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Can you achieve better health through reverse osmosis water filters? There’s more to this question than meets the eye.

Let’s explore it in some detail.

Why You Should Filter Your Water At Home

In this article, I’m not talking about using reverse osmosis in industry or agriculture. I’m talking about using it at home to filter your drinking, cooking, and perhaps bathing water.

I hope you already know you should filter your water at home! Just in case you’re not quite convinced of that, let me mention a couple of studies that were done recently.

In one study, a research group sampled water from the systems of 29 major U. S. cities. They were looking for traces of pesticides in the water. Know what they found?

They found traces of pesticides in the water systems of every single one of the 29 cities studied!

In another study done by Ralph Nader’s group, they found over 2,000 known carcinogens in the municipal water supplies of several U. S. cities.

The problem is our 50 to 100 year old treatment plants can’t effectively deal with all the new chemicals that make up our world. (We live in a world made possible by over 80,000 synthetic chemicals. Most of these chemicals didn’t even exist 50 years ago.)

If you’re drinking, cooking, or even bathing in this water, you’re potentially ingesting all sorts of harmful organic and inorganic chemicals!

Which is why you need to be filtering your own water.

But that gets us back to our question about achieving better health through reverse osmosis water filters.

Is Reverse Osmosis The Best Way?

Reverse osmosis works by pushing the water through a porous membrane. The main problem with using this technology is it filters out everything. It even filters out trace minerals like calcium, potassium, or magnesium.

We need those trace minerals for our bodies to complete many of the complex chemical processes that keep us alive!

So, if you drink water filtered through home reverse osmosis systems, you’re potentially not getting enough of these trace minerals, which are central to your ongoing health.

Water created through reverse osmosis is called “demineralized”, because of this removal of the minerals.

Some scientists even think that long-term drinking of demineralized water can result in increased chances of developing cancer, among other diseases.

Are There Better Types of Filters to Use?

Well, if reverse osmosis isn’t the best home water filtering technology, what is?

Other methods of filtering water include granular-activated carbon and ultraviolet radiation.

The best water filters on the market actually use more than one method in a two-step process that filters out the bad stuff and leaves in those all important trace minerals.

By: R. Lee Cole

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