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Shower Power
If you buy bottled water or install a water filter, are you protecting yourself from the wrath of all those chemicals in tap water? Some scientists think you're still not safe. After all, you still have to shower in the stuff.
Dr. Halina Brown sked some adults to bathe 15 minutes a day and drink two liters of tap water per day. Then she measured how uch toluene, ethylbenzene and stryenee they had taken into their bodies. Her surprising conclusion: we may get more toxins from taking a bath than from gulping down drinks. Brown's adults got 21 to 91 percent of their toxic chemicals from bathing.
We get an even bigger dose from showers, partly because we inhale th echemicals as they evaporate from the water. Chemistry professor Julian andelman measured TCE and chloroform (2 toxins) in the air around a shower. The longer and hotter the shower, the more the chemicals filled the air. Andelman guessed that we get from 6 to 100 times more toxins by showering than by actually guzzling water.
Now, you don't have to avoid the shower and offend your friends. Don't sweat it (pun intended.) Just buy a shower filter or open the window for ventilation while you shower. Or (shudder at the thought) take quick, cold showers.
American Health Journal o fPublic Health,
74(5), 1984
New Scientist, 9/18/89\6
Nature & Health, 10(4), 1989
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