HAVE you ever asked yourself the question: Why do people have so little regard for good, healthy, natural water?
Our natural water is being gradually defiled by our lack of concern for others, and then we are quick to demand that millions be spent of purifying the dirty water – water that we dirtied because of a lack of caring!
Our bodies consist of 90 percent water and we cannot exist without it. God created us like that and gives us the resources for free.
But we think that we can do better by filling our bodies with unnatural stuff like reverse osmosis water that takes all the God-given minerals out of the water.
We are told that this is pure and clean water which is good for you. Yes, the water is clean and pure but of absolutely no value for the consumer.
Water has a unique quality in that if you take out minerals, it will naturally try to compensate by absorbing minerals from the nearest source.
As water flows underground over certain mineral formations, it absorbs these minerals before it flows down into the rivers and then to the sea.
When you now drink this reverse osmosis (RO) water the natural tendency will be for the empty, dead water to absorb minerals from your body.
Reverse Osmosis Water
Health Advantages & Disadvantages
(www.waterbenefitshealth.com/reverse-osmosis-water.html)
Nancy Hearn, CNC writes: ‘You might be interested to know that reverse osmosis was actually developed as a water treatment method over 40 years ago. The process was used primarily to de-salinate water.’
The following are three of the main disadvantages of drinking RO water:
1. The water is de-mineralised.
Since most mineral particles (including sodium, calcium, magnesium, magnesium, and iron) are larger than water molecules, they are removed by the semi-permeable membrane of the RO system.
Even though you may find some contradictory information online about the health benefits of reverse osmosis water, I am convinced that drinking de-mineralized water is not healthy.
The World Health Organisation conducted a study that revealed some of the health risks associated with drinking demineralized water include gastrointestinal problems, bone density issues, joint conditions, and cardiovascular disease. (See reference below to review the WHO study online.)
Removing the naturally occurring minerals also leaves the water tasteless. Many people thus have to add liquid minerals to their RO water to improve the taste.
2. The water is usually acidic.
One of the primary reasons RO water is unhealthy is because removing the minerals makes the water acidic (often well below 7.0 pH).
Drinking acidic water will not help maintain a healthy pH balance in the blood, which should be slightly alkaline.
In the natural health and medical communities, acidosis in the body is considered an underlying cause of most degenerative diseases.
In fact, in 1931, Dr Otto Warburg won the Nobel Prize for discovering the cause of cancer. In essence, he said it was caused by a lack of cellular oxygenation due to acidosis in the body.
Medical research has also determined that drinking acidic water (as well as other acidic beverages) will often cause a mineral imbalance in the body.
According to the WHO study, low mineral water increased diuresis (the production of urine by the kidneys) 20 percent on average and markedly increased the elimination of sodium, potassium, chloride, calcium and magnesium ions from the body.
3. Some critical contaminants are not removed.
While reverse osmosis is effective for removing a variety of contaminants in water, the reverse osmosis membrane alone does NOT remove volatile organic chemical (VOCs), chlorine and chloramines, pharmaceuticals, and a host of other synthetic chemicals found in municipal water.
However, some RO systems now have multi-stage filtration media (in addition to the RO membrane), such as activated carbon, which does remove chlorine and certain pesticides.
This is part of Nancy’s article on water if you would like to look it up.
WHO also confirms this that RO water is not good for you. (www.waterfyi.com)
Next time you take a much needed drink of water, ask yourself whether you are helping your body or sticking your head in the sand because it is too much trouble to research for yourself and give your body what it needs.
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