Is a Brita Filter a Waste of Money?
Question: How beneficial is a Brita water filter?
I am wondering what the benefit or harm there is in using a Brita water filter for tap water. Does it have any effect on filtering the fluoride from tap water?
Answer: If you're fond of wasting money, go ahead… buy a Brita water filter.
Have you ever noticed that their ads only claim to reduce the "taste and odor" or chlorine? So all it's really doing is eliminating the warning signs that let you know this toxin is in the water - but you're still drinking it. And the same goes for fluoride. In fact, the company's website makes it quite clear that "you don't have to worry about missing out on the benefits of fluoride in your tap water."
I guess they think they're being reassuring. But when you know what I know about fluoride, it's anything but. Fluoride has been linked to immune system alteration, it may aggravate rheumatoid arthritis, and it may cause musculoskeletal damage, thyroid dysfunction, and even cancer.
The best way to guarantee you're getting safe, toxin-free water is to purchase a reverse osmosis filter and install it at your house.
Find out why I haven't had a glass of water in 20 years…
William Campbell Douglass I.I., M.D. has been called "the conscience of modern medicine," and the National Health Federation voted him "Doctor of the Year."
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Anonymous
Any body can help with a cure for Parapsoriasis please?
Anonymous
what about ozonization?
Ed McCabe(Flood your body with oxygen) describes all kinds of these therapies and treatments...to purify water, to kill parasites in blood stream..
About "reducing"...this is true and the same with PUR filters.
I once phoned Brita about that, and they said that chlorine is really "reduced".. Yes, they lied, if it really was reducing, they would have changed the wording.
water filters
I can't comment on Brita, but a good quality, installed water filtration / reverse osmosis system will remove Environmental Contaminants, Pesticides and Herbicides, Fertilisers and Nitrates, Calcium and Magnesium, Chlorine, Fluoride, Aluminium, Copper and Lead, Chlorine Resistant Parasites, Dirt, Rust, Slime, Sand and Mud.
Enough said.
Ronald Stonis
My wife has had several UTI's with the accompaniment of paranoic/pychotic symptoms. The regular doctors we've seen, don't seem to have a clue. They just give an anitbiotic, but my wife will refuse to take it thinking it will "poison" her. In her paranoia state she often refuses to not only take her medicine, but won't drink the tap water, juices, or whatever.
A year ago we almost lost her due to this UTI and the accompaniment of these psychotic symptoms. In the final end, the hospital gave her a shot that put her to sleep, and by the next day she was almost totally well. She had suffered from sleep deprivation for almost two weeks.
Has anyone had anything like this happen to them and know the reason why this paranoia accompanies the UTI? Any solutions? Any causes of this?
Anonymous
Reverse osmosis water is dead stripped water. Yes, it
removes contaminants, but also removes all the minerals.
Much better choice is an alkalizing , ionizing water machine!
Anonymous
What's a alkalizing , ionizing water machine?
Anonymous
I am not interested in all the things floride MAY be linked to. However is is linked to less tooth decay.
colin
best is distilled water then re mineralize it yourself with eg.ionic trace minerals
Anonymous
Completely wrong, and you can't even spell the word, it's fluoride.
Do some research and you will find the facts. Fluoride does nothing to prevent dental decay, in fact, it actually causes it, along with several other major negative health effects.
Chessexpert
I have read claims for and against fluoride. The pro-side claim that it re-mineralizes and protects the teeth. I must admit that my teeth feel slicker and better after brushing with a toothpaste with fluoride.
I see no benefit to drinking fluoridated water and have installed a three stage water filter that, I hope, will remove fluoride from my drinking water and water used for cooking, tea and coffee.
Universities and government could do some good by doing basic research on this topic. The necessary precondition to good research is to proceed without bias or preconception. Unfortunately, honest, independent-minded research seems to be rare these days.
Anonymous
The amound of minerals you get in water is so small that they are easily replaced by your daily supplement.
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