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Clean Water Is Crucial To A Child‘s
Development
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Other than just being smaller‚
children‘s bodies are really quite
different than that of an adult.
Because many of the crucial defense
systems that help protect adults from
disease are not fully developed in children‚
they are much more sensitive to carcinogens‚
lead and water-borne parasites than
adults. Just as medications and other
chemical compounds affect children differently
than they do adults‚ so do contaminants
in our air‚ drinking water and
foods.
Unfortunately there is little we can
do about toxins in the air and it may
be difficult to obtain all organic food‚
which only makes the purity of our water
even more important. Water is the body‘s
only way to flush out these toxins and
the purer the water is to start with...
the higher its capacity is to collect
and cleanse these harmful compounds
from the body. Pure water helps a child‘s
defenses grow stronger and perform better;
giving them the protection they need
during those fragile developing years.
A child‘s immune and detoxification
systems are still developing into and
throughout their early teens. Exposure
to trace levels of chlorine, toxic chemicals
& lead in drinking water during
childhood years has been linked to increased
risks of disease and learning disorders
in later years. A recent Baltimore study
showed that children with higher blood-lead
levels have a significantly higher rate
of problem behaviors than children with
low blood-lead levels. "This study
lends support to the belief that undue
exposure to lead in childhood years
may have a pervasive influence on the
prevalence of juvenile delinquency in
this country."
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Read More About Lead
in Drinking Water.
A mixture of chemicals such as chlorine‚
lead‚ herbicides‚ pesticides and
a host of other contaminants are commonly
found in our water supplies‚ and in many
bottled waters. These trace levels of water
borne chemicals have been documented to have
adverse health effects on humans‚ and
especially on small children.
Unfortunately the health standards that determine
how much and what levels of these toxins are
permitted in our drinking water are all based
on the potential effects on adults. These
"Maximum Contaminant Levels" (MCLs)
are also based on the false assumption that
we are only exposed to one chemical at a time.
We commonly find traces of several dozen different
toxic chemicals in tap water.
A recent report by the Environmental Working
Group‚ called "Into The Mouths Of
Babes"‚ found that of 29 Mid Western
cities tested all had at least one agricultural
chemical present and that most had 5 or more
in a single glass of tap water! The report
also points out that 45‚000 mothers in
these 29 cities were unknowingly making infant
formula with tap water containing three or
more toxic chemicals.
Often there are out breaks of chlorine resistant
parasites like Cryptosporidium and Giardia
in city water supplies‚ as was the case
recently in Milwaukee WI‚ when over 100
people died and 400‚000 became sick in
less than a month‚ mostly children and
the elderly‚ when the water system became
contaminated with Cryptosporidium. This intestinal
parasite causes flu like symptoms‚ but
can be fatal to small children and older adults...
and is not controlled by chlorine.
Childhood Asthma‚ Cancer‚ Leukemia
and immune disorders have all risen in the
last decade. Many experts and studies suggest
that this is partially due to children‘s
increased exposure to environmental toxins
and their decreased ability to detox. Water
plays a major role in a child‘s exposure
to toxins and in their body‘s ability
to get rid of them.
A child consumes 3 times as much water per
pound of body weight than an adult does‚
so they get a bigger dose of the chemicals
in their water‚ and they‘re developing
bodies are simply much more sensitive to the
harsh effects...
An increased intake of clean healthy water
is one of the easiest and best ways to help
promote good health for our children.
Childhood asthma and many other illnesses
have been directly linked to a child's level
of exposure to chlorine and other chemicals
from drinking and showering with tap water.
Home water filtration products are a great
investment in the health of our families.
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