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Old 10-10-2004, 10:11 PM   #2
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Less than 1 percent of the world's water is suitable for drinking.
I'm in the lucky 1 percent,.... I live in Iceland and there is endless fresh water here, I just turn the sink on and get ice cold water and it costs nothing.

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About 80 percent of the world's diseases are linked to impure water.
Wow, pretty big statement here,........ but it makes sence.

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If Americans consumed less than 2300 milligrams of salt per day, hypertension would probably cease to exist.
Probably the single biggest piece of misinformation about sodium is that it causes high blood pressure. Sodium does not cause high blood pressure. If you have hypertension excessive sodium may aggravate it, but if you don't have hypertension sodium will not cause it. But that is no reason to eat salt like a candy,...too much salt intake may possibly disturb the delicate sodium/potassium ratio.

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