Traditionally
it was thought that water had four functions: Solvent, transportant,
lubricant and coolant. It was not until after numerous in-depth
studies conducted with over weight patients that an additional
characteristic of the adipose cell came to light. It is the function
of fat cells to store that which the body cannot use or recognize.
A normal adipose cell contains for the most part salts, sugars,
and other organic compounds, all bathed in an ocean of water.
For
thousands of years fat cells have remained the same in spherical
shape, design and function. Unfortunately, the same statement
cannot be made of our environment today. Water, the very source
of life, has suffered the most serious consequences of man's exploitation
and manipulation. Experts are learning that increasing numbers
of aquifers (underground fields of water) of which some 108 million
American households depend on for their water supplies have slowly
been contaminated over the years be a potent array of man-made
chemicals.
The
principle sources of contamination, researches say, are associated
with the post-World War II chemical age. An estimated 810,000
industrial ponds, pits and dump sites contribute to this menacing
problem along with 80 million septic tanks discharging 91 trillion
gallons of waste each year. Federal investigators claim that 24,000
mining impoundments and at least 76,000 municipal landfills are
ineffectual of containment. Additional hazards are posed by the
millions of tons of fertilizers, pesticides, herbicides and fungicides
farmers spread on their fields annually. The threat has increased
dramatically in recent years with the tremendous growth of lawn
maintenance and service. Then finally, one must consider the vast
amount of toxic pollutants that fall from the sky each time it
rains.
The
main concern researchers have with these water-borne man-made
molecules is their suspected cause of our nations cancer explosion.
Regardless of our populations fetish for staying thin, were it
not for our fat cells none of us would be alive today. It is in
fact the function of our adipose cells through osmotic attraction
that absorbs the foreign organic and inorganic pollutants commonly
found in our drinking water until the body later has an opportunity
to release and dispose of them. Fat cells are good, not bad. They
store toxic material and keep it from being deposited in vital
areas. However, when fat cells have reached their capacity limit
of storage, our bodies vital organs thus become the final dumping
ground of chemical waste.
Americans
are the wealthiest, most educated people on earth. The quality
of our scientific and medical research is internationally renowned.
Hospital facilities and medical professionals in the United States
are held in the highest esteem. Our annual monetary commitment
to cancer research is far above any country, yet our adults and
children suffer the highest per capita rate of all forms of cancer.
Statisticians offer the most blatant evidence of our ever increasing
plight by comparing the climb in cancer deaths within the past
100 years. At the turn of the century, one out of every thousand
children born could expect to perish due to some type of malignancy.
Today
the actual rate is tragically telling. Parents of three children
can anticipate the early demise of at least one offspring because
of the dreadful disease of our day: CANCER
A
growing epidemic doesn't reverse until the source of the problem
has been eliminated. The first step is education and identification.
For generations it has been assumed that we could turn on our
tap and clean water would pour out. It was common judgment because
the water looked and tasted just fine. Unfortunately, what families
have not realized, is that the Environmental Protection Agency
(EPA) has identified more than 700 pollutants that occur regularly
in drinking water, both from municipal sources and from water
taken directly from the earth through private wells or springs.
Research has been completed only on 22 of these man-made molecules.
All 22, not surprisingly, have been proven conclusively to cause
cancer in humans. Money is not available to study the results
of our digestion of the remaining 678 pollutants. More alarming
still is that it has been estimated that the 700 identified chemicals
could represent as little as 10 percent of the actual number of
cancer-causing contaminants that may be present in our municipal
drinking water. Pressure is mounting to phase out the use of chlorine
due to it's proven tendency to combine with even naturally occurring
substances found in water to produce deadly dioxins. The quandary
expands further when we appreciate the growing resistance of parasites
to chlorine. One million unsuspecting citizens become ill from
their drinking water each year in this country. One thousand die!
Inerestingly, there is a curious similarity with nearly all these
chemicals. Most toxic hazards in our water do not change it's
taste, smell, or appearance. One must therefore wonder if any
of these stricken individuals and their family members ever completely
understood the invisible source of their tragedy.
Drilling
a deeper well does not necessarily solve the problem. Soil does
not filter these contaminants, and the further down you go in
many cases, the more concentrated pollutants become. Another misconception
is boiling water. Only purified water vapor is released leaving
behind an even more potent solution.
In
my professional opinion, the only reliable and economical method
to insure pure water for the protection of your families health
is the application of a (point of use) commercial-membrane, reverse-osmosis
system. The nearly exclusive consumption of pure water immediately
allows the culmination of the protection our fat cells afford
us. Each cell will over a period of time with continual intake
of purified water gradually disperse it's toxic contents into
the solution of blood due to the law of equilibrium...(osmosis),
and those foreign ingredients eventually find their way of removal
through the kidneys.
Indeed,
the fifth function of water PURE WATER, is the natural method
a living organism employs to reverse the deposition of foreign
pollutants.
