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The local tap water usually meets federally mandated guidelines for drinking water and it’s certainly less expensive than bottled water. However, it has many impurities in it. It has chemicals – like chlorine – added to it. And many people don’t enjoy the way it tastes. I always get a laugh from the water that restaurants serve. Nice restaurants always pride themselves on the quality of their food, but they always start you off (or at least most of the time) with a glass of water straight from the tap. It can taste awful. Makes you wonder how good their food is going to be. Tap water is obviously a very important service provided to the community. It’s used to help fight fires, wash clothes, flush toilets, water lawns and take showers. The problem is that every single gallon of tap water must meet minimum standards. The local authorities don’t know whether you’re

Water is essential to the human body, and drinking pure, clean water is an important part of maintaining your health. As the popularity of bottled water has increased, so have claims about the benefits of its contents, from specialty waters with added vitamins to mineral-rich waters from natural springs. One of the most recent trends in the bottled water industry is the marketing of alkaline water, which is claimed to have many health benefits and disease-fighting properties above and beyond your typical bottled water. Consumers can even purchase over-priced machines that produce alkaline water at home—so, what is the deal with alkaline water?

What Is Alkaline Water?

Do I actually want minerals in my water? A great question.  Let’s start with what exactly are minerals?  Minerals are inorganic substances (such as rocks and similar matter) found in the earth strata, as opposed to organic substances such as plant and animal matter.  Some familiar minerals are what we think of as “good minerals” – things like calcium, magnesium and potassium.  There are also “not so good” minerals – at least as far as the human body is concerned – things like lead, arsenic, antimony, aluminum, barium, etc.  So, we begin with the knowledge that all minerals aren’t necessarily good for you.  As you saw in the above definition of mineral, minerals are inorganic substances (like rocks).  There is considerable debate in the scientific commu

There are many people who think fluoride is the best thing since sliced bread and there many people who think that fluoride is so toxic it will kill. Everyone agrees, however, that too much fluoride is definitely a very bad thing. The FDA has set a maximum contaminant level for fluoride in bottled water (the EPA has done the same thing for tap water) – that’s how concerned everyone is about getting too much of it. Here are a couple of interesting points. First, fluoride is a prescription drug that you cannot buy at the drug store unless prescribed by a doctor. That has always made us wonder why the local water authorities are able to put it into the tap water in the first place. There is fluoride in most toothpastes but the amount of fluoride in toothpaste has dropped by more than 85% during the last fifteen years. Why? Because people were getting too much of it. When you get

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