There’s an UNapproved Drug Being Used in Our Drinking and Bath Water??
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Largest Water Wholesaler in Southern California Sued for Illegal Use of an Unapproved Drug to Fulfill Fluoridation Program
SAN DIEGO, Aug. 10, 2011 /PRNewswire/ — Alleging willful misrepresentation and deceptive business practices by Metropolitan Water District of Southern California, attorneys for citizen/consumers from San Diego, Los Angeles and Ventura Counties filed a lawsuit in the public interest of millions of consumers in Southern California, citing that MWD of SoCal has made claims of safely and effectively treating and preventing dental disease in recipient consumers, while selecting and delivering a hydrofluosilicic acid drug through their water system that has never been approved for safety and effectiveness, nor in the expected dosages delivered by MWD through retail water districts, either topically, systemically through ingestion, or trans-dermal exposures through baths and showers.
In legal action which may impact the decision-making of water districts across the country employing the same practices, the lawsuit filed on August 9 in U.S. District Court, Southern District of California, addresses the Constitutional right of Plaintiffs to be free of bodily intrusion from a drug that has not been approved for MWD’s intent to alter the physical structure and bodily functions to make a person’s teeth more resistant to the demineralization process of tooth decay without their consent.
While some consumers may elect to purchase bottled water for drinking, virtually all consumers are captive to exposures from baths and showers, as simple filtration and most non-commercial methods do not remove the product, resulting in exposures to consumers similar to that of medications delivered by seasickness or nicotine patches.
“This case does not challenge the public policy of fluoridation,” states Kyle Nordrehaug, attorney for the Plaintiffs. “It does challenge MWD’s bait and switch tactics of orchestrating statements by them and their down-line distributors of water to individual consumers when MWD knew that the actual drug product that they deliver had never had a toxicological study performed on the health and behavioral effects of its continued use until 2010, much less approval for MWD’s perpetuation of absolute health claims.”
Despite early misrepresentations in the media, MWD of SoCal is not compelled to fluoridate its water by the State of California, and the costs of adding the unapproved drug are being borne by consumers in the form of rate hikes without water districts providing ratepayers clear notice of what the extra costs are for, or obtaining their consent.
The lawsuit’s filing clarifies that Congress has established that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration is the only government entity with the authority to approve claims of safety and effectiveness for products intended to treat and prevent disease, and that not only has the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency never had that authority, but in 1988 abandoned authority for safety standards for all direct water additives, including fluoridation chemicals.
While the Plaintiffs do not seek an award for any physical harm, they do point to evidence concerning safety/harm and effectiveness that by law and for consumers’ protection requires that the product be thoroughly evaluated, and approval given, for any claims and MWD’s intended health impact, before exposing consumers without their consent.
Plaintiffs point to MWD’s misrepresentations and omission of any notice of contraindications, government recognition of susceptible populations, and scientific evidence of disproportionate harm to children, Latinos, and African Americans, from the particular harmful side effects from the hydrofluosilicic acid drug selected by MWD, above other forms of fluoride.
“This lawsuit pushes past the rhetoric and reliance on unaccountable endorsements or opinions that usually accompany this subject, and focuses on whether MWD of SoCal adds hydrofluosilicic acid to public drinking water in order to treat or prevent dental disease, and whether FDA regulates products intended to treat disease, or not,” said Jeff Green, National Director of Citizens for Safe Drinking Water and spokesperson for the Plaintiffs.
“In essence,” continued Green, “the Plaintiffs are saying, ‘Don’t tell us, or the media, or the court how safe it is. Go tell it to the FDA through the evaluation process and get approval for the claims for the specific product you deliver, and don’t administer it to us topically, systemically through our ingestion, or through our skin from our baths and showers, without our consent until you do.’”
Contacts:
Jeff Green, Plaintiff Spokesperson
Citizens for Safe Drinking Water (800) 728-3833
greenjeff@cox.net keepers-of-the-Well.org
Kyle Nordrehaug, Attorney
Blumenthal, Nordrehaug & Bhomik
Ray Kurzweil (Scientist) Talks about Alkaline, Ionized Water
Ray Kurzweil was inducted in 2002 into the National Inventors Hall of Fame, established by the U.S. Patent Office.
He received the $500,000 Lemelson-MIT Prize, the nation’s largest award in invention and innovation. He also received the 1999 National Medal of Technology, the nation’s highest honor in technology, from President Clinton in a White House ceremony.
He has also received scores of other national and international awards, including the 1994 Dickson Prize (Carnegie Mellon University’s top science prize), Engineer of the Year from Design News, Inventor of the Year from MIT, and the Grace Murray Hopper Award from the Association for Computing Machinery. He has received twelve honorary Doctorates and honors from three U.S. presidents.
He has received seven national and international film awards. Ray’s books include The Age of Intelligent Machines, The Age of Spiritual Machines, and Fantastic Voyage: Live Long Enough to Live Forever. Four of Ray’s books have been national best sellers and The Age of Spiritual Machines has been translated into 9 languages and was the #1 best selling book on Amazon in science.
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Question: I have read on the Internet that it is not possible to create alkaline or acid water from pure water and that water that is pure enough to drink can’t be split into alkaline and acid components. Is this true?
Answer: As responsible scientists, we had the same skepticism when we first heard about alkaline water.
Therefore, the first thing we did was to purchase a water alkalinizer as well as an accurate electronic pH meter. We ran tap water with pH 7.1 from our home faucet into the device and found that the water coming out of the alkaline outlet had a pH of 9.5 (indicating very alkaline), while the water from the acid outlet measured pH 4.5 (indicating very acidic).
We repeated this experiment with a variety of tap waters obtaining alkaline outputs with a pH ranging from 9.5 to 9.9. It is true that “pure” or distilled water cannot be ionized. If you were to try to “split” distilled water, it would not work. Tap or spring water, however, has dissolved minerals in it. It’s the minerals in the water; primarily calcium, potassium and magnesium that allow water to be “split” by an electric current into alkaline, “electron-rich” (i.e., containing negatively charged ions that can engage in chemical reactions to provide electrons to positively charged free radicals) and acid, “electron-deficient” components. Individuals who say it is not possible to split tap or spring water are misinformed.
Question: One site on the Internet states “Ionized water is nothing more than sales fiction; the term is meaningless to chemists. Most water that is fit for drinking is too un-conductive to undergo significant electrolysis.”
Answer: The above statement is easily shown to be incorrect with a simple pH meter and an electrolysis machine. Most tap waters run through the machine produce highly alkaline water as measured by a pH meter.
Question: Since you advocate drinking alkaline water, why not simply mix something like sodium bicarbonate (baking soda) with water and drink that? There are, in fact, alkaline waters sold that are made by mixing water with bicarbonate. Wouldn’t that work as well and be much less expensive than a water alkalinizer?
Answer: There are more benefits to “alkaline water” than simply the alkalinity or pH. The most important feature of alkaline water produced by a water alkalinizer is its oxidation reduction potential (ORP). Water with a high negative ORP is of particular value in its ability to neutralize oxygen free radicals.
ORP can also be directly tested using an ORP sensor and meter. We have conducted these experiments as well. We found that water coming directly from the tap had an ORP of +290mV, while the water coming out of the water alkalinizer had a negative ORP. The more negative the ORP of a substance (that is, the higher its negative ORP), the more likely it is to engage in chemical reactions that donate electrons. These electrons are immediately available to engage in reactions that neutralize positively charged free radicals. This is the key benefit of water produced by a water alkalinizer that is not available by simply drinking water than has had some bicarb or other compounds dissolved in it to make it alkaline.
Although water mixed with bicarbonate is indeed alkaline, it does not have a negative ORP; rather it has a positive ORP, meaning that it is unable to neutralize dangerous oxygen free radicals. Alkaline water produced by running tap water through an electrolysis machine does have a high negative ORP, meaning that it does have the ability to neutralize oxygen free radicals. We have confirmed these ORP measurements through our direct tests.
Question: OK, why is it important to drink alkaline water with a high negative ORP?
Answer: All chemical reactions occur with the transfer of electrons. Negatively charged entities are said to be reducing agents, meaning they are relatively electron rich and are able to donate electrons, reducing the charge of the entity with which they react. Relatively electron-poor entities are referred to as oxidizing agents, meaning they tend to pull electrons away. Thus, each substance in our body may act as either an oxidizing or reducing agent.
However, not just any negatively charged ion will be able to engage in the specific chemical reactions needed to neutralize oxygen free radicals. The HCO3- (bicarbonate) ions in alkaline bicarb water do not have this potential, whereas the OH- and mineral-rich water coming from an electrolysis machine (from tap water) does have this potential. That is implied in the negative value of the “oxidation reduction potential.”
Free radicals are among the most damaging molecules in the body and are highly unstable molecules that are oxidizing agents and are electron deficient. They are a principal cause of damage and disease in the body. Oxygen free radicals contribute significantly to a broad variety of harmful conditions in the body ranging from life-threatening conditions such as heart disease, stroke and cancer, to less severe conditions such as sunburns, arthritis, cataracts, and many others. Free radicals MUST get electrons from somewhere and will steal them from whatever molecules are around, including normal, healthy tissues.
Damage to tissues results when free radicals strip these electrons from healthy cells. If the damage goes on unchecked, this will lead to disease. For example, the oxidation of LDL cholesterol particles in arterial walls by free radicals triggers an immune system response that results in atherosclerosis, the principal cause of heart disease. The negative ions in alkaline water from an electrolysis machine are a rich source of electrons that can be donated to these free radicals in the body, neutralizing them and stopping them from damaging healthy tissues.
Specifically, these ions have the potential to engage in the chemical reactions necessary to neutralize oxygen free radicals.
Vitamin C and E, grape seed extract and alpha lipoic acid, for example, are all powerful electron donors. The vegetable-rich diet we recommend is alkaline and helps donate electrons to the body. Alkaline, electron-rich water falls in the same category. It can help with your body’s need for electrons to counteract free radicals.
Interestingly, we also tested vegetable juice with the ORP meter and found that it also has a high negative ORP, meaning that it is able to neutralize oxygen free radicals. So at least one of the important benefits of eating vegetables can be obtained from drinking the high negative ORP alkaline water from an electrolysis machine.
Another benefit of drinking alkaline water is that it assists in the absorption of minerals. We know that if the body is not absorbing enough minerals, it will rob minerals from the body’s mineral reserves, chiefly calcium from the bones.
It is well known that many chronic diseases result in excess acidity of the body (metabolic acidosis). We also know that the body tends to become more acidic due to modern dietary habits and lifestyles and the aging process itself. By drinking high negative ORP alkaline water, you combat metabolic acidosis and improve absorption of nutrients.
The blood is carefully buffered to keep it in a narrow range between pH 7.35 to 7.45. The body keeps blood pH stable by utilizing alkaline buffers, chiefly bicarbonate, to neutralize acidic liquids (such as colas, which have a pH as low as 2.5) and other acidic products and byproducts.
But as the blood stream receives these acidic substances, the alkaline buffers get used up.
Drinking alkaline water helps reduce the burden on the limited alkaline buffers which are needed for the body’s natural detoxification processes.
Question: Is there research that actually shows the benefits of drinking alkaline water?
Answer: A number of studies are summarized below. One study described below suggests that alkaline water encourages “friendly” anaerobic microflora in the human intestinal tract, and discourages “unfriendly” aerobic organisms. The researcher (see Vorobjeva NV below) writes:
“Many diseases of the intestine are due to a disturbance in the balance of the microorganisms inhabiting the gut. The treatment of such diseases involves the restoration of the quantity and/or balance of residential microflora in the intestinal tract. It is known that aerobes and anaerobes grow at different oxidation-reduction potentials (ORP). The former require positive E(h) values up to +400 mV. Anaerobes do not grow unless the E(h) value is negative between -300 and -400 mV. In this work, it is suggested that prerequisite for the recovery and maintenance of obligatory anaerobic microflora in the intestinal tract is a negative ORP value of the intestinal milieu. Electrolyzed reducing water with E(h) values between 0 and -300 mV produced in electrolysis devices possesses this property. Drinking such water favours the growth of residential microflora in the gut. A sufficient array of data confirms this idea.”
Dr. Grossman has also had many of his patients report of health benefits they have experienced from drinking alkaline electron-rich water.
Question: How can alkaline water with a pH of 9 or 10 be expected to affect the body when the pH of the stomach is 2 or less?
Answer: It is important to remember that large amounts of hydrochloric acid are present in the stomach primarily when food is there. There is only a small amount of acid in stomach when it is empty, and this can be easily overcome when alkaline electron-rich water is consumed.
Therefore, in order to gain maximum benefit, we recommend drinking alkaline water in-between meals. Water consumed between meals will very quickly pass through the stomach and the GI tract.
Aging and Reverse Aging
Life is precious. But many of us take it for granted that we’re going to live long, healthy lives. Unfortunately, depending on your lifestyle, the aging process begins to catch up with you sometimes a bit sooner than you’d like. Many people begin to feel a little arthritis setting in, maybe some lower back pain, etc, etc… Before you know it, life just doesn’t seem fun anymore due to some sort of pain or illness.
Here is what occurs in the aging process and more importantly, here’s how we can substantially slow it down.
Every living cell in our body creates waste product. Nutrients from our food is delivered to our cells and the cells, in combination with oxygen, burn these nutrients to produce energy for us to live. In exchange for energy, these burned off nutrients become waste product. The way we know that food is either good or bad for you is by the quantity and quality of waste product that is generated.
On a typical pH chart, the scale usually runs from 3.0 – 11.0 pH, with 7.0 pH being neutral. Anything under 7.0 is considered acidic; anything over 7.0 is considered alkaline. All waste product is acidic. Because our artery bloodstream value is slightly alkaline at 7.365 and must remain so to remain healthy, all waste product must be expelled from our blood and bodies.
Aging process, simply defined, is the accumulation of non-disposed acidic wastes within our bodies. If the body is not able to expel 100% of waste product, the body will protect itself by storing this waste somewhere. Where does it go? It becomes solid waste material such as cholesterol, fatty acid, uric acid, kidney stones, urates, phosphates, sulphates and plaque build-up on artery and digestive walls. All of this build-up is acidic, toxic and the more that is accumulated, the more prone you become to sickness and disease.
Chemically speaking; knowing that acid dissolves alkaline build-up and alkaline dissolves acidic build-up, it stands to reason that drinking alkaline, ionized water (if consumed regularly) will gradually and substantially reduce the amount of accumulated, built-up acidic waste stored in your body. Also, since the accumulation of acid waste is aging, the reduction of acid waste may be considered reverse aging.
Water ionizers have been available in Japan and South Korea now for over 30 years. It is reported that one in every 5 homes in Japan has an ionizer (it’s 1 in 10 in South Korea) and many believe this is a major reason Japan is consistently ranked in the top 5 countries for longevity. Water ionizers that produce alkaline, ionized water are even considered to be medical devices by the Japanese government.
Though water ionizer technology has been around this long in Asia, it was only introduced into the United States roughly about 10 years ago. Fortunately for us here in the West, a few new companies have come along to help spread the word on the health benefits of drinking this water. Though drinking alkaline, ionized water is not officially considered to be a medicinal cure for treating any disease, there are many reports of natural health improvement of all sorts of ailments by those who drink it.
Becoming ill often and aging prematurely is a terrible way to go through life. Do something about it now by visiting my website and I’ll help educate you on one of the most crucial links to staying healthy – water. Put your name and email into the boxes and I’ll begin sending you free and concise information to help you make a positive, exciting and educated decision on how to help improve the quality of your life.
Ionized Water Machines – What are they? What do they do?
“What is it?” I asked. “It’s a water ionizer,” was the reply. “What the heck is a water ionizer and why are they showing this thing to me?”
That was me two years ago being introduced to something called a water ionizer after telling my friend about my aching back. He said, “Your back hurts? Drink some of this water!” He then explained, a water ionizer is a machine that 1) purifies tap water, 2) alkalizes the water, and 3) ionizes the water. Ok, the purification part I get, but why is drinking alkaline water and ionized water so important? I’ve since found out it’s exactly what our bodies are meant to have to remain healthy.
Ever heard of the magical healing waters of Tlacote, Mexico; Nordenau, Germany; or Nadana village, India? If you have then you’ll know that between 5,000 to 10,000 people, come from as far as Russia to go and stand in a daily queue for their share of this so-called healing water, as the water is claimed to cure anything from cancer to obesity. Whilst in Germany, scientific tests were carried out on Nordenau’s water and proved that 30% of people with ailments who consumed the water were totally healed, and 28% saw a marked improvement in their condition.
According to their research, one major conclusion was the healing power of the water came down to a simple property; the Negative Hydrogen Ion (OH-).
The negative hydrogen ion seems to be a powerful life-sustaining “antioxidant”. It is found in natural raw foods and ancient water sources such as glacial water run-offs, particular wells, springs and lakes. What’s special about water ionizers is they match the properties of natural occuring running water. That is, they match the natural water that is found – gushing down high-altitutde waterfalls from glaciers or mountains, where through velocity, gravity and violent impact, a natural ionization of the water occurs whilst absorbing minerals at the same time.
In a water ionizer, the water comes straight from the tap, is first purified through the unit’s filter(s) then goes through a process called electrolysis. Electrolysis is the process of running a single stream of water past two magnetically charged, electrified metal plates. This has the effect of splitting the single stream of water into two seperate, now chemically changed streams. That is, a normal H2O molecule is split into two individual, seperate molecules. An OH- (the “antioxidant”) molecule and an H+ (acidic “oxidizing”) molecule.
You may know, a “free-radical” is a molecule with an extra +charged ion. This extra +ion causes “oxidation”. Oxidation causes pre-mature aging. Think of an apple turning brown after it has been split open and exposed to the air. Or more basic, oxidation = rust. Most bottled waters out on the market have a +charged ion property to it. Therefore, if you drink a +charged water, you are in a sense, rusting (oxidizing) the inside of your body. The more oxidative (or “acidic”) your body, the more prone you are to disease and sickness.
Oppositely, by drinking a -charged water, the extra -ion goes in search of a +ion to latch onto to make itself a nuetral and natural molecule again and this “anti-oxidant”, -ion in turn has the effect of mitigating acidic (toxic) properties in your body. Since the anti-oxidant -ion mitages the premature aging effect an oxidant (+charged) ion has, many call ionized water anti-aging.
We’re all made out of water. Therefore, putting the right type of water into your body is essential to maintaing good and proper health. Using a ionized water machine, is one way to help keep your body as healthy as possible.
If you have a personal health challenge or know someone who does, I urge you to immediately begin research on ionized water and water ionizing machines. One great place to start is my website where you’ll learn the science behind the water, learn about the machines themselves and most importantly, learn about the health properties drinking ionized, alkaline water can have.
Great Health Begins with Restructured, Alkaline, Ionized Water
Great Health Begins With Restructured, Alkaline, Ionized Water
One of the hottest and most controversial topics today is WATER. Almost everyone is talking about water and there is a lot of confusion concerning it. Water quality is one of the main concerns, but taste has a lot to do with it as well. A recent City of Winter Park Water Quality Report mentioned the possible health risk “for people that have undergone organ transplants, cancer patients on certain drugs, some elderly people, infants and people with HIV/Aids or other immune systems disorders from drinking municipal water.” This warning comes from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and is effective for all municipal water systems. Well, if this is the state of your public water systems, what is a person to do? Even with good health, you should not challenge your immune system every time you go to the tap for a drink of water.
Restructured Alkaline, Ionized water may well be the best element or supplement you can put in your body! The Japanese have researched this for over forty years and have found that drinking restructured alkaline water can relieve or reduce the three main causes for sickness, disease and pre-mature aging: Acidosis, Dehydration, and Free Radicals.
Sounds simple, doesn’t it? Well it can be if you do the right things. After all, the country of Japan ranks much higher on the World Health Organization’s health scale than the United States. Let’s take one condition at a time and briefly explain it.
Acidosis:
Almost any health care provider, alternative or mainstream, will agree that most health problems, including cancer, begin in an acid environment within the body. Many lay people already know this. What most people don’t know is that if your pH drops below 5.8 you cannot absorb vitamins A, B, E, F, and K. Nor can you absorb valuable minerals like sulphur, potassium, calcium, vanadium, chromium, iron, or zinc. This is irrelevant of how much of these supplements you ingest. Give it some thought, you may literally be flushing huge amounts of money down the toilet, so to speak. The majority of people we check have a urine pH below 5.8 and don’t realize they are wasting their money on supplements. Restructured alkaline water is the fastest and most efficient way to alkalize your body. We are meant to be alkaline on the inside of our bodies. If you have any doubt about this I suggest you read “Alkalize or Die” by Dr. Theodore A. Baroody, available in most health stores.
Dehydration:
Estimates show that as high as 90 percent of the population is dehydrated, and they don’t even know it. Research has proven a body needs one-half of its weight in fluid ounces of water per day to remain properly hydrated. Dehydration has been linked to many of our modern diseases, too numerous to mention here. For detailed research on this fact you should read Your Body’s Many Cries for Water by F. Batmanghelidj, M.D. This book will help you understand the vital importance of water.
All water does not hydrate efficiently. Distilled water, for example, is dead and devoid of all minerals. It is extremely acidic and will tend to dehydrate you. The average pH of distilled water is 4.5, this is almost 1000 times more acidic than your blood, which is a pH of 7.3. Distilled water must be neutralized within the body, and as a result if there is insufficient calcium in the diet, it is leeched from other sources of calcium within the body. Reverse Osmosis water has many of the same problems, no minerals and an average pH of 5, more than 100 times more acidic than your blood. Remember that most bottled water and even some purified spring water use reverse osmosis in their bottling process.
Free Radicals:
Determined to be the major cause of premature aging, free radicals are atoms, ions, and molecules derived from oxygen that cause cellular damage within the body. Free radicals are highly reactive because they are missing an electron to balance it. They freely and randomly seek out available molecular electrons to bond to in the body, causing cellular structure damage. This damage contributes to aging and disease.
The body’s defense system for free radicals is antioxidants. Antioxidants act as neutralizing agents within the body. They supply the necessary electron bond for the highly reactive free radical thus blocking damage to cells within the body. Antioxidants are supplied by our diet and can be fortified by additional supplementation. Substantial research indicates the relationship between antioxidants and the strength of the immune system. Restructured alkaline, ionized water functions as a super liquid antioxidant! The alkaline water is loaded with negative hydrogen ions to neutralize free radicals and rid your body of this acidic waste material; sparing cellular damage that leads to aging and disease. Just by simply drinking your ideal daily goal you properly hydrate your body, rid yourself of acidic free radicals and strengthen your immune system.
Restructured alkaline water is slightly higher in pH than the blood, thereby relieving the stress on the body to keep your pH balanced where it is supposed to be. Restructured alkaline water, made using electrolysis, has smaller clusters of molecules that enable it to hydrate the body faster than any other water. It carries nutrients and oxygen to your cells more efficiently and removes acidic cellular waste with much greater effectiveness.
CHARACTERISTICS
• Water clusters half the size of tap water which allows high permeability, solubility, and absorption.
• Strong antioxidant.
• High energy potential.
BENEFITS OF LIVING WATER
• Higher alkalinity water buffers over-acidity.
• Effectively detoxifies the system.
• Distributes dissolved vitamins effectively.
• Very hydrating.
And P.S.! It’s great for your pets, too!
Begin learning about the health benefits of alkaline, ionized water today. If you have some sort of health challenge, or know someone who does, I urge you today to learn how this water may change your life by clicking here!
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