Best Home Water Filters

What about Bottled Water?
While those bottles might look trendy and health-conscious, most water sold as natural is nothing more than tap water. Bottled water is more expensive than gasoline, and every day over 60 million plastic bottles are made and disposed in the US daily. Liter per liter, using home filtered water will save you upwards of 90% on your drinking water expenses!

How Does Unfiltered Water Affect Children?
Because many of the crucial defense systems that help protect adults from disease are not fully developed in children, they are much more sensitive to carcinogens, lead and water-borne parasites than adults.

Exposure to trace levels of chlorine, toxic chemicals and lead in drinking water during childhood years has been linked to increased risk of diseases and learning disorders in later years.

Children ingest three times as much water per pound of body weight than adults do, so they get a bigger dose of the chemicals in their water, and their developing bodies are simply much more sensitive to the harsh effects...

What About Showering and Bathing?
During a 10-minute shower your body will take on 10 to 50 times the level of water-borne chemicals than from drinking a glass of the same water. During a warm shower, the pores of the skin open up and absorb chlorine and other chemicals at an accelerated rate.

Even worse, the steam you inhale is far more contaminated than the water itself due to the fact that synthetic chemicals, including chlorine, vaporize much faster than water. Because of the chlorine in shower water, chloroform [a known carcinogen] blood levels increase up to 100 times during a ten-minute shower in residential tap water.

How Does Clean Water Affect My Weight?
Weight loss is primarily the result of the liver converting stored fat into usable energy. This process not only requires sufficient water intake, but it can be greatly accelerated by consumption of an abundance of clean, healthy water. Water also suppresses the appetite naturally and helps digest food properly.

If the water we consume contains chemicals like chlorine,lead or agricultural and industrial pollutants, then much of the liver's energy is spent on filtering contaminants instead of processing fat into energy.

Many recent studies have shown a link between consuming chlorinated water and thyroid dysfunction, which can lead to weight gain.

What Are the Best Home Filters?
The two main types of filtration are carbon filters and reverse osmosis filters. Reverse Osmosis filters are good, but they require installation by a plumber, they are very slow, produce three gallons of waste water for every one gallon of purified water, and they strip the water of the natural minerals our bodies need.

Activated carbon filters on the other hand use the process of contaminant removal called adsorption, by which the contaminant bonds chemically or physically to the surface of the filter medium. Activated carbon is recognized by the U.S. EPA as the best available technology for filtering volatile organic chemicals (VOCs) and trihalomehanes (THMs).

The best recognized manufacterer of activated carbon filters is Aquasana