Dr. Sharon Moalem
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 According to Ewald's theory, the virulence of a cholera outbreak in a given population should be directly related to the quality and safety of that population's water supply. If sewage flows easily into rivers that people wash in or drink from, then the cholera strain would evolve toward virulence—it can multiply freely, essentially using up its hosts, relying on its access to the water supply for transmission. But if the water supply is well protected, the organism should evolve away from virulence—the longer it remains in a more mobile host, the better its chance of transmission. |
Donna Jackson Nakazawa
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 One of the most famous TCE hot spots of the past is that of Woburn, Massachusetts, where runoff from area tanneries ended up in the rivers, wells, and the general water supply. The story of the litigation surrounding the site became the basis of the book and movie A Civil Action. In other cities, including both Tucson and Phoenix, Arizona, as well as a small community in Georgia—three places where studies have been conducted to date—contamination of the water supply by trichloroethylene has been closely related to cluster epidemics of patients with lupus. |
James F. Balch, M.D. and Mark Stengler, N.D.
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 Fluoride is contained in the municipal water supply, depending on which area of the country you live in. Fluoridation of the water supply is a controversial topic; fluoridation may dg not wait until you have the be a serious health hazard. Pesticides, heavy metals (e.g., lead) and other sensation of feeling thirsty to contaminants are found in the water supply. Parasites and bacteria are start drinking water. By the time in higher-than-acceptable concentrations in some areas of this country's you feel thirsty, you are likely to water. be mildly dehydrated. |
Dr. Sharon Moalem
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| If sewage flows easily into rivers that people wash in or drink from, then the cholera strain would evolve toward virulence—it can multiply freely, essentially using up its hosts, relying on its access to the water supply for transmission. But if the water supply is well protected, the organism should evolve away from virulence—the longer it remains in a more mobile host, the better its chance of transmission.
A series of cholera outbreaks that began in Peru in 1991 and spread across South and Central America over the next few years provide compelling evidence that Ewald is on to something. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 Chief of the environmental chemistry branch of the EPA's Environmental Sciences Division, Daughton began reporting on the dangers of PPCPs in the water supply during the mid-1990s.
In 1999, Daughton co-wrote, with Thomas A. Ternes of the Institute for Water Research and Water Technology in Germany, the first comprehensive article on PPCPs in the U.S. water supply. The article "Pharmaceuticals and Personal Care Products in the Environment: Agents of Subtle Change?" appeared in the journal Environmental Health Perspectives. |
| REPPED: Our water supply is becoming increasingly contaminated -- and not just by big factories dumping pollutants into the rivers. It is consumers, often unwittingly, who are poisoning rivers and oceans by sending potentially toxic chemicals down the drain. The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has stated its researchers have found pharmaceuticals and personal care products -- or PPCPs -- in nearly every water supply they have tested.
The issue is not new. In the United Kingdom, the dangers of PPCPs were first recognized in the 1970s. In the U.S. |
Dr. Sharon Moalem
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| But if the water supply is well protected, the organism should evolve away from virulence—the longer it remains in a more mobile host, the better its chance of transmission.
A series of cholera outbreaks that began in Peru in 1991 and spread across South and Central America over the next few years provide compelling evidence that Ewald is on to something. The water supply systems from country to country ranged from relatively advanced to seriously rudimentary. |
| It's how the disease makes it into the water supply and ensures its ability to find new hosts.
Malaria manipulates human hosts too—in its case, by incapacitating us. People with malaria experience a terrible cycle of fever and chills, accompanied by debilitating weakness and fatigue—and when you're lying in bed too tired even to lift an arm, you're a pretty helpless target for mosquitoes. Mosquitoes bite infected humans and pick up a load of malaria-causing protozoa, and then these bugs carrying bugs fly away to infect someone else. |
Craig Pepin-Donat
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 This has been known for years, but we passively accept the big, fat lie about the benefits of fluoride, pumped into our water supply and mixed into our dental hygiene products. If fluoridation is such a great idea, why have so many developed countries such as
Germany, Switzerland, the Netherlands, Sweden, Denmark, Finland, Norway, Iceland, Belgium, Austria and France flatly rejected the concept?15 Smile, America, we're being poisoned with toxic waste in the name of greed.
Chlorine is a dangerous, caustic chemical. |
Donna Jackson Nakazawa
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| In other cities, including both Tucson and Phoenix, Arizona, as well as a small community in Georgia—three places where studies have been conducted to date—contamination of the water supply by trichloroethylene has been closely related to cluster epidemics of patients with lupus.
TCE is regularly detected in breast milk, and 10 percent of Americans now have detectable levels of TCE in their blood, from exposure through drinking water as well as breathing it in from the air around us. One of our most significant contacts, however, comes from taking showers. |
Anne Harrington
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 In comparison with its two neighboring towns, Bangor and Nazareth, Roseto seemed to be a virtual haven from heart disease, despite being serviced by the same water supply and hospital as its neighbors. Nationally, it was known at the time, the frequency of death from heart disease rises with age. In Roseto, however, it was near zero for men aged fifty-five to sixty-four. For men over sixty-five, the rate was half the national average.5
One of the authors of this 1964 study was a psychiatrist named Stewart Wolf who had a long track record of interest in psychosomatics and stress. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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| Ternes of the Institute for Water Research and Water Technology in Germany, the first comprehensive article on PPCPs in the U.S. water supply. The article "Pharmaceuticals and Personal Care Products in the Environment: Agents of Subtle Change?" appeared in the journal Environmental Health Perspectives.
This landmark article discussed how "priority pollutants," such as agrochemicals, were "only one piece of the larger puzzle" of human-made environmental risk factors. |
| In an interview with National Public Radio earlier this month, Daughton said the types of PPCPS found most in the nation's water supply fall into two categories. First are the drugs used most often, such nonsteroidal anti-inflammatories (Ibuprofen is one example). Next, "the ones that resist our metabolism -- that is they get excreted unchanged -- will have a measurable presence in waterways," said Daughton. |
Mark Lynas
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 But however resourceful the state's water engineers might be, they are going to struggle to find a way out of the collision course between a burgeoning population and a declining water supply as the world warms. One major recent study, published in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences in 2004, projected snowpack declines of between a third and three-quarters in the two-degree world. In addition, heatwaves in Los Angeles will quadruple in frequency, whilst crippling droughts will occur 50 per cent more often, increasing the demand for scarce water. |
James Howard Kunstler
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 Both suburban Atlanta and suburban Denver are virtually tapped out, unable to increase their water supply under any circumstances. Dallas and San Antonio are not far behind. Las Vegas hallucinates its future water supply, and southern California is at the mercy of the Sierra and Rocky Mountain snow-packs, which in recent years have shown alarming declines. Global warming implies that a greater proportion of the annual precipitation in the American west will fall as rain rather than snow. The snowpack acts as a storage reservoir, releasing water in summer time when demand peaks. |
Mark Lynas
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| The diminishing water supply will affect everything from fish stocks to hydroelectric production downriver in poverty-stricken Tanzania. Much of the mountain's world-famous biodiversity (Kilimanjaro hosts twenty-four different species of antelope alone) will also be threatened by the weather changes.
As the snows disappear, so will much of the wildlife and the verdant forests that tourists currently trek through on their arduous journey to the roof of the African continent. |
Craig Pepin-Donat
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| Our driving habits contribute to global warming, which is cooking the planet; acid rain, which is killing our forests and polluting the water supply; and dramatic increases in cases of asthma and allergies among all segments of the population. Our children and our elders are especially susceptible to the effects of driving cars and trucks that run on petroleum products.
As stated earlier in the food addiction section, the very food we eat has been poisoned for years in the name of profit. Fruits and vegetables are doused with fertilizers, pesticides and herbicides. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 Isn't it convenient that 40 percent of our adult population is on mind-altering pharmaceuticals, and that populations are being dosed with fluoride dripped into the water supply? We have a nation of people sleepwalking through daily life, really.
John: Yes, we do. There is a definite chemical assault going on in an effort to capture our minds. It is not an accident that all these school kids are being put on Ritalin and so forth. It's no accident that they are trying to fluoridate the water supply. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 Even if they say fluoride is good for your teeth, it’s not the same stuff dripping into the water supply. Naturally-occurring fluoride is not the stuff obtained by scraping the chemicals off the inside of industrial smoke stacks. That's where they're getting fluorosilicic acid, which is what most municipalities are actually dripping into their water supply. Seriously, if you take a look at modern dentistry, it's a house of horrors. Some of the most ignorant and unscientific procedures of all are practiced in dentistry. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 Why don't we drip antidepressants into the water supply, and that way we can have more people committing violent acts and suicide -- documented side effects of antidepressants. Why don't we drip statin drugs into the water supply so that we can lower the HDL cholesterol of every citizen in this country? Believe it or not, that has actually been suggested by some doctors. They think we should mass medicate the entire population with a number of biochemically active drugs, with or without their consent. Fluoride could be just the beginning! |
Gerald E. Markle and Frances B. McCrea
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 A 2004 article in the New York Times relates a "joke" among cardiologists that the benefits of statins are so great that they "should be added to the water supply." The article continues:
Not only do statins greatly reduce cholesterol and lower mortality in people at risk for heart attacks, but some studies also suggest that they might help prevent or treat a wide range of ailments, including Alzheimer's disease, multiple sclerosis, bone fractures, some types of cancer, macular degeneration and glaucoma.'0
Quite a list. |
Andreas Moritz
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 This emergency measure increases water supply to the cells and alleviates their predicament but also raises the blood pressure. Known as essential hypertension, this situation causes additional stress and damage to the blood vessels. The vicious cycle is closed. The preconditions of suffering a heart attack are now in place.
Conclusion: The combination of both factors—an increased Hematocrit which indicates increased blood thickening and a higher hemoglobin concentration in the red blood cells—reduces blood circulation. |
| Both restricted water supply and accumulated waste in the intestinal tract decrease the volume of spinal water and deplete the water contained in the disk cartilage and surrounding back muscles. Both may also lead to thinning of the intervertebral disks and, thereby, to muscle spasms. The shortening of height among the elderly, which is so often attributed to "normal" aging, has actually nothing to do with aging, but is due to simple dehydration because of the reasons outlined above. |
Dr. Sharon Moalem
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| A series of cholera outbreaks that began in Peru in 1991 and spread across South and Central America over the next few years provide compelling evidence that Ewald is on to something. The water supply systems from country to country ranged from relatively advanced to seriously rudimentary. Sure enough, when the bacteria invaded nations with poorly protected water supplies, such as Ecuador, the virus became more harmful as it spread. But in countries with safe water supplies, such as Chile, the bacteria evolved downward in virulence and killed fewer people. |
Dr. Edward F. Group III, DC, ND, DACBN
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| Nearly all of Europe's water supply is fluoride-free, and thankfully, many American communities are realizing this is the healthier choice. More than 45 U.S. cities have rejected the process of water fluoridation since 1990. Now, if the remaining 30,000 will follow along, the entire nation will have access to fluoride-free water.
Did You Know?
H Five percent of the worlds population still receives fluoridated water and over half of those people reside in North America!
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James F. Balch, M.D. and Mark Stengler, N.D.
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| Fluoridation of the water supply is a controversial topic; fluoridation may dg not wait until you have the be a serious health hazard. Pesticides, heavy metals (e.g., lead) and other sensation of feeling thirsty to contaminants are found in the water supply. Parasites and bacteria are start drinking water. By the time in higher-than-acceptable concentrations in some areas of this country's you feel thirsty, you are likely to water. be mildly dehydrated. Regular
The optimal solution is to install a reverse-osmosis system in your water intake throughout the day home or drink distilled water. |
Byron J. Richards
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 Such issues complicate weight loss and in some cases halt all progress.
The water supply in many regions of the United States that grow our food is contaminated with perchlorate, a rocket-fuel ignition catalyst used primarily by military contractors. Perchlorate binds to the thyroid gland more tightly than iodine and disrupts metabolism. It is in much of the produce and milk supply of our country. Almost all lettuce contains high amounts of perchlorate. The only way to avoid it is to buy produce grown in regions which do not have a perchlorate-contaminated water supply. |
Connie Bennett, C.H.H.C. with Stephen T. Sinatra, M.D.
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 Ravussin, until after World War II, the Pima Indians maintained a traditional way of life and economy until their water supply was diverted by American farmers who settled upstream. Then, the Pimas began to eat lard, sugar, and white flour that the U.S. government gave them to survive. Apparently, these sugary, processed foods, especially deep-fried bread—a combination of flour and lard—contributed to their weight gain.
Some experts speculate that when confronted with famine, the Pimas who survived were those whose "thrifty gene" led them to store as much fat as possible. |
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