Water
Of the natural elements needed for human health, our mind turns first to water. Without fresh water intake, the life of our bodies cannot be maintained for more than a few days.
Most of the water on the planet is saline and exists in the oceans which cover 71% of the surface with a suggested average depth of about two miles. Salt water in addition of sodium chloride and other salts has a high mineral content and if we would try to exist by drinking it would prove fatal.
We need fresh water as nature provides in evaporated form drawn to the sky to fall as rain into lakes, rivers and reservoirs. It would seem to be a simple requirement.
However, with pollution of our atmosphere, the air often contaminates the rain. With chemical pollution from industry and agriculture, our water run off from the earth is no longer always safe to drink. Water drawn from underground is often therefore also polluted.
It is no longer easy to find truly fresh, pristine water on our planet. In consequence, we are suffering many health problems and these affect both brain and body.
Those who are alert to the dangers and make effort to take responsibility for their own health have resorted to home water purifiers, bottled water, or install rainwater tanks to minimize the problems.
Our official government health authority in this country, Australia, has a philosophy that causes them to add more chemicals to the public water supplies, rather than to take out the offending elements. Consequently we are subject to water supplies that have the addition of chlorine and fluoride and possibly other chemicals that are planned to inject into our water systems.
As there is no way we can logically believe that our main lifeline to health, our water, should be used as a means of medication we cannot support government health policy in this regard. It may purport to offer us better teeth in the case of fluoride, but neglects to care for us further by adding a further tonic for our hearts, lungs and other physiological functions.
The argument used to justify chlorine is its use to kill off any bugs in the water.
If both chlorine and fluoride are high on the list of carcinogens, what possible reason would we have to wish to drink water treated in this manner? We have been given no choice.
We must now struggle to find the best quality water possible and hope that in time, science will prevail with evidence of the disastrous side effects of water abuses of the magnitude employed in public water systems of the industrial world.
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