Water: The Shocking Truth That Can Save Your Life [Illustrated] [Paperback]

Patricia Bragg (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: October 1, 1998

Water is the key to all body functions!

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Your existence on earth depends on WATER! Please do not take it for granted! This book gives you an education on the type, amount and value of the perfect water to drink that will work to keep you in good health.

Product Details

• Paperback: 192 pages
• Publisher: Bragg Health Sciences; Rev Update edition (October 1, 1998)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0877900639
• ISBN-13: 978-0877900634
• Product Dimensions: 9 x 6.1 x 0.5 inches
• Shipping Weight: 11.4 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 3.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (14 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,840,551 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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76 of 83 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Reader beware! Good topic, bad book., March 24, 2002

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"chrisindenver" (Aurora, CO United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Water: The Shocking Truth That Can Save Your Life (Paperback)

The fact that this book includes advertising for the publisher's other, completely unrelated products should be a clue that the information is heavily biased. I bought this book, along with a few others on the same subject, because it was highly rated by other reviewers. Unfortunately, I was very disappointed, which compelled me to write a review of my own.

One of the main tenets of this book is that beneficial minerals, like calcium, should be ingested from organic sources like vegetables, not from inorganic sources like non-distilled water. The Braggs suggest that inorganic minerals in our drinking water contribute to hardening of the arteries and a host of other ailments.

This theory, which is stated as a scientific fact, is hardly established within the medical or scientific community. This, and much of the other material presented in the book, is quite controversial, and the Braggs never acknowledge any opposing views, presenting their opinions as gospel.

While I actually agree that distilled water is healthy, there are a few issues that the Braggs never even discuss. One: the possibility of distilled water leaching essential minerals from your body. This is easily addressed, since the amount of mineral loss you can expect is easily compensated for by a healthy diet. Two: the importance of storing distilled water in an "inert" (e.g. glass) container, since distilled water is "aggressive," meaning it tends to leach possible toxins from plastic containers.

These are just two examples of glaring omissions that the uninformed reader might never realize. This book makes a lot of amazing claims. Just remember, if it seems too good to be true, you should be suspicious. If you want to read a good book on water contaminants and water purification, buy "The Drinking Water Book" by Colin Ingram.

28 of 32 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent, June 2, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: Water: The Shocking Truth That Can Save Your Life (Paperback)

I find that this book enlightened me to what really happens to the water we drink, and why we shouldn't be drinking it. Anyone who is concerned about their health and that of their loved ones should read and reread this book. It took me a little over a day to read this wonderful inspirational book. It made me question why chemicals are being put in our water and write to my representatives (congress, president,and vice president) to urge them to mandate laws against putting poisonus matter in our water. I took the info in this book and did some addtional research. The words they say are true. You won't be disappointed. Try these web sites to learn more. http://www.rvi.net/~fluoride/ref01.htm http://www.peg.apc.org/%7Enexus/fluoridebomb.html http://www.who.org

Enjoy!

19 of 25 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Don't waste your money, July 23, 2004

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B. Herick (Olympia, WA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Water: The Shocking Truth That Can Save Your Life (Paperback)

This book is full of information that is one of the following: plain wrong, stretching the truth (sometimes severely), highly controversial, implications of falsities, but occasionally you may happen upon a basic fact that scientists generally agree about. Those that actually want to look into the issue should seek out double-blind scientific studies, not books with advertisements for the author's products. It is a bit odd that there isn't a single formal reference to a single study anywhere in the book since there is such scientific gospel between the covers. A quote from the book that is typical of all the information inside - "The only scientific way to free the necessary quantities of fissionable Uranium 235, buried in the inert mass of its parent U-238, is to force uranium hexaflouride gas through many acres of porous barriers. The next part of the process gradually concentrates the elements, creating a deadly hazard from radiation. 'Hex' is what they named this vicious stuff." The author decides to mix fact and fiction by giving an impressive-sounding fact, and then adding something completely false. She proclaims that chemists call uranium hexaflouride gas "hex" because of the negative implications of the word (from the German hexe meaning witch). It must have slipped the author's mind that the prefix is not "hex", it is "hexa", a Greek word meaning six, ie hexagon, hexadecimal, etc. The word means that there are six atoms of flourine in one molecule of uranium hexaflouride. If the author did not know that (which I'm sure she did) she should not be writing this book. For the icing on the cake, she implies that flourine is inherently radioactive because it can assist making the atomic bomb. She must not have heard of the H-bomb, made with hydrogen, the same hydrogen that makes up 66% of water. I've only mentioned one instance, but anybody buying this book should only do so for a good joke, this book is full of them. People may be impressed people by scientific jargon, but please realize that there is no mandate that even scientists (much less people trying to sell a product or idea) have to be honest. Honest science is a very good thing, but nearly all the time the only message heard comes from those that have the money to put it forth, and that certainly isn't research facilities. Research before you believe.