| When examining the amount of chlorine in drinking | | | | Most people worry about chlorine in drinking water, |
| water, the results are really quite astounding. What's | | | | but what's even more dangerous and harmful to your |
| even more astounding is the threat that chlorine in | | | | health is showering in it. In fact during a 10-minute |
| drinking water has on you and your family's health. | | | | shower, your body will in up to 50 times the level of |
| For example, did you know that this standard | | | | water-borne chemicals (chlorine) than from drinking a |
| disinfectant chemical used in all municipal water plants | | | | glass of the same water. This is because taking a |
| has been shown to help cause cancer, among other | | | | warm/hot shower opens up your pores more, which |
| diseases and disorders? Chlorine in drinking water | | | | causes accelerated absorption of chlorine and other |
| combines with other natural compounds, forming | | | | chemicals. |
| THM's (chlorination byproducts). These byproducts | | | | What's even worse is the steam you inhale- it's far |
| trigger the production of free radicals in the body, | | | | more contaminated that the water itself because |
| which destroy your cells and are very carcinogenic. | | | | these chemicals vaporize much faster than water. |
| Back in the early 1900s, only 1 out of every 50 | | | | Chlorine that's inhaled goes directly to the |
| people were expected to have some sort of cancer. | | | | bloodstream and has magnified negative effects. And |
| Today, 1 of every 3 people (and 1 out of every 2 | | | | if you can believe it, roughly two-thirds of the |
| men) will have some sort of cancer throughout their | | | | harmful effects of chlorine are experienced through |
| lifetime. This is said by many people to be because | | | | inhalation and skin absorption while showering. |
| of the prevalence of chlorine in drinking water, as well | | | | Because of the simple fact that we cannot individually |
| as herbicides, pesticides, and other synthetic | | | | control what is used to make and grow our food or |
| chemicals. | | | | what's pumped into the air we breath, IT ONLY |
| Get this: The EPA's guidelines allow public water | | | | MAKES SENSE that we take control over the water |
| treatment plants to use up to 4 parts per million | | | | we consume! By using point-of-use water filtration |
| (ppm) of chlorine. But this amount, whether people | | | | systems, you can assure that the water you and |
| know it or not, is actually very alarming seeing that | | | | your family drinks, cooks with, and bathes with is |
| most pool kits say that water with more then 3 ppm | | | | pure, healthy, and free of contaminants. |
| is unsafe to swim in! | | | | |