Cool Water
All about how we should drink our water
From PAAVO AIROLA, Ph.D., N.D. Taken from his book(1971) "Are you Confused?" The Water Controversies There is no longer controversy in regard to our polluted waters. Only a decade ago or so those of us who talked about the slow mass suicide that we were committing by polluting the waters in lakes and rivers were called alarmists. But now, everyone is suddenly aware of the grave consequences we have to face for abusing our water supplies. The President of the United States told us, in his 1970 State of the Union speech, that we have to clean our environment or perish. I am afraid that it might be "perish", because, in spite of all the talk and promises, nothing is being or will be done; more toxic matter than ever before is pouring into our lakes and rivers from industrial sources, from fields and forests saturated with chemical fertilizers and toxic sprays, and from sewage loaded with household detergents and other poisonous chemicals. We may have already reached the point of no return. Since there is general agreement now on the subject of polluted water, and since this book deals with controversies, misconceptions and confusion, we will discuss a few other controversial topics regarding water. *Fluoridation of the water Let me state clearly and loudly that fluoridation of the water is the biggest hoax in medical history perpetrated on innocent people in the name of science. Some 80 million Americans are now mass-medicated by, sodium fluoride, while there is no positive, conclusive, scientific proof that the addition of this inorganic toxic chemical does the least bit of good, even to the teeth of children between ages 7 and 12. But there are dozens of reliable studies made around the world that show that the fluoridation of the water causes fluorosis (mottling of tooth enamel), mongolism in infants, kidney damage, and other harmful effects to the body by its direct effect, and by its interference with enzyme, mineral and vitamin functions within the system. These studies are, however, suppressed; researchers are persecuted; and their findings are not published in medical journals. Woe to those who dare to go against the orthodoxy's monopoly of thoughts, ideas and practices! Unfortunately, space limitations prevent us from going into detail about this fascinating question of misguided chemical "progress", fluoridation of the water. Suffice here to say that several governments in Europe - notably Denmark, Poland, Sweden, Russia and Italy - have investigated all American claims for the benefits and safety of fluoridation and, after careful study, have prohibited fluoridation by-law on the grounds that "there is not sufficient evidence as to the benefit or the safety of this unscientific measure". The Swedish government and the Swedish Medical Society have for several years campaigned for water fluoridation, but in 1970 reversed their policy, and now are advising to stop all future fluoridation. A committee of forty Swedish medical experts, after a careful study of the newest facts, reported that "because of the increasing amount of reports which link artificially fluoridated water to a variety of health-damaging effects, all further fluoridation of the water in Sweden should be stopped until more knowledge of harmful side-effects of water fluoridation is obtained." (Those who are interested in studying the fluoridation question thoroughly should read the most informative book on the subject, called FLUORIDATION, compiled by the National Health Federation and obtainable from NHF P.O. Box 686, Monrovia, California, 91016.) Just one more thought on fluoridation - not a very scientific, but a plain horse-sense thought. The American Dental Association supports and endorses fluoridation very forcefully and spends a lot of its members' money on pro-fluoridation campaigns, advertising and propaganda, pushing fluoridation down the throats of the American people. Pro-fluoridationist doctors and dentists claim that mass-fluoridation would reduce the tooth decay by 60 per cent. Are you naive enough to believe that the American dentists, in mass, would endorse and actually financially support a program that would reduce their income by 60 per cent? They are not that dumb. They know that fluoridation of water will not reduce their incomes. There are actually as many or more dentists in the towns with 15 or more years of fluoridation than there are in non-fluoridated towns of comparable size. Fluoridation results in mottled teeth which need lots of dental work later in life and early replacement by dentures. You may not know what you are doing when you vote for the fluoridation of your water supply, but pro-fluoridationists know what they are doing, believe me! If they are so genuinely interested in reducing tooth decay - and reducing their incomes - by 60%, why don't they try advocating sugar-free diets and bone-meal supplements? It has been demonstrated conclusively by several researchers in Sweden and in the United States that such simple prophylactics as the addition of bone-meal to the diet and the avoidance of white sugar and white bread will bring tooth decay to a virtual standstill. In a Swedish study, children brought up on bone-meal supplements were almost 100 per cent free from tooth decay. Why don't the American dentists push this kind of caries-pre-ventive program, which really works? Abraham Lincoln said: "You can fool some of the people all of the time, and all of the people some of the time, but you can not fool all of the people all of the time." Almost one half THE WATER CONTROVERSIES of the American people have now been fooled for 20 years. Will all of the American people have to be fooled for "some of the time," before they will finally be awakened to the fact that they have been used as the guinea pigs of a quasi-scientific experiment based on an erroneous, speculative theory? YA INDEED! I HAVE KNOWN A NUMBER OF FAMILIES OVER MY LIFETIME WHO RAISED THEIR CHILDREN ON NO WHITE SUGAR. NO WHITE FLOUR PRODUCTS, AND LITTLE SUGARY DESERTS. MAKING SURE THEY ALSO HAD GOOD CALCUIM INTAKE. THE CHILDREN REACHED INTO THEIR TEEN YEARS NEVER HAVING TO SEE A DENTIST, UNLESS OF COURSE THEY HAD TEETH THAT NEEDED CORRECTING IN WRONG GROWTH ISSUES, OR NEEDED BRACES- Keith Hunt *Distilled vis-a-vis natural water There has been a great deal of confusion lately in regard to the advisability of drinking distilled water. Some health "experts" tell us that all well water, spring water, lake water, and fresh, running river and stream water is not good for human consumption. We know that practically all fresh water is polluted these days; and all the health experts agree that we should drink only pure, fresh, unpolluted and uncontaminated water that hasn't been chlorine or fluoridated. These are not the points of disagreement in this controversy, however. The reason some experts condemn all natural water is that "it contains large amounts of inorganic minerals which the body can not use." The same experts claim that these inorganic minerals can cause stiff joints, hardening of the arteries, gallstones, kidney and bladder stones, and many other ills. They advise, therefore, that the only "natural" water which is good for you is steam-processed distilled water. This distilled water idea is one of the most nonsensical and unscientific fads that has hit the health business in a long while. Consider these facts: 1. Man has used natural waters from springs, rivers and lakes for thousands of years, and enjoyed wonderful health. Hardening of the arteries is a relatively recent disease, a disease of civilization. 2. All wild animals drink natural waters and enjoy perfect health and complete freedom from disease. 3. The Hunza people, known for their extraordinary health and total freedom from hardening of the arteries or gall-bladder or kidney stones, drink natural waters that contain even more inorganic minerals than the waters in other parts of the world. 4. It has been scientifically established that in many places of the world, notably one town in England, where drinking water is extremely "hard", i.e. it contains extra large amounts of minerals, the people have a much lower incidence of arteriosclerosis as compared to the areas where people drink so-called "soft" water. 5. The latest findings of the British Society for the Advancement of Science and the U.S. Navy Dental Research Institute show that drinking so-called hard water, which is rich in minerals and trace elements, particularly molybdenum, strontium and fluorine, can prevent tooth decay and cardio-vascular diseases, caused by the hardening of the arteries. The trace element chromium in hard water helps to prevent diabetes. 6. Distilled water, void of all minerals, is not a natural water. It is a synthetic, artificial, man-made, fragmented product that does not occur "naturally". Prolonged drinking of soft (read: deficient in minerals) or distilled water will result in mineral deficiencies and lead to deficiency-caused diseases. There is no scientific evidence whatsoever that minerals from the water plug the arteries and cause arteriosclerosis. Hardening of the arteries is caused by the cholesterol deposits on the inside walls of the blood vessels. Some calcium and other minerals may be deposited on cholesterol, but this is not caused by drinking hard water, but by faulty mineral metabolism. *Organic versus inorganic minerals The main objection against drinking natural waters is that they contain inorganic minerals that the body "can not use". This objection is based on the antiquated theory that our body can use only the organic minerals. All minerals, chemicals, metals, salts and trace elements that are present in plant and animal tissues are organic. Those minerals that are present in soil, rocks, water, sea water, and air are inorganic. As plants grow, they transform inorganic minerals into organic minerals. It may be true that your body can use only organic minerals, if with the word use we mean the body's ability to assimilate and utilize these minerals as essential building blocks for renewal and repair of cells, and for many other vital biochemical and metabolic processes in the system. This does not mean, however, that inorganic minerals can not be absorbed into the system, that they are completely useless. There is some recent research which suggests that inorganic minerals, which have always been an integral part of man's environment, have some important part to play in man's life processes. For example, people have been using mineral springs and various kinds of mineral water baths for ages, long before civilization. I have seen ancient bathing places in the Caucassus mountains of Russia, where cave dwellers carried their sick to bathe in natural hot mineral springs. I have seen many such ancient bathing places, Balnearios, in Mexico. Mexican Indians have been using mineral waters for the healing of their sick since long before any white man stepped on this continent. They also use mineral-rich seawater to cure themselves of diseases. I have met many Indian medicine men who employ seawater and sand packs, and who recommend drinking seawater for many ailments. In Germany, I have visited dozens of mineral water Spas, where millions of people take "cures". Note that all these mineral waters, as well as seawater, contain only inorganic minerals: If your body can not use them at all, if they do nothing but cause serious disorders and diseases, as you have been told, then why do millions of people around the world visit these Spas and mineral springs and report enthusiastically of the many health benefits, even cures, they obtain from them? *The medicinal value of mineral water The medicinal and health-promoting properties of mineral waters have been demonstrated in many experiments and studies. Drs. Korenyi, Harkavy and Whittier reported on the experiments they conducted with 34 patients with high cholesterol levels at the Greedmoor State Hospital in New York. These patients, whose serum cholesterol levels were above 240mg.%, did not receive any other type treatment known to have any effect on serum cholesterol, except 30.5 fluid ounces of mineral water daily in three divided doses. The treatment continued 30 days. At the end of two weeks the average decrease of serum cholesterol was 9.9mg.%. At the conclusion of the study, the average decrease was 23.8mg.%. A Hungarian doctor, 0. Schulhof, M.D., made a study of mineral Spa therapies and reported that "beside the psycho- logical effects produced by the changed environment, and the complex effect of other therapeutic treatments, we still attribute importance to the specific effect of the mineral water." Dr. Schulhof said that it has been demonstrated that mineral water is actually absorbed through the skin. According to Dr. Schulhof, mineral waters have a beneficial effect on the connective tissues as well as on the immunological and healing powers of the body. In Germany, three million people frequent mineral bathing and drinking Spas each year, most of them on their doctors' recommendations. In Bad Pyrmont, I visited the famous Mineral Water Cure establishment run and directed by the State Medical Board. Medical doctors supervise the "water cures" at Bad Pyrmont. Here is a quote from the brochure published by the State Medical Government: "Bad Pyrmont Spa facilities are recommended for the treatment of the following diseases: diseases of the heart and circulation; cardiac insufficiency, cardiac infarct, coronary thrombosis; disorders in blood pressure, peripheral circulation disorders; nervous disorders, diseases of the blood-forming organs; all types of anemia; rheumatic diseases of the bones, joints and muscles; women's complaints: inflammation of female abdominal organs, periodic and other hormone disorders; eczema; allergies; conditions of exhaustion; children's diseases; diseases of old age and senility." Keep in mind that this is not a "quack"-operated joint trying to cheat people of their money, offering bogus mineral water cures for all these serious diseases, but a State-operated Spa that has been approved by the State Medical Association! If mineral waters didn't work or did not have a beneficial and curative effect, do you think these hundreds of mineral Spas would be operated on such a grand scale for thousands of years? A doctor with whom I spoke at Bad Pyrmont told me: "The modern inquiry into Balnealogy* and the medicinal value of mineral waters is recent and as yet incomplete. But what is already known indicates that mineral waters do indeed have a curative effect. And they should, inasmuch as disorders in mineral metabolism and biochemical derangement are at the root of many diseases. But what is even more important is the fact that these mineral waters have been used for healing purposes for almost two thousands years; and millions of sick people have been benefitted by them - patients and doctors see examples of it every day." In our own experience directing biological therapies at a mineral water Spa in Mexico, many of our patients have recovered quite spectacularly on a combined biological program of fasting, special diets and hot mineral baths. We also advised them to drink one glass of mineral water each day. Patients with high blood pressure, arthritis, varicose veins, thyroid insufficiency, asthma, psoriasis, and cardiac and circulatory disorders have responded rather miraculously to the Spa therapy. Many arthritics who were badly incapacitated and immobile, have walked for miles in hilly terrain after a few weeks of treatment; patients with high blood pressure improved dramatically, showing decreases in blood pressure of 30 to 40 mm. After 2 weeks; and patients with respiratory and heart problems experienced great relief within a few weeks. The available research work, corroborated by our own experience, suggests that inorganic minerals present in seawater and mineral waters have a definite curative effect on many disorders by stimulating the body's own defensive and healing forces. *Balnealogy - the Medical Science of curing and preventing sickness by bathing. My assumption is that the healing effect of mineral water is not only due to the nutritive value of the minerals present, but also to the catalytic effect of these minerals on the vital biochemical body processes. *The health-building value of minerals in water scientifically confirmed. Recently, the British Society for the Advancement of Science held a special Congress in Exeter, England, to study the effects of minerals and trace elements in man's environment - water, air and soil - on man's health. It was revealed at the Congress, as an established fact, that in the areas where people drink water rich in trace elements molybdenum, strontium and fluorine, they have less caries, or tooth decay. It has been also established that in the areas where drinking water is deficient in trace element chromium, there is an abnormally high prevalence of diabetes. The Congress has specifically stressed the fact, based on latest findings, that the so-called hard water (water with high mineral content) has a definite preventive effect against the development of cardio-vascular diseases caused by arteriosclerosis, or hardening of the arteries. The fact was considered "remarkable" because hard water contains more calcium than soft water. A very convincing discovery, proving the value of drinking so-called hard water (rich in minerals and trace elements), was made by Drs. Losee and Adkins at U.S. Navy Dental Research Institute. Checking in the birthplaces and homes of 360 recruits who never had a single dental cavity in their lives, the researchers discovered the remarkable fact that they all lived in three small geographic regions of the United States - northwest Ohio, northeast South Carolina and west central Florida. Set out to discover what circumstances peculiar to these areas caused people to resist dental decay, the scientists discovered that the water supplies in these areas were rich in minerals and trace elements, particularly in molybdenum and strontium, but also boron and lithium. Hard, mineralized water the cavity-free recruits were drinking all their lives, was "significantly higher" in these minerals than the water in the other areas of the country known for the average amount of dental cavities. For example, there was 50 times as much strontium in the water samples from northwest Ohio as in the water from the high-cavity states. The researchers, impressed by the cavity-resistant property of minerals and trace elements in drinking water, conducted controlled experiments with rats to prove their discovery scientifically. Four groups of rats were given special dental decay-producing diets plus distilled water (devoid of minerals), fluoridated water, artificially mineralized water and natural mineral-rich water. The group that drank natural water containing minerals and trace elements was "significantly better" both in numbers and severity of dental decay. Incidentally, the group that drank fluoridated water, showed no improvement in dental health over the groups which drank unfluoridated water. Since dental health is a very reliable indication of overall health, the above research clearly demonstrates the wisdom and health-building value of drinking hard, naturally mineralized water rich in tooth-health minerals, particularly in molybdenum and strontium. Dr. Ragnar Berg, perhaps the world's greatest authority on nutrition and biochemistry, said, "It is extremely important for man's growth and his health that he uses 'hard' water for drinking . . . Drinking mineral-rich hard water could improve the calcium-deficient diets of civilized men." *What about seawater? We have all experienced the invigorating effect of a few days or weeks by the seashore. The reason is this: minerals from the seawater and air are actually absorbed through the skin and lungs. Health food stores have recently begun selling seawater as a food supplement. Dr. M. O. Garten tells in his book, THE HEALTH SECRETS OF NATUROPATHIC DOCTOR, of many remarkable cases where health was restored to patients given about one ounce of seawater daily. Cases of Parkinson's disease, chronic indigestion, bleeding gums, and other chronic ailments responded dramatically to seawater therapy. What is the secret of the therapeutic property of seawater?
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