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Please read this entire message! It's crucial to your health that you read this and take action! I've been luggin' 5 gallon jugs around for a while now, but the occasional tap water does enter my body now and then... I know where I live (Moorhead, MN) the water is undeed lightly chlorinated... Of course... It doesn't take much... Not sure about Fargo, ND. The city across the river where I work, etc.

But you can bet finding out is a big priority...

On another note... My next blog will be about plastics... Wich ones are safe, wich ones aren't, why, how, when, where, etc... Who knew Nalgene bottles and the PVC baby bottles and jugs we all leak carcinogenic compounds into whatever we put in them... Especiall if said substance is hot! Check out the latest issue of Delicious Living, or get your but in gear and start reading info on health related matters on line if you can't wait. Go on now... Get yer head outta the sand... Best wishes~

And... Forgive the typos!

Chlorine Study in Japan Chlorine Health Alert

http://www.fulvic.com/healthalert/chlorine2.htm From: Hank Roelofs



Cancer fighting nutrients become deadly when combined with chlorinated

tap water...



Some of naturebs most valuable and essential anti-cancer and

anti-disease

phytochemical nutrients, which are commonly found in food have been

discovered to form deadly cancer causing substances when consumed or

combined with chlorinated tap water. This discovery includes familiar

foods including soy, fruits, vegetables, tea, many health products, and

even some vitamins. Research has proven that these essential nutrients

are

the exact same families of compounds, that even in infinitesimal

amounts

have been tormenting the water treatment and chlorine industries for

years.



Recently, a joint study was undertaken in Japan by research scientists

at

the National Institute of Health Sciences and

ShizuokaPrefecturalUniversity.They determined that natural organic

substances originating from foods, including fruits, soy, and green or

black tea, react when tap water is chlorinated, forming dangerous

cancer

causing compounds. These deadly compounds have been named MX, which

stands

for "unknown mutagen", and are similar to the already well-known and

more

easily detected cancer causing THMs (trihalomethanes).



The Japanese scientists specifically mentioned that their studies

showed

that MX is created by the reaction of chlorine with natural organic

plant

phytochemicals such as catechins, which are contained in tea, and

flavonoids which are found in fruit. Since Japan has an extremely high

consumption of tea, fruits, and soy products, it is easy to see how

high

amounts of residues from these foods would end up in their wastewater

treatment and water recycling systems.



Earlier studies by scientists in Finland in 1997 determined that MX is

170

times more deadly than other known toxic byproducts of chlorination,

and

was shown in laboratory studies to damage the thyroid gland as well as

cause cancerous tumors.



THMs are known to be created by the reaction of chlorine with humic and

fulvic acids, which are the final breakdown products of vegetation,

including decayed leaves and organic matter. Humic substances are the

same

as soil humus, of which the fulvic fraction is water soluble and

readily

transported into streams and waterways, as well as utilized

nutritionally

by plants.



Very recent scientific discoveries have identified and clarified the

composition of fulvic and humic acids as containing a significant

amount

of nutritional phytochemical groups including hormones, sterols, fatty

acids, polyphenols, and ketones, which subgroups include but are not

limited to: flavins, flavonoids, flavones, tannins, catechins,

quinones,

isoflavones, tocopherols, etc.



These compounds are some of the most valuable and promising anti-cancer

nutrients found in our foods and health supplements. Coenzyme Q10 is a

quinone, vitamin B-2 is a flavin, vitamin E is a tocopherol, citrus

bioflavonoids including hesperidin, quercetin, and rutin are all

flavonoids, green tea contains catechins, phenols, tannins, and

isoflavones. Potentially all of these substances, and many more, are

implicated by chlorination.



Amazingly, is has been discovered that these phytochemicals remain

intact,

concentrated, and intricately combined within humic substances; which

are

valuable remnants of natures protective substances contained within

fruits, flowers, pollen, nuts and seeds, as well as vegetative parts

including roots, stems, bark, and leaves. Even the plant nucleic acids,

RNA and DNA remain intact.





To comply with EPA rulings, water treatment plants have had to develop

special techniques to scrub the seemingly dubious organic residues from

water prior to treatment with chlorine. There is nothing wrong with the

organic substances themselves, it is chlorine that is at fault for

turning

them into the deadly THM and MX cancer cocktail. Reality is that the

organic substances have been shown to be highly beneficial combined

with

pure drinking water in trace amounts.



The bottom line is this: when water treatment facilities remove these

substances, they are throwing the precious baby out with the bath

water,

and the remnants that remain are turned into cancer causing agents by

chlorination. To make things worse, it is certain that the fresh plant

foods we eat similarly react with the chlorinated tap water we drink

with

our meals, creating toxins. This means that fresh fruits and

vegetables,

green salads, green tea, black tea, herb teas, soy products, vitamin

pills

and various health supplements, and even some pharmaceutical drugs, all

can be implicated in combination with chlorinated water.



The deadly cancer causing agents which are produced are extremely toxic

in

infinitesimal amounts, so small and obscure that they are extremely

difficult to detect. Very little chlorine is required. When the

concentrations of phytochemicals are high, such as in concentrated

health

supplements, or even fruits and vegetables coming from more fertile

soils,

the deadly combination with chlorination intensifies.

.

It has been known by the water treatment and chemical industries for

many

years that chlorine reacts negatively with natural organic compounds.

These industries call these compounds DBPs (disinfection by-products)

which are known to cause cancer in populations whose drinking water

contains them. THM, the most commonly known DBP, is known to cause a

high

incidence of bladder cancer and also to cause spontaneous abortion of

etuses.



The Environmental Protection Agency has continually tightened their

restrictions on THMs in drinking water, and even tighter restrictions

are

just around the bend. Yet it is interesting to note that the many

government agencies and chlorine industries have conveniently neglected

to

take a serious look at food, health supplement, and pharmaceutical drug

consumption, preparation, and production relating to use of chlorinated

tap water.



There is good reason for the public to seriously examine and question

this

entire issue. Many years ago laws were passed making chlorination of

water

mandatory. Now, the chlorine industry and government agencies must

continue their existing policies, because if sudden or drastic changes

are

made, the legal liabilities would be staggering. Certainly some

government

or industry personnel have known or theorized about these problems and

have been covering them up for many years. However, if anyone were to

admit to it, the consequences could be disastrous. This predicament

could

make the tobacco industry scandal seem insignificant in comparison.



Another area needing thorough scrutiny relates to pharmaceutical drug

safety studies normally performed on animals in the laboratory. It

would

be reasonable to surmise that good laboratory practices and procedures

would require that such studies be performed using highly purified

drinking water for animals. It would be reasonable to believe that drug

companies would not take the chance of jeopardizing clinical studies

using

chlorinated tap water. Of course chlorinated tap water is a common

denominator within the human environment. Educating people to the

dangers

of chlorine would be admitting to knowledge of the problem, which could

invalidate past studies and certainly raise serious legal problems.



This whole chlorine issue should come as no real surprise to any

biochemist. During the last century, chlorine has been combined with

many

other normally safe organic substances to form some of the most

powerful

deadly toxins known, such as dioxin, DDT, PCBs, etc. The bottom line is

that the real culprit is chlorine, not the substances with which it

reacts.



Although chlorine has essentially eliminated the risks of waterborne

diseases such as typhoid fever, cholera and dysentery, there are many

pathogens that are not controlled by chlorine. Other and better methods

of

water treatment exist. Many alternatives are already used throughout

the

world. Ever tightening EPA regulations have forced the water supply

industry in the USA to look into alternative methods for disinfecting

ater.



For years, environmentalists have battled the water treatment industry

and

large chemical companies in an effort to ban the use of chlorine in

drinking water. This ongoing battle has been a big source of revenue

for

both sides. As word of the problem spreads to the general public,

something might actually be done about it.



As this message spreads, it will no doubt shake the very foundations of

the chlorine and water treatment industries, let alone the government

agencies that are implicated along with them. There certainly should be

cause for serious alarm within the nutritional supplement and food

industries, as well as those segments of the medical industry that

might

awaken to the dilemma.



This message is of utmost importance to the general public, because

chlorine will one day, in the near future, be exposed as a major cause

and

contributor to cancer and degenerative disease. Chlorine will also be

found to be responsible for damaging the bodybs immune and hormonal

systems by mutating the food-based plant estrogens and phytochemicals

that

support those systems. A healthy immune system should be your first and

best line of defense against waterborne disease.





Merrily Smith, Publisher

The Holistic Helper

POB 59836

Dallas TX 75229-1836

972.580.0545 B

214.350.4229 H

214.208.5876 C

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