As a certified Personal Trainer and Aerobics Instructor, I've been in the habit of examining and recommending nutritional supplements and antioxidants to my friends and customers. But the subject of local water and family health never crossed my mind, at least not for any length time. After all, there's plenty of bottled water available. Worse yet, so are our children. Recently I decided to attend a weekend seminar on water filtration and learned some astonishing things about the potential health risks associated with our domestic water supply.
Children are more vulnerable to the toxins found in food, air, and water.
Because they drink more water as a percentage of their body weight than adults do, they are at a greater risk for health problems. Maybe you're like W.C. Fields who swore to everyone he met that he never drank a drop of water. But even Fields would have been disturbed to find that taking showers can be a health risk according to the American Chemical Society. Showers and baths provide greater exposure to toxic chemicals than drinking water from the tap. The amount of chlorine absorbed by your body during ten minutes of showering is equivalent to the amount contained in two gallons of tap water.