Water and Your Health: Clean Water Is Vital to Your Health

Beatrice Trum Hunter

Basic Health Publications, Inc., 2003 - Health & Fitness - 122 pages

What is in the water you drink every day? Do you know if you have been swallowing arsenic, hormone disrupters, radon, Giardia lamblia, and cryptosporidium bacteria? Learn how to get your water tested. There are many ways to improve the quality of water coming from your tap. There are water filters, water softeners, bottled water, and sometimes reclaimed water. All the questions and answers about water are here.

Contents

• THE NATURAL RESOURCE YOU CANT LIVE WITHOUT: 3
• THE NATIONS WATER REGULATING SAFETY: 9
• DRINKING WATER WHAT GETS INTO IT?: 15
• WATERBORNE EPIDEMICS: 29
• WATERBORNE INFECTIONS: 46
• WATER FROM YOUR TAP SOFT OR HARD?: 71
• WATER FILTERS WHICH ONE IS BEST?: 77
• BOTTLED WATERS WHAT IS IN THEM?: 96
• WATER HUMIDIFIERS AND MISTERS KEEP THEM CLEAN: 104
• CONSERVING WATER MAKE EVERY DROP COUNT: 107
• REFERENCES: 113
• BIBLIOGRAPHY FOR FURTHER READING: 115
• INDEX: 116

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About the author

Beatrice Josephine Trum Hunter was born in Brooklyn, New York on December 16, 1918. She received a bachelor's degree in English literature from Brooklyn College in 1940. She learned to read Braille while accompanying a blind student on the subway to and from campus and wanted to teach visually impaired students. She studied at the Perkins School for the Blind and received a master's degree from Teachers College at Columbia University. She taught in New Jersey and New York City schools until she and her husband moved to New Hampshire in 1955. She wrote several books including The Natural Foods Cookbook, Gardening Without Poisons, and Our Toxic Legacy: How Lead, Mercury, Arsenic, and Cadmium Harm Our Health. She was the food editor of Consumers' Research Bulletin magazine. In 1973, she delivered mini-lessons on nutrition on a television program called Beatrice Trum Hunter's Natural Foods on the Boston public television station WGBH. She died on May 17, 2017 at the age of 98.

Bibliographic information

• Title: Water and Your Health: Clean Water Is Vital to Your Health; Basic Earth Guides
• Author: Beatrice Trum Hunter
• Publisher: Basic Health Publications, Inc., 2003
• ISBN: 1591200393, 9781591200390
• Length: 122 pages
• Subjects: Health & Fitness / Healthy Living & Personal Hygiene; Nature / Natural Resources; Science / Environmental Science; Technology & Engineering / Environmental / Water Supply