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		<title>Endorsements of alkaline ionized drinking water by physicians and recognized authors</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[See what renowned personalities and physicians have to say about the benefits of drinking alkaline ionized drinking water.  <a href="http://phwaterwellness.wordpress.com/2009/04/17/endorsements-of-alkaline-ionized-drinking-water-by-physicians-and-recognized-authors/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=phwaterwellness.wordpress.com&amp;blog=7397365&amp;post=26&amp;subd=phwaterwellness&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>A good friend of ours was kind enough to pass these along. If anyone still thinks that this water is anything but amazing think again&#8230;it is one of the cornerstones of wellness.  I have been drinking Kangen &#8482; water for over a year now and it has changed my life. You are welcome to go get our FREE E-BOOK on the benefits of drinking alkaline ionized water at <a href="http://phwaterwellness.com">http://phwaterwellness.com</a></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0;"><strong><span style="font-size:14pt;color:navy;font-family:&quot;" lang="EN-US">Endorsements of drinking alkaline water from recognized authors:</span></strong></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0;"><span style="font-size:11pt;color:navy;font-family:&quot;" lang="EN-US">Dr. William Kelly, author of ‘One Answer to Cancer’ says:</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0;"><strong><span style="font-size:11pt;color:navy;font-family:&quot;" lang="EN-US"> </span></strong></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0;"><strong><span style="font-size:11pt;color:navy;font-family:&quot;" lang="EN-US">&#8220;Alkaline water produced by a water ionizer has become the most important</span></strong></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0;"><strong><span style="font-size:11pt;color:navy;font-family:&quot;" lang="EN-US">advancement in health care since Sir Alexander Fleming&#8217;s discovery of penicillin&#8221;</span></strong></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0;"><strong><span style="font-size:11pt;color:navy;font-family:&quot;" lang="EN-US"> </span></strong></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0;"><span style="font-size:11pt;color:navy;font-family:&quot;" lang="EN-US">Dr. Robert Young, author of ‘The ph Miracle’ says:</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0;"><span style="font-size:11pt;color:navy;font-family:&quot;" lang="EN-US"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0;"><strong><span style="font-size:11pt;color:navy;font-family:&quot;" lang="EN-US">&#8220;If someone were to ask me, &#8216;What is the one thing I can do to have better health?&#8217;</span></strong></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0;"><strong><span style="font-size:11pt;color:navy;font-family:&quot;" lang="EN-US">The answer would be very simple, ‘Start drinking alkalized and ionized water!”</span></strong></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0;"><span style="font-size:11pt;color:navy;font-family:&quot;" lang="EN-US"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0;"><span style="font-size:11pt;color:navy;font-family:&quot;" lang="EN-US">Dr. Sherry Rogers, author of ‘Detox or Die’ says:</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0;"><span style="font-size:11pt;color:navy;font-family:&quot;" lang="EN-US"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0;"><strong><span style="font-size:11pt;color:navy;font-family:&quot;" lang="EN-US">&#8220;Alkaline water rids the body of acid waste&#8230; After carefully evaluating the results</span></strong></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0;"><strong><span style="font-size:11pt;color:navy;font-family:&quot;" lang="EN-US">of my advice to hundreds of individuals, I&#8217;m convinced that toxicity in the form of</span></strong></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0;"><strong><span style="font-size:11pt;color:navy;font-family:&quot;" lang="EN-US">acidic waste is the primary cause of degenerative disease.”</span></strong></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0;"><strong><span style="font-size:11pt;color:navy;font-family:&quot;" lang="EN-US"> </span></strong></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0;"><span style="font-size:11pt;color:navy;font-family:&quot;" lang="EN-US">Anthony Robins, author of ‘Awaken The Giant Within’ says:</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0;"><strong><span style="font-size:11pt;color:navy;font-family:&quot;" lang="EN-US">&#8220;Alkalize your body and live a healthier, more energized, and ultimately more</span></strong></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0;"><strong><span style="font-size:11pt;color:navy;font-family:&quot;" lang="EN-US">fulfilling life.”</span></strong></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0;"><strong><span style="font-size:11pt;color:navy;font-family:&quot;" lang="EN-US"> </span></strong></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0;"><span style="font-size:11pt;color:navy;font-family:&quot;" lang="EN-US">Felicia Drury Clement, author of ‘The Acid Alkaline Balance Diet’ says:</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0;"><strong><span style="font-size:11pt;color:navy;font-family:&quot;" lang="EN-US"> </span></strong></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0;"><strong><span style="font-size:11pt;color:navy;font-family:&quot;" lang="EN-US">&#8220;After years of very positive continuous clinical experiment that I am conducting</span></strong></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0;"><strong><span style="font-size:11pt;color:navy;font-family:&quot;" lang="EN-US">with hundreds of clients using electronically restructured alkaline water, it is my</span></strong></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0;"><strong><span style="font-size:11pt;color:navy;font-family:&quot;" lang="EN-US">opinion that this technology will change the way in which all health providers and</span></strong></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0;"><strong><span style="font-size:11pt;color:navy;font-family:&quot;" lang="EN-US">the public will approach their health in the coming years. &#8230; My suggestion is to</span></strong></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0;"><strong><span style="font-size:11pt;color:navy;font-family:&quot;" lang="EN-US">drink restructured alkaline water whenever possible.”</span></strong></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0;"><strong><span style="font-size:11pt;color:navy;font-family:&quot;" lang="EN-US"> </span></strong></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0;"><span style="font-size:11pt;color:navy;font-family:&quot;" lang="EN-US">Dr. Theodore Baroody, author of ‘Alkalize or Die’ says:</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0;"><span style="font-size:11pt;color:navy;font-family:&quot;" lang="EN-US"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0;"><strong><span style="font-size:11pt;color:navy;font-family:&quot;" lang="EN-US">&#8220;It is my opinion that ionized water will change the way in which all health</span></strong></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0;"><strong><span style="font-size:11pt;color:navy;font-family:&quot;" lang="EN-US">practitioners and the public approach their health in the coming years. I feel that</span></strong></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0;"><strong><span style="font-size:11pt;color:navy;font-family:&quot;" lang="EN-US">restructured alkaline water can benefit everyone. &#8220;The countless names attached</span></strong></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0;"><strong><span style="font-size:11pt;color:navy;font-family:&quot;" lang="EN-US">to illness do not really mater. What does matter is that they all come from the</span></strong></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0;"><strong><span style="font-size:11pt;color:navy;font-family:&quot;" lang="EN-US">same root cause: too much tissue acid waste in the body.”</span></strong></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0;"><strong><span style="font-size:11pt;color:navy;font-family:&quot;" lang="EN-US"> </span></strong></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0;"><span style="font-size:11pt;color:navy;font-family:&quot;" lang="EN-US">Sang Whang, author of ‘Reverse Aging’ says:</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0;"><strong><span style="font-size:11pt;color:navy;font-family:&quot;" lang="EN-US"> </span></strong></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0;"><strong><span style="font-size:11pt;color:navy;font-family:&quot;" lang="EN-US">&#8220;Every living cell within our body creates waste products. The nutrients from our</span></strong></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0;"><strong><span style="font-size:11pt;color:navy;font-family:&quot;" lang="EN-US">food are delivered to each cell and they burn with oxygen to provide energy for us</span></strong></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0;"><strong><span style="font-size:11pt;color:navy;font-family:&quot;" lang="EN-US">to live. The burned nutrients are the waste products&#8230;.The problem is that, due to</span></strong></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0 -21.6pt 0 0;"><strong><span style="font-size:11pt;color:navy;font-family:&quot;" lang="EN-US">several reasons, our body cannot get rid of 100% of the waste products it produces.”</span></strong></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0 -21.6pt 0 0;"><strong><span style="font-size:11pt;color:navy;font-family:&quot;" lang="EN-US"> </span></strong></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0 -21.6pt 0 0;"><span style="font-size:11pt;color:navy;font-family:&quot;" lang="EN-US"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0 -21.6pt 0 0;"><span style="font-size:11pt;color:navy;font-family:&quot;" lang="EN-US"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0 -21.6pt 0 0;"><span style="font-size:11pt;color:navy;font-family:&quot;" lang="EN-US"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0 -21.6pt 0 0;"><span style="font-size:11pt;color:navy;font-family:&quot;" lang="EN-US"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0 -21.6pt 0 0;"><span style="font-size:11pt;color:navy;font-family:&quot;" lang="EN-US">Dr. Susan Lark, author of ‘The Chemistry Of Success’ says:</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0;"><strong><span style="font-size:11pt;color:navy;font-family:&quot;" lang="EN-US"> </span></strong></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0;"><strong><span style="font-size:11pt;color:navy;font-family:&quot;" lang="EN-US">&#8220;Peak performance and optimal health depend on the body&#8217;s ability to maintain a</span></strong></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0;"><strong><span style="font-size:11pt;color:navy;font-family:&quot;" lang="EN-US">slightly alkaline state in virtually all of our cells and tissues&#8230; Drinking four to six</span></strong></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0;"><strong><span style="font-size:11pt;color:navy;font-family:&quot;" lang="EN-US">glasses of alkaline water a day will help to neutralize over acidity and over time</span></strong></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0;"><strong><span style="font-size:11pt;color:navy;font-family:&quot;" lang="EN-US">will help to restore your buffering ability&#8230; alkaline water acts as an antioxidant because of its excess supply of free electrons. This can help the body against the</span></strong></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0;"><strong><span style="font-size:11pt;color:navy;font-family:&quot;" lang="EN-US">development of heart disease, strokes, immune dysfunctions, and other common</span></strong></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0;"><strong><span style="font-size:11pt;color:navy;font-family:&quot;" lang="EN-US">ailments.”</span></strong></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0;"><strong><span style="font-size:11pt;color:navy;font-family:&quot;" lang="EN-US"> </span></strong></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0;"><span style="font-size:11pt;color:navy;font-family:&quot;" lang="EN-US">Dr. Robert Atkins, author of ‘Diet Revolution’ says:</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0;"><strong><span style="font-size:11pt;color:navy;font-family:&quot;" lang="EN-US"> </span></strong></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0;"><strong><span style="font-size:11pt;color:navy;font-family:&quot;" lang="EN-US">&#8220;The cells and fluids in most people&#8217;s bodies&#8230;are overly acidic. This can cause a lot of health problems. It prevents your body from neutralizing and disposing of harmful, poisonous toxins and leaves you more susceptible to the cell-damaging free radical oxidation that leads to cancer and other diseases.”</span></strong></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0;"><strong><span style="font-size:11pt;color:navy;font-family:&quot;" lang="EN-US"> </span></strong></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0;"><span style="font-size:11pt;color:navy;font-family:&quot;" lang="EN-US">David Niven Miller, author of ‘Grow Youthful’ says”</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0;"><strong><span style="font-size:11pt;color:navy;font-family:&quot;" lang="EN-US">&#8220;Alkaline water has profound long-term effects because it alkalizes your body and</span></strong></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0;"><strong><span style="font-size:11pt;color:navy;font-family:&quot;" lang="EN-US">provides an effective antioxidant.”</span></strong></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0;"><strong><span style="font-size:11pt;color:navy;font-family:&quot;" lang="EN-US"> </span></strong></p>
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		<description><![CDATA[Water, The chemistry of life. 

Whenever we attempt to determine whether there is life as we know it on Mars or other planets, scientists first seek to establish whether or not water is present. Why? Because life on earth totally depends on water.

A High percentage of living things, both plant and animal are found in water. All life on earth is thought to have arisen from water. The bodies of all living organisms are composed largely of water. About 70 to 90 percent of all organic matter is water.

The chemical reactions in all plants and animals that support life take place in a water medium. Water not only provides the medium to make these life sustaining reactions possible, but water itself is often an important reactant or product of these reactions. In short, the chemistry of life is water chemistry.

Water, the universal solvent

Water is a universal, superb solvent due to the marked polarity of the water molecule and its tendency to form hydrogen bonds with other molecules. One water molecule, expressed with the chemical symbol H2O, consists of 2 hydrogen atoms and 1 oxygen atom.

 Standing alone, the hydrogen atom contains one positive proton at its core with one negative electron revolving around it in a three-dimensional shell. Oxygen, on the other hand, contains 8 protons in its nucleus with 8 electrons revolving around it. This is often shown in chemical notation as the letter O surrounded by eight dots representing 4 sets of paired electrons.

 The single hydrogen electron and the 8 electrons of oxygen are the key to the chemistry of life because this is where hydrogen and oxygen atoms combine to form a water molecule, or split to form ions.

 Hydrogen tends to ionize by losing its single electron and form single H+ ions, which are simply isolated protons since the hydrogen atom contains no neutrons. A hydrogen bond occurs when the electron of a single hydrogen atom is shared with another electronegative atom such as oxygen that lacks an electron.

To read more, click on this article by  Dr. Hidemitsu Hayashi, M.D. 

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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div>Well, we are celebrating our first anniversary of drinking Kangen &#8482; water and what a celebration. I am grateful every day for having discovered this water. It has changed our lives in so many ways. We have so much more energy now, no more achy joints and what a wonderful cleanse. They recommend drinking 1/2 an ounce per lb. of body weight. For example, if someone weighs 150 lbs. they would want to drink about 75 ounces of Kangen &#8482; water to experience the best results. To celebrate our anniversary I went to find an article about the importance of drinking alkaline ionized water by  <strong><span style="font-size:medium;color:#336633;font-family:Arial;">Dr. Hidemitsu Hayashi, M.D. </span></strong></div>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:center;margin:0;" align="center"><strong><span style="font-size:18pt;color:navy;font-family:&quot;" lang="EN-US">Benefits of Alkaline, Ionized Water</span></strong><strong></strong></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:center;margin:0;" align="center"><strong><span style="font-size:13.5pt;color:#336633;font-family:&quot;" lang="EN-US">By Dr. Hidemitsu Hayashi, M.D.</span></strong></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:center;margin:0;" align="center"><span style="font-size:small;"><strong><span style="color:#336633;font-family:&quot;" lang="EN-US">Director, Water Institute of Japan</span></strong><strong></strong></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:center;margin:0;" align="center"><span style="font-size:small;"><strong><span style="color:white;font-family:&quot;" lang="EN-US">Director, Water Institute of Japan</span></strong></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:center;margin:0;" align="center"><span style="color:white;font-family:&quot;" lang="EN-US"><span style="font-size:small;">Nisshin Building, 2-5-10 Shinjiku,<br />
Shinjiku-ku, Tokyo, Japan 160 </span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:center;margin:0;" align="center"><span style="font-size:small;"><span style="color:red;font-family:&quot;" lang="EN-US">Why Drink Alkaline Ionized Water?<br />
The Basics</span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0;"><span style="font-size:small;"><strong><em><span style="color:#336633;font-family:&quot;" lang="EN-US">Water, The chemistry of life.</span></em></strong><span style="color:#003300;font-family:&quot;" lang="EN-US"> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0;"><span style="color:#003300;font-family:&quot;" lang="EN-US"><span style="font-size:small;">Whenever we attempt to determine whether there is life as we know it on Mars or other planets, scientists first seek to establish whether or not water is present. Why? Because life on earth totally depends on water.</span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0;"><span style="color:#003300;font-family:&quot;" lang="EN-US"><span style="font-size:small;">A High percentage of living things, both plant and animal are found in water. All life on earth is thought to have arisen from water. The bodies of all living organisms are composed largely of water. About 70 to 90 percent of all organic matter is water.</span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0;"><span style="font-size:small;"><span style="color:#003300;font-family:&quot;" lang="EN-US">The chemical reactions in all plants and animals that support life take place in a water medium</span><span style="color:#003300;font-family:&quot;" lang="EN-US">. Water not only provides the medium to make these life sustaining reactions possible, but water itself is often an important reactant or product of these reactions. In short, the chemistry of life is water chemistry.</span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0;"><span style="font-size:small;"><strong><span style="color:navy;font-family:&quot;" lang="EN-US">Water, the universal solvent</span></strong></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0;"><span style="color:#003300;font-family:&quot;" lang="EN-US"><span style="font-size:small;">Water is a universal, superb solvent due to the marked polarity of the water molecule and its tendency to form hydrogen bonds with other molecules. One water molecule, expressed with the chemical symbol H</span></span><span style="font-size:7.5pt;color:#003300;font-family:&quot;" lang="EN-US">2</span><span style="color:#003300;font-family:&quot;" lang="EN-US"><span style="font-size:small;">O, consists of 2 hydrogen atoms and 1 oxygen atom.</span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0;"><span style="font-size:small;"><span style="color:#003300;font-family:&quot;" lang="EN-US"> Standing alone, the hydrogen atom contains one positive proton at its core with one negative electron revolving around it in a three-dimensional shell. Oxygen, on the other hand, contains 8 protons in its nucleus with 8 electrons revolving around it. This is often shown in chemical notation as the letter O surrounded by eight dots representing 4 sets of paired electrons.</span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0;"><span style="color:#003300;font-family:&quot;" lang="EN-US"><span style="font-size:small;"> The single hydrogen electron and the 8 electrons of oxygen are the key to the chemistry of life because this is where hydrogen and oxygen atoms combine to form a water molecule, or split to form ions.</span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0;"><span style="color:#003300;font-family:&quot;" lang="EN-US"><span style="font-size:small;"> Hydrogen tends to ionize by losing its single electron and form single H+ ions, which are simply isolated protons since the hydrogen atom contains no neutrons. A hydrogen bond occurs when the electron of a single hydrogen atom is shared with another electronegative atom such as oxygen that lacks an electron.</span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0;"><span style="font-size:small;"><strong><span style="color:#003300;font-family:&quot;" lang="EN-US">Polarity of water molecules</span></strong></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0;"><span style="color:#003300;font-family:&quot;" lang="EN-US"><span style="font-size:small;">In a water molecule, two hydrogen atoms are covalently bonded to the oxygen atom. But because the oxygen atom is larger than the hydrogen&#8217;s, its attraction for the hydrogen&#8217;s electrons is correspondingly greater so the electrons are drawn closer into the shell of the larger oxygen atom and away from the hydrogen shells. This means that although the water molecule as a whole is stable, the greater mass of the oxygen nucleus tends to draw in all the electrons in the molecule including the shared hydrogen electrons giving the oxygen portion of the molecule a slight electronegative charge.</span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0;"><span style="font-size:small;"><span style="color:#003300;font-family:&quot;" lang="EN-US">The shells of the hydrogen atoms, because their electrons are closer to the oxygen, take on a small electropositive charge. This means water molecules have a tendency to form weak bonds with water molecules because the oxygen end of the molecule is negative and the hydrogen ends are positive.</span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0;"><span style="color:#003300;font-family:&quot;" lang="EN-US"><span style="font-size:small;"> A hydrogen atom, while remaining covalently bonded to the oxygen of its own molecule, can form a weak bond with the oxygen of another molecule. Similarly, the oxygen end of a molecule can form a weak attachment with the hydrogen ends of other molecules. Because water molecules have this polarity, water is a continuous chemical entity.</span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0;"><span style="color:#003300;font-family:&quot;" lang="EN-US"><span style="font-size:small;">These weak bonds play a crucial role in stabilizing the shape of many of the large molecules found in living matter. Because these bonds are weak, they are readily broken and re-formed during normal physiological reactions. The disassembly and re-arrangement of such weak bonds is in essence the chemistry of life.</span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0;"><span style="font-size:small;"><span style="color:#003300;font-family:&quot;" lang="EN-US"> To illustrate water&#8217;s ability to break down other substances, consider the simple example of putting a small amount of table salt in a glass of tap water. With dry salt (NaCl) the attraction between the electropositive sodium (Na+) and electronegative chlorine (Cl-) atoms of salt is very strong until it is placed in water. After salt is placed in water, the attraction of the electronegative oxygen of the water molecule for the positively charged sodium ions, and the similar attraction of the electropositive hydrogen ends of the water molecule for the negatively charged chloride ions, are greater than the mutual attraction between the outnumbered Na+ and Cl- ions. In water the ionic bonds of the sodium chloride molecule are broken easily because of the competitive action of the numerous water molecules.</span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0;"><span style="color:#003300;font-family:&quot;" lang="EN-US"><span style="font-size:small;">As we can see from this simple example, even the delicate configuration of individual water molecules enables them to break relatively stronger bonds by converging on them. This is why we call water the universal solvent. It is a natural solution that breaks the bonds of larger, more complex molecules. This is the chemistry of life on earth, in water and on land.</span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0;"><span style="font-size:small;"><strong><em><span style="color:#003300;font-family:&quot;" lang="EN-US">Oxidation-reduction reactions</span></em></strong></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0;"><span style="color:#003300;font-family:&quot;" lang="EN-US"><span style="font-size:small;">Basically, reduction means the addition of an electron (e-), and its converse, oxidation means the removal of an electron. The addition of an electron, reduction, stores energy in the reduced compound. The removal of an electron, oxidation, liberates energy from the oxidized compound. Whenever one substance is reduced, another is oxidized.</span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0;"><span style="color:#003300;font-family:&quot;" lang="EN-US"><span style="font-size:small;">To clarify these terms, consider any two molecules, A and B, for example. </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0;"><span style="color:#003300;font-family:&quot;" lang="EN-US"><span style="font-size:small;">When molecules A and B come into contact, here is what happens:</span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0;"><span style="color:#003300;font-family:&quot;" lang="EN-US"><span style="font-size:small;">B grabs an electron from molecule A. </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0;"><span style="color:#003300;font-family:&quot;" lang="EN-US"><span style="font-size:small;">Molecule A has been oxidized because it has lost an electron.</span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0;"><span style="color:#003300;font-family:&quot;" lang="EN-US"><span style="font-size:small;">The net charge of B has been reduced because it has gained a negative electron (e-). </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0;"><span style="color:#003300;font-family:&quot;" lang="EN-US"><span style="font-size:small;"> In biological systems, removal or addition of an electron constitutes the most frequent mechanism of oxidation-reduction reactions. These oxidation-reduction reactions are frequently called redox reactions. </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0;"><span style="font-size:small;"><strong><em><span style="color:#003300;font-family:&quot;" lang="EN-US">Acids and Bases</span></em></strong></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0;"><span style="color:#003300;font-family:&quot;" lang="EN-US"><span style="font-size:small;">An acid is a substance that increases the concentration of hydrogen ions (H+) in water. A base is a substance that decreases the concentration of hydrogen ions, in other words, increasing the concentration of hydroxide ions OH-.</span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0;"><span style="color:#003300;font-family:&quot;" lang="EN-US"><span style="font-size:small;">The degree of acidity or alkalinity of a solution is measured in terms of a value known as pH, which is the negative logarithm of the concentration of hydrogen ions:</span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0;"><span style="font-size:small;"><strong><span style="color:#003300;font-family:&quot;" lang="EN-US">pH = 1/log[H+] = -log[H+]</span></strong><span style="color:#003300;font-family:&quot;" lang="EN-US"> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0;"><span style="font-size:small;"><strong><span style="color:#003300;font-family:&quot;" lang="EN-US">What is pH?</span></strong></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0;"><span style="color:#003300;font-family:&quot;" lang="EN-US"><span style="font-size:small;">On the pH scale, which ranges from 0 on the acidic end to 14 on the alkaline end, a solution is neutral if its pH is 7. At pH 7, water contains equal concentrations of H+ and OH- ions. Substances with a pH less than 7 are acidic because they contain a higher concentration of H+ ions. Substances with a pH higher than 7 are alkaline because they contain a higher concentration of OH- than H+. The pH scale is a log scale so a change of one pH unit means a tenfold change in the concentration of hydrogen ions.</span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0;"><span style="font-size:small;"><strong><span style="color:#003300;font-family:&quot;" lang="EN-US">Importance of balancing pH</span></strong></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0;"><span style="color:#003300;font-family:&quot;" lang="EN-US"><span style="font-size:small;">Living things are extremely sensitive to pH and function best (with certain exceptions, such as certain portions of the digestive tract) when solutions are nearly neutral. Most interior living matter (excluding the cell nucleus) has a pH of about 6.8.</span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0;"><span style="color:#003300;font-family:&quot;" lang="EN-US"><span style="font-size:small;">Blood plasma and other fluids that surround the cells in the body have a pH of 7.2 to 7.3. Numerous special mechanisms aid in stabilizing these fluids so that cells will not be subject to appreciable fluctuations in pH. Substances which serve as mechanisms to stabilize pH are called buffers. Buffers have the capacity to bond ions and remove them from solution whenever their concentration begins to rise. Conversely, buffers can release ions whenever their concentration begins to fall. Buffers thus help to minimize the fluctuations in pH. This is an important function because many biochemical reactions normally occurring in living organisms either release or use up ions. </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0;"><span style="color:#003300;font-family:&quot;" lang="EN-US"><span style="font-size:small;">NOTE: Dr. Hayashi is a Heart Specialist and Director of the Water Institute of Japan.</span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0;"><span style="font-size:small;"><strong><span style="color:#003300;font-family:&quot;" lang="EN-US">Oxygen: Too much of a good thing?</span></strong></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0;"><span style="color:#003300;font-family:&quot;" lang="EN-US"><span style="font-size:small;">Oxygen is essential to survival. It is relatively stable in the air, but when too much is absorbed into the body it can become active and unstable and has a tendency to attach itself to any biological molecule, including molecules of healthy cells. The chemical activity of these free radicals is due to one or more pairs of unpaired electrons.</span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0;"><span style="color:#003300;font-family:&quot;" lang="EN-US"><span style="font-size:small;">About 2% of the oxygen we normally breathe becomes active oxygen, and this amount increases to approximately 20% with aerobic exercise.</span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0;"><span style="font-size:small;"><span style="color:#003300;font-family:&quot;" lang="EN-US">Such free radicals with unpaired electrons are unstable and have a high oxidation potential, which means they are capable of stealing electrons from other cells. This chemical mechanism is very useful in disinfectants such as hydrogen peroxide and ozone which can be used to sterilize wounds or medical instruments. Inside the body these free radicals are of great benefit due to their ability to attack and eliminate bacteria, viruses and other waste products.</span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0;"><span style="color:#003300;font-family:&quot;" lang="EN-US"><span style="font-size:small;">Active Oxygen in the body</span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0;"><span style="color:#003300;font-family:&quot;" lang="EN-US"><span style="font-size:small;">Problems arise, however, when too many of these free radicals are turned loose in the body where they can also damage normal tissue.</span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0;"><span style="color:#003300;font-family:&quot;" lang="EN-US"><span style="font-size:small;">Putrefaction sets in when microbes in the air invade the proteins, peptides, and amino acids of eggs, fish and meat. The result is an array of unpleasant substances such as:</span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0;"><span style="color:#003300;font-family:&quot;" lang="EN-US"><span style="font-size:small;">Hydrogen sulfide </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0;"><span style="color:#003300;font-family:&quot;" lang="EN-US"><span style="font-size:small;">Ammonia </span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0;"><span style="color:#003300;font-family:&quot;" lang="EN-US"><span style="font-size:small;">These substances are also produced naturally in the digestive tract when we digest food, resulting in the unpleasant odor evidenced in feces. Putrefaction of spoiled food is caused by microbes in the air; this natural process is duplicated in the digestive tract by intestinal microbes. All these waste products of digestion are pathogenic, that is, they can cause disease in the body.</span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0;"><span style="color:#003300;font-family:&quot;" lang="EN-US"><span style="font-size:small;"> Hydrogen sulfide and ammonia are tissue toxins that can damage the liver. Histamines contribute to allergic disorders such as atopic dermatitis, urticaria (hives) and asthma. Indoles and phenols are considered carcinogenic. Because waste products such as hydrogen sulfide, ammonia, histamines, phenols and indoles are toxic, the body&#8217;s defense mechanisms try to eliminate them by releasing neutrophils (a type of leukocyte, or white corpuscle). These neutrophils produce active oxygen, oddball oxygen molecules that are capable of scavenging disintegrating tissues by gathering electrons from the molecules of toxic cells.</span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0;"><span style="color:#003300;font-family:&quot;" lang="EN-US"><span style="font-size:small;">Problems arise, however, when too many of these active oxygen molecules, or free radicals, are produced in the body. They are extremely reactive and can also attach themselves to normal, healthy cells and damage them genetically. These active oxygen radicals steal electrons from normal, healthy biological molecules. This electron theft by active oxygen oxidizes tissue and can cause disease.</span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0;"><span style="color:#003300;font-family:&quot;" lang="EN-US"><span style="font-size:small;">Because active oxygen can damage normal tissue, it is essential to scavenge this active oxygen from the body before it can cause disintegration of healthy tissue. If we can find an effective method to block the oxidation of healthy tissue by active oxygen, then we can attempt to prevent disease.</span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0;"><span style="font-size:small;"><strong><span style="color:#003300;font-family:&quot;" lang="EN-US">Antioxidants block dangerous oxidation</span></strong></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0;"><span style="color:#003300;font-family:&quot;" lang="EN-US"><span style="font-size:small;">One way to protect healthy tissue from the ravages of oxidation caused by active oxygen is to provide free electrons to active oxygen radicals, thus neutralizing their high oxidation potential and preventing them from reacting with healthy tissue.</span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0;"><span style="color:#003300;font-family:&quot;" lang="EN-US"><span style="font-size:small;">Research on the link between diet and cancer is far from complete, but some evidence indicates that what we eat may affect our susceptibility to cancer. Some foods seem to help defend against cancer, others appear to promote it.</span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0;"><span style="color:#003300;font-family:&quot;" lang="EN-US"><span style="font-size:small;">Much of the damage caused by carcinogenic substances in food may come about because of an oxidation reaction in the cell. In this process, an oddball oxygen molecule may damage the genetic code of the cell. Some researchers believe that substances that prevent oxidation &#8212; called ANTIOXIDANTS &#8212; can block the damage. This leads naturally to the theory that the intake of natural antioxidants could be an important aspect of the body&#8217;s defense against cancer. Substances that some believe inhibit cancer include vitamin C, vitamin E, beta-carotene, selenium, and gluthione (an amino acid). These substances are reducing agents. They supply electrons to free radicals and block the interaction of the free radical with normal tissue.</span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0;"><span style="font-size:small;"><strong><em><span style="color:#003300;font-family:&quot;" lang="EN-US">How we can avoid illness</span></em></strong></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0;"><span style="color:#003300;font-family:&quot;" lang="EN-US"><span style="font-size:small;">As we mentioned earlier, the presence of toxic waste products such as hydrogen sulfide, ammonia, histamines, indoles, phenols and scatoles impart an offensive odor to human feces. In the medical profession, it is well known that patients suffering from hepatitis and cirrhosis pass particularly odoriferous stools.</span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0;"><span style="color:#003300;font-family:&quot;" lang="EN-US"><span style="font-size:small;">Excessively offensive stools caused by the presence of toxins are indicators of certain diseases, and the body responds to the presence of these toxins by producing neutrophil leukocytes to release active oxygen in an attempt to neutralize the damage to organs that can be caused by such waste products. But when an excess amount of such active oxygen is produced, it can damage healthy cells as well as neutralize toxins. This leads us to the conclusion that we can minimize the harmful effect of these active oxygen radicals by reducing them with an ample supply of electrons.</span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0;"><span style="font-size:small;"><strong><span style="color:#003300;font-family:&quot;" lang="EN-US">Water, the natural solution</span></strong></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0;"><span style="color:#003300;font-family:&quot;" lang="EN-US"><span style="font-size:small;">There is no substitute for a healthy balanced diet, especially rich in antioxidant materials such as vitamin C, vitamin E, beta-carotene, and other foods that are good for us. However, these substances are not the best source of free electrons that can block the oxidation of healthy tissue by active oxygen.</span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0;"><span style="color:#003300;font-family:&quot;" lang="EN-US"><span style="font-size:small;">Water treated by electrolysis to increase its reduction potential is the best solution to the problem of providing a safe source of free electrons to block the oxidation of normal tissue by free oxygen radicals. We believe that reduced water, water with an excess of free electrons to donate to active oxygen, is the best solution because:</span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0;"><span style="color:#003300;font-family:&quot;" lang="EN-US"><span style="font-size:small;">The reduction potential of water can be dramatically increased over other antioxidants in food or vitamin supplements. </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0;"><span style="color:#003300;font-family:&quot;" lang="EN-US"><span style="font-size:small;">The molecule weight of reduced water is low, making it fast acting and able to reach all tissues of the body in a very short time. </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0;"><span style="font-size:small;"><strong><span style="color:#003300;font-family:&quot;" lang="EN-US">What is IONIZED WATER?</span></strong><span style="color:#003300;font-family:&quot;" lang="EN-US"> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0;"><span style="color:#003300;font-family:&quot;" lang="EN-US"><span style="font-size:small;">Ionized water is the product of mild electrolysis which takes place in the ionized water unit. The production of ionized water, its properties, and how it works in the human body are described in the next section. Ionized water is treated tap water that has not only been filtered, but has also been reformed in that it provides reduced water with a large mass of electrons that can be donated to active oxygen in the body to block the oxidation of normal cells.</span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:center;margin:0;" align="center"><span style="color:#003300;font-family:&quot;" lang="EN-US"><span style="font-size:small;"> <strong>THE IONIZED WATER UNIT</strong></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0;"><span style="font-size:small;"><strong><em><span style="color:#003300;font-family:&quot;" lang="EN-US">Tap water: What it is and isn&#8217;t</span></em></strong></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0;"><span style="color:#003300;font-family:&quot;" lang="EN-US"><span style="font-size:small;">Normal tap water, for example, with a pH of 7 is approximately neutral on the pH scale of 0 to 14. When measured with an ORP (oxidation potential) meter its redox potential is approximately +400 to +500 mV. Because it has a positive redox potential, it is apt to acquire electrons and oxidize other molecules. Reduced Ionized Water, on the other hand, has a negative redox potential of approximately -250 to -350 mV. This means it has a large mass of electrons ready to donate to electron-thieving active oxygen.</span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0;"><span style="color:#003300;font-family:&quot;" lang="EN-US"><span style="font-size:small;">Before discussing the properties of Ionized Water further, let&#8217;s take a look at what happens inside an Ionized Water producing unit.</span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0;"><span style="font-size:small;"><strong><em><span style="color:#003300;font-family:&quot;" lang="EN-US">How an IONIZED WATER Unit works</span></em></strong></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0;"><span style="color:#003300;font-family:&quot;" lang="EN-US"><span style="font-size:small;">The Ionized Water unit, slightly taller and thicker than a large dictionary on end, is an electrical appliance connected to your kitchen water supply to perform electrolysis on tap water before you drink it or use it in the kitchen for cooking or cleaning.</span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0;"><span style="color:#003300;font-family:&quot;" lang="EN-US"><span style="font-size:small;">A special attachment re-directs tap water out of the faucet through a plastic hose into the Ionized Water unit. Inside the Ionized Water unit, the water is first filtered through activated charcoal. Next, the filtered water passes into an electrolysis chamber equipped with a platinum-coated titanium electrode where electrolysis takes place.</span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0;"><span style="color:#003300;font-family:&quot;" lang="EN-US"><span style="font-size:small;">Cations, positive ions, gather at the negative electrodes to create cathodic water (reduced water). Anions, negatively charged ions, gather at the positive electrode to make anodic water (oxidized water).</span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0;"><span style="font-size:small;"><strong><span style="color:#003300;font-family:&quot;" lang="EN-US">Through electrolysis, reduced water not only gains an excess amount of electrons (e-), but the cluster of H</span></strong><span style="color:#003300;font-family:&quot;" lang="EN-US"> </span></span><strong><span style="font-size:7.5pt;color:#003300;font-family:&quot;" lang="EN-US">2</span></strong><span style="font-size:small;"><strong><span style="color:#003300;font-family:&quot;" lang="EN-US">O seem to be reduced in size from about 10 to 13 molecules per cluster to 5 to 6 molecules per cluster.</span></strong></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0;"><span style="color:#003300;font-family:&quot;" lang="EN-US"><span style="font-size:small;">The reduced water comes out of the faucet, and the oxidized water comes out of a separate hose leading into the sink. You can use the reduced water for drinking or cooking. The oxidation potential of the oxidized water makes it a good sterilizing agent, ideal for washing hands, cleaning food or kitchen utensils, and treating minor wounds.</span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0;"><span style="font-size:small;"><strong><em><span style="color:#003300;font-family:&quot;" lang="EN-US">What the IONIZED WATER Unit Produces</span></em></strong><span style="color:#003300;font-family:&quot;" lang="EN-US"> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0;"><span style="font-size:small;"><strong><span style="color:#003300;font-family:&quot;" lang="EN-US">Redox potential comparison</span></strong></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0;"><span style="color:#003300;font-family:&quot;" lang="EN-US"><span style="font-size:small;">After electrolysis of the water inside the Ionized Water unit, reduced water comes out of the cathodic side and oxidized water comes out of the anodic side. Compare these measurements of these three types of water: tap water before electrolysis, the reduced water, and the oxidized water.</span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0;"><span style="font-size:small;"><strong><span style="color:#003300;font-family:&quot;" lang="EN-US">Redox potential, not pH, is the crucial factor</span></strong></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0;"><span style="color:#003300;font-family:&quot;" lang="EN-US"><span style="font-size:small;">Traditionally we have judged the properties of water from the standpoint of pH, in other words whether water is acidic or alkaline. According to Dr. Yoshiaki Matsuo PhD., the inventor of the Ionized Water unit, &#8220;<em>In my opinion, redox potential is more important than pH. The importance of pH is over emphasized. For example, the average pH of blood is 7.4 and acidosis or alkalosis are defined according to deviation within the range of 7.4 +- 0.005. But nothing has been discussed about ORP, or oxidation-reduction potential.</em>&#8220;</span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0;"><span style="color:#003300;font-family:&quot;" lang="EN-US"><span style="font-size:small;">The pH of tap water is about pH 7, or neutral. When tap water is electrolyzed into Ionized Water, its reduced water has a pH of about 9 and the oxidized water a pH of about 4. Even if you make alkaline water of pH 9 by adding sodium hydroxide or make acidic water of pH 3 by adding hydrogen chloride, you will find very little change in the ORP values of the two waters. On the other hand, when you divide tap water with electrolysis you can see the ORP fluctuate by as much as +- 1,000 mV. By electrolysis we can obtain reduced water with negative potential that is good for the body.</span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:center;margin:0;" align="center"><span style="font-size:small;"><strong><span style="color:#003300;font-family:&quot;" lang="EN-US">USING IONIZED WATER</span></strong></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:center;margin:0;" align="center"><span style="font-size:small;"><strong><em><span style="color:#003300;font-family:&quot;" lang="EN-US">What IONIZED WATER Does</span></em></strong></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0;"><span style="color:#003300;font-family:&quot;" lang="EN-US"><span style="font-size:small;">The Ionized Water unit produces two kinds of water with different redox potentials, one with a high reduction potential and the other with a high oxidation potential. </span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0;"><span style="color:#003300;font-family:&quot;" lang="EN-US"><span style="font-size:small;">When taken internally, the reduced Ionized Water with its redox potential of -250 to -350 mV readily donates its electrons to oddball oxygen radicals and blocks the interaction of the active oxygen with normal molecules.</span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0;"><span style="color:#003300;font-family:&quot;" lang="EN-US"><span style="font-size:small;">A biological molecule (BM) remains intact and undamaged. </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0;"><span style="color:#003300;font-family:&quot;" lang="EN-US"><span style="font-size:small;">Undamaged biological molecules are less susceptible to infection and disease. Ionized Water gives up an extra electron and reduces the active oxygen (AO), thus rendering it harmless. The AO is reduced without damaging surrounding biological molecules. Substances which have the ability to counteract active oxygen by supplying electrons are called scavengers. Reduced water, therefore, can be called scavenging water.</span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0;"><span style="color:#003300;font-family:&quot;" lang="EN-US"><span style="font-size:small;">When taken internally, the effects of reduced water are immediate. Ionized Water inhibits excessive fermentation in the digestive tract by reducing indirectly metabolites such as hydrogen sulfide, ammonia, histamines, indoles, phenols and scatoles, resulting in a cleaner stool within days after reduced water is taken on a regular basis. <strong>In 1965, the Ministry of Welfare of Japan announced that reduced water obtained from electrolysis can prevent abnormal fermentation of intestinal microbes</strong>.</span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0;"><span style="font-size:small;"><strong><span style="color:#003300;font-family:&quot;" lang="EN-US">Oxidized Water</span></strong></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0;"><span style="color:#003300;font-family:&quot;" lang="EN-US"><span style="font-size:small;">Oxidized water with its redox potential of +700 to +800 mV is an oxidizing agent that can withdraw electrons from bacteria and kill them. The oxidized water from the Ionized Water unit can be used to clean hands, kitchen utensils, fresh vegetables and fruits, and to sterilize cutting boards and minor wounds. Tests have shown that oxidized water can be used effectively to treat athlete&#8217;s foot, minor burns, insect bites, scratches, and so on.</span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0;"><span style="color:#003300;font-family:&quot;" lang="EN-US"><span style="font-size:small;">Dr. Yoshiaki Matsuo, Vice Director of the Water Institute of Japan, has developed another apparatus capable of producing hyperoxidized water with a redox potential of +1,050 mV or more, and a pH lower than 2.7. Tests have shown that this hyper oxidized water can quickly destroy MRSA (Methecillin Resistant Staphylococcus Aureus).</span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0;"><span style="color:#003300;font-family:&quot;" lang="EN-US"><span style="font-size:small;">Although hyperoxidized water is a powerful sterilizing agent, it won&#8217;t harm the skin. In fact, it can be used to heal. Hyperoxidized water has proven effective in Japanese hospitals in the treatment of bedsores and operative wounds with complicated infections.</span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0;"><span style="color:#003300;font-family:&quot;" lang="EN-US"><span style="font-size:small;">But perhaps the most exciting future application of hyperoxidized water is in the field of agriculture where it has been used effectively on plants to kill fungi and other plant diseases. Hyperoxidized water is non-toxic, so agricultural workers can apply it without wearing special protective equipment because there is no danger of skin or respiratory damage. An added benefit of using hyperoxidized water to spray plants is that there is no danger to the environment caused by the accumulation of toxic chemicals in the ground.</span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0;"><span style="font-size:small;"><strong><span style="color:#003300;font-family:&quot;" lang="EN-US">Ionized Water superior to antioxidant diet</span></strong></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0;"><span style="color:#003300;font-family:&quot;" lang="EN-US"><span style="font-size:small;">Today we read much about correct dieting principles and paying attention to what we eat in order to stay healthy. This is a sensible practice, but it is surprising that many of us don&#8217;t realize that the bulk of what eat is composed of water. Vegetables and fruits are 90% water; fish and meat are about 70% water as well.</span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0;"><span style="color:#003300;font-family:&quot;" lang="EN-US"><span style="font-size:small;">Even advocates of the importance of vitamin C in diet staples have to admit that its potency, namely, the redox potential of this important vitamin, rapidly diminishes with age and preparation for the dining table. Carbohydrates, the main consistent of vegetables and fruit, has a molecular weight of 180 whereas water has a much lower molecular weight of 18.</span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0;"><span style="color:#003300;font-family:&quot;" lang="EN-US"><span style="font-size:small;">Ionized Water, with its low molecular weight and high reduction potential, makes it a superior scavenging agent of active oxygen. But electrolysis inside the Ionized Water unit not only charges the reduced water with electrons, it also reduces the size of reduced water molecule clusters.</span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0;"><span style="font-size:small;"><span style="color:#003300;font-family:&quot;" lang="EN-US">NMR (Nuclear Magnetic Resonance) analysis reveals that tap water and well water consists of clusters of 10 to 13 H</span></span><span style="font-size:7.5pt;color:#003300;font-family:&quot;" lang="EN-US">2</span><span style="color:#003300;font-family:&quot;" lang="EN-US"><span style="font-size:small;"> 0 molecules. Electrolysis of water in the Ionized Water unit reduces these clusters to about half their normal size &#8212; 5 to 6 water molecules per cluster.</span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0;"><span style="color:#003300;font-family:&quot;" lang="EN-US"><span style="font-size:small;">As the graph shows, the NMR signal that measures cluster size by line width at half-amplitude shows 65 Hz for reduced water and 133 Hz for tap water, revealing that the reduced water clusters are approximately half the size of tap water clusters.</span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0;"><span style="color:#003300;font-family:&quot;" lang="EN-US"><span style="font-size:small;">This is why Ionized Water is more readily absorbed by the body than untreated tap water. Ionized Water quickly permeates the body and blocks the oxidation of biological molecules by donating its abundant electrons to active oxygen, enabling biological molecules to replace themselves naturally without damage caused by oxidation that can cause diseases.</span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:center;margin:0;" align="center"><span style="font-size:small;"><strong><span style="color:#003300;font-family:&quot;" lang="EN-US">SUMMARY AND CONCLUSIONS</span></strong></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0;"><span style="font-size:small;"><strong><span style="color:#003300;font-family:&quot;" lang="EN-US">Prevent disease at the source</span></strong></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0;"><span style="color:#003300;font-family:&quot;" lang="EN-US"><span style="font-size:small;">According to Dr. Hidemitsu Hayashi, Director of the Water Institute of Japan, &#8220;To eliminate the pollutants in a large stream that is contaminated at its source, we must work on the problems upstream at the headwaters &#8212; the source of the pollution &#8212; not downstream where we can only try to treat the evidence of damage caused by the pollution. Ionized Water&#8217;s contribution to preventive medicine is essentially upstream treatment.&#8221;</span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0;"><span style="font-size:small;"><strong><span style="color:#003300;font-family:&quot;" lang="EN-US">Upstream</span></strong></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0;"><span style="color:#003300;font-family:&quot;" lang="EN-US"><span style="font-size:small;">According to our model, we consider the digestive tract upstream where we intake water and food. Although many people today in developed countries are growing more skeptical about what they eat, they tend to concentrate more on what the food contains rather than the metabolized products of foods in the digestive tract.</span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0;"><span style="font-size:small;"><em><span style="color:#003300;font-family:&quot;" lang="EN-US">Upstream</span></em><span style="color:#003300;font-family:&quot;" lang="EN-US"> </span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0;"><span style="font-size:small;"><span style="color:#003300;font-family:&quot;" lang="EN-US">For example, consider the typical balanced diet of meat and vegetables. Meat protein is metabolized into amines while nitrates from fertilizers used to grow vegetables metabolize into nitrites in the digestive tract. These amines and nitrites combine to form nitrosamine, a recognized carcinogen.</span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0;"><span style="color:#003300;font-family:&quot;" lang="EN-US"><span style="font-size:small;">We&#8217;ve already discussed that odoriferous feces are evidence of excessive fermentation in the digestive tract, so reduced water performs a very important function upstream in the digestive tract by reducing this excessive fermentation as evidenced by cleaner stools within days of starting a steady regimen of reduced water.</span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0;"><span style="font-size:small;"><em><span style="color:#003300;font-family:&quot;" lang="EN-US">Downstream</span></em><span style="color:#003300;font-family:&quot;" lang="EN-US"> </span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0;"><span style="color:#003300;font-family:&quot;" lang="EN-US"><span style="font-size:small;">Downstream from the digestive tract, starting at the liver, reduced water quickly enters the liver and other organs due to, first, its lower molecular weight, and, secondly, the size of its clusters. At tissue sites throughout the body, reduced water with its safe, yet potent reduction potential readily donates its passenger electrons freely to active oxygen and neutralizes them so they cannot damage the molecules of healthy cells. Normal cells are protected from the electron thievery of active oxygen and allowed to grow, mature, function and regenerate without interference from rogue, oddball oxygen radicals which tend to steal the electrons from the molecules of normal, healthy biological molecules.</span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0;"><span style="color:#003300;font-family:&quot;" lang="EN-US"><span style="font-size:small;">We are now in the midst of a water boom. In Japan and other countries consumers are buying various kinds of bottled and canned water even though water is one of our most abundant vital resources. Research data reveals that mineral waters have an ORP of +200 mV, slightly lower than the +400 mV measured for ordinary tap water. We can say that at least mineral water is marginally better than tap water from the viewpoint of ORP. Compared to any processed water for sale, however, Ionized Water with its reduction potential of -250 to -300 mV is beyond comparison due to its ability to scavenge active oxygen radicals.</span></span></p>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div>Hi there, I am passing on an article  from the Council of Canadians about why we need to stop drinking bottled water that I think you will find very interesting.  </div>
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<h2>Five reasons to ban bottled water</h2>
<p><strong>1. Bottled water leads to water shortages</strong></p>
<p>In Canada, we are not immune to the growing threats of water scarcity. Twenty per cent of municipalities have faced shortages in recent years. According to Maude Barlow, Canada is a net exporter of bottled water, selling its ancient glacier waters all over the world mostly for the profit of the foreign-owned, big four water companies. &#8220;Most provinces charge these companies next to nothing to extract this water from springs and aquifers, and whole watersheds are now under threat from this practice,&#8221; she argues.</p>
<p>According to the Earth Policy Institute, water shortages have been reported in the Great Lakes region near water bottling plants.</p>
<p>In Guelph Ontario, a citizen&#8217;s coalition called the Wellington Water Watchers (WWW), which includes members of the Council of Canadians, has launched a campaign against Nestlé. The corporation&#8217;s water taking on 3.6 million litres per day is causing a reversal of groundwater flow to the Mill Creek. In April 2008, the Ontario government renewed Nestlé&#8217;s permit for a period of 2 years. The WWW is hoping that by the time the permit expires, there will no longer be a demand for bottled water outside of emergency use.</p>
<p>The demand for bottled water is also contributing to the global water crisis. As a result of water shortages caused by Coca Cola&#8217;s draining of groundwater resources in Plachimada, India, thousands have taken to the streets to demand the closure of the the Coca Cola plant in their community.</p>
<p>Medha Patkar, a social activist leading the battle in Plachimada recently told the media: &#8220;The bottling of water that has really exploited our ground reserves [...] killed our aquifers, and [...] encroached upon the people&#8217;s rights to natural resources and the right to plan with those resources.&#8221;</p>
<p>Furthermore, the manufacturing of water bottles requires vast amounts of water. It takes three to five litres of water for every one-litre bottle produced.</p>
<p><strong>2.  Bottled water contributes to climate change </strong></p>
<p>In an era when the world is dealing with the impacts of climate change, the bottled water industry requires massive amounts of fossil fuels to manufacture.</p>
<p>According to the Bow River Keeper, a citizens&#8217; group aimed at protecting the Bow River watershed, a quarter of the 89 billion litres of bottled water consumed every year is consumed outside the country of its origin. Hence the transportation of bottled water also produces large amounts of greenhouse gas emissions.</p>
<p>The Bow River Keeper estimates that &#8220;the manufacturing and transport of one kilogram bottle of Fiji water consumes 26.88 kilograms of water (7.1 gallons) 0.849 Kilograms of fossil fuel (one litre or 0.26 gal) and emits 562 grams of greenhouse gases (1.2 pounds).&#8221;</p>
<p><strong>3. Our landfills cannot support bottled water</strong></p>
<p>Canadian municipalities are dealing with a waste management crisis and our landfills cannot support the amount of garbage generated by the bottled water industry. According to a recent Toronto Sun article, &#8220;as few as 50 percent of the water bottles Torontonians consume everyday are actually being recycled. That means as many as 65 million empty plastic water bottles per year end up as garbage in a landfill waste site.&#8221;<br />
 In some communities the percentage of bottled water ending up in landfills can be as high as 80 percent.</p>
<p><strong>4. Bottled water is not safer</strong></p>
<p>In order to persuade peopled to spend 200 &#8211; 3000 times what they spend on tap water, bottled water companies advertise their product as a safer and healthier alternative.</p>
<p>Nothing can be further from the truth. Bottled water is regulated as a food product under the Canadian Food Inspection Agency. As such, according to the Polaris Institute, water bottling plants are inspected on average only once every three years. Regulation of tap water on the other hand, is far more stringent. In general, municipal tap water is tested continuously during and after treatment.</p>
<p><strong>5. Water is a human right </strong></p>
<p>The bottled water industry has worked hard to undermine our faith in public water. Canada has one of the best public drinking water systems in the world. The Council of Canadians has focused its efforts on fighting for a national water policy that would improve the public system and ensure clean drinking water standards for all communities across the country because we believe water is a human right and should be guaranteed to all people regardless of their ability to pay.</p>
<p>We hope the wonderful efforts to ban bottled water in schools across the country will also be coupled with educating children to address the global water crisis by caring for and promoting water as a public resource and a human right.</p>
<p><strong>Sources and further reading: </strong></p>
<p>Barlow, Maude (2007) <em>Blue Covenant:The Global Water Crisis and the Coming Battle for the Right to Water. </em>Toronto: Mclelland and Stewart.</p>
<div>Arnold, Emily and Larsen, Janet, &#8220;Bottled Water: Pouring Resources Down the Drain&#8221;</div>
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<div><strong><span style="font-size:10pt;color:#444444;font-family:'Segoe UI',sans-serif;">BOTTLED WATER IS DEPLETING OUR RESOURCES AND KILLING OUR PLANET &#8211; THE BANNING OF BOTTLED WATER BY MUNICIPALITIES IN CANADA </span></strong></div>
<p style="background:white;"><strong><span style="font-size:10pt;color:#444444;font-family:'Segoe UI',sans-serif;">I also included below a copy of a press release that I received from the Council of Canadians about the recent banning of bottled water by certain municipalities in Canada.  </span></strong></p>
<div style="background:white;"><strong><span style="font-size:10pt;color:#444444;font-family:'Segoe UI',sans-serif;">Since I started drinking Kangen &#8482; water, I no longer buy bottled water and have an unlimited supply of the healthiest water on the planet coming straight from my faucet. </span></strong></div>
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<div style="background:white;"><strong><span style="font-size:10pt;color:#444444;font-family:'Segoe UI',sans-serif;">What makes Kangen &#8482; water so different from anything else that is out there:</span></strong></div>
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<div style="background:white;"><strong><span style="font-size:10pt;color:#444444;font-family:'Segoe UI',sans-serif;">1) it is an alkaline 9.5 pH drinking water</span></strong></div>
<div style="background:white;"><strong><span style="font-size:10pt;color:#444444;font-family:'Segoe UI',sans-serif;">2) smaller molecular structure ( 8 to 10 times smaller than regular water molecules) for better hydration and nutrient absorption (hexagonal in structure)</span></strong></div>
<div style="background:white;"><strong><span style="font-size:10pt;color:#444444;font-family:'Segoe UI',sans-serif;">3) up to ten times more oxidation reduction potential than green tea but without the acidity (this type of water has been used in Japan for over 40 years and is currently being used in over 100 hospitals there)</span></strong></div>
<div style="background:white;"><strong><span style="font-size:10pt;color:#444444;font-family:'Segoe UI',sans-serif;">4) lasts for approx 15 years &#8211; cost wise it is ALOT cheaper than drinking bottled water.</span></strong></div>
<div style="background:white;"><strong><span style="font-size:10pt;color:#444444;font-family:'Segoe UI',sans-serif;">5) best natural cleanse for your body and colon -helps your body flush out toxins and excess acidity (if you haven&#8217;t seen it yet go onto our website <a href="http://phwaterwellness.com/">http://phwaterwellness.com</a> and click on the Movies button and select the video of Dr. Shinya (renowned colon specialist who gives this water to his patients &#8211; the before and after pictures of the colon speak volumes)</span></strong></div>
<div style="background:white;"><strong><span style="font-size:10pt;color:#444444;font-family:'Segoe UI',sans-serif;">5) the SD501 also produces other waters for personal and household use: a water that is good for your hair and skin that you can also use to water your plants, a 2.5pH water that kills bacteria on fish meat and poultry, countertops and surfaces in your home and disinfects cuts and scrapes and an 11.5 pH water that acts as a cleaner /degreaser and which removes pesticides from produce and acts as a laundry booster.</span></strong></div>
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<div style="background:white;"><strong><span style="font-size:10pt;color:#444444;font-family:'Segoe UI',sans-serif;">Would love to hear from you. </span></strong></div>
<p style="background:white;"><strong><span style="font-size:10pt;color:#444444;font-family:'Segoe UI',sans-serif;">Take good care and be well, </span></strong></p>
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<div style="background:white;"><strong><span style="font-size:10pt;color:#444444;font-family:'Segoe UI',sans-serif;">FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE</span></strong><span style="font-size:10pt;color:#444444;font-family:'Segoe UI',sans-serif;"><br />
<strong><span style="font-family:'Segoe UI',sans-serif;">March 5, 2009</span></strong> </span></div>
<p style="background:white;text-align:center;" align="center"><strong><span style="font-size:10pt;color:#444444;font-family:'Segoe UI',sans-serif;">FCM bottled water resolution sends the right message to cities, says Council of Canadians</span></strong><span style="font-size:10pt;color:#444444;font-family:'Segoe UI',sans-serif;"> </span></p>
<p style="background:white;"><span style="font-size:10pt;color:#444444;font-family:'Segoe UI',sans-serif;">Ottawa / March 5, 2009 &#8211; The Council of Canadians is encouraging the Federation of Canadian Municipalities (FCM) to vote in favour of a resolution that would call for all municipalities to phase out the sale and purchase of bottled water where appropriate. The vote is expected to take place this Saturday, March 7, at the upcoming FCM board meeting in Victoria. </span></p>
<p style="background:white;"><span style="font-size:10pt;color:#444444;font-family:'Segoe UI',sans-serif;">&#8220;If this resolution at the FCM goes through, it will send an important message to the rest of the world about the leadership of Canadian municipalities in reclaiming water as a public resource,&#8221; says Maude Barlow, senior advisor on water to the President of the United Nations General Assembly and national chairperson of the Council of Canadians. &#8220;The FCM adopting a policy opposing bottled water would also be an important step toward a national water policy that would improve the public system and ensure clean drinking water standards for all communities across the country.&#8221; </span></p>
<p style="background:white;"><span style="font-size:10pt;color:#444444;font-family:'Segoe UI',sans-serif;">In advance of this vote, the Council of Canadians has written to all FCM Board members encouraging them to support this resolution. Council of Canadians chapter activists and allies have been presenting bottled water resolutions to municipalities across Canada, many of which have been passed. Should the FCM show leadership on Saturday, the resolution would be an outcome of the momentum of this campaign. </span></p>
<p style="background:white;"><span style="font-size:10pt;color:#444444;font-family:'Segoe UI',sans-serif;">&#8220;The bottled water industry has worked hard to undermine our faith in public water, despite Canada having one of the best public drinking water systems in the world,&#8221; says Meera Karunananthan, National Water Campaigner for the Council of Canadians. &#8220;In an era when the world is dealing with the impacts of climate change, the bottled water industry requires massive amounts of fossil fuels to manufacture and transport its goods.&#8221; </span></p>
<p style="background:white;"><span style="font-size:10pt;color:#444444;font-family:'Segoe UI',sans-serif;">&#8220;The Council of Canadians believes water is a human right and should be guaranteed to all people regardless of their ability to pay,&#8221; adds Barlow. &#8220;In Canada, we are not immune to the growing threats of water scarcity. A quarter of our municipalities have faced shortages in recent years. Bottled water production places undue stress on increasingly scarce water resources.&#8221; </span></p>
<p style="background:white;"><span style="font-size:10pt;color:#444444;font-family:'Segoe UI',sans-serif;">In January, the London chapter of the Council of Canadians worked with the city of London to have this resolution tabled at the FCM. So far, 27 municipalities across Canada have phased out the sale of bottled water in their facilities. In June 2009 the US Conference of Mayors passed a resolution encouraging mayors to phase out city spending on bottled water and to promote the importance of municipal water. </span></p>
<div style="background:white;"><span style="font-size:10pt;color:#444444;font-family:'Segoe UI',sans-serif;">NOTE: The Council of Canadians &#8216;Unbottle it!&#8217; tour with CUPE Ontario will continue with visits to four northern Ontario communities in mid-April and early-May. For more information about the Council of Canadians&#8217; &#8216;Unbottle it!&#8217; campaign, visit <a title="http://council-of-canadians.c.topica.com/maamTPmabOCRnaOWkMZcaeQy7T/" href="http://www.canadians.org/water/issues/Unbottle_It" target="_blank">www.canadians.org/water/issues/Unbottle_It</a></span></div>
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<div>If you aren&#8217;t drinking Kangen water yet, please don&#8217;t delay any longer. It is the best gift you can give to yourself and your loved ones. I have not had anyone who was disappointed with the results yet, and I don&#8217;t foresee finding anyone who is.</div>
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<div><em>Kathryn &amp; Steven Moehr<br />
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<div>Enagic Independant Distributors</div>
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