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Health & Fitness

Is Your Water Facet loaded?

By Joan McDaniel                   

  Loaded with toxins that is

Once on the road to recovery from my illness by getting away from the American Standard Fat-free diet and eating saturated fats, sea salt and raw veggies, I began to look into Environmental Pollutants in my home.  My research showed the very water from my facet was loaded with toxins. I found my municipal water provided contains invisible, unwanted unhealthy chemicals. 

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Municipalities, in the effort to protect the “Public”, dump chemicals into the water.  The number of chemicals added to public drinking water is beyond imagination and a recent report found “Probably Carcinogenic” chemicals in all municipal water samples tested.

This article explains why the water you use for bathing, cooking, drinking, washing and about anything else you do with water for should be filtered before use.

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Chlorine and Fluoride

I want to focus on only two of these many elements; Chlorine and Fluoride.  These chemicals are two of the most damaging substances to the health and digestive function of the human body. 

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