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Benefits of drinking Quality Filtered Water

Written by: Janet Parker, zazen Water - Thursday, September 29, 2011

10 Reasons to Drink Water

  1. Water is absolutely essential to the human body’s survival. A person can live for about a month without food, but only about a week without water.
  2. Water helps to maintain healthy body weight by increasing metabolism and regulating appetite.
  3. Water leads to increased energy levels. The most common cause of daytime fatigue is actually mild dehydration.
  4. Drinking adequate amounts of water can decrease the risk of certain types of cancers, including colon cancer, bladder cancer, and breast cancer.
  5. For a majority of sufferers, drinking water can significantly reduce joint and/or back pain.
  6. Water leads to overall greater health by flushing out wastes and bacteria that can cause disease.
  7. Water can prevent and alleviate headaches.
  8. Water naturally moisturises skin and ensures proper cellular formation underneath layers of skin to give it a healthy, glowing appearance.
  9. Water aids in the digestion process and prevents constipation.
  10. Water is the primary mode of transportation for all nutrients in the body and is essential for proper circulation.

10 Reasons to Use a Water Filter

  1. In order to capitalise on the health benefits of water, it is essential to draw from a clean source of water.
  2. Drinking impure, contaminated water is the leading cause of epidemic disease in developing countries.
  3. There are more than 2100 known drinking water contaminants that may be present in tap water, including several known poisons.
  4. Bottled water does not offer a viable alternative to tap water.
  5. Municipal water treatment facilities cannot always control for the outbreak of dangerous bacterial contaminants in tap water.
  6. The only way to ensure pure, contaminant-free drinking water is through the use of a point-of-use filtration system in your home or office.
  7. Several types of cancer can be attributed to the presence of toxic materials in drinking water.
  8. Clean, healthy drinking water is essential to a child’s proper mental and physical development.
  9. According to the EPA, lead in drinking water contributes to 480,000 cases of learning disorders in children each year in the United States alone.
  10. It is especially important for pregnant women to drink pure water as lead in drinking water can cause severe birth defects.

10 Benefits of Using a Water Filter

  1. Water filters provide better tasting and better smelling drinking water by reducing chlorine and bacterial contaminants.
  2. Point-of-use water filters reduce lead from drinking water immediately prior to consumption, thus preventing this harmful substance from entering the body.
  3. The purchase of a countertop filter results in a source of clean, healthy water that costs much less than bottled water.
  4. Water filters greatly reduce the risk of rectal cancer, colon cancer, and bladder cancer by reducing chlorine and chlorine byproducts such as Trihalomethanes and Disinfectant By-Products from drinking water.
  5. A solid block carbon water filter can selectively reduce dangerous contaminants from drinking water while retaining healthy mineral deposits that balance the pH of drinking water.
  6. Drinking clean, filtered water protects the body from disease and leads to overall greater health.
  7. A water filter provides clean, healthy water for cooking, as well as drinking, at the convenience of tap water.
  8. Water filters reduce the risk of gastrointestinal disease by more than 33 percent by reducing cryptosporidium and giardia from drinking water.
  9. Drinking pure water is especially important for children. Water filters provide the healthiest water for children’s developing immune systems.
  10. Water filters offer the last line of defense between the body and the over 2100 known toxins that may be present in drinking water.

Some Interesting and Useful Water Facts

Written by: Janet Parker, zazen Water - Tuesday, September 27, 2011

Did you know.......?


Roughly 70% of an adult’s body is made up of water.  At birth, water accounts for approximately 80% of an infant’s body weight.

While the daily recommended amount of water is eight cups per day (we more specifically recommend 1 litre for every 25kgs of body weight), not all of this water must be consumed in the liquid form. Nearly every food or drink item provides some water to the body.
Soft drinks, coffee, and tea, while made up almost entirely of water, also contain caffeine. Caffeine can act as a mild diuretic, preventing water from traveling to necessary locations in the body. So these drinks don't count in your daily water intake.

Pure water (solely hydrogen and oxygen atoms) has a neutral pH of 7, which is neither acidic nor basic.  Water dissolves more substances than any other liquid. Wherever it travels, water carries chemicals, minerals, and nutrients with it.

Somewhere between 70 and 75 percent of the earth’s surface is covered with water (similar to the percentage in our bodies - interesting coincidence!!).
Much more fresh water is stored under the ground in aquifers than on the earth’s surface.  The earth is a closed system, similar to a terrarium, meaning that it rarely loses or gains extra matter. The same water that existed on the earth millions of years ago is still present today. We are drinking the same water the dinosaurs drank! 
The total amount of water on the earth is about 326 million cubic miles of water.  Of all the water on the earth, humans can use only about three tenths of a percent of this water. Such usable water is found in groundwater aquifers, rivers, and freshwater lakes.

The average person uses anywhere from 300 to 400 litres of water per day. Flushing the toilet actually takes up the largest amount of this water.

By the time a person feels thirsty, his or her body has lost over 1 percent of its total water amount.
The weight a person loses directly after intense physical activity is weight from water, not fat.


The Facts on our Health

Written by: Janet Parker, zazen Water - Thursday, June 30, 2011

In Australia, we lead the way globally in certain areas of disease and illness. 

  • Cardiovascular disease is our number ONE Killer!
  • A lifetime risk of developing cancer is 1 in 2 for men; 1 in 3 for women (trending to 1 in 2)
  • 37% of population suffer from sleep disorders
  • Depression linked to lack of quality sleep (World Health Organisation)
  • 60% of Australia’s adult population are overweight
  • Diabetes will affect up to 10% of the population by 2010
  • Water is our most important nutrient – it’s a GLOBAL crisis that threatens to dwarf the Energy Crisis
  • Water standards in Australia are voluntary guidelines. There are no penalties for non compliance, and no compulsion to inform the public.

A zazen Essential Water filter (which should be white) showing what it has taken out of our drinking water

A zazen Alkaline Water filter (which should be white)
showing what it has taken out of our drinking water
 

“Up to 75,000 illness days and 550 deaths are attributed to water contamination in NSW.”  (John Archer, Author)

Why is this happening?
 
Dr. Batmanghelidj (author of “Your Body’s Many Cries for Water) states:  

From the new perspective of my 22 years of clinical research into molecular physiology of dehydration…I can safely say the 60 million Americans with hypertension, the 110 million with chronic pains, the 15 million with diabetes, the 17 million with asthma, the 50 million with allergies…all waited to get thirsty. Had they realized water is a natural antihistamine and a more effective diuretic, these people would have been saved the agony of their health problems.”

Whilst this quote is referencing Americans, the same can be said for Australians.  In fact in some statistics we are worse than Americans, for example our obesity rate is higher.  Not much to be proud of in that.

Dehydration is a condition in which the body’s ability to operate as a self-healing organism is blocked.  It affects blood pressure, blood-sugar metabolism, digestion, and kidney function.  Thirst means the body is already in this state, and dry mouth is the last symptom of chronic dehydration.

What causes dehydration?  Besides the fact that many people don’t drink enough water, they also consume excessive amounts of coffee, sugar-filled drinks, regular and diet soda, herbal and black tea, sports drinks, and concentrated juices.  
 
Sugar dehydrates the body and caffeine is a diuretic that causes the body to eliminate fluids.  Most of us think of thirst as the common signal that our bodies need water.  However, because we’ve ignored it or responded with fluids that make the situation worse, we’ve become desensitized.  
 
Consequently, as we grow older, we gradually lose our perception of thirst, compounding the challenge and actually speeding up the aging process.  Fatigue is the first symptom of dehydration.  By the time we feel thirsty, we’re already dehydrated.  Pain is yet another sign the body sends, telling us it needs more water

Water Vs Other Drinks

Written by: Janet Parker, zazen Water - Wednesday, June 22, 2011

It is difficult for the body to get water from any other source than water itself.
 
Did you know?

  • Soft drinks steal water from the body ~ for every glass of soft drink you have, you need to drink 8 to 12 glasses of water to compensate the dehydrating effects!
  • Milk, juice and coffee also require water and minerals from the body to be properly digested.
  • Soft drinks and other caffeine-containing beverages don’t allow the water to stay in the body long enough.  Within an hour, your child will urinate more than the cup of beverage they drink.

 

    Juices and milk are no substitute for water

When children are given fruit juice and soft drinks to the exclusion of water, it only compounds the dehydration problem.  At the same time, this cultivates their preference for the taste of soft drinks and juices and reduces their natural urge to drink water.
 
THE FACTS ON WATER
 
1. 75% of Americans are chronically dehydrated. (Likely applies to half the world population.)
2. In 37% of Americans, the thirst mechanism is so weak that it is mistaken for hunger.
3. Even MILD dehydration will slow down one’s metabolism by 3%.
4. One glass of water will shut down midnight hunger pangs for almost 100% of the dieters studied in a University of Washington study.
5. Lack of water, the #1 trigger of daytime fatigue.
6. Preliminary research indicates that 8-10 glasses of water a day could significantly ease back and joint pain for up to 80% of sufferers.
7. A mere 2% drop in body water can trigger fuzzy short-term memory, trouble with basic math, and difficulty focusing on the computer screen or on a printed page.
8. Drinking 5 glasses of water daily decreases the risk of colon cancer by 45%, slashes the risk of breast cancer by 79%, and you are 50% less likely to develop bladder cancer. 

THE FACTS ON COCA-COLA

1. In many US states the highway patrol carries two gallons of Coke in the trunk to remove blood from the highway after a car accident.
2. You can put a T-bone steak in a bowl of Coke and it will be gone in two days.
3. To clean a toilet: Pour a can of Coca-Cola into the toilet bowl and let the “real thing” sit for one hour, then flush clean. The citric acid in Coke removes stains from vitreous china.
4. To remove rust spots from chrome car bumpers: Rub the bumper with a rumpled-up piece of aluminum foil dipped in Coca-Cola.
5. To clean corrosion from car battery terminals: Pour a can of Coca-Cola over the terminals to bubble away the corrosion.
6. To loosen a rusted bolt: Apply a cloth soaked in Coca-Cola to the rusted bolt for several minutes.
7. To remove grease from clothes: Empty a can of Coke into the load of greasy clothes, add detergent, and run through a regular cycle. The Coca-Cola will help loosen grease stains.  It will also clean road haze from your windshield.

Why do we get such a charge from a can of Cola or manufactured beverage?  Its pH of 2.5 acidity (water to hydrate the body needs to be alkaline at around 7.4) sets alarm bells ringing all over the body.
 
Alakline chemical stores that should be used elsewhere are sacrificed to call the adrenalin that floods the system.  The “high” you learn to expect is the same high as a drug user gets as he/she experiences his artificial sensory elevation.  Your body is actually screaming “HELP”!
 
Excess acid forces the body to borrow minerals (already 100% engaged in children’s vital body function and growth needs) including calcium, sodium, potassium and magnesium, from key organs and bones to neutralise the acid and safely remove it from the body.
 
This excess acidity weakens all body systems.
 
“It’s not the germs we need to be concerned about ~ it’s our inner terrain.”  Louis Pasteur

Disease & Dehydration

Written by: Janet Parker, zazen Water - Saturday, June 18, 2011

The body manifests dehydration in the form of pain. 
 
Depending on where dehydration is settled, you feel pain there.  Pain is a sign of water shortage in the body, and water shortage is actually the background to most of the health problems in our society.

This is linked to the fact that many drugs readily available and consumed by the western world are various types of antihistamine in the form of different medications. Antidepressant drugs are antihistamines, pain medication are antihistamines, other medications are directly and indirectly antihistamines. 
 
Why is this significant?  Because histamine is a water regulator in the body.  So the very substance in the body that is responsible for regulating the flow and usage of water in the body, is being suppressed every time a person takes pain medication, antidepressants or antihistamines.

Headaches
The brain is more than 75% water and when it detects a shortage of available fluids it implements a water-rationing process by producing histamines, causing pain and fatigue.  This natural process is meant to slow us down and conserve water for defense uses (just as an animal lies in the shade when ill). Histamines are released as a warning signal that something is wrong. When we take antihistamines or analgesic medicines like ibuprofen we mainly turn off the signal and do little or nothing for the problem.  A big glass of pure water and a 20 minute decompression break will overcome most common stress-related headaches. (It takes medications longer to work than that!)

Back pain
It is often the result of a deficiency in body fluid levels.  The discs in the back are really little hydraulic shock absorbers.  These discs are made up of an outer shell of flexible joint tissue filled with fluid pockets, primarily water.  A properly hydrated disk creates a cushion that absorbs the normal shock of physical activity and supports the weight of the upper body.  These discs are self-hydrating as long as there are adequate fluid levels and regular movement.  Movement that compresses and releases pressure on the disc creates a suction that allows body fluids (99% water) to be pulled inside the disc, keeping it properly hydrated.  When a disc is fully hydrated, the shell of the disc supports 25% of the weight load and the fluid supports 75%.  When these discs become dehydrated, the shell has to support a larger portion of the load, causing pain, swelling and soreness which can lead to more serious problems, also more permanent ones.

Passive activities like standing in one place or sitting at a desk without regular movement for prolonged periods, allow constant pressure on the discs which slowly forces the fluid out. Without sufficient body fluid levels and spine movement, the pressure on the discs increases, resulting in pain and stiffness.  Simply by maintaining a constant and adequate intake of water, as well as regular movement such as bending forward, backwards and side to side, with your head and upper body allowing the discs to hydrate, you can prevent most minor back and neck pain.  Try it; you’ll be amazed how easy and effective these natural solutions can be.
Drought management means that the body clogs the holes where water is lost from the body. Water is the most precious commodity in the interior of your body, and when not enough is coming in and more is being lost, this is a no-no situation for your body.  The intelligence behind the design of the body is such that a drought management program will kick in.  Allergies are a sign of dehydration because the system that regulates water balance of the body suppresses the immune system, because it’s an energy-consuming situation. Then you get asthma.

The link between dehydration and asthma
You see, we lose about a quart of water through breathing every day. It is actually the surface tension in the alveoli of the lungs that produces contraction of these tiny membranes, and air is pushed out.  And in the process, that water will leave with the air that is leaving.  So you lose about a quart of water in breathing.  We need to replenish that.  When we don’t replenish it, the body tightens up the bronchials and plugs up the holes and we call this reduced air flow in the lungs because of dehydration, we’ve labeled it as asthma.

Now there are 17 million children in America and over a million children in Australia, probably more because the numbers rise every year, who have asthma.  The reason is, at the same time, children have been consuming more and more sodas. Three year olds to five year olds have been consuming three times as much soda in the last ten years than in the ten years before that. 
 
So these children are getting dehydrated, they are consuming more sodas, which doesn’t function in the same way as water, and that is why they get asthma.  Dr Batman has treated many many children with water, and their asthma disappeared very quickly, in a matter of a few hours, with breathing becoming normal.  The need for inhalers will also disappear.
 
Softdrinks cause dehydration
A lot of children who drink soft drinks actually become “stupid”, but once you take the soft drink away from them, their grades improve tremendously — C’s and F’s become A’s and B’s.  So, there is something in caffeine that suppresses the enzymes from memory-making.  And this is exactly how the plant survives, because caffeine is a toxic chemical – it’s a warfare chemical for the plant.  Anything that would eat it will lose its art of camouflage, its alertness, good reaction, good response, and becomes easy prey to its own food chain predator.

Caffeine is technically an insecticide. So is morphine and so is cocaine. They are the same family of drugs — neurotoxic substances.
 
Cholesterol

Cholesterol is one of the most essential elements in the survival of the human body.  When the body begins to make more cholesterol, it has a reason to do that.  It is certainly not to block the arteries of the heart, because we measure the level of cholesterol in the body in the blood we take out of the veins of the body, and nowhere in the history of medicine is there recorded one single case of cholesterol ever having blocked the veins of the body.

So, it is not the stickiness of the cholesterol that is the problem, which has been drummed into the minds of people — cholesterol is sticky, reduce it otherwise you will have blockage of your arteries, which is all nonsense.  Cholesterol is actually saving the lives of people, because cholesterol is a bandage, a waterproof bandage that the body has designed.  When the blood becomes concentrated and acidic (which happens when a person is dehydrated), and is being rushed through constricted arteries or capillaries, in dehydration, then abrasions and tears are produced in the arterial system, naturally, in the capillaries of the heart first.

Now if cholesterol wasn’t there to cover up the tear and abrasions, blood would get under the membrane and peel it off and that person would be dead instantly.  Cholesterol is actually an interim lifesaver, giving the body time to recover from its problems.  Often the thought process is if something’s up, bring it down, if something’s down, bring it up.  Often questions like “why is it down” or “why is it up” are not asked.

There is a report that shows the statins, cholesterol-lowering drugs, produce amnesia.  In other words, the brain totally loses track of what it’s doing, and it is published by a doctor who is an eminent doctor.  He was a flight surgeon, he is a researcher at NASA.  And he knows what he’s talking about. He had the problem himself.

There are also a huge number of side effects that have been recorded from using statin drugs. Some people have extreme muscular pain, amnesia is very common, and yet a study just came out talking about how blueberries have phytonutrients that are shown to lower so-called fatty cholesterol, LDL cholesterol, more powerfully than statin drugs.

You see the body manufactures cholesterol as an emergency situation, when it raises the level of its production.  Its normal rate of production is of course is to create membranes for the cell membranes and brain cells and nerve insulation and of course the hormones of the body, vitamin D for the body.  So these are the essential components that cholesterol makes in the body.  We should never interfere with cholesterol without knowing why the body has starting raising its level.
 
Chronic Disease Caused by Lack of Water
There is a clear correlation between water consumption and chronic disease.  In his book called “Water Cures and Drugs Kill” Dr Batmangelidj explains why dehydration is the cause of pain and disease, and how the pharmaceutical industry has camouflaged this information or covered it up and instead of letting people drink water, it advertises the use of their products, which actually do kill.  
 
Recent figures (US statistics but the trends are similar for Australia) have shown that prescription medications, when used according to the instruction of doctors, kill over 106,000 people, and make 2 million people sicker than before taking the medication.  And then there is another group who die from faulty and incorrect prescriptions.

So between them, about 250,000 people die from drug-related or medication-related problems. This makes the use of drugs the number three killer processes in the USA — protected and licensed killer process.  After heart disease, which kills about seven or eight hundred thousand, cancer which kills about 500,000, drugs kill 250,000 people.

The human body manifests dehydration by a series of symptoms and signs, perceptive symptoms of dehydration — in other words, brain senses dehydration, or tiredness when you haven’t done a good day’s work, or first thing in the morning when you want to get up out of bed and you’re tired, you can’t get up — that is a sign of dehydration. 
 
Then anger, quick reaction, depression, these are all signs of dehydration, when the brain has very little energy from hydroelectricity to cope with the information or take action.  These are some of the perceptive signs of dehydration.  Then the body has its drought management program, which are allergies, hypertension, diabetes, and also immune diseases.