But not just any H20 will do - you'll want to avoid most tap water at ALL costs. The vast majority of it has added fluoride in it. Contrary to popular belief, studies have shown that this mineral does not prevent cavities. But it does cause all sorts of other nasty problems for your skeleton and musculature.  

For this reason, you can probably remember me writing in the past about how, if you must drink water, to guzzle only bottled water (unless you have a clean well for a water supply). This is because it was the lesser of available evils at the time - most bottled water didn't contain added fluoride, and most people won't shell out for an expensive filter that eliminates fluoride, even though it's lifesaving money well spent... 

But nowadays, this long-time recommendation of mine is rapidly becoming hazardous. Why? Because more and more bottled waters today ALSO have unsafe levels (any more than the barest molecular trace is unsafe, in my opinion) of fluoride! 

There are 2 reasons for this: One, because most of it is nothing more than fortified tap water (around 40% of bottled water begins life as ordinary tap water). And two, because a lot of H20 bottlers are ADDING fluoride to their water nowadays! That's one reason why bottled water sales have skyrocketed in just the last few years - people have been brainwashed by the dental industry into believing fluoride's good for them... 

To make matters worse, recently the brain-damaged American Dental Association issued a recommendation that urges people to check the labels of their bottled water to make sure they CONTAIN fluoride! They seem to actually think that it's a lack of fluoride in the water that's causing the modern epidemic of cavities, rather than all the sugar in the modern diet. How backward is this? 

As if that's not bad enough, the water industry has even begun marketing fluoride-rich bottled water specifically to kids - the one group most harmed by fluoride in the skeleton and musculature! 

A regulatory "glass half full" 

Despite the modern American mania about drinking more tap or bottled water (all of it fluoridated, it seems) I clued you in on in the last Daily Dose, there are occasional glimmers of hope that a more reasoned view might creep into the mainstream consciousness... 

Not about excess water consumption (that would be too much to hope for), but about the dangerous fluoride in much of the water being consumed. 

According to an Associated Press article from March 22nd, the results of a recent study on water-borne fluoride requested by the Environmental Protection Agency indicate that high levels of the mineral (anything over 4 mg/liter is officially unsafe, according to EPA guidelines) could cause TOOTH AND BONE DAMAGE. 

Well, hallelujah! I've only been warning of this for 20 years or more... 

The research, executed by a division of the National Academy of Sciences, indicates that fluoride-related problems (like tooth discoloration and weakness and increased bone fractures) begin to increase in frequency once levels of waterborne fluoride exceed 2mg/liter, suggesting that the EPA limit SHOULD be around half its current saturation. (Actually, it should be zero.) 

According to the article, around 200,000 Americans live in areas that where the water naturally exceeds this current way-too-high EPA limit, while another 1.4 million guzzle water with 2.0 - 3.9 mg/liter of fluoride. A full 160 million (more than half the U.S. population) live where artificial fluoridation of the water "only" reaches around 1.2 mg/liter at the highest. 

To all of these folks, I say: If you won't spring for a high-quality H20 filter that rids your drinking water of fluoride (whether natural or added by the government), drink as little water as you can get away with - or drink only bottled water that DOESN'T contain fluoride. You can still get this, if you look around. If the bottle doesn't trumpet "Contains Fluoride!" in bold type on the label (water-bottlers love to advertise the fact nowadays), chances are it's fluoride-free, or at least has no ADDED fluoride. 

It's still not as good as quality filtered water - and it's way more expensive in the long run. But here's how to make it all a moot point, if we can get the mainstream media to play ball.  
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