Maintaining good levels of hydration is well known to be critical to our health, unsurprising really as a huge proportion of the human body is made up of water.
About 18 months ago, as part my journey towards a more natural, organic diet, I gave up my usual fruit squash and fizzy drinks. I replaced them with just plain old tap water but was surprised by how difficult I was finding it to tolerate the taste. It was chemically, with almost a drying after taste in my mouth. I'd always thought that my water didn't really have a taste but clearly all this time I had just been 'masking' it with sugar and artificial flavours!
After a little research I decided that if I was going to continue my quest to drink only water I needed to improve it's quality somehow - I bought a water filter. Let me tell you, it was the best money I have ever spent.
It TRANSFORMED our water to the tasteless clear liquid that I actually expected to come from our tap.
With such a marked difference in taste, it did however make me question what was in our tap water to begin with. I came across this short video.
I was so shocked by it's claims that I tried a similar experiment with my own tap water vs filtered water.
I boiled down only 1 litre of each water to leave only about 20-30ml. The filtered water on the left resulted in a small amount of clear liquid. The tap water on the right had a pale yellow tinge to it.
Now I've not had this chemically tested nor do I claim to be any expert on water composition. I would imagine however that most people would rather drink the clear liquid than the yellow one - it's just common sense! Not to mention the difference in taste!!
It scares me to think what is actually considered 'safe' to be in our tap water.
In fact the quality of official advice on our health scares me in general.
One thing is for certain, if you don't look after your own health, nobody else will.
Take responsibility for your own health.
Question EVERYTHING.
