Your Weekly "Simple Health Secrets" by Asia Moore For Wednesday, August 20, 2003 Compliments of SolvingTheHealthPuzzle.com

Many of you probably already drink filtered water or bottled water because we recognize that there are many common contaminants in our water supply, such as:

Arsenic - Causes bladder, lung & skin cancer; may cause liver and kidney cancer.

Chlorine - By-products may contribute to cancer, birth defects and heart disease. Chlorine is commonly used in public water systems and is easily absorbed into our pores when we shower. As we breathe, we also inhale chlorine and other chemicals found in the shower water's mist!

Chlorine can cause, and worsens, skin irritations and rashes. Chlorine can even irritate eyes leaving them red, itchy and burning! You can receive MORE exposure to chlorine and other chemicals during a shower than by drinking the same water!

Chlorine readily passes through cell walls, and attaches to fatty acids in the cell, disrupting life-sustaining functions. The human body is composed of billions of similar cells, which also absorb chlorine, therefore making your daily shower an unforeseen health threat.

Lead - Can cause organ damage and lead to mental retardation.

Crytosporidium - A microbe that can harm people with weak immune systems.

Cadmium - A heavy metal that can cause breast cancer, kidney damage and bone disease.

Bacteria - Can cause serious illness or death. Power outages like the recent event in the eastern U.S. can disrupt water flow causing contamination.

Obviously, if you do not presently drink bottled or filtered water, you can see why it would be a good idea to start doing so.

We would not consider drinking any of the above contaminants on a daily basis, yet often we forget that we are bathing in them, however, how many of you have taken the idea of contaminant free water into the shower or bath? 

Why Are Shower Filters So Important?

Shower filters are important to your good health because the skin is the largest organ of the body, containing millions and millions of pores that absorb all of the above contaminants and pass them into the blood stream every time you shower or take a bath.

Research has shown that the amount of chlorine absorbed in a 10 minute shower in chlorinated water is equivalent to the amount of chlorine consumed in 8 glasses of water! Soaking up chlorine can dry out your skin, hair and impair your lungs and general health. 

Remember how your skin and hair felt after a swim in a chlorinated pool? Now remember how soft and silky they felt after a swim in a pure mountain stream or lake? Most shower head filtration systems will remove chlorine, heavy metals and bacteria from your water.

The results will be softer skin and hair and hair and if you color your hair, it will retains its color much longer. As well, you may find you require much less emollients after a shower when you are not drying out your skin with chlorine.

Do yourself and your family a favor and replace all the shower heads in your home, hotel, motel, or vacation unit with a reliable shower filtration system and save your skin, hair and lungs from this daily exposure to hazardous contaminants.

I hope you have enjoyed this simple health "secret", compliments of SolvingTheHealthPuzzle.com where you will learn simple "secrets" for a healthier life.

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Thanks for visiting and remember that being healthy is really a simple matter once you know the "Simple Health Secrets".

Sincerely,

Asia Moore,
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