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The Drinking Water Crisis -
The fact that there is a problem today with our drinking water few people will dispute, depending perhaps upon the definition of healthy water and what threshold of contaminants or quality individuals are willing to tolerate and consider good or bad. By all standards, much of our drinking water today contains chemicals detrimental to health. Federal, state and city laws and guidelines govern levels of chemicals permitted in municipal water. Ironically, one of the deadly chemicals, chlorine, is introduced out of necessity to kill things that would be of even greater consequence. Common knowledge and reason should lead each of us to action to ensure within our homes chlorine, thrihalomethanes and other harmful chemicals are not permitted to pass from tap to glass. For over 20 years I personally have not consumed municipal water unprotected except for when dining outside our home, but I am continually surprised to learn of friends and acquaintances who have not applied much thought or action to this rather apparent water problem. Whether individuals give regard, that water is contaminated is the obvious. There is another water metric that lies lurking further beneath the radar.
Why Alkaline Drinking Water is Important to Your Health -
As a Nutritionist, I have known for years that individuals seeking the best possible health or to improve existing chronic health conditions should adjust their diet toward Alkaline foods rather than Acidic. This should not be news to readers - you have probably heard this a dozen times before. The problem, like so many other good things in life, is how to implement. The list of Alkaline foods and Acidic foods can be a great help. But even when one knows better, it still is hard because an Alkaline diet is generally not one of convenience or preference. Alkalizing foods include dark greens like spinach, vegetables like celery and cabbage, fruits like apricot and avocado, and other foods that are not so likely to magically appear on the “random” menu. Selecting the Alkaline foods is only half the equation - avoiding the Acidic foods is also important. But even if one were to master the choice of Alkaline foods, the challenge is greater than first appears, and for good reason. Just as our bodies are 70% Water, so our diet consists in considerable proportion of Water. So, does water help a serious seeker of the Alkaline Diet? Aha… here’s where the bigger issue - and perhaps surprise - lies.
The Body PH Balance Dilemma -
A very real PH Dilemma for many people is that try as one may to eat a diet rich in Alkaline foods, nearly all of the drinking water most people have access to is NOT Alkaline. Rather it is Acidic. Perhaps some people who test their drinking water will find it to be neutral or weakly alkaline, but the vast majority of drinking water tests Acidic. Good thing we keep soda drinks in the fridge! Right? Because certainly a nice “soda” drink ought to be less acidic than acidic tap water. Wouldn’t it be? NOT! Soda pop is one of the worst offenders on the pH scale of Human Health. Acid Acid Acid. Bottled Water to the rescue then. Where else would you look to for a solution? The plain fact is that of the tests I have seen data on for Bottled Water… you guessed right… Acidic. Even water prepared by Reverse Osmosis is acidic. So our list of options to find Alkaline drinking water is “drying up” - pardon the pun.
How the Body Attempts to Solve the PH Problem -
What is the consequence to your health of an Acidic diet and Acidic water and Acidic soda drinks? Can’t your body accommodate the PH of what we drink? That is a fabulous question. It is a complicated question. But in a few words let me share some perspective. Your body consisting of Trillions of cells is one of incredible design and YES - it does have provisions for accommodating a wide range of environmental and dietary parameters. But it must regulate body processes within very narrowly defined parameters. In order to accommodate the wide range of inputs while maintaining the narrowly governed body function metrics, it must prioritize and sometimes must sacrifice one good thing for a better. The PH of your blood, for example, must be 7.2 to 7.4 - a narrowly defined metric. So important to us is our blood PH metric which must be maintained 24/7/365.25 that the body will sacrifice minerals including calcium from our bones in order to preserve our blood PH so we can live another day. But over time, when a person stresses his or her body by continuing to impose upon it such great demands to solve because of preferences of diet and water, they will eventually pay the price. Good health is not a given but rather it is something that we must all strive for. Drinking Acidic water does not help win the fight for good Health.
How a Kangen Water Ionizer Helps Balance Your Body PH -
Solving water PH is accomplished with a Water Ionizer machine. There are many brands of water ionizers. The one I personally use is manufactured by Enagic and it produces a quality of water called “Kangen Water”, trademark of Enagic, which I believe to be the Very Healthiest Water available for human consumption - hence the name of my website VeryHealthyWater.org. Ionization accomplishes a very important enhancement to ones drinking water. It actually turns tap water into Antioxidants! Hard to believe? But true. Many people are careful to ensure they have antioxidants in their diet. Oxidation Reduction Potential (ORP) is a measurement of Antioxidant value, and the higher the positive ORP the worse something is for our body while the lower or more negative the ORP the better something is for us in terms of Antioxidant potential. To illustrate the significance of Ionization in improving the ORP value of drinking water, the following is actual test data of various common water sources:
ORP TESTS: Negative is Good / Positive is Bad *
* -387 Kangen Water (Ionized)
* +261 Bottled Water Brand #1
* +263 Bottled Water Brand #2
* +273 Bottled Water Brand #3
* +280 Bottled Water Brand #4
* +282 Bottled Water Brand #5
* +330 Tap
* tests are based on water sampled
Please note that these measurements are provided for comparison of the Ionized Water with other common drinking water sources. Actual results may vary due to the variety of conditions under which drinking water is prepared. The point of the comparison should jump off the page at readers… the Ionized Kangen Water ™ is the only water with a negative ORP, and because of the magnitude of its negative ORP value it provides Antioxidant capacity which will help neutralize Free Radicals in the body of the fortunate individuals who drink the Ionized Kangen Water ™.
To recap, I will share my definition of Very Healthy Water:
1. The bad stuff (chlorine, trihalomethane, heavy metals, etc.) is removed by filtration
2. PH is Alkaline to help neutralize Acid and contribute to an Alkaline body PH
3. A highly negative ORP Antioxidant value to neutralize Free Radicals
Facts will always be facts, and what you do with those facts becomes your reality. Your health is in part a function of what you ingest. So the question for each of us is whether we will apply some “basic” (pardon the pun) knowledge of science and health and take action to solve our personal water crisis before the water we drink gets the better of us. It may be said that what we eat becomes what we are. With 70% of our body water, I propose we justifiably state we also are what we drink. Change your water and change your health… no success can compensate for the premature failure of the human body, and you are worth whatever it takes to make sure your health is the best it can be. For my family and me, we’ll keep our Kangen Water Ionizer busy at our kitchen sink and enjoy Clean Alkaline Ionized Water free from contaminants and nicely charged with an ORP to deliver potent glasses of Antioxidant Water to neutralize Free Radicals and keep us Alkaline from head to toe and all the way between! And we will also save money by not having to purchase all that Bottled Water.
To purchase a Kangen Water Ionizer or for more information regarding the benefits of Kangen Water please visit www.revivedwater.com
