Chlorine, Cholesterol and Cancer

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> CHLORINATED WATER & HEART DISEASE

> Nexus magazine Vol2 - 1

> http://www.peg.apc.org/~nexus/

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> Over twenty years ago Dr ph M Price demonstrated the

> undeniable connection between the practice of chlorinating

> water supplies and arteriosclerosis, in which a plaque composed

> mainly of cholesterol builds up inside arteries, resulting

> eventually in heart attacks and strokes.

>

> Cholesterol is a lipid (fatty) substance present in all animal

> cells and essential to life; it's a precursor for many common

> bio chemical compounds. But when excess chlorine has been

> absorbed from drinking chlorinated water, it reacts 'with some

> of the cholesterol in the blood, forming the yellowish fatty

> deposits that accumulate along artery walls, narrowing and

> hardening them, and often causing ruptures.

>

> The fact that the buildup is mostly cholesterol has led to the

> common assumption that the amount of cholesterol consumed is

> what determines susceptibility to heart disease. But while

> reducing cholesterol intake can tower risk somewhat, the theory

> that cholesterol is the sole cause of heart attacks has serious

> flaws.

>

> It ignores the fact that heart attacks were virtually unknown

> until this century, when chlorination of water began, and they

> remain quite rare in places such as China as long as the

> practice is not adopted. It also does not explain how people

> such as eskimos with massive cholesterol intakes remain free of

> heart disease.

>

> Nor does it account for the buildup of a chemically similar

> deposit on inorganic surfaces where chlorine and cholesterol

> come in contact, such as in containers and hoses which are

> washed in chlorinated water, then used in dairies for handling

> milk, which of course is full of cholesterol. This and much

> related evidence is detailed in Dr Price's 1969 book,

> " Coronaries, Cholesterol, Chlorine " (Jove Books, NY, USA).

>

> Chlorine in water also reacts with other substances present to

> form such carcinogens as chloroform and assorted organic

> halides. Chlorine, fluorine, iodine and bromine are known as

> halogens ('salt formers'). These all have seven electrons in

> the outer orbits, so to fill in the eighth they readily latch

> on to electrons in other atoms. Since they seldom part with

> electrons, they and their compounds tend to be very

> non-conductive, so their roles in our conductive processes come

> to a grinding halt. Their relative scarcity is a lucky break

> for life in general.

>

> The effectiveness of H2O2 or ozone in reversing

> arteriosclerosis is due to the scouring effect of the active

> single oxygen released, which oxidises the accumulated lipids

> from arterial walls, restoring the arteries flexibility and

> capacity.

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>

> Drinking water mutagenicity and gastrointestinal and

> urinary tract cancers: an ecological study in Finland.

>

> Koivusalo, M., Jaakkola, J., Vartianinen, T., et. al.

> American J of Public Health, 84(8): 1123-[?] (August, 1994).

>

> Abstract:

>

> Water Chlorination, Mutagenicity and Cancer

>

> Chlorination is the disinfectant of choice in U.S. public water

> supplies and has no doubt prevented much widespread illness and

> disease over the years. Yet, for more than 20 years scientists

> have known that chlorination causes the formation of

> carcinogenic and mutagenic substances, notably chloroform and

> other trihalomethanes (bromoform, dibromochloromethane and

> bromochloromethane). In 1979, the US Environmental Protection

> Agency (EPA) set a limit of 100 ug/liter (parts per billion)

> for trihalomethanes in drinking water. More recently hundreds

> of nonvolatile chlorinated substances have been identified in

> municipal drinking water including chlorinated ketones,

> aldehydes, carboxylic acids and alcohols. These substances

> form when chlorine reacts with organic matter, mostly naturally

> occurring humic and fulvic acids, in untreated water. Many of

> these substances are mutagenic.

>

> The article by Koivusalo et al. in this issue examined the

> relationship between mutagenic drinking water and cancer of the

> gastrointestinal and urinary tract in 56 Finnish communities.

> The authors found a statistically significant exposurerelated

> association between exposure and the incidence of bladder,

> kidney and stomach cancers.

>

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>

> Chlorinated water & cancer

> http://www.hans.org/chlorine.htm

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>

> Rethinking chlorinated tap water

> by Dr. Zoltan P. Rona MD MSc

> http://www.selene.com/healthlink/chlor.html

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