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Choosing a Water Filtering System
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Posted by Stacey Stultz on Dec.14, 2008
You “green clean”, try to feed your family nutritious foods and you want to give your family the purest, healthiest water possible, but with all of the conflicting claims of special water for health and claims of psuedoscientific fraud, how can you possibly choose a water system? The answer lies within two questions: what is healthy water and what do the major water filter systems do?
Healthy water has health promoting ingredients, like naturally occurring minerals and does not contain anything that could prove detrimental like chloroform, cysts, chlorine by-products, pesticides, micro-organisms, nitrites, fluoride, chemical compounds, pharmaceuticals and heavy metals. Some water systems, for taste and health benefits, have a final filter that actually adds minerals that it filtered out. But what about nano resonance, magnetized water, restructuring water or energized water? We feel the jury is still out!
Before choosing a water system, it is best to be familiar with how they work and what they remove. For the purest water, most water systems use a combination of either Reverse Osmosis with Carbon Filter or Water Distillation with Carbon Filter. If your filtration system removes minerals from your water, consider adding the minerals back with a mineral supplement. Once you have a system you like, make sure to change the filters according to the instructions.
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Carbon filter- uses activated charcoal to absorb chloroform, cysts, chlorine, pesticides, odors, bacteria, and many chemical compounds. Check the box to make sure what you want filtered out is actually being filtered out. |
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Distillation- boiling water vapor that has condensed back into a liquid. It removes bacteria, viruses, salt, nitrates, fluoride, and heavy metals. |
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Reverse Osmosis- uses a semi- permeable membrane to filter out pesticides, organic chemicals, fluoride, lead, algae, and nitrates. |
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Ceramic Filters- uses ceramic pores and Diatomaceous Earth (DE) to filter out microorganisms |
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Ultra-violet Light- uses UV light to kill microorganisms |
Posted under Drinks, Healthy Water.
Article By: Stacey Stultz
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