Chlorinated water is the standard across our nation for most water treatment plants. Unfortunately this tradition started back in the late 1800's. In spite of all out technological advances, we literally pour bleach in our drinking water to disinfect it. Chlorine is used because of its inexpensive cost, regardless of its harmful effects or ineffectiveness as a disinfectant. The long-term effects of chlorinated drinking water are just now being recognized by a study from the Medical College of Wisconsin Research Team,
According to the U.S. Council of Environmental Quality, "Cancer risk among people drinking chlorinated water is 93% higher than among those whose water does not contain chlorine.”
Dr. Price did a study using chickens as test subjects, in which two groups of several hundred were observed throughout maturity. One group was given chlorinated water and the other water without chlorine. The results of the study found, the chickens with chlorinated water showed heart or circulatory disease in every specimen. The group without chlorinated water had no incidence of disease.
When put in cold weather conditions the chickens with chlorine, showed signs of outward poor circulation shivering, drooping feathers and a reduced level of activity. The group without chlorine had a faster period of growth was larger in statue and displayed vigorous health. This study was well received in the poultry industry and is still used today as a reference. As a result, most large poultry producers now use dechlorinated water.
“It would a common sense conclusion that if regular chlorinated tap water is not good enough for the chickens, then it is probably not good enough for humans!”
Dr. Joseph Price wrote a highly controversial book in the late sixties titled Coronaries/Cholesterol/Chlorine and concluded, “Nothing can negate the incontrovertible fact., the basic cause of atherosclerosis and resulting entities such as heart attacks and strokes, is chlorine.”
Chlorine still has a lot of people concerned about its use in public drinking waters, and pools. When chlorine is added to our water, it combines with other natural compounds to form Trihalomethanes (chlorination byproducts), or THMs. These chlorine byproducts trigger the production of free radicals in the body, causing cell damage and are highly carcinogenic.
According to the Environmental Defense Fund, “Although concentrations of these carcinogens (THMs) are low, it is precisely these low levels that cancer scientists believe are responsible for the majority of human cancers in the United States.”
According to the U.S. Federal Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), chlorine is a pesticide whose sole purpose is to kill living organisms. When we consume water containing chlorine, it kills some part of us, destroying cells and tissue inside our body.
Dr. Robert Carlson, a respected University of Minnesota researcher whose work is sponsored by the EPA, sums the dilemma by claiming, “the chlorine problem is similar to that of air pollution.” He touts, “Chlorine is the greatest crippler and killer of modern times!:
For this reason everyone should have a shower filter that removes chlorine from your water. The skin is the largest organ of the body. If you mostly take showers then protect your body from absorbing the harmful effects of chlorinated water.
October was breast cancer awareness month. However many American women are unaware of the chlorine/cancer connection. Breast cancer, has been linked to the accumulation of chlorine compounds in the breast tissue.
A study carried out in Hartford, Connecticut the first of its kind in North America, found “Women with breast cancer have 50% to 60% higher levels of organochlorines (chlorination byproducts) in their breast tissue than women without breast cancer.”
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Reference: A study, on chlorinated water and cancer. (2011) http://www,drkelley,info/2011/11/26/chlorine-cancer-and-heart-disease/.
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