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Showering: Is Your Health at Risk?
How clean is your shower water?
For the past decade, people have focused on the importance
of clean drinking water. Purified drinking water reduces or
eliminates chemicals found in normal tap water. However, the
body derives its need for water from alternative sources,
most notably while showering.
It is common practice in North America to shower on a daily
basis, sometimes more than once. Unfortunately, most people
are unaware that more chlorine is absorbed through the skin
during the average shower than by drinking six to eight
glasses of tap water. This may make one wonder, how clean is
shower water?
Are you a fan of hot showers? Since the skin is porous, it
is the body's way of excreting toxins and regulating
temperature, hot showers cause the pores of the skin to
dilate, allowing chlorine and other free radicals to be
rapidly absorbed. Chlorine is also contained within the
water vapor that enters the air as steam, and which we
breathe into our lungs as we shower. Dr. Halina Brown, a
professor of water chemistry at the University of
Pittsburgh, claims that the exposure to vaporized chemicals
in water supplied through showering, bathing and inhalation
is 100 times greater than through drinking the water.
Furthermore, chlorine and other water contaminants reduce
the effectiveness of many shampoos, conditioners, lotions,
oils and skin creams, leaving your skin dry and unnourished.
Any contact the body has with water is cause for concern.
Swimming pools and hot tubs use chlorine to kill bacteria.
Little thought is given to the effect on the human body.
Chlorine is a highly toxic element, which has the ability to
denature protein. All living organisms are made up of
protein; thus any living organism that comes in contact with
sufficient quantities of chlorine is killed. After swimming
or showering you may notice that you have sore eyes, sinus
blockage, respiratory problems (such as asthma), cracking
skin (hands and feet), or dry hair and an itchy scalp. You
may also feel tired and your skin might smell of chlorine
for hours afterwards, even after showering.
What is your health worth? The May 2003 issue of Elle
Magazine, featured a showerhead that has a carbon filter
that removes chlorine as well as other toxic substances in
our water like lead, iron oxides and other sediments that
leave dulling deposits on the hair. If the showerhead
removes the minerals that cause this dulling effect, one
might notice an increase in shine and hydration. This is
something you may want to consider when comparing
showerheads and filters.
Here's to your health!
Peter McGarry
info@magneticrevolution.com
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