Sherri Stockman is a Naturopathic Practitioner and avid researcher of healthful living practices. Find out more about under sink water filters by visiting her site now at www.Pure-H2O.net.
Are you considering buying under sink water filters for your home? If it's something that you have either already done or are seriously thinking about, then you probably have a good understanding of the benefits that come from owning an undersink water filter. Now I just need to explain it for those who don't.
Under sink water filters have become a necessary part of our lives due to the ongoing contamination of our water supply. There is a good possibility that any number of the 80,000 chemicals in common use are in your drinking water at home right now, even as you are reading this article.
More than 2,100 of these chemicals are known to increase your risk of developing cancer. Do you ever wonder why the rate of cancer has skyrocketed from one on every 50 men to one in every two since we added chlorine to our drinking water 100 years ago? An undersink water filter is capable of blocking these cancer-causing chemicals.
If you are not totally convinced about the need for under sink water filters - because you don't believe that consuming trace amounts of one or two chemicals will harm you - then what I am about to tell you concerning a scientific study in the state of Indiana might change your mind. The severity of this situation is serious.
A study was conducted in 28 cities across Indiana that revealed that the citizens in that state, adults and children alike, were consuming between five and nine different pesticides in every glass of water that they drank. Are you already beginning to see the possible need for installing a water filter under your sink?
You may think of under sink water filters as more important to your lives when I inform you of what the EPA deems as safe limits for these chemicals. These supposedly safe limits are based on what a 150 pound man would be able to withstand. Smaller bodies, such as women and children, are not taken into account by these regulations at all.
If you have small children in your house then you need an undersink water filter. Even more at risk of illness and death are infants, because their bodies are not developed enough to be able to process these toxins. What is the safe limit for a 150 pound man going to do to the health of your 10 pound baby?
If for no other reason than to protect the future health of your children, you need to install under sink water filters in your home. You are a grown adult who can make your own decisions about the risks that you are willing to take with your health. Children generally have no say in the matter.
The purchase and installation of a high quality undersink water filter could make a big difference in the health of your family. Whether you fully believe in the impending threat that the contamination in our water supply poses or not is up to you, but why take a chance? Equip your home with under sink water filters today.
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