Pure Clean Water is Crucial to Child Development

Other than just being smaller, a child's body is really quite different from that of an adult.
Because many of the crucial defense systems that help protect an adult from disease are not fully developed in a child, a child is much more sensitive to carcinogens, lead, and water-borne parasites than an adult. Just as medications and other chemical compounds affect a childdifferently than an adult, so do contaminants in the air, drinking water and food supply. Unfortunately there is little we can do about toxins in the air or chemicals in food, which only makes the purity of water even more important. Water is the body's only way to flush out these toxins, and the purer the water is to start with... the higher its capacity is to collect and cleanse these harmful compounds from the body. Pure water helps the defenses of a child grow stronger and perform better; giving the child the protection he or she needs during those fragile developing years.

The immune and detoxification systems of a child still developing into and throughout their early teens. Exposure to trace levels of chlorine, toxic chemicals and lead in drinking water during childhood years has been linked to increased risk of diseases and learning disorders in later years. A recent Baltimore study showed that a child with high blood-lead levels exhibits a significantly higher rate of problem behaviors than a child with low blood-lead levels. This study lends support to the belief that undue exposure to lead in childhood years may have a pervasive influence on the prevalence of juvenile delinquency in this country.
Read More about Lead in Drinking Water.

A mixture of chemicals such as chlorine, lead, herbicides, pesticides and a host of other contaminants is commonly found in the water supply, and in many bottled waters. These trace levels of water-borne chemicals have been documented to have adverse health effects on humans, and especially on a small child.

Unfortunately the health standards that determine how much of these toxins are permitted in our drinking water and at what levels are all based on the potential effects on an adult, not a child. These Maximum Contaminant Levels (MCLs) are also based on the false assumption that we are exposed to only one chemical at a time. Commonly, traces of several dozen different toxic chemicals are found in tap water.

A recent report by the Environmental Working Group, called "Into the Mouths of Babes", found that of 29 Mid western cities tested, all had at least one agricultural chemical present in a single glass of water, and most had five or more! The report also points out that 45,000 mothers in these 29 cities were unknowingly making infant formula with tap water containing three or more toxic chemicals.

Often there are out breaks of chlorine-resistant parasites like cryptosporidium and Giardia in city water supplies, as was the case recently in Milwaukee, when over 100 people died and 400,000 became sick in less than a month, mostly children and the elderly, when the water system became contaminated with cryptosporidium. This intestinal parasite causes flu-like symptoms, and can be fatal to a small child or older adult... and is not controlled by chlorine.

Cases of childhood asthma, cancer, leukemia and immune disorders have all risen in the last decade. Many experts and studies suggest that this is partially due to increased exposure to environmental toxins by a child and a the decreased ability of a child to detoxify. Water plays a major role in exposure to toxins in a child and in the ability of the body of a child to get rid of them.

A child ingests three times as much water per pound of body weight than an adult does, so a child gets a bigger dose of the chemicals in the water, and the developing body of a child is simply much more sensitive to the harsh effects.

An increased intake of clean, healthy water is one of the easiest and best ways to help promote good health for a child.

Childhood asthma and many other illnesses have been directly linked to the level of exposure by a child to chlorine and other chemicals from drinking and showering with tap water. Home water filtration products are a great investment in the health of a child or an adult.

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