-By Don Boys, Ph.D.
I have plans to live to be 100 years old and live in good health! I may not make it but my plans include it. Of course, those plans could change if I get hit by a truck. In this column I provide some of the best information you can find to take care of your health and live a long life. (Of course, I must add that my training is not in the health field. You might want to check with your doctor. That statement will keep the Federal thugs off my back.)
What goes into the body will have an incredible effect on it, so we must be careful what we permit in the body. Since the body is the Temple of the Holy Spirit, it is a sin to mistreat it. Most educated people know the danger of sugar, some meats, chemicals, preservatives, etc., that can be detrimental to each of us. Today, I will deal with water, the most necessary item that goes into the body except oxygen.
Water is the most necessary item on earth. No living thing can exist without it; yet it is increasingly more difficult to find pure water. The population growth, the expanding cities, and massive farms all produce a shortage of water and often resulting in contaminated water. (No, I am not an environmentalist nut.)
All of us drink water, and we consist of about 70% water. Water is the most necessary element in our lives except air. So don’t you think the drinking water should be pure to help us function at our optimum level and live to age 100?
The fact is that most of our water may be safe for showers, but not safe to drink—and drinking is more important than showers! (This is not a defense for dirt. Sorry kids.)
Most towns and cities in the U.S. have impure water. Even rainwater isn’t pure since it falls through the polluted atmosphere. Did you know that most city water has been used at least 5 times? Water used in Pittsburgh flows down the Ohio River to Huntington, WV and is used by them until it passes on to Cincinnati then to Louisville and into the Mississippi on the Illinois and Missouri border, a distance of 980 miles. The Mississippi then flows south dumping its used water into the Gulf of Mexico after “refreshing” millions of innocent citizens along its path. Of course, the used, polluted water is “cleaned up” for repeated use; but West Africans say that filthy water cannot be washed. I tend to agree with them.
“But,” you say, “Chlorination cleans up the water.” No, it adds more problems. Author Joseph Price, M.D. says that before 1900 when chlorination started, heart attacks were unknown! He wrote, “The basic cause of athereosclerosis, heart attacks and most forms of strokes is chlorine. The chlorine contained in processed water.” People tell us that it is modern stress that produces heart attacks but early Americans lived with incredible stress–savage Indians, bad weather, poor harvests, etc.,– without heart attacks.
However, chlorine is perfume compared to fluoride. Dr. James Sumner, Nobel Prize winner said, “Everybody knows fluorine and fluorides are very poisonous substances….” Dr. Robert Prick said, “Fluoridation is one of the biggest international scandals that has ever been promoted in the name of a health scheme.” It is interesting that leftist kooks and federal employees (but I repeat myself) defend dumping millions of gallons of these poisons into our water supply but run like their hair is on fire when we suggest that maybe we should reconsider the ban on DDT especially with the dengue fever in Florida!
Water is not only polluted, it is often poisoned! The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency discovered cancer-causing substances in every water supply it tested—79 different cities!
Did you know that some water systems have transparent worms? William Witzke of the Witzke Laboratories in Modesto, CA said that 95% of the water he had analyzed was not fit for human or animal consumption. The U.S. Public Service said, “One out of every two Americans—over one hundred million people—are drinking processed sewer water.” Say what? You should drink distilled water or purified water.
Some people think they will be safe if they drink tea, coffee or soft drinks, but God planned for us to drink water. And what do you think those drinks are made of? They are also bad news in that they provide sugar, caffeine, chemicals, additives, etc., that destroy the body. It only takes 9 cups of coffee or 4 cups of tea in a day to cause the heart to react. Caffeine is dangerous and is found in cola drinks and many prescription drugs.
Water is essential to everyone and it just may be the source of major confrontations in a few years. Mankind will realize how important water is when the well runs dry. While oil is necessary for modern society, water is more so. Moreover, while we know the quality of the water supply is deteriorating, the quantity is not increasing and what is available ranges from “bad to badder to baddest”
It is time to take control of our lives, without becoming fanatics, and treat our bodies the way God expects us to treat them. Then we can plan on living to be a hundred unless you get hit by a bus!
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Dr. Don Boys is a former member of the Indiana House of Representatives, author of 13 books, frequent guest on television and radio talk shows, and wrote columns for USA Today for 8 years His most recent book is ISLAM: America’s Trojan Horse! His websites are www.cstnews.com and www.Muslimfact.com.)
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