Water and Air Contaminants Are In Your Home

What to do About It!

You can’t see them. You often can’t smell them. But they are there. Water and Air Contaminants.

New research is confirming it every day. More information is surfacing regarding the amount and the variety of contaminants in household air and water.

Last year a study was made public by scientists from Harvard University and the Silent Spring Institute, an environmental group. Their findings confirmed that the air inside a house may contain a bewildering array of chemicals and other pollutants.

The project identified 90 chemicals in air and dust in 120 houses that were investigated. These included more than 20 well-known chemical compounds, with the kind of names ~ for instances, polybrominated diphenyl ether ~ that indicate these are not exactly materials associated with a purely organic, natural environment.

Some of these compounds are ingredients used in plastics for wall coverings, raincoats and shower curtains. Others are in disinfectants, detergents and adhesives.

Complex chemicals are also present in carpets, draperies, hair dryers, computers and television sets. These and other compounds release vapors and particles that become suspended in the air. Both children and adults are exposed to them by inhaling them, absorbing them through the skin or touching surfaces.

Wiping down exposed surfaces or vacuuming the carpet, drapes or furniture may not help. Instead, it can cause the release of these contaminants, by disturbing the surfaces they are deposited on.

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Tests were conducted by the Mount Sinai School of Medicine on a group of 2,500 volunteers. Participants selected were from the local area and all were in good health at the time of the examinations.

None of the test subjects were people who work with industrial chemicals. But the study found an average of 91 industrial chemicals or compounds present in each person. And it’s not only the high-tech chemicals with the long names that are found inside the house. Other testing reveals that when water is running in the sink or shower, it can release chlorine and chloroform into in air. Cleaners or detergents that contain bleach increase the emission factor.

Household water does more does more than merely put these contaminants into air. Levels if detectible substances remain in the water, contributing to the profusion of man-made additives found in the average house.

A study partially funded by the U S Environmental Protection Agency tested for common disinfection byproducts in water. These include a wealth of those long-named compounds: nitromethanes, haloacetonitriles, dibromoacetic acids, and tongue twisters such as 3-chloro-4- (dichoromethyl)-5-hyfroxy-2 (5H)-furanone. Measurable amounts of these substances were detected in water that comes from the tap.

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It’s clear that both the air and water in homes contain a lot more than meets the eye. Is there anything that can be done about it?

There are some obvious steps to take. One is to reduce as much as possible the amount of these substances that are present. Body Temple Wellness offers products that use state-of-the art technology to help reduce contaminants from indoor air and water.

Used regularly, these systems ~ maintained in good condition, which includes changing the filter components at least as often as recommended ~ will go a long way toward making your house a Wellness Home to be safe in.

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