Water, Water, Everywhere...

Three-quarters of our presidents brain is water, So is yours. Every creature in Creation is mostly water. Your blood is 82% water. Even your bones are a quarter water. This basic biochemistry emphasizes that the most important component of your body is plain H20.


 The quality of your muscles, bones, organs, and brain their biochemistry, their resistance to injury and disease, and their longevity, is absolutley dependent on the purity of the water that you drink.

 Most Americans dont get it! Despite mutiple warnings, the majority still use faucet water to drink and cook...dont be one of them! Almost all faucet water in America today comes from polluted sources. In 1998 the US Dept of Public Health warned that 85% of American drinking water is CONTAMINATED!!!

 A friend of mine who studies biochemistry at UCLA did a study on water that comes out the faucet in San Diego. The water authority claims its clean, but the test showed 595 parts per million contaminents. Thats about average. Some city waters are a bit cleaner..others are a little dirtier. You should not be drinking any of them.

 The problems are multiple and completely out of control. Almost all the ground water in America is now contaminated with man-made chemicals. More than 55,000 of the regulated chemical dumps are leaking into the water table.

  Even at some of the most super-controlled water plants, with every regulation  and control system known to man, radioactive waste have migrated into ground waters for miles around the dump. Imagine the state of the estimated 200,000 illegal, unregulated chemical dumps in America leaking into the water table all across the nation.

 Then there's bacteria. We frown on South American water  because of "tourista"  and other waterborne infections. But our own is nearly as bad. Government figures show that over 900,000 people become ill each year from drinking US water laced with bacterial disease.

 So you ask.."But they clean the water dont they?" NO! Water treatment authorities treat water to minimum standards. More than 60,000 different chemicals now contaminate our water supplies. It's incredibly difficult and expensive to get them out with the obsolete and under-funded treatment systems now in use.

 Water engineers are loathe to admit these problems. They do what they can with the resources available. The avaerage water treatment station can afford to test for only 30-40 chemicals, and then try to remove about half that number. THE OTHER 59,980 CHEMICALS HAVE FREE REIN TO ASSUALT YOUR BODY!

 Even those they do try to remove often remain. They do what they can with the resources available. Lead, for example was finally banned from water in 1986 by The Safe Drinking Water Amendment Act. But the Enviornmental Protection Agency's latest report in 2003, shows that 819 water systems throughout America have toxic levels of lead remaining in the fully treated water.

  Water authorities also add toxic chemicals such as chlorine, and aluminum to water, chemicals that have no place in your body. The chlorine reacts with organic wastes, which incidentally, are left in the water, to form trihalomethanes. Trimalomethanes are known carcinogens that increase the risk of colon and rectal cancer, and double the risk of bladder cancer. Bladder cancer now strikes 50,000 Americans every year..you dont want to join that crowd...

 In closing...the only bottled water likely to be clean is DISTILLED! Dont fall for the spring or mineral. It is simply faucet water passed through conditioning filters to make it taste good and sell expensive.

Fiber fights FAT!

High fiber diets (30-50 grams per day) are not only great disease preventers, but also create slow, even food absorption from your intestines. This process helps keep your insulin level steady and also promotes use of the food for energy rather than for the deposition as body fat.

 But most of us dont even get enough fiber. Figures from the National Cancer Institute show that average American consumption of fiber is only 10-20 grams per day. That low intake promotes a lot of disease and puts on a lot of body fat. NCI recommends 25-35 grams of fiber per day to prevent colon and rectal cancer. For that reason alone fiber is essential.

 For efficient control of bodyfat, I recommend 40-50 grams of mixed fibers per day!

List of High Fiber Foods with High Fiber Content

To look and feel your very best, choose wisely from my healthy high fiber foods list and eat a high fiber diet of the healthiest fiber rich foods.

HIGH FIBER FOODS LIST with TOTAL FIBER GRAMS (g)

Fresh & Dried Fruit	Serving Size	Fiber (g)
Apples with skin	1 medium	5.0
Apricot	3 medium	1.0
Apricots, dried	4 pieces	2.9
Banana	1 medium	3.9
Blueberries	1 cup	4.2
Cantaloupe, cubes	1 cup	1.3
Figs, dried	2 medium	3.7
Grapefruit	1/2 medium	3.1
Orange, navel	1 medium	3.4
Peach	1 medium	2.0
Peaches, dried	3 pieces	3.2
Pear	1 medium	5.1
Plum	1 medium	1.1
Raisins	1.5 oz box	1.6
Raspberries	1 cup	6.4
Strawberries	1 cup	4.4

Grains, Beans, Nuts & Seeds	Serving Size	Fiber (g)
Almonds	1 oz	4.2
Black beans, cooked	1 cup	13.9
Bran cereal	1 cup	19.9
Bread, whole wheat	1 slice	2.0
Brown rice, dry	1 cup	7.9
Cashews	1 oz	1.0
Flax seeds	3 Tbsp.	6.9
Garbanzo beans, cooked	1 cup	5.8
Kidney beans, cooked	1 cup	11.6
Lentils, red cooked	1 cup	13.6
Lima beans, cooked	1 cup	8.6
Oats, rolled dry	1 cup	12.0
Quinoa (seeds) dry	1/4 cup	6.2
Quinoa, cooked	1 cup	8.4
Pasta, whole wheat	1 cup	6.3
Peanuts	1 oz	2.3
Pistachio nuts	1 oz	3.1
Pumpkin seeds	1/4 cup	4.1
Soybeans, cooked	1 cup	8.6
Sunflower seeds	1/4 cup	3.0
Walnuts	1 oz	3.1