Toxins from the environment have a larger effect on a child than on an adult, because a child’s immune system isn’t mature.  A child drinks more than adult and metabolizes more quickly.   This means that a child can’t deal with any toxins from water, air, or food as well as an adult can.

Let’s think of ways to protect our children. We can carefully choose their foods, favoring organic food where possible.  And we can easily serve them clean, pure water.

Unfortunately the tap water in America contains low levels of a variety of chemicals.  The EPA tests for high levels of certain compounds, but there are others that it does not regulate.  The Environmental Working Group of Washington, D.C., is an activist group that is concerned.

One of the major contaminants in water is in fact caused by an effort to clean it.  Chlorine treatment to remove bacteria results in toxic byproducts called trihalomethanes. Water high in trihalomethanes also confers an increased risk of birth defects, according to a recent study.

The study, published June 2, 2008, in the online journal Environmental Health (www.environmentalhealth.com), tracked nearly 400,000 infants in Taiwan, searching for 11 specific birth defects. The study also recorded whether the pregnant women drank water with high, medium,  or low levels of trihalomethanes.

Researchers found that mothers exposed to high levels of trihalomethanes ran an increased risk of birth defects in their infants in three common areas: holes in the heart, cleft palate, and anencephalus, or absence of most of the brain.

“High” exposure consisted of trihalomethanes measured at a level above 20 ig/L. Exposure at this high level increased the risk of these birth defects from 50 to 100 percent as compared with the “low” level below 5 ig/L.

It’s time to get rid of the bottled water, which studies show is no safer than tap water. Instead, let’s go for the solution that works.  Let’s protect our children! Find out more at home-water-filter.info