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PART 3 (FINAL) (This is part 3 of an article extracted from an USA magazine called “Now What”. We strongly suggest that you buy Nexus #9 and #10 if you want the full story ...) HEART DISEASE Over twenty years ago Dr Joseph M Price demonstrated the undeniable connection between the practice of chlorinating water supplies and arteriosclerosis, in which a plaque composed mainly of cholesterol builds up inside arteries, resulting eventually in heart attacks and strokes. Cholesterol is a lipid (fatty) substance present in all animal cells and essential to life; i'sa precursor for many common bio- chemical compounds. But when excess chlorine has been absorbed from drinking chlorinated water, it reacts with some of the cholesterol in the blood, forming the yellowish fatty deposits that accumulate along artery walls, narrowing and hardening them, and often causing ruptures. The fact that the buildup is mostly cholesterol has led to the common assumption that the amount of cholestero! consumed is what determines susceptibility to heart disease. But while reducing cholesterol intake can lower risk somewhat, the theory that cholesterol is the sole cause of It ignores the fact that heart attacks were virtually unknown until this century, when chlorin- ation of water began, and they NEXUS 28 Health a beyond remain quite rare in places such as China as long as the practice is not adopted. It also does not explain how people such as eskimos with massive cholesterol disease. Nor does it account for the buildup of a chemically similar deposit on inorganic surfaces where chlorine and cholesterol! come in contact, such as in containers and hoses which are washed in chlorinated water, then used in dairies for handling milk, Jorm such carcinogens as chloroform and assorted organic halides. Chlorine, fluorine, iodine and bromine are known as which of course is full of cholesterol. This and much related evidence is detailed in Dr Price’s 1969 book, “Coronaries, Cholesterol, Chlorine” (Jove Books, NY, USA). Chlorine in water also reacts with other substances present to form such carcinogens as chloroform and assorted organic halides. Chlorine, fluorine, iodine and bromine are known as halogens (‘salt-formers’). These all have seven electrons in the outer orbits, so to fill in the eighth they readily latch on to electrons in other atoms. Since they seldom part with electrons, they and their compounds tend to be very non- conductive, so their roles in our conductive processes come to a grinding halt. Their relative scarcity is a lucky break for life in general. The effectiveness of H.O, or ozone in reversing arteriosclerosis is due to the scouring effect of the active single oxygen released, which oxidises the accumulated lipids from arterial walls, restoring the arteries’ flexibility and capacity. RATIONAL WATER PURIFICATION Strangely enough, the chlorine added to water supplies doesn’t itself directly kill germs; it causes the water to release single oxygen atoms, which then oxidize the germs. So chlorination is basically a roundabout, expensive, toxic and less effective way of doing the sere thing as ozone or H:O, in water. Despite the effectiveness in Europe of ozone and HO, in water supplies, and the increasingly obvious link between chlorination and heart disease, it will take sus- tained public pressure to get water authorities to make the transition soon. Until then every- one’s pretty much on their own as far as obtaining safe drinking water, or purifying what's available. HO. will clean up most tap water, though the amount needed varies widely, and an _ effective quantity tends to be close to the amount that makes the water metallic-tasting. Ozone, on the other hand, purifies water with- out altering the taste too much, One can absorb as much HEALING WITH OXYGEN CHLORINATED WATER & heart attacks has serious flaws. intakes remain free of heart Chlorine in water also reacts with other substances present to halogens (salt-formers’). chlorine through the skin from