Andreas Moritz
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 Of course, the old-fashioned method of boiling your drinking water for several minutes causes any chlorine to evaporate.
Another inexpensive way to get rid of most chlorine in water is to use vitamin C. One gram of vitamin C will neutralize 1 ppm (part per million) of chlorine in 100 gallons of water. This is particularly useful if you want to lie in the bathtub without suffering the irritating effects of chlorine on your skin and in your lungs.
Prill beads are another, far less expensive, form of water treatment. |
Dr. Steve Blake
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 Chloride
Chlorine (chemical symbol CI) is a poisonous, greenish-yellow gas in the halogen family of elements. chlorine is used to disinfect water and is used as bleach. chlorine combines easily with sodium, hydrogen, and many other elements.
When combined with sodium or hydrogen, chlorine forms a stable ion called chloride (C7~). The chloride ion has a single negative charge. Table salt is sodium chloride.
Chloride is an essential nutrient. Chloride is the principal anion (negatively charged ion) in the extracellular fluid. |
Mark Sircus
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 Combining the above oxidation and reduction processes, the overall effect is the transfer of TWO electrons from magnesium to chlorine. mm ???
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The 2 elections lost by a magnesium atom are gained by chlorine atoms to produce a magnesium Ion and 2 chloride ions.
The opposite charges of the magnesium and chloride ions attract each other, allowing ionic bonds to form. In the solid state, each cation is surrounded by anions, and each anion is surrounded by cations. |
Bottom Line Health
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| Of those who swam in water with half as much chlorine, only 20% had breathing difficulties.
Self-defense: Swim in outdoor pools—indoor pools have limited ventilation. Check that the pool's chlorine level is below five parts per million (ppm). At public pools, ask the facility's maintenance person what the water's ppm is. For home pools, investigate alternatives to chlorine, such as ultraviolet filtration systems, which are becoming popular in Europe and at some universities in the United States.
Martin P. Schwellnus, MD, PhD, department of human biology, University of Cape Town, South Africa. |
Andreas Moritz
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| Another inexpensive way to get rid of most chlorine in water is to use vitamin C. One gram of vitamin C will neutralize 1 ppm (part per million) of chlorine in 100 gallons of water. This is particularly useful if you want to lie in the bathtub without suffering the irritating effects of chlorine on your skin and in your lungs.
Prill beads are another, far less expensive, form of water treatment. Although they cannot replace a water filter, they still cleanse your drinking water and make it "thinner." This has a positive effect on the blood, lymph, and basic cellular processes. |
Jonny Bowden, Ph.D., C.N.S.
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 Because of the scare, nonorganic sprout suppliers frequently try to "sanitize" their product by bleaching the seeds from which sprouts grow with chlorine. "It's overkill," said Pettersen. "Chlorine is a very damaging molecule to the human body and much more of a concern than a theoretical exposure to a small amount of bacteria."
Pettersen advocates eating organic sprouts to avoid the chlorine issue altogether. I agree, though I'd probably add that people who are immunocompromised might want to avoid any food that has even a possibility of a little bacteria. |
Dr. Steve Blake
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| Chlorine is used to disinfect water and is used as bleach. chlorine combines easily with sodium, hydrogen, and many other elements.
When combined with sodium or hydrogen, chlorine forms a stable ion called chloride (C7~). The chloride ion has a single negative charge. Table salt is sodium chloride.
Chloride is an essential nutrient. Chloride is the principal anion (negatively charged ion) in the extracellular fluid. Chloride is an electrolyte that works with sodium to maintain the cellular membrane potential. |
Gary Null and Amy McDonald
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 Household chemicals with chlorine, bleach or ammonia. I warn people never to mix ammonia and any kind of chlorine bleach product together, it is extremely neurotoxic."
Other factors linked to memory loss include food allergies, Candida infections, intestinal parasites, and taste enhancers. |
Mary-Ann Shearer
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 It is chlorinated to kill bacteria and hopefully neutralize fecal matter, but the chlorine combines with naturally occurring organic substances, forming highly carcinogenic trihalomethanes or chlorinated hydrocarbons. chlorine has been found to contribute to arteriosclerosis (hardening of the arteries), asthma attacks, nausea, and disorientation. In addition, chlorine is a powerful irritant that also destroys vitamin E and because of its sterilizing properties destroys vitamin B12. |
Connie Bennett, C.H.H.C. with Stephen T. Sinatra, M.D.
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 Research shows that chlorine in its manufactured form is a carcinogen and toxin.
"Any animal that eats chlorine—especially on a regular basis—is at risk of cancer. Both The Merck Manual and OSHA SARA 120 Hazardous Waste Handbook even state that emergency procedures should be taken when exposed via swallowing, inhaling, or through the skin. So it's questionable how safe it is for the long term. I'd also caution pregnant women, the elderly, and children to exercise caution with sucralose," Dr. Hull adds. |
Craig Pepin-Donat
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 Drinking Water Treatment: Why chlorine Is So Very Dangerous" www.relfe.com/A06/drinking_water_treatment_chlorine.html Stephanie Relfe
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"What Is Complementary and Alternative Medicine? |
Andreas Moritz
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| One gram of vitamin C will neutralize 1 ppm (part per million) of chlorine in 100 gallons of water. This is particularly useful if you want to lie in the bathtub without suffering the irritating effects of chlorine on your skin and in your lungs.
Prill beads are another, far less expensive, form of water treatment. Although they cannot replace a water filter, they still cleanse your drinking water and make it "thinner." This has a positive effect on the blood, lymph, and basic cellular processes. Prill beads are available on the Internet (see Suppliers Lists in the Appendix). |
Craig Pepin-Donat
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| There is chlorine in our drinking water, in our showers, in our swimming pools, and in the water used to irrigate our crops. It is highly recommended that you use a water purification system not only on your drinking water tap, but for the whole house, and if out to eat, avoid drinking restaurant tap water.
Were chlorine and fluoride the only chemicals we had to worry about, that would be bad enough. |
Bottom Line Health
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| Check that the pool's chlorine level is below five parts per million (ppm). At public pools, ask the facility's maintenance person what the water's ppm is. For home pools, investigate alternatives to chlorine, such as ultraviolet filtration systems, which are becoming popular in Europe and at some universities in the United States.
Martin P. Schwellnus, MD, PhD, department of human biology, University of Cape Town, South Africa.
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Jared W. Allen, PhD, postdoctoral researcher, David Geffen School of Medicine, University of California at Los Angeles. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 Want some chlorine in your food today?
Some say, "Well, aspartame is on the way out -- the big sweetener now is Sucralose or Splenda." This is the artificial sweetener that claims to be made from sugar. Well, I suppose you can claim that it starts out as sugar, but it's made by removing some of the atoms from sugar and replacing them with atoms of chlorine, which is of course one of the chemical elements used during the atrocities of World War II to create poison gas, the same element used in chlorine to disinfect pools and public water supplies. |
Mary-Ann Shearer
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| It is chlorinated to kill bacteria and hopefully neutralize fecal matter, but the chlorine combines with naturally occurring organic substances, forming highly carcinogenic trihalomethanes or chlorinated hydrocarbons. chlorine has been found to contribute to arteriosclerosis (hardening of the arteries), asthma attacks, nausea, and disorientation. In addition, chlorine is a powerful irritant that also destroys vitamin E and because of its sterilizing properties destroys vitamin B12. |
Mark Sircus
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| The formation of magnesium chloride can be thought of as a result from a reaction involving magnesium metal (Mg) and chlorine gas, Clr The reaction involves the following simultaneous processes:
1. The Oxidation of Magnesium Metal. A magnesium atom loses its 2 outer-shell electrons to become a magnesium ion, (i.e. cation). The magnesium metal is said to be oxidized. magr&esSum atom loses two outer electrons magnesium nt\ has a complete octet of electrons (is 2s 2|F}
The Reduction of chlorine Gas. The covalently bonded Cl2 molecule gains two electrons to become two chloride ions, (i.e. |
Jonny Bowden, Ph.D., C.N.S.
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| It's overkill," said Pettersen. "Chlorine is a very damaging molecule to the human body and much more of a concern than a theoretical exposure to a small amount of bacteria."
Pettersen advocates eating organic sprouts to avoid the chlorine issue altogether. I agree, though I'd probably add that people who are immunocompromised might want to avoid any food that has even a possibility of a little bacteria. For everyone else, sprouts are great. Pettersen summed it up perfectly: "They're as close to a superfood as we have. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 Recent examples include issuing a joint statement with the chlorine Institute justifying the continued global use of persistent organochlorine pesticides, and also supporting the industry in trivializing dietary pesticide residues as avoidable risks of childhood cancer. ACS policies are further exemplified by allocating under 0.1 percent of its $700 million annual budget to environmental and occupational causes of cancer."
You can read the incredible history of the ACS's opposition to regulation of toxic chemicals here: http://www.preventcancer.com/losing/acs/rejects_regulation. |
Connie Bennett, C.H.H.C. with Stephen T. Sinatra, M.D.
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| Another problem with sucralose is that when you mix the man-made chlorine with carbon in sucrose, you get a chlorocarbon. "These are pollutants that are toxic to your health," Dr. Hull explains. "So people are ingesting a manufactured grade of chlorine that compounds into a chlorocarbon.
That is not a natural food source, and the body will digest it, contrary to Splenda's marketing claims. And that can be proven."
Thus, Dr. |
Mark Sircus
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| CI: ^Mg :CI: magrseswm chlorine magnesium atoms atom Ion
The 2 elections lost by a magnesium atom are gained by chlorine atoms to produce a magnesium Ion and 2 chloride ions.
The opposite charges of the magnesium and chloride ions attract each other, allowing ionic bonds to form. In the solid state, each cation is surrounded by anions, and each anion is surrounded by cations. The ratio of Mg+2C1- is 1:2. The formula for this ionic compound is MgCl2. As an analogy, the removal of an electron (e -) to a neutral sodium atom (Na) forms a singly charged sodium cation (Na + ). |
| Magnesium will lose two electrons and form a +2 charge. chlorine will gain one electron to form a chloride ion with a -1 charge. The formula for the compound is MgCl2. To get the formula weight, find the atomic weights and add them together taking the subscripts into account. Magnesium is 24.3; chlorine is 35.5; so two would be 71.0. The total gives 95.3 as the formula weight. lllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllll
Magnesium Chloride vs. |
Herbert Ross, DC with Keri Brenner, L.Ac.
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 Tap water in the United States often contains chlorine, aluminum, pesticides, lead, copper, and other toxic substances. Approximately 70% of the toxins from tap water enter the body through the skin; the remaining 30% of the toxins enter via ingestion.7
Chemicals found in dry-cleaning fluids (trichloroethylene), paint solvents (toluene), municipal water supplies (phenol and chlorine), carpets and flooring (formaldehyde), and some imported produce (pesticide residues) are also potentially harmful, depending on your level of susceptibility. |
Paul D. Blanc, M.D.
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 Although he had never experimented directly with chlorine, a scientist with a better set of skills to attack the problem of gas warfare could hardly have been invented.
From the beginning, Haldane's Chemical Warfare Medical Committee and the military superstructure within which it operated appear to have suffered from a serious disconnection. Haldane's group condoned the widest possible dissemination of accurate knowledge about the effects of war gas poisoning and its treatment. The military higher-ups, in contrast, wished to limit such strategic information to as select a group as possible. |
Andreas Moritz
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 The resulting chemical reaction between the two chemicals produces salt from the sodium bicarbonate and chlorine from the hydrochloric acid. Consumption of foods that require the secretion of large amounts of hydrochloric acid, such as meat, fish, eggs, cheese, and other high protein foods, thus causes high salt production inside the stomach. This alters considerably the water-holding properties of the scaffolding material of the mucus lining. |
| All this creates the need for implementing new water treatment methods which do not use chlorine for cities and households You may not be able to get your government to switch over to a healthier and more effective water treatment system, but you can certainly do this for yourself and your family.
There are many simple filtration systems that don't cost you much but can make a huge difference to your health. They are readily available in stores and on the Internet, and almost every new refrigerator comes with one already built into it. |
Dr. Steve Blake
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| When combined with sodium or hydrogen, chlorine forms a stable ion called chloride (C7~). The chloride ion has a single negative charge. Table salt is sodium chloride.
Chloride is an essential nutrient. Chloride is the principal anion (negatively charged ion) in the extracellular fluid. Chloride is an electrolyte that works with sodium to maintain the cellular membrane potential. These electrolytes contribute to the maintenance of charge differences across cellular membranes.
Hydrochloric acid in the stomach is made with chloride.
Chloride is a component of hydrochloric acid (HC1). |
Ron Garner
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 These are filtered out of the bloodstream by the liver and sent to the colon for elimination from the body. chlorine and alcohol are particularly harmful to the liver's health.
The basic building blocks, or starter hormones, for the endocrine system are also manufactured in the liver from complete amino acids, which are only supplied from raw protein in the diet.
The liver is truly magnificent and definitely one of the master organs of the body. It is impossible to have a healthy body without a healthy liver. |
| Like chlorine, fluorine kills good bacteria in the colon, and research studies are linking fluoride to low-thyroid conditions, neurological impairment, genetic damage, and cancer. While fluorine is in wide use in North America, most other countries in the world prohibit its use. The main exposure to fluoride is in municipal drinking water and toothpaste, as a supposed deterrent to tooth decay. Many studies, however, have found that the contrary is true; when water fluoridation is discontinued, the incidence of dental caries actually decreases. |
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