Benefits of a Total Water Cleaner

With more information available to us about the dangers of the contaminants in our water a whole house water filter is the best way to go. Small amounts of certain chemicals in our bodies are not good, over time they build up and will cause problems in the future. Why expose your family to these risks if you don’t have to.

Our deluxe, high-capacity, virtually maintenance-free system is easily installed in any home, and the best value on any whole house water filtration system in Canada! Only the top rated valves, media and tanks are used in manufacturing each Total Water Cleaner. Imagine, chemical free, great tasting water through every faucet of your home. Drink, bathe and shower in sparkling clean water. No more dry itchy skin or unpleasant odors from the chemicals in your water. Total Water Cleaners “Whole Home Water Cleaner” will provide you and your family with healthy, chlorine-free, clean water for all of your daily uses. Whether you’re drinking it, cooking with it, or showering and bathing your kids in it, you will feel the difference clean water makes.

Here are just a few of the many benefits to a Total Water Cleaner:

• Chemical free water from every tap in your home.
• It does not remove essential minerals that your body needs.
• The Total Water Cleaner is a fraction of the cost of the competitors.
• It works out to be less than buying a 591ml bottle of water a day, plus it provides better quality water from every tap in your home.
• No back washing of the system, no electrical hookups, and no maintenance once it’s installed. 
• We guarantee your water quality while the filter is in your home

If you're not drinking filtered water... you ARE the filter.

Contact Total Water Cleaners today and give your immune system a break.

The Winnipeg Baby & Kids Show

Total Water Cleaners is very excited to have a booth at Winnipeg's 2013 Wellness Expo. 
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The Winnipeg Baby & Kids Show

February 23 & 24, 2013  10am to 5pm Daily

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Showtime Productions is proud to present the 8th Annual Winnipeg Baby & Kids Show!  The Baby & Kids Show is Winnipeg's largest special event for expectant parents and young families, providing quality education & fun, affordable family entertainment.

Families can explore the show for the latest in baby and toddler products & fashions, collect information, and attend informative seminars, all under one roof!  Children are treated to fun and activities throughout the day, including quality live children's stage entertainment & special Meet & Greets.

www.babyandkids.ca

Winnipeg Wellness Expo

Total Water Cleaners is very excited to have a booth at Winnipeg's 2013 Wellness Expo. 
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The 19th Annual Winnipeg Wellness Expo 

January 11 – 13, 2012, Winnipeg Convention Centre

The 2013 Winnipeg Wellness Expo is back in the Convention Centre with a whole lot of new and past participating companies ready to satisfy your interests and inquisitive minds.

2013 features include some new speakers in a new room for all the interested presenters wanting to participate.

Only the Winnipeg Wellness Expo offers all the seminars, demonstrations and  presentations at NO EXTRA CHARGE for people entering with a general admission pass. Each day offers hundreds of dollars of value for only the cost of a single day show pass.

http://www.wellnessexpo.com/?page_id=43

Fluoride, The Silent Killer

This is an article from the Consumer Health Organization of Canada's Articles on fluoride. Fluoride has been added to our water for years and people are finally realizing the dangers to the long term exposure to it. Read more below - 

FLUORIDE, THE SILENT KILLER
by: Yiamouyiannis, John, Ph.D.

Dr. Yiamouyiannis received his Ph.D. in biochemistry from the University of Rhode Island and served his post-doctoral fellowship at the Western Reserve University School of Medicine. He then became editor at Chemical Abstracts Service, the world's largest chemical information center, where he first became aware of the health damaging effects of fluoride. He is the former science director of the National Health Federation; he is the executive director of Health Action and president of the Safe Water Foundation. He is a world-leading authority on the biological effects of fluoride and is responsible for ending the use of fluoride in many areas of the United States and abroad.
HARMFUL EFFECTS OF FLUORIDE 

Fluoride is used as an insecticide and a roach killer. Even at the level they use to fluoridate your public water supply, usually at the rate of about 1 part fluoride for every million parts of water (1 ppm) by weight, it causes severe problems. As little as one-tenth of an ounce of fluoride will cause death. It is more poisonous than lead and just slightly less poisonous than arsenic. No one will die from drinking one glass of fluoridated water, but it is the long term chronic effects of drinking fluoridated water that affects health. Dental fluorosis is one of the earlier signs of fluoride poisoning, appearing in mild cases as a chalky area on the tooth, and in more advanced cases, teeth become yellow brown or black and the tips break off. Fluoride in the drinking water leads to fluoride levels in tissues and organs which damage enzymes. This results in a wide range of chronic diseases. Fluoride weakens the immune system and may cause allergic type reactions including dermatitis, eczema and hives. It causes birth defects and genetic damage. Fluoride is likely to aggravate kidney disease, diabetes and hypothyroidism. The amount consumed in drinking water has been shown to lower thyroid activity in humans. It also causes the breakdown of collagen which results in wrinkling of the skin and the weakening of ligaments, tendons and muscles. There are a number of ways that fluoride can be administered. The most insidious way is through the drinking water. Some of you have it in your mouthwashes, or in your toothpaste, or you may take a fluoride supplement which is dispensed in pills or drops.

FLUORIDE A BY-PRODUCT OF INDUSTRY 

Fluoride is an industrial waste product, a by-product of the aluminum industry and the phosphate fertilizer companies who have mountains of fluoride that is polluting the ground water. They have to get rid of it, and the old solution to pollution is dilution - just put it in the drinking water. People living in the vicinity of aluminum, phosphate, steel, clay, glass and enamel plants are exposed to high levels of fluoride in the air. For instance, the Hamilton area shows extremely high lung cancer rates that decrease as you get away from the downwind plume of the steel mills. If fluoride was left with the phosphate and sold to farmers, it would kill their crops. That is what originally happened when they used this high fluoride phosphate, and the farmers said they were going back to manure.

ADDITION OF FLUORIDE TO PUBLIC WATER SYSTEMS
The addition of fluoride to the public water supply is the most insidious way of chronically poisoning hundreds of millions of people around the world. Dr. Dean Burk was former chief chemist of the National Cancer Institute, and has co-authored studies with many Nobel prize winners including Otto Warburton, and he is the co-author of the most cited paper in the entire field of biochemistry - the Lineweaver-Burk Enzyme Kinetics. In the 1970s, Dean Burk and I conducted a number of studies which linked fluoride and cancer. There was already scientific evidence from the 1950s that fluoride was causing cancer, and a 1963 study by Driscowitz and Norton showed that increased fluoride concentrations in the media of experimental animals increased tumour incidence from 12% at the lowest concentrations up to 100%. Taylor and Taylor published a study in 1965 at the University of Texas in all the mainline medical journals showing that 1 ppm or even 0.5 ppm increased tumour growth rate by 25%. These studies bothered me and around 1975 I found that we had enough data to compare the cancer death rate before and after fluoridation of fluoridated communities and compare them to non-fluoridated communities. Based on millions of subjects, the study showed a 5 to 10% increase in cancer death rate within three to five years after fluoridation was put into the water after correcting for various demographic factors like age, race and sex. All the variables were controlled. We followed this by a series of other studies. In 1977 we had full blown Congressional Hearings, and Congress stated: "We can no longer assure the American public that fluoride does not cause cancer". Dean Burk and other well-known scientists were there, and on the opposing side was the American Dental Association. Ten years later, Proctor and Gamble, makers of Crest toothpaste found that fluoride was causing precarcinogenic changes in cells.

HOW FLUORIDE AFFECTS THE DNA REPAIR MECHANISM

Epidemiological evidence shows that fluoride causes cancer. It does this in several ways. It can actually cause the original lesion. In each one of our cells we have genetic material called DNA, and this DNA is double stranded, it has a helix shape and these two strands of DNA are held together by semi strong bonds called hydrogen bonds. Hydrogen bonds also hold proteins together. Fluoride goes in and breaks those hydrogen bonds, and consequently destabilizes DNA. It can't cause a lesion in the DNA itself, but if it is in a site of the cell that regulates cell growth, it will cause uncontrolled cell growth. A few minor modifications will give you first a tumour, and secondly an invasive tumour or cancer. So fluoride has the ability to actually cause the cancer. We have a marvelous system of repair and rejuvenation. Even if we go out in the sun, even if we have a lesion by fluoride itself, we have what is called a DNA repair enzyme system. So any lesion caused by the sun or ultra-violet light will be repaired. The DNA repair enzyme system will cut off the ends and use the complementary strand to repair itself and make intact genetic material. The unfortunate thing is that one part per million fluoride, the amount of fluoride that they use in the public water system, depresses the DNA repair system by 50%. So they have attacked us on the first defense of damage to our genetic material. Since people can get cancer from so many different causes, fluoride is just increasing our chances of getting cancer.

THE IMMUNE SYSTEM 

Even if the cancer cell starts dividing and invading surrounding tissues, if our immune system is strong enough, it will kill those cancer cells without any remedies, without chemotherapy, without anything and will destroy the occasional cancer that maybe all of us have had at one time or another. Once in a while cancer breaks through when the immune system is low or the DNA repair enzyme system is down, and we will get cancer. Fluoride causes the lesion; it inhibits the DNA repair enzyme, and then inhibits our immune system by 30 to 70%. And that occurs at only one part per million. How does it do that? Our immune system is composed of white blood cells including phagocyte cells that are carried in the blood system. If there is an infection or cancer or some foreign agent, these phagocytes will go to that area and start engulfing and destroying this bad agent whether it is a cancer cell or a bacterium or virus. It engulfs it in a little pocket called alysosome which squirts enzymes and breaks down the bad agent into little pieces. They have other things called peroxisomes which burn that agent with free radicals and either destroy it or use it for building new and healthy cells. These phagocytes will actually eat up bacteria or viruses, and toxic substances are just thrown off. Studies from the University of Glasgow show that fluoride inhibits these white blood cells. Fluoride at levels below one part per million causes a chronic release of these free radicals from the white blood cell out into the blood stream where it starts slowly damaging your body by increasing free radicals. This is one of the reasons why we call fluoride the ageing factor.

NON-FLUORIDATED WATER 

Industrial quality reverse osmosis water brings the total dissolved solids down to less that one part per million for all the pollutants that might be in there. Distilled water will remove 99% of the fluoride all of the time. I also recommend a pre-charcoal filter on a distiller to remove volatiles so that you are not getting noxious gases in your home. These are worse when you inhale them than when you drink them, because they go right into your blood stream and into your lungs. You can buy your water at the supermarket, but quite frankly you don't know what the quality of the water is. You must take care that the fluoride concentration is less than 0.2 ppm. Some spring waters like Vichy (which contains 8 ppm) are notoriously high in fluoride. Avoid beverages such as soft drinks, beer and fruit juices from concentrate that have been bottled in fluoridated areas. Teas, even brewed in fluoride-free water will contain about 1.2 to 2.4 ppm fluoride. Some people drink 8 to 15 cups of tea a day, and these amounts are large enough to cause dental fluorosis and other harmful effects.

Read the entire article here - www.ConsumerHealth.org

Cosmetic Pesticide Ban

Here is a great article from EcoJustice about the fight on banning cosmetic pesticides in Manitoba. EcoJustice isn't the only one that thinks cosmetic pesticides are harmful, the Canadian Lung Association agrees and so do many other non profit health organizations. 

Read the article and let us know how you feel.

Why Manitobans Would Benefit From 

A Cosmetic Pesticide Ban

POSTED BY PIERRE HAMILTON AT JUN 28, 2012 10:30 AM 

By Kaitlyn Mitchell, staff lawyer 


Today a coalition of health and environmental groups from across Canada urged the Manitoba government to protect the health of its communities with a province-wide, cosmetic pesticide ban.

We addressed our letter to the Honourable Gord Mackintosh, Manitoba’s Minister of Conservation and Water Stewardship, who recently took an important first step toward banning cosmetic pesticides by releasing a discussion paper entitled Play it Safe; A Consultation on Cosmetic Law Pesticides. Pesticides used on lawns and gardens for cosmetic purposes expose people, pets and Manitoba’s lakes and rivers to unnecessary and potentially serious harm.

Groups that signed the letter included Ecojustice, the Canadian Association of Physicians for the Environment, the Registered Nurses Association of Ontario, the Ontario College of Family Physiciansand many others.

Scientific research overwhelmingly shows that exposure to many pesticides poses serious health risks, including cancer risks among children, as well as reproductive and respiratory problems.

PROTECTING OUR MOST VULNERABLE

Children face the greatest risks from pesticide exposure because they are closer to the ground and because their bodies are still developing. Pesticides can also pose risks to drinking water, as well as fish and wildlife populations.

ALL ABOARD THE PROGRESS TRAIN

Many municipal and six provincial governments across Canada have already reduced that harm, banning the use of non-essential pesticides from lawns, gardens and public parks. Governments have an important role to play in helping Canadians to protect themselves from toxins, and Ecojustice is pleased that the Manitoba government is considering its own ban.

Providing Manitobans with the same protections from exposure to harmful non-essential pesticides that most other Canadians enjoy is the right move. Manitoba families, as well as rivers, streams, and lakes such as Lake Winnipeg, deserve protection.

In our joint letter, the coalition urged the Manitoba Government to take a science-based, precautionary approach and to enact legislation that:
prohibits the use, sale, and retail display of chemical pesticides for lawns, gardens, and non-agricultural landscaping;
allows for exemptions to the ban only where necessary to protect public health;
provides for public education about the ban and alternatives to chemical pesticides; and
includes effective mechanisms for enforcement.

OUR VISION

We look forward to a future where Manitoba’s most vulnerable, children, are no longer exposed to harmful chemicals while playing on lawns or in parks.

To read the full letter, click here.

Protecting Canada's Drinking Water

Protecting Canada's Drinking Water

Here is a great video from Ecojustice on what is happening to Canada's drinking water, and how we can help stop it. There is only so much water on our planet, so we need to take care of it for our kids, and our kids kids.

Please watch the video and sign the petition at the end.