Drink Water For Health

How much do you know about public drinking water safety? What do you know about the health hazards that are flowing out of your drinking water faucets? Let me give you some information that will help protect your long term health and could save your life.

For many years, the major concern was chlorine. It tasted bad and smelled bad. I grew up in the country and I remember the first time that I tasted “city-water”. It was disgusting, so I never drank it again.

That was when I became interested in drinking water safety. I started reading about chlorine and the reason for its use. It is used primarily to prevent outbreaks of waterborne illnesses like cholera and dysentery. But, it is a caustic chemical and we pay the price.

It is so caustic that it will even corrode your drinking water faucets and pipes. If you live in an older home, lead may have been used to solder copper piping and joints together. As chlorine passes by those joints, some of the lead breaks off and ends up in your glass.

The heavy metal builds up in the human body over time, causing chronic health problems, like high blood pressure, heart disease and malnutrition. In children, lead consumption causes learning disabilities, behavioral problems and irreversible brain damage.

Lead and chlorine are just two of the reasons that you need a filtration system on all of your drinking water faucets. There are literally thousands of others. A speech on drinking water safety can last for hours.

Books have been written on the subject. Respected chemists, scientists, researchers and doctors warn about the health problems caused by the toxins coming out of our drinking water faucets.

THMs or trihalomethanes are a group of compounds released during the chlorination process. They include chloroform gas, a neurotoxin and probable human carcinogen. There are measurable levels of chloroform gas in homes around the country. The cause is showering and bathing in unfiltered waters.

All of the THMs are toxic and constant exposure increases one’s risk of cancer. If your facility provides a regular drinking water safety report, you will see THMs listed as TTHMs or total trihalomethanes. There are legal limits for the amount that can be present at the facility, but there is no way to determine how high those levels grow as water passes through the pipes and enters your home.

Independent researchers have taken samples from the drinking water faucets in homes and offices around the country, in an effort to determine Atrazine levels, an herbicide. Treatment facilities test for them, but not during the spring and summer months when farmers and lawn care professionals are spraying.

Atrazine also increases your risk of cancer and levels were found to be extremely high in the Midwest and the Eastern United States. The weed killer has been banned by the European Union, in an effort to protect their citizens.

No matter where you live, investing in a filtration device for your home is the only way to insure complete drinking water safety. Be sure to shop for quality and compare performance, before you buy.

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When it comes to health and fitness there are not very many absolute truths. Topics that seem fairly straightforward often result in confusion or cause people to have opposing viewpoints. In some cases, differing opinions can all be correct, but each one may only true under certain circumstances. However, when it comes to the question of whether drinking cold water burns more calories than drinking warm water, there is one absolute truth.

The interesting thing about this issue is the question can be easily answered just by examining the scientific definition of a calorie. The word calorie has multiple definitions, but one of them is: the quantity of heat required to raise the temperature of 1000 grams of water by 1°Celsius. This may sound a little confusing, but with a little simplification and some conversions to US measurements, it becomes obvious that drinking colder water unquestionably burns more calories.

The most important part of this definition is that calories are defined by the amount of energy it takes to raise the temperature of water within your body. To calculate the amount of calories burned with US measurements, we just need to do a couple conversions. First, 1000 grams of water weight is equal to 1 liter in volume, which corresponds to 33.8 ounces or 4.2 glasses of water (8oz each). To convert the temperature of water, you can use the following equations: 1°Celsius = (Fahrenheit temperature – 32) divided by 1.8 or 1°Fahrenheit = (Celsius temperature multiplied by 1.8) + 32.

Now by putting together a few pieces of information, we can start to see how this all comes together. First, a glass of ice water is around 38°Fahrenheit or 3.3°Celsius, depending on how much ice and water is in the glass. Also, the normal temperature of the human body is about 98.6°F or 37°C, although there is some variance between individuals. There is also one other key piece of information that explains why colder water burns more calories: water you consume must be warmed up to your normal body temperature before it can be utilized in your body.

In other words, if you drink cold water, your body must spend energy (burn calories) to warm it up to 37°Celsius, before it can be used. For example, say you drink 8.4 glasses of ice water (3.3°C) per day, which is just over the standard minimum recommendation of 8 glasses per day. From the definition of a calorie, we can figure out that the water must be increased by 33.7°C (37°C – 3.3°C). This means your body will burn 33.7 calories for every 1000grams or 4.2 glasses of (3.3°C) water consumed.

In this example you are drinking 8.4 glasses of water per day, which is twice the volume used in the definition of a calorie. Therefore, the 33.7 calories burned to increase the temperature of 4.2 glasses would double to 67.4. To sum everything up, drinking 8.4 glasses of 3.3°C or 38°F water will burn 67.4 more calories than drinking the same amount of water at 37°C or 98.6°F (your body temperature).

Based on human physiology and the scientific definition of a calorie, we can see that without a doubt, drinking colder water does burn more calories. So now the important question is what does this mean for you and your ability to lose fat? The truth is this information is significant, but drinking colder water will not have anywhere near the impact as eating right and exercising, although it can cause a small increase in fat loss.

Before taking a closer look at your potential fat loss, there is one important thing to point out with the above example. To find the amount of calories burned, I compared ice water to water that is the temperature of the human body (98.6°F). The problem is most people who don’t drink ice water probably drink water that is room temperature instead of the temperature of your body. Room temperature water is generally around 60-75°F, so the extra calories burned by drinking cold water will not be as significant when compared to room temperature water.

However, there is still a small but significant difference in calorie burning between drinking ice water and water at room temperature. In the above example, the projected increase in calorie burning was 67.4 per day when drinking 8.4 glasses of ice water. Even when comparing ice water to room temperature water, there will still probably be at least 30 more calories burned by drinking ice water. 30 extra calories burned in a day may not seem like much, but it can add up over time.

If you compare 2 people who do everything the same (lifestyle, nutrition, exercise, etc.), except one person drinks ice water and the other person drinks room temperature water, the person drinking ice water should burn an extra 30 calories per day. Over the course of a year this adds up to 10,950 calories, which translates to just over 3 pounds of fat. Therefore, just by drinking ice water instead of room temperature water, one person could lose 3 more pounds over the course of a year.

Naturally, this is just theoretical, because you will never find 2 people who have the same lifestyle, behaviors, and physiology, but it does show that you can create a small increase in fat loss just by drinking cold water. I would never recommend designing a fat loss program based solely around drinking cold water, but considering that drinking water is something you should do anyway, why not let the water add a little boost to your metabolism and help you burn a few extra calories.

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Little known facts about drinking tap water include the amount of prescription and over the counter drugs that are, or could be, in it. Many people assume since it comes from a municipal source, it’s safe to drink. Or they believe a well makes it safe. No one really wants to think the water coming into their home and approved by the city could be harmful to them or their family. Some water commissions won’t tell people what is in the water because they believe the public can’t understand or interpret the data.

Why don’t they have a translator for those of us who aren’t chemists? We all have the right to know what we are drinking and bathing our children in. We all want to know the straight facts about drinking tap water especially if we want tap water safe to drink.

Have your water tested. And make sure the testers actually explain everything found in it to your satisfaction. Arm yourself with knowledge. Your city water board should be able to tell you what is in the water, and you can request the results from the last tests, they have to perform them on a regular basis. Have your well water tested, the county Health Department should be able to tell you where to get this done. Have it checked for prescription and over the counter drug contamination, and do it soon.

The more people have their water tested, the more we will know what is in the water coming into our homes. This is the only way we will get all the facts about drinking tap water, since it varies from place to place in quality and content.

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