. . . yet get the highest quality water available anywhere Every dollar counts these days, yet people waste thousands a year on bottled water. Concerns about public tap water are valid -- most of it is not fit to drink -- but you can get the highest quality water available anywhere for pennies per gallon and save thousands a year.  If a family of four were each to drink the recommended 8 glasses of water a day (1/2 gallon) and use another 3-4 cups for cooking, the family would use about 1,000 gallons a year.  At Safeway, a grocery chain in California, mountain spring water, in either individual liter-sized bottles or cases of 8-12 oz. bottles, costs from $3.84 to $8.96 a gallon. Our family above would pay from $3,840 to $8,960 yearly for this water. A more economical choice would be buying Safeway's cheapest distilled or mountain spring water in gallon-sized bottles at .89 a gallon, or $890 a year. But the best bargain by far would be to get a Beyond Health Reverse Osmosis…

Environmental toxins are overwhelming our immune and detoxification systems to make us the most allergy prone people in world history.  Simply drinking a glass of tap water can bombard your body with chemicals that have been linked to allergies and asthma. Allergist Elina Jerschow, MD, and colleagues at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine in New York have linked chlorine-related chemicals known as dichlorophenols, which are found in tap water and in pesticides, with both allergies and asthma. These researchers found that people with the highest levels of dichlorophenols were 80% more likely to have a food allergy and 61% more likely to have both a food allergy and an environmental allergy (like pollen).  Subsequent research found a similar association between asthma and high levels of dichlorophenols in the urine. While more studies are needed to prove the chemicals cause either allergies or asthma, population studies have shown that there is a similar rise in bo…