of Epidemiology and other well noted medical authorities have discovered that exposure to artificially chlorinated water found in pools and spas can contribute to health problems.
What Is Known:
1.  Swimmers absorb toxic levels of chlorine products in the course of a training session.
2.  Training two or more times a day will not allow [...]

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Materials Dissolved In Water

Inorganic Compounds
Metal and metalloid positive ions: Some of these ions (lead, mercury, and arsenic) are dangerous at extremely low concentrations and can be introduced into drinking water either though natural processes or as a result of human activity.  Other ions in this group (for example, calcium, magnesium, sodium, and potassium) are essential to human [...]

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Cleansing Waters: Shower, Pool, Jacuzzi and Spa

 
The American Journal of Epidemiology and other well noted medical authorities have discovered that exposure to artificially chlorinated water found in pools and spas can contribute to health problems.
 
What Is Known:

Swimmers absorb toxic levels of chlorine products in the course of a training session. 
Training two or more times a day will not allow the toxins [...]

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Bottled Water

Not All Water Is Created Equally 
Walk down a grocery aisle in any town in the US, Canada, Europe, or Asia and there is a virtual tidal wave of bottled water brands.  This worldwide 35 billion-dollar industry continues to grow as water quality concerns, and health and fitness awareness increases. 

To understand the various types of bottled [...]

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Fluoridation and Hip Fractures

The costs and health effects of osteoporotic fractures in the US are enormous. The total cost of fracture care is now about $9 billion/year. It is estimated that about 350,000 hip fractures occur per year and the incidence is rising. 
A study by the University of Iowa’s Department of Preventive Medicine and Environmental Health, calculated that [...]

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Fluoridation and Arsenic

 
On September 5, 2000, EPA Assistant Administrator Charles Fox informed the House Committee on Science that “there are no water quality criteria for fluoride either for protection of aquatic life or for the protection of human health.”
In a July 7, 2000 letter to Congress, the National Sanitation Foundation International (NSFI) reported that its tests indicated [...]

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Is City Water Deadly to Salmon?

In fluoridated areas, drinking water obtained from surface water with an average fluoride concentration of 0.1-0.2 ppm is raised to the “optimal” level of 0.7-1.2 ppm by the addition of sodium fluoride, hydrofluosilicic acid, or sodium silicofluoride. [Note: In 1985, the EPA raised the Maximum Contaminant Level to 4 ppm.] 
Fluoride, in community drinking water, enters [...]

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Fluoride Toxicity’s Effects on Male Reproductive Systems

In 1996, the Journal of Clinical Toxicology compared the serum testosterone concentrations in patients with skeletal flurosis, in order to assess the hormonal status in fluoride toxicity.  Serum testosterones were compared for patients afflicted with skeletal flurosis (n=30) and healthy males consuming water containing less than 1ppm fluoride (Control 1, n = 26) and a [...]

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Fluoride Testing

Cities all over the US purchase hundreds of thousands of gallons of fresh pollution concentrate from Florida – fluorosilicic acid (H2SiF6) – to fluoridate water. 
Fluorosilicic acid is composed of tetrafluorosiliciate gas and other species of fluorine gases captured in pollution scrubbers and concentrated into a 23% solution during wet process phosphate fertilizer manufacture. Generally, the [...]

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Fluoridation and Aluminum and Risk of Alzheimer’s and Dementia

Aluminum compounds are commonly used as clarifying agents in tap water.
Aluminum by itself is not readily absorbed by the body.  However, in the presence of fluoride ions, the fluoride ions combine with the aluminum to form aluminum fluoride, which is absorbed by the body.  In the body, the aluminum eventually combines with oxygen to form [...]

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