Subject: How to Get Sick: Shower and Swim in Chlorinated Water   May 30, 2007 To be sure you keep receiving this newsletter, click here to confirm your subscription. Can't see the images in this newsletter? Read the online version here. To be sure you keep receiving newsletters, please add BiblicalHealthDaily@makersdiet.com to your address book. How to Get Sick: A Modern Prescription for Illness How to Get Sick: Shower and Swim in Chlorinated Water Chlorine is an effective bacteria killer, but it might be doing its job a little too well. Unfortunately, chlorine is an indiscriminate killer that kills both friendly and unfriendly bacteria. It also eats through lead pipes, corrodes most metals, and harms cells and DNA in virtually every living thing it touches. Chlorine also introduces some highly carcinogenic chemicals called trihalomethanes (THMs) to our water supply. Studies show a strong link between chlorinated water supplies with elevated THM levels and cancers of the bladder, kidney, liver, pancreas, gastrointestinal tract, urinary tract, colon, and brain. It is risky enough to drink chlorinated tap water, but the mass exposure created by swimming in chlorinated pools or taking extended hot showers in heavily chlorinated water is much more dangerous. The heat opens skin pores and increases the already high absorption rate of chlorine through the skin. For a better option, keep your showers short, or look for a filter that takes the excess chlorine out of your water. Advertisement Jordan's Tip of the Day From the author of The Maker's Diet Take a Dip. Without the Chlorine Trying to steer clear of excess chlorine? You don't need to close your pool. Many pool shocks and disinfectants are chlorine-free and completely biodegradable, using natural enzymes to keep the water sparkling clean. Ask about them next time you're at the pool-supply store. More from Jordan Rubin Advertisement   You are receiving this e-mail because you asked us on 03/30/2007 to send Jordan Rubin's Biblical Health Daily to your account at mchughes@LOCALNET.COM. If you no longer wish to receive this newsletter, click here or reply to this e-mail and place REMOVE in the subject line. To add to, remove, or change the newsletters you receive from us, click here. If you received this e-mail forwarded from a friend and would like to sign up for your own newsletter, click here. Use of Waterfront Media sites is subject to our terms of service and privacy policy Mailing address: 1020 MASS MoCA Way, North Adams, MA 01247 Copyright © 2007 Waterfront Media, Inc. All rights reserved.