Bottled Water Is Often No More Safe Than That Coming Out Of Your Tap. Getting A Home Water Filter Is The Only Answer.

From an aging point of view hydrating the skin, lubricating the joints and helping to clear the body of toxins would be the main roles to consider.

Even very mild dehydration can lead to lethargy, headaches, constipation, gastric ulcers, joint pain and mental confusion. A low water intake also increases the risk of urinary infections and kidney stones.

Two thirds of the body consists of water, which makes it your most important nutrient. Without water you would be dead in about 4 days. The body loses about 1.5 litres a day via the kidneys, as urine and through your lungs, skin and gut. You manufacture about a third of a litre each day when you burn glucose as energy.

Your minimum intake from food and drink,therefore needs to be more than 1 litre a day, and preferably 2 litres a day to allow for perspiration and to dilute the toxins in your blood to make it easier for the kidneys to process them.

Fruit and vegetables, are about 90% water, and supply your body with a good part of this requirement in a form that is very easy to use. This of course works on the assumption that you do eat your fruit and veggies and don’t live on potato chips! In the past the experts insisted that the required amount should exclude hot drinks but they have, at last, decided that these are possibly acceptable!

The supply of bottled water is not well regulated, so drink filtered water from a home watre filter, as the quality of tap water has been called into question in many countries. Also the possibility of water being contaminated by copper piping has to be considered. Don’t drink more water than you need as this could tax the kidneys, leading to over hydration.

Ask yourself the following questions and find out if you are taking in enough water.

•Do you suffer from constipation?

•Are you often thirsty?

•Do you have joint problems?

•Do you feel tired?

•Are you having difficulty concentrating?

•Are you over heating?

•Do you have dry skin, mouth or lips?

•Do you get frequent infections?

•Do you have dry brittle hair?

My Tip

•Have a mug of warm water from a home water filter with a slice of lemon when you get up in the morning.

•Drink warm water throughout the day and with your meals, to keep your digestive system in good working order.

Why use a home water filter?

The water provided by municipalities and local agencies world wide has been called into question and many people have been buying bottled water. The consumption of bottled water has increased by about 50% over the last 5 years, and is continuing to grow. Drinking bottled water is not only an expensive exercise but not a good idea for various reasons;

•The water is generally bottled in soft plastic bottles which can give off carcinogens (cancer forming substances) especially if left in a hot environment. Have you ever tried drinking from a plastic bottle that has been left in the sun? The contents taste of petroleum!

•Tests have shown that, although the waters are probably safe to drink, they are often not spring water as we are lead to believe.

•Very few controls are in place for the supply of bottled water and it is often nothing more than filtered tap water.

•The transport of all these bottles of water is not doing the planet any good at all.

•The waste plastic produced by all the empty bottles, even if recycled, is costly for the planet.

The answer is to buy a home water filter so that you can have perfectly safe water on tap 24 hours a day!

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