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Page 1 of 15http://www.wlake.com/water/page2.htmHomeNext page    THE CHOICE IS CLEARby Dr. Allen E. BanikThe amazing discovery I am about to unfold to you had its beginning some 40 years ago. Justwhy I did not receive the impact then I will never know. A few short months ago the truthfinally revealed itself to me. At first I found it difficult be comprehend, but little by little thefacts began to blend until I saw it all in its entirety, and The Choice Was Clear.Only One Possible Cause For All Aging Diseases?Imagine one common possible cause for nearly all diseases! Can it be that arthritis, kidneystones, gall stones, arteriosclerosis (hardening of the arteries), enlarged hearts, emphysema,obesity, constipation, cataracts, glaucoma, diabetes, all stem from one common cause?Unbelievable! But possibly very true!Can This Be True?We all use it every day-from the baby's first cry to the old man's last breath. Water! The oneelement you need the most and suspect the least. If this shocks you, do not be surprised, asmillions of Americans are still unaware of this "aging process," and indulge in it freely.Multitudes suffer from all the above diseases, and unknowingly contribute to this cause daily.Somehow the shots, pills, vitamin capsules and balanced diets add only brief spurts to well-being.The arthritis can get a little worse, the arteries a little harder, the gall stones and kidneystones a little larger, the eyes a little dimmer, the hearing more complex, sugar starts toappear in the urine, digestion slows down, constipation calls for stronger laxatives-and waistlines get a little larger. It's a never-ending cycle of feeling just a little worse than the daybefore.There Is Hope AheadLet me cheer you up-there is good news in store for youhappy years are now ahead of you-far into your nineties-even more. Your stiff joints may begin to loosen, arteries become moreelastic, blood pressures can become more normal, heart action firmer and more powerful.Your lungs can expand with fresh air-kidney and gall stones can gradually dissolve, never toappear again. That lost appetite can also reappear, and those aggravating stomachpainssomehow can vanish.Dr. Brown Landone And Captain Diamond Proved ItLet me quote a few authenticated case histories-just to prove what has already taken place inthe lives of two famous individuals. One was an associate named Dr. Brown Landone wholived to the splendid age of 98. His patient, a Captain Diamond, lived vigorously to thefantastic age of 120 years.Dr. Landone had a heart condition at the age of 17. Today it would have meant a hearttransplant or other dangerous surgery. His doctor allotted him three months to live at the9/18/13 5:28 PMpage 2
Page 2 of 15http://www.wlake.com/water/page2.htmmost. His heart chambers and valves were coated with mineral depositsmuch like hismother's teakettle. Dr. Landone was determined to live. After devising a special treatment (Iwill go into details later), he returned for his second heart examination two years later. Hisdoctor pronounced his heart perfect. All aglow with life, young Landone enrolled in amedical college and received the degree of Doctor of Neurology. He practiced this professionfor 50 years, then turned his talents to writing. His average working day was from 18 to 20hours. At the age of 98, he could have been mistaken for a man of 50!The Amazing Age of Captain DiamondDuring Dr. Landone's years in practice, he met Captain Diamond, who was bed-ridden witharthritis and hardening of his arteries at the age of 70.Dr. Landone suggested his treatment. Five years later he was teaching classes in physicalculture. At the age of 103 he walked from Sacramento to New York. At the age of 110 hedanced an night with a 16-year-old. He died at the fantastic age of 120!The Secret of Longevity'Water" is what I will be writing about, from the very first page to the last word. I willattempt to show facts about water that will startle you. And from now on, until the day youdraw your last breath, you will remember what I have written on these pages.AR Water Is Not The SameThere are at least nine different kinds of water. Some kinds can harden your arteries, formgall stones and kidney stones, bring on early senility, and all the diseases I mentioned earlier.Other kinds of water works in reverse. What one type of water carries into the system, theother carries out. Let me classify these nine kinds of water. They are hard water, raw water,boiled water, soft water, rain water, snow water, filtered water, de-ionized water and distilledwater. All are kinds of water-but remember this: only one of these nine kinds of water isgood for you. Let me describe them briefly.Hard water is water containing excessive lime salts, that is, carbonates and sulfates ofcalcium and magnesium. Sodium, iron, copper, silicon, nitrates, chlorides, viruses, bacteria,chemicals, and many other harmful inorganic minerals and chemicals may also be present.Most all the water we drink comes from public water systems or private wells. These arehard waters. Any water that has run through, or over, ground is hard water to some degree.The longer it filters through the soil, the harder it gets and the more harmful it may becomefor you.Some cities take water from rivers and lakes or mountain reservoirs. They call it soft water.But soft water from such sources is soft only in comparison to water which is harder.I recall that each year the earth's rivers carry to the sea five billion tons of dissolved mineralsand other unnumbered millions of tons of carbon compounds and factory pollutants. "Andocean life is on the decrease," according to Jacques Cousteau.A False Type Of WaterThere are also the hard waters which are called "mineral waters"- that is, waters from certainmineral springs-well known for their medicinal effects. Practically all kinds of "bottled"water is hard water.The reason mineral waters have this so-called medicinal effect is because the body tries tothrow off the excess minerals which invade it as intruding foreign deposits. Actually, a form9/18/13 5:28 PMpage 2
Page 3 of 15http://www.wlake.com/water/page2.htmof dysentery exists, as the organism tries to eliminate and expel this unusual condition. Tosubsist on this type of water could be detrimental.Raw water is water which has not been treated in any way. It may be hard or soft-as hard aslime water, or as soft as rain water. Raw water contains millions of viruses and bacteria, andis densely inhabited in every drop. Chemicals dumped into our rivers may cause cancer,according to the Environmental Protection Agency.True, properly chlorinated water kills most germs and viruses, but it can also kill the cells inour bodies. The only safe rule to follow individually is to distill drinking water, which willeliminate both chlorine and pathogenic organisms.Boiled Water Is Not The AnswerBoiled water is advised by some health authorities. Boiling removes none of the inorganicminerals, although it does kill the bacteria in raw water if boiled at least 20 minutes.But the dead bodies of these germs are carried into the system when the boiled water is used.Such dead materials furnish a fertilized soil for rapid and lusty propagation of germs alreadyin the body. By drinking boiled water one may avoid live disease germs, but still takes onbacterial soil for the growth of other bacteria.While raw water is an aquarium filled with deadly microorganisms, boiled water is agraveyard of dead germs.The Lnpurity Of Rain WaterRain water, which has been distilled by the heat of the sun, should contain no mineral matterand no germs. But when it falls from the clouds as rain, it falls through air filled withbacteria, dust, smoke, chemicals, mud and minerals. By the time it reaches the earth as rainwater it is so saturated with decaying matter, dirt and chemicals that its color becomes ayellowish-white.If rain water is allowed to stand it becomes filthy because of the rotting animal matter in it. Idiscuss it only because some "nature faddists" are so ignorant that they advise the use of rainwater on the basis that it is "natural. "Snow Is UncleanSnow water is melted snow. It, too, picks up minerals, chemicals and radioactive fallout suchas Strontium 90. Snow is frozen rain. Freezing does not destroy bacteria. Snow looks whiteand clean but it contains as many germs, minerals and pollutants as rain water. Rememberthe dirt left from melting snow in the spring? How the dirt of what has melted forms on topof the snow which is not yet melted! Try melting the cleanest snow, then note the filth in thewater. Each snowflake contains some form of air pollution.Filtered Water Can Be DangerousFiltered water is water which has passed through a very fine strainer, activated carbon orsome other mechanical barrier. The use of filtered water is still rather popular. Some peoplethink that water which has passed through a filter is purified. They believe that the filterkeeps the waste substances and disease germs of the water in the filter. While it is true thatchlorine, some suspended substances and many synthetic chemicals are removed in the filterby filtering, there is no filter made which can prevent bacteria or viruses from passingthrough its fine meshes. Each pore of the finest filter is large enough for millions of germs topass through, even those containing silver!9/18/13 5:28 PMpage 2
Page 4 of 15http://www.wlake.com/water/page2.htmMoreover, decaying matter collects on the bottom of every filter. This forms an excellentbreeding ground for bacteria. After a filter has been used for a few days, the filtered wateroften contains more disease germs than the water which is put into the filter. Bacteria aremultiplied by the millions by the collected wastes at the base of some filters, and washedthrough with filtered water, according to Dr. Brown Landone.De-ionized Water Can Cause Virus InfectionsWater processed by the de-ionized method effectively removes minerals, and compares todistilled water in this respect. However, it does become a breeding ground for bacteria,pyrogenic matter and viruses. The fault in this system lies in the resin beds which canbecome notorious breeding grounds. Therefore it is not wise to have this possibility exist inyour drinking water.Furthermore, deionization does not remove synthetic chemicals such as herbicides,pesticides, insecticides or industrial solvents.The Miracle Of All Water-Distilled Water!Distilled water is water which has been turned into vapor, so that virtually all its impuritiesare left behind. Then, by condensing, it is turned back to "pure" water. Distillation is thesingle most effective method of water purification. It is God's water for the human race.In a manner of speaking, distillation is nature's way. The weather of the world is created inthe tropics, where half the heat reaching the earth falls on land and water masses. Here heatenergy is stored within water vapor through the process of evaporation, nature's distillery.When the jet streams return ocean water to inland areas, they do so without sea salts andminerals, all of which have been left behind.Nowadays you will hear a lot about reverse osmosis. In this process, water is purified byforcing a portion of the raw water through a semi-permeable membrane. Reverse osmosisremoves a high percentage of the dissolved solids as well as other contaminants, and whennew the result often approaches the purity of distilled water. The degree of purity in any casevaries widely, depending on the types and conditions of the equipment used, much as withfilter equipment, and the effectiveness lessens with use. Sometimes drastically!Nature's Natural Distilling PlantDistilling water turns it into vapor, and then through condensation, back again into purewater. Rising vapor cannot carry minerals and other dissolved solids-it will not carry diseasegerms, dead or alive. The secret is that the vapor rises between all the suspended particlesand chemicals in the air. When this condensation occurs as falling rain, it picks up airbornepollutants! Not so in a vented distiller where most of them are eliminated.If pure distilled water is boiled in a teakettle, no calcium or minerals of any kind will collectto coat the inside of the kettle, even though you used the same kettle for ten years.The World's Greatest SecretDistilled water then is water of the purest kind. It is odorless, colorless and tasteless.The divine purpose of water is to regulate temperature and to act as a solvent. In nature,water in evaporation is so fine that your eye cannot perceive it as it is drawn up into theclouds. Then it falls as rain, keeping the earth from being parched and burned.As a solvent, it dissolves rocks and soil. It figures in the transport of nutrients into plant life.In the human body, water fills similar functions. It regulates the temperature of the body by9/18/13 5:28 PMpage 2
Page 5 of 15http://www.wlake.com/water/page2.htmhelping take off extra heat resulting from an intake of some 3,000 calories of food each day.Water keeps the body from burning up. It carries waste products from the body.The Greatest Function Of Distilled WaterDistilled water acts as a solvent in the body. It dissolves food substances so they can beassimilated and taken into every cell. It dissolves inorganic mineral substances lodged intissues of the body so that such substances can be eliminated in the process of purifying thebody.Distilled water is the greatest solvent on earth-the only one that can be taken into the bodywithout damage to the tissues.By its continued use, it is possible to dissolve inorganic minerals, acid crystals, and all theother waste products of the body without injuring tissues.Inorganic Mineral Deposits Must Be RemovedFor purification, distilled water is the solvent of choice. After mineral deposits are dissolved,gentle muscular exercise can force the dissolved poisons and wastes from the tissues into theblood so that blood can carry wastes to the excretory organs. Then, these organs can squeezeand pour the wastes out of the body.Remember that great scientists now not only admit but assert that all old age, and even death-unless by accident-is due to waste poisons not washed out of the body. The legendary Dr.Alexis Carrel made heart tissue apparently immortal by regularly washing away the wastes ofthe cells.Now you have learned about the nine different types of water. Let me repeat them again soyou will never forget them: hard water, soft water, raw water, boiled water, rain water, snowwater, filtered water, de-ionized water and distilled water. It is wise to remember these ninedifferent types of water, but there is only one water you must always remember--distilledwater! Dr. Paul Bragg, a life-time advocate of distilled water, lived to age 94, the span of lifeothers only lecture about. He and others with track records say this is your lifeline to a long,happy, carefree span of life.Your Secret Enemy At WorkHard water then is your greatest enemy. It will destroy every fond hope you have by strikingyou down when you should be enjoying the fruits of your labors. Crippled joints, repeatedsurgeries, enlarged hearts, hardened arteries, gall stones, kidney stones, hearing problems,forgetful minds, all draw your activities from the great out-of-doors into creaking rockingchairs, and finally into bed-ridden old people's homes. Why all this, when the body and mindwas divinely designed to live forever! Dr. Alexis Carrel proved that! Captain Diamond liveda long merry life.Let us trace the course of hard water, the cause of our ills. It begins in the clouds. As it falls itcollects minerals and poisonous chemicals. It is good water, except for what it picks up as itfalls. When it reaches the'ground it is divinely designed to do one thing, to pick up minerals.These inorganic minerals are wonderful, but only for plants. As the water picks up minerals,it distributes them evenly to plant life. Plants would never grow if these minerals were notsupplied to their roots. Water then acts as a carrier of some minerals, namely anion nutrients.But alas, chemicals have now polluted our pure air. To clean the air, and make' t fit tobreathe, nature designed water to absorb these poisons.9/18/13 5:28 PMpage 2
Page 6 of 15http://www.wlake.com/water/page2.htmThe Fault Lies In Inorganic MineralsWe have never realized that these collected minerals from the air and in the ground are allinorganic minerals, which cannot be assimilated by the body unless they are chelated intoorganic molecules. The only minerals the body can utilize are the organic minerals. All theothers are foreign minerals and must be disposed of or eliminated. Herein lies the problemwe have never suspected as the possible cause of nearly all our aging diseases.Only Plants Need Inorganic MineralsWater, as a carrier of minerals, is fine for the plant. The plant in turn converts the inorganicto organic minerals. Now, our bodies can assimilate them. We have worked this process inreverse. We consume hard water saturated with calcium, magnesium, iron, copper, silicon,not realizing the body is unable to assimilate these nutrients efficiently. So nature tucks themin the joints as arthritis, in the intestinal walls as constipation, and along the arteries, causingthem to harden. The kidneys and liver roll up the mineral deposits into little stones until theyget too large for the ducts. Sometimes the "filters" of the kidneys become so mineral cloggedthat kidney transplants become necessary.Heart Conditions Can Result From Mineral DepositsCalcium deposits in the heart chambers and valves become so cemented into place withmineral deposits that heart surgery becomes necessary. Calcium deposits in the inner earcause deafness. Skilled surgeons can now remove these deposits and in many cases restorehearing again. Should these deposits occur on the nerve, then total deafness can result.Since water is a carrier of inorganic minerals, harmful to the body functions, we now wiselyremove virtually all trace minerals, chemicals and foreign particles through the process ofdistillation. Then, and only then, is water odorless, colorless, and tasteless and fit forconsumption.I realize that there have been a few university study results that seem to deny theseobservations. And it may be possible-in rare circumstances-that water can contain organicallycomplexed minerals that are assimilable. But these are rare situations, especially on our nowpolluted planet. I am also aware of a study that tends to correlate heart health with hard waterareas. Full scrutiny of these data, however, poses more questions than it answers. Notanswered at all is how people are to get unpolluted water in the first place.Pure Water Is Your LifelineWe have now learned that water is a carrier of inorganic minerals and toxic chemicals oforganic synthesis. But through the process of distilling, the water is separated from virtuallyeverything it carries, and is now pure water. As it enters the body, it again picks up mineraldeposits accumulated in the joints, artery walls, or wherever such deposits occur, and beginsto carry them out. Gall stones and kidney stones get smaller and smaller until they can safelypass through their ducts. Little by little arthritic pains become less as joints become moresupple and movable. Arteries gradually become more elastic as blood pressures tend tobecome more normal. Gradually the outlook on life becomes a little more youthful-ambitionsbegin to return, while the squeaking rocking chair will give way to the web covered golfclubs.The startling fact to remember is that water attracts chiefly inorganic minerals. Organicminerals stay in the tissues, where they belong. This is a marvelous feat of Divine Reasoning.We were not born to die-we were born to live! This fact is easily proved. X-rays of the9/18/13 5:28 PMpage 2
Page 7 of 15http://www.wlake.com/water/page2.htmarteries will never show unless there are calcium deposits along the artery walls. Doesn't thisprove that we have mineral deposits even along swift moving blood channels?So hard water carries inert minerals into the body, and distilled water carries them out-it'sjust as simple as that.There is then only one way you can purify your body and help to eliminate your chronicaging diseases and that is through the miracle of distilled water. A sludge-filled motor cannotoperate smoothly unless the sludge is removed. Neither can a body be supple and agelessunless the joints, arteries, cells and nerve tracts are free of mineral deposits!The Appalling TruthThe average person drinks about a gallon of water per day. Adding up the cups of coffee, tea,soft drinks, food and water, this gallon isn't too much. Many men drink much more. At agallon a day, the average person drinks up to 450 glasses of solids during a life span. Thesesame solids are found in your humidifier, and in grandmother's teakettle. Think of it-450glasses of mineral solids in your system during a lifetime.What does the body do with these foreign materials? Nature does the very same thing you arenow thinking. It tries to eliminate them. Do you recall the water spots on your windows fromyour water sprinkler? Ever try to remove them? It takes lots of vinegar and lots of rubbing todissolve the deposits.This same reaction takes place in our bodies. It begins by putting a thin film along ourintestinal walls. As soon as one film is laid, it attracts another film much easier, until itbegins to build up and one of the first results is constipation, a plague to millions of people.Other deposits occur where blood flows the slowest, such as in the joints as arthritis and gout,along the arteries as hardening, in the veins as varicose, in the lungs as emphysema. It oftencoats the crystalline lens of the eyes with a fine film possibly resulting in cataracts.Glaucoma, the dreaded eye disease, can be another result of hard water. The tiny vessels filmup with mineral deposits, which result in a build-up of pressure in the eye. There has neverbeen a known cause for glaucoma. It might be the mineral deposits.In all my years of experience as a practicing optometrist-all my glaucoma patients drankwater with extreme hardness. Distilled water as a possible preventative is still the best long-range program to follow.Heart Attacks UnknownBantu African tribesmen are known to have the cleanest arteries, as well as the most elasticones. They dig no wells, but catch rain water. Although this water is contaminated withbacteria, it is still almost free of minerals. The air and water pollutions, such as we have here,have not as yet affected them as much. This is a tremendous testimony for mineral-freewater. Even the Europeans have far less cholesterol in their arteries than we do. They ofcourse drink more wine than we do. Wine is comprised of distilled water. All water thatpasses through the roots of plants, converts the inorganic minerals to organic minerals, anddistills the water at the same time. When juices contain minerals, they contain them ascomplexed organic molecules.The True Function Of CholesterolCholesterol is very important to our system. We get it in certain foods. The largest partoriginates in saturated fats, and this type can be harmful. The liver also manufactures its owncholesterol. Cholesterol is an oil or lubricant. It keeps the blood oily so the blood can flow9/18/13 5:28 PMpage 2
Page 8 of 15http://www.wlake.com/water/page2.htmeasily through the arteries and veins. If it were not for cholesterol, the friction along ourartery walls would soon wear them through. Nature is not so stupid. Everything is planned towork. But as inorganic mineral deposits adhere to the artery walls, cholesterol collects,narrowing the diameter of the arteries, risking possible occlusion. The Bantu Africans did nothave this problem. The best time to avoid mineral deposits is at an early age. This reasoningis logical,My Personal ExperienceAbout forty years ago I felt the impact of the effects of drinking hard deep well water. I nevergave it much thought until recently, perhaps, because I was not concerned about longevitythen.This particular fanner had a most distressing health problem. I doubt that he weighed ahundred pounds. At intervals he would be unable to eat. If he did, he would belch, vomit anddouble up with pain. I thought each day would be his last. Finally his doctor advised him toleave his farm. Upon arriving in California, a kind neighbor suggested he drink distilledwater with several small glasses of wine in between. A month later symptoms vanished andhe could eat heartily. Today at the age of 88 he is still hale and hearty, an example of goodhealth. It was the iron and magnesium in his well water that could have spelled an early deathfor him.I Followed The Same PathI still remember how I used to enjoy drinking ice cold water from his deep well, not realizingI was consuming three glasses of solids per year. That I too was a candidate for hardening ofthe arteries, arthritis, cataracts, gall stones, diabetes, obesity and other aging diseases nevercrossed my mind.I then recalled another experience during my teen-age years. I was born and reared in a smallSouth Dakota town. In those days we had a town well to supply our drinking water. It wasgood cold hard water. (It did a wonderful job in corroding my mother's teakettle.) The cityelectric plant was located near the well, but I noticed the plant manager drank distilled water.Being curious, I asked him why he drank that filthy water with such good tasting well waternearby.I can still feel the indignation that suddenly swelled up within him. He then softened hiswords by saying, "Some day when you grow up, you will find out." Somehow this alwaysbothered me. I knew he didn't want to take the time to explain it to a mere kid. All the while Iknew he had his reasons. It took me all these years to find out.The truth of drinking distilled water is not new. It is just that the public has never caught on.Today, many progressive doctors prescribe distilled water for their patients. All the kidneymachines operate on the purest distilled water. It is now time to shake our sickly populationout of their lethargy and languor. Thousands of American cities have potential health hazardsin their drinking water and millions of farm wells should be condemned.The Dark Clouds Are GatheringNot only are we concerned about the minerals in our water, but we must also add the deadlynitrates and anthracenes which are seeping into our lakes, rivers and wells. The sewer wastes,and factory pollutions, detergents included, travel upstream underground at the rate of a halfmile every six months.9/18/13 5:28 PMpage 2
Page 9 of 15http://www.wlake.com/water/page2.htmOur President ShockedOur presidents realize that through pollution we could destroy ourselves within the next fewdecades. Only through the backing of our government and by spending billions of dollars canwe even begin to cope with this insurmountable problem.What our presidents don't realize is that the first step to take is to purify our drinking water.According to government statistics, 10 parts per million of nitrates in water can kill anewborn baby. This is serious! To put filtering plants in our cities would take millions ofdollars. The quickest solution to our drinking water problem would be to distill and bottlewater for delivery to our homes.My Personal Problem SolvedI investigated this product and found distilled water was selling for about fifty cents pergallon a few years ago. It is higher now. I then began a search for a home still. There weremany on the market for our laboratories, but the plumbing and the upkeep would beexpensive, as well as a cleaning problem. Also most stills were not made for drinkingpurposes.As luck would have it, I found an all-electric automatic still which just answered my purpose.The size of the still depends on the number of gallons needed. They are automatic andattractive in appearance, operate on pennies a day, and usually pay for themselves in ninemonths. It solved my immediate drinking problem for me and my family. I can now enjoy thepurest water at its best!We Are Our Own Worst EnemiesNow I can fight pollution. I can enter government programs raising my voice at townmeetings against pollution in the soil, in the air and in the water. Today, the newborn babydoesn't have a chance if there are nitrates in its first bottle of water. Blue babies are theresults of nitrates. How many babies are crying today when the hidden cause lies in thewater, food, and the air they consume. Any mother would sacrifice her life for that of herchild-yet unknowingly, through pollution-she becomes a hazard to her own child.We Must Declare War On PollutionThe fight to end pollution calls for the combined efforts of every man, woman and child. Thefarmer must watch the insecticides and the toxic chemicals in his soils. The manufacturermust bottle up his waste products and eliminate deadly monoxide gas. The air must be madefree and clean of all harmful particles. Pollutants are serious today-very serious.Although I have solved my own problems so far as polluted and mineral saturated water isconcerned, what about the millions of people in our cities who are unknowingly drinkingwater saturated with toxic chemicals and inorganic minerals? What about our rural people,who consider deep wells the epitome of good drinking water, not realizing the surgeries andaging diseases that may lie ahead?Water Is Never The SameTrue, our officials inspect and test our city water periodically, but water is never the same atall times, neither are wells in the same locations. Water can vary every day. Sometimeschemicals in water can become excessive; at other times negligible; but at all times theminerals will be there. We are looking for a mineral free and chemical-free water. This is theonly kind of water our bodies demand. Only through the process of distillation can we9/18/13 5:28 PMpage 2
Page 10 of 15http://www.wlake.com/water/page2.htmachieve this purity.Water: A Carrier Of DiseaseI recall a Dr. T. R. Van Dellen, who made the statement that even foul water carries thegerms of hepatitis. In one ten-year time frame while I practiced in my profession, there were1,700 cases of hepatitis due to contaminated water. Life is too precious to victimize so manyinnocent people.House Beautiful magazine once made this statement: "You may still be able to drink waterfrom your tap, but chances are it's not as pure as it could-and should-be. The pollutants inmuch of our water include chemicals from industry, such as lethal chlorinates, obnoxiousphenols and tannins, plus commercial chemical fertilizers, weed killers, poison pesticideswashed into streams by runoff or put into the water by injudicious overspray. "Radioactive materials may one day be our most serious pollutant. Should atmospherictesting be resumed, this would be a menace. Also present is radioactive cesium-137 and evenbenzene-5, a known carcinogen. "What can we do about it? We can improve our own home water supply. Water from ourmunicipal systems has been treated to kill contagion, but still may not be appetizing. It comesfrom a sewage-polluted river or lake, it may be cloudy. It may be so hard that soap won'tlather, but instead forms curds that puts a dirty ring around our bathtubs and turns our whiteclothes gray. If our water comes from a well, it may have all these faults and more. If youhave a well, you may be floating on a sea of sewage. "Now the day is coming [for many it is already here] when we, too, must face up to thequestion of whether we want to drink our water as it runs from the tap. Stopgap measurescould correct some of its evils. But only some. The real answer lies in our rivers, our lakesand in our soil-and in what we do to protect them against befoulment. If we do nothing, ascourge of major proportion may be our legacy." So wrote David X. Manners.This will give you some idea of how serious our water problem is! To clean it will take years.The answer lies in what we do now for our own protection. La Vista, Nebraska, had a severewater problem midway during my practicing career. The tap water collected in jars was rustcolored and murky. Mrs. Carol Petersen, a local, said: "We had a lot of other neighbors whowanted to come here this morning, but they couldn't because they had to stay home with theirchildren who had diarrhea from drinking the water. "Since water is a carrier of minerals and chemicals, let me list some of them found in ourwater:Chlorine                               CopperSodium                                 ZincMagnesium                           LeadSulphur                                 SeleniumCalcium                                CesiumPotassium                             UraniumBromine                                MolybdenumCarbon                                 ThoriumStrontium                              CeriumBoron                                   SilverSilicon                                   VanadiumFluorine                                 Lanthanum9/18/13 5:28 PMpage 2
Page 11 of 15http://www.wlake.com/water/page2.htmNitrogen                                YttriumAluminum                              NickelRubidium                               ScandiumLithium                                  MercuryPhosphorus                           GoldBarium                                  RadiumIodine                                   CadmiumArsenic                                 ChromeIron                                      CobaltManganese                           TinOur bodies need many of the above-mentioned elements, but only in their organic state. Theymust first pass through the roots of our plants before our bodies can assimilate them. Hereinlies the big error. Nature has a tremendous distilling plant. As the vapors rise. all impuritiesare left behind. Only as the clouds recondense the water does it again pick up the elementsleft behind. Now it becomes harmful to us, but beneficial to plants. There is a big differencebetween powdered iron filings and the iron found in plants. It takes no chemist to tell thedifference.Why Should We Grow Older?The body is designed to feel younger-at any age. To feel one day older has always plaguedthe thinking of humanity and added worries to everyday living. New wrinkles add up todeeper lines-gray hair begins to crop out-while deaths occur at younger ages. All this neednever be. Youth should remain youth-age is just a postponement-it need never come. Thegovernment is planning to educate 10,000 additional doctors to take care of the diseases forwhich we already have the natural cure. Why not attack the water problem, and prevent thehost of diseases, without the need of additional doctors-who will die of the same diseasesthey attempt to cure! There is no need to have a heart so corroded with calcium deposits thatsurgery becomes necessary.What A Price To PayOne morning two patients came to my office. One had a ruptured blood vessel due tohardening of the arteries. He also had polar cataracts. The other patient had a severenosebleed which resulted in the loss of a pint of blood. When he arrived at the hospital thedoctor diagnosed his condition as arteriosclerosis, or hardening of the arteries. Had hisnosebleed not relieved his pressure, it could have resulted in a stroke. Both patients lived on afarm, drank water excessively from hard water wells. Is it worth the price?What Lies In Store For Us?Could all these aging, crippling diseases have been avoided? What do we have to lookforward to? Crippled joints and massive strokes? Do we want medical costs to wipe out ourlife savings? What lies in store for most of us?The Rewards of PreventionNow is the time to shout the truth from our mountain tops. It's time for the press, radio andtelevision to splash this possible secret to longevity on their front pages, through the air andon our television screens. Let every man, woman and child become alerted to one of the9/18/13 5:28 PMpage 2
Page 12 of 15http://www.wlake.com/water/page2.htmgreatest discoveries of mankind. Let our medical schools and practitioners turn their attentionto prevention. Vital organs are not meant to be removed, but to function! Prevention, notdrugs, is the answer to our aging problems.Water Is DeceivingWhat is in a sparkling glass of water may look pure, taste pure, smell pure, but you will stillhave to drink it at your own risk.Here are pertinent suggestions:1. The water must flow from the purest possible source. Adequate safeguards must preventpollution of this source.2. Frequent surveys must be made to detect potential health hazards.3. An enforceable system of rules and regulations must prevent development of healthhazards.4. Proper safeguards must protect water quality from source to house.5. Only qualified personnel may operate the water supply system.6. The water source must have enough reserve to meet peak demands.7. Bacterial monitoring must be continuous.8. Only specified, scientific tests may determine water quality.9. Water with bacterial levels above precisely stated limits must be considered unsafe forpublic consumption.Consider, for example, Cleveland, which dropped thousands of pounds of nitrates andphosphates into Lake Erie, part of its metabolism. These wastes originated from homes,hotels, laundromats and offices. These wastes included, among other things, phenol, iron,zinc, sulfuric acids, ammonia, and hydrofluoric acid (which incidentally eats through glass).All this created complicated drinking water problems for Cleveland. And for most industrialcities.It's Time To Become AlarmedWe do not know from day to day just what pollutions may exist in our own water. There is,however, one way to be sure, and that is to distill your own water. You are then sure that youwill get the purest water possible.A Twin Cities ProblemI remember reading about a Coon Rapids, Minnesota, housewife who telephoned the statehealth department to report that water from her home well had a peculiar "foam" on it. Thatwas the first sign of a problem that later became one of concern to several million people inthe Twin Cities area.The "foam" came from surfactants, the active ingredient in detergents. Surfactants do notoccur in nature. Thus, when they are found in an underwater supply, their origin can betraced directly to sewage discharge.Nitrates become hazardous to formula-fed infants. Boiling water does not make the watersafer, it only increases the concentration of the nitrates.Nitrates-A Nebraska ProblemNitrates fed to our Nebraska soils-to increase our food supply along the Platte Valley-have9/18/13 5:28 PMpage 2
Page 13 of 15http://www.wlake.com/water/page2.htmbecome a health hazard to the longest-lived people in the nation. Since the water table ishigh, nitrates filter into the water supply for drinking purposes. Since 10 parts per million canbe fatal to a newborn child, it is time to become concerned. Our luscious valley, with its tall,waving corn, is rapidly becoming a death trap.Today, mankind has destroyed our soils, our water and our air. The lure for wealth has over-shadowed our gift of life. Through our soils we have opened the doorway to hosts of newinsects and plant diseases. Through our contaminated waters we are killing our wildlife andour babies in their cribs. The air is unfit to breathe. Life today is not living. It is merelyexisting. Where will it all end? Is it a problem for one of us, or all of us? "If our soils are sick, our plants are sick. If our plants are sick, our animals are sick and if ouranimals are sick, we humans become sick," says Paul Brinkman.Behind The CurtainAmericans during any year eat millions of pounds of beef from cattle that had "cancer eye,"or similar tumorous disorders. Thousands of cattle carcasses checked by federal inspectorsare held in meat plants until tumorous parts are whittled out. The remainder of the meat is puton the market.Millions of cattle carcasses are detained briefly in meat plants while parts are cut out becauseof other diseases and injuries ranging from adhesions to tuberculosis. The rest is just "fine"for consumption.In the meantime, federal regulations continue to permit meat processors to carve out infectedor damaged portions of animals, condemn the cancerous parts of cattle, and sell the rest ofthe meat on the market.Since the meat processors do not want to lose their profits, they would much rather feed thiscancer-ridden meat to the unsuspecting public as "U.S. Choice. "Eco-AgricultureI am happy to report that a new form of clean agriculture is gaining a toehold in the UnitedStates. It is being called eco-agriculture by the publisher of Acres U.S.A.-a journal laymanand farmer alike ought to read-and it relies on scientific principles as well as the practicalexperience of organic growers.Science has proved that plants with balanced hormone and enzyme systems provide theirown protection against insect and fungal crop destroyers. The seat of this balance is soilfertility, starting with a pH managed by keeping calcium, magnesium, potassium, and sodiumin proper equilibrium. The trace minerals also figure since they are keys to properfunctioning of plant enzymes.The full package known as eco-agriculture can and does produce more abundant bins andbushels, and does it while improving nutrient quality in food for animal and humanconsumption. What a boon to agriculture and to the health of our nation.The people of Hunza do not use toxic chemicals. They grow from two to three crops peryear. There are no insects or diseases. Why not channel our research and educational dollarswhere they will do some good?The Wheel Of HealthWe live by the law of transformation. Transformation from the soil to the plant-from theplant to the animal or human, then back to the soil again, forming an everlasting cycle ofhealth. The dust of the earth then becomes the cells in our bodies. We live by the law of9/18/13 5:28 PMpage 2
Page 14 of 15http://www.wlake.com/water/page2.htminterdependence. No soul or body is an island by itself. It is a part of something else always.Therefore, we must first consider the soil, which is the mother of us all. We must becomeconcerned about the air above us, from which we cling to the "breath of life." The wateraround us must be pure and free of all inorganic minerals and chemicals. Every cell in ourbodies must be bathed in the purest water. Life is purity. We cannot live by "bread alone. "Air, water and sunshine are responsible for life and growth. Each of these gives something tothe other.Paul Brinkman, a former president of Queen Ann School of Cosmetology, so ably expressedhimself in these words: "Water cannot be destroyed, but it can be made sick! Man with hisadditives has defiled the laws of God. You can always expect something unnatural wheneveryou violate something natural."Mr. Brinkman became interested in distilled water especially since he was concerned abouthis diabetic condition. Imagine his surprise when he checked out sugar free. It likewisesurprised his doctor. According to any edition of Merck's Manual, the exact cause of diabetesis not known. The cause lies in the inadequate production of insulin by the beta cells of theislets of Langerhans. The cells are alive; it is just that they do not function. My inspiringteacher, Dr. Landone, stated that the mineral deposits enclose the cells with a mineral film sothey are unable to function. I am inclined to believe his conclusions because there has to be acause. Whether distilled water will cure diabetes is not for me to say. It is not within my fieldto diagnose; however, with the knowledge derived from my study of distilled water, I feelquite emphatic about its merits.There is much to learn about water. I have merely touched on a few pertinent facts of waterin its relations to vibrant health and longevity. The facts I gathered have proved themselvesto me. When men can live to the age of 120, 1 become alert! There has to be some cause. Iam convinced that the inorganic minerals and chemicals in water become a hazard to everyman, woman and child. The body must be free of sludge to operate efficiently. Theeliminating organs cannot expel all the deposits, so nature does the next best thing and tucksthem wherever she can. Since water is the greatest solvent known, it becomes the best agentto carry out that which is brought in.The test is very simple. Place a mirror or glass under a dripping faucet. Let it dry, andobserve the water spots. Then place this glass in distilled water. The distilled water willdissolve the water spots. This is what the whole story is about-this is the cause of all ouraging diseases. Dr. Landone cured his heart condition. Captain Diamond cured his arthritisand lived to the splendid age of 120 years. Could distilled water be the answer? If it is, howdifferent living in this world could be. Since we live but one, therefore. should. we not livewisely? The choice is clear-it is now up to you,Disease does not exist without cause. It begins where cause begins and persists where causepersists. Chronic disease means chronic provocation. Cure cannot take place until the causeof disease is removed. Symptoms may subside or be palliated and suppressed; a crisis maypass, but disease persists so long as cause is ignored or unrecognized. HomeQ & E  9/18/13 5:28 PMpage 2
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Page 1 of 15http://www. wlake. com/water/page2. htmHomeNext page    THE CHOICE IS CLEARby Dr. Allen E. BanikThe amazing discovery I am about to unfold to you had its beginning some 40 years ago. Justwhy I did not receive the impact then I will never know. A few short months ago the truthfinally revealed itself to me. At first I found it difficult be comprehend, but little by little thefacts began to blend until I saw it all in its entirety, and The Choice Was Clear. Only One Possible Cause For All Aging Diseases. Imagine one common possible cause for nearly all diseases. Can it be that arthritis, kidneystones, gall stones, arteriosclerosis (hardening of the arteries), enlarged hearts, emphysema,obesity, constipation, cataracts, glaucoma, diabetes, all stem from one common cause. Unbelievable. But possibly very true. Can This Be True. We all use it every day-from the baby's first cry to the old man's last breath. Water. The oneelement you need the most and suspect the least. If this shocks you, do not be surprised, asmillions of Americans are still unaware of this "aging process," and indulge in it freely. Multitudes suffer from all the above diseases, and unknowingly contribute to this cause daily. Somehow the shots, pills, vitamin capsules and balanced diets add only brief spurts to well-being. The arthritis can get a little worse, the arteries a little harder, the gall stones and kidneystones a little larger, the eyes a little dimmer, the hearing more complex, sugar starts toappear in the urine, digestion slows down, constipation calls for stronger laxatives-and waistlines get a little larger. It's a never-ending cycle of feeling just a little worse than the daybefore. There Is Hope AheadLet me cheer you up-there is good news in store for youhappy years are now ahead of you-far into your nineties-even more. Your stiff joints may begin to loosen, arteries become moreelastic, blood pressures can become more normal, heart action firmer and more powerful. Your lungs can expand with fresh air-kidney and gall stones can gradually dissolve, never toappear again. That lost appetite can also reappear, and those aggravating stomachpainssomehow can vanish. Dr. Brown Landone And Captain Diamond Proved ItLet me quote a few authenticated case histories-just to prove what has already taken place inthe lives of two famous individuals. One was an associate named Dr. Brown Landone wholived to the splendid age of 98. His patient, a Captain Diamond, lived vigorously to thefantastic age of 120 years.
Inorganic minerals and chemicals in water, which the body cannot assimilate.
What is the main cause of all aging diseases, according to the author?
Hard water can cause a range of health problems, including arthritis, heart conditions, and kidney stones.
What is the author's claim about the effects of drinking hard water?
The author argues that boiled water is not a suitable solution, as it does not remove inorganic minerals and can even create a breeding ground for bacteria.
What is the author's stance on the effectiveness of boiled water?
The author suggests that people should distill their own water to purify it and eliminate inorganic minerals and chemicals.
What is the author's proposal for addressing the water problem?
The author is critical of the government's lack of action on pollution, stating that they are not doing enough to address the issue and are instead focusing on treating the symptoms of pollution rather than the cause.
What is the author's opinion on the government's response to pollution?