Parents - 7 Reasons Why You Should Stop Using Tap Water to Make Baby Formula

As parents, you need to be aware of the very serious health risks of using tap water to make baby formula, or as drinking water, or even for bathing your child. We all know our water supplies have been contaminated for years, but the governmental regulating bodies like the Environmental Protection Agency and the Food and Drug Administration have, in the past, consistently declared that low levels of these contaminants pose little threat to us. In this article we will look at what the experts are now saying about this and how you can protect your family from danger.Past government statements concerning the health risks of contaminants such as chlorine, fluoride, pharmaceutical drugs, toxic chemicals, etc. were based on their effects on adults, not babies and children, and those tests were not made over long periods of time.

We are now finding out about the effects on our bodies from studies over longer periods of time and the results are frightening.

1. “We are quite convinced, based on this study, there is an association between cancer and chlorinated water.” Medical College of Wisconsin, Senior Research Team

Along with that quote, we have, from The American Journal of Public Health, “Up to two-thirds of the harmful effects of chlorine are due to inhalation and skin absorption while showering.”

2. “Cancer risk among people using chlorinated water is as much as 93 percent higher than among those whose water does not contain chlorine.” U.S. Council of Environmental Quality

3. “One common factor among women with breast cancer is that they all have 50-60 percent higher levels of these chlorination byproducts (THMs) in their fat tissue than women without breast cancer…” BreastCancerFund.org

You may want to read items one through three again in light of the EPA’s more recent review of 23 peer-review studies of cancer incidence from the past 50 years. They determined infants up to age two are, on average, ten times more vulnerable to carcinogenic chemicals than adults. They also stated that for some cancer-causing agents children are up to 65 times more vulnerable!

4. The EPA now estimates that lead in drinking water contributes to 480,000 cases of learning disorders in children and 560,000 cases of hypertension in adults each year in the U.S. alone.

5. Of special concern to small children are the pharmaceutical drugs now being found in drinking water throughout the country. These drugs are designed to be effective on adults even in small dosages. Since a baby will ingest three or four times as much water per pound of body weight than an adult, they will, comparatively, fight much bigger doses of these chemicals in their bodies.

Recent laboratory research has shown low levels of these drugs have affected human blood cells, human breast cancer cells and embryonic kidney cells.

6. Childhood asthma, cancer, leukemia and immune disorders are on the rise. Studies suggest this is partially due to increased exposure to environmental toxins and children’s decreased ability to detoxify.
(The only way for the body to flush out toxins is with water and the purer the water is to start with, the better its ability to gather and flush the contaminants.)

7. There are also some immediate dangers associated with drinking water for children or adults. For instance, there have been outbreaks of chlorine-resistant parasites like cryptosporidium and Giardia in city water supplies. One of the largest was in Milwaukee where over 100 people died and 400,000 became sick in less than a month. These parasites can be fatal to small children.

“There’s no telling precisely how many Americans get sick each year from drinking bad water…I would say that the cases we learn about are the tip of the iceberg.” Deborah Levy, Waterborne Disease Expert, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

There was a time years ago, when the biggest problems our ancestors had with getting a good drink of water was being certain they were upstream from the animals. Now, even with the convenience of water flowing into our homes, getting a drink of good, safe water is much, much tougher.

The only way to protect your family from these threats is to filter the water you use in preparing their food, or drinks, or their baths.

You could use bottled water, but I would not recommend it because bottled water’s quality varies (and it’s expensive). The FDA regulates the bottled water industry and even they said, “Companies that market bottled water as being safer than tap water are defrauding the American public.” I’ll leave it at that.

So, please, protect your family and yourself, and get a good water filter system for your home. Any system you get will be better than using someone’s body, but some filter systems are better (and cheaper) than others.

David Eastham is a passionate advocate of good, safe water and a researcher of home water filters. Visit his site now at http://www.Good-Safe-Water.com to discover which brand of drinking water filters David recommends after extensive comparison. Article Source: EzineArticles.com

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