Better Home: Better Health with Michelle Ogundehin

Better Home: Better Health with Michelle Ogundehin

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Better Home: Better Health with Michelle Ogundehin
Better Home: Better Health with Michelle Ogundehin
Let's talk about... water

Let's talk about... water

What runs out of your tap is lovely and clear so it's perfectly clean, right? Sadly, wrong. What to do, and why hydration is an essential part of good nutrition.

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Michelle Ogundehin
May 23, 2024
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A walk in the woods, the smell of freshly baked bread, a long cool glass of water when you're thirsty, such simple things can make us happy — the latter being no less than the elixir of life! And what runs out of your tap is probably lovely and clear so that means it's perfectly clean, right?

Wrong. I'm sorry to say that a combination of old pipes, water treatment plants being over-burdened and ill-equipped to deal with growing populations, let alone the rising chemical toxicity of our waste, the addition of the disinfectant chlorine to the mains supply (in an effort to combat the above), in some places fluoride too, means tap water can be loaded with all manner of impurities, hormones, chemicals and worse. 

Of course, our national water companies are legally obligated to ensure domestic drinking water meets agreed standards of safety. And I'm sure they do their very best. But those standards do not dictate zero pollutants, rather they suggest 'reasonable

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