Hot Water can Leach Lead into Your Body

Hot water from the tap should never be used for cooking or drinking unless using a lead removal pre-filter. The reason is that hot water dissolves contaminants more quickly than cold water, and many pipes in homes contain lead that can leach into water. And lead can damage the brain and nervous system, especially in young children.

Lead is rarely found in source water, but can enter it through corroded plumbing. The Environmental Protection Agency says that older homes are more likely to have lead pipes and fixtures, but that even newer plumbing advertised as lead-free can still contain as much as 8 percent lead. A study published in The Journal of Environmental Health in 2002 found that tap water represented 14 to 20 percent of total lead exposure.

The E.P.A. says cold tap water should always be used for preparing baby formula, cooking and drinking. It also warns that boiling water does not remove lead but can actually increase its concentration. One can also easily and inexpensively install a under-sink lead removal pre-filter.

1.21--1.17.08 Diet and exercise

1.21.07
Exercise 10 minutes rebounder 50 crunches.
Breakfast---Two neat balls with sun dried tomato cream cheese. There are wonderful vegan versions of cream cheese that I really like, but this one happens to be the real things. I’ve been in a big hurry lately and have found that the neat balls when very dehydrated are a fabulous quick, raw, energy, protein food and are kind of like a meat substitute.
Lunch---I wanted a salad, but my husband was making salsa for an hour and wouldn’t relinquish the kitchen so I settled for a half of left over roast beef sandwich and a half a pumpkin and raisin tamale.
Dinner---Golden beet salad, page 101 .Ani's Raw Food Kitchen: Easy, Delectable Living Foods Recipes 3 chocolate mint cookies one spoon living fudge

1.22.02
Exercise---15 minutes jogging on the rebounder
Breakfast--- Vegetarian sandwich on sprouted wheat bread.
Lunch---Neat balls, sun dried tomato cream cheese. 1 small sweet corn tamale.
Dinner—Man, I don’t quite know how to admit to this but I derailed pretty big time. I had one chocolate covered cherry cookie, 1 mint chocolate cookie, 1 Reese’s peanut butter cup, some Chinese food, a little bit of a stuffed pork chop and for desert I had some lavender berry sorbet. What was I thinking? Well, Ronnie complained that I hadn’t been cooking for he and the boys, so I made the stuffed pork chops, which they didn’t want but ordered Chinese food instead. I put the pork chops in the oven and set it but apparently forgot to push start, so they weren’t done at dinnertime anyway. I’d seen a Reese’s commercial, which got me, so that explains why I bought the candy. I did eat only one of the two in the pack and gave the other to my son. And after almost no sugar for three weeks, I will say that it tasted off the charts mega nauseatingly sweet. I only had 3 or 4 bites of the pork chop and didn’t enjoy the taste of that either, so it is good that my taste buds are adapting to healthy more natural flavors.
1.23.08
Breakfast---Fruit scone cereal with almond milk
Lunch—Pumpkin soup, salad and Doritos
Dinner---Cauliflower mash page 143 Ani's Raw Food Kitchen: Easy, Delectable Living Foods Recipes it's mile a mash pototo substute. Tasted good, but you eat it cold because it's raw and that takes getting used to. For deseret, living fudge.

1.24.08
Breakfast---Carrot Dill bread page 72 Living in the Raw Gourmet
Lunch—Salad and half a roast beef sandwich. I’m not eating half to cut calories, I’m eating half because it’s a Claim Jumper sandwich which has massive servings that are too big for most humans.
Dinner—Steamed vegetables. These were microwaved, which is a very undesirable way to cook food.
1.25.08
Breakfast—dill carrot bread
Lunch---almond butter on herbed bread.
Snack—protien bar
Dinner--- Two slices of pizza
1.26.08
Breakfast---1 slice of herbed flax bread with apple slices on top.
Lunch---Beautiful salad.
Snaks—corn chips and salsa, and potato chips and dip.
Dinner---Another salad


1.27.08
Late Breakfast ---Steamed kale, salad, really great tasting fake chicken made from wheat.
Snack—5 not on the diet peppermint oreo type cookies and a small amount of ice cream.
Dinner--- Leftovers from the morning salad.

While I don't always note it, I drink lots of alkaline water. More some days than others but I shoot for 6-8 16 ounce glasses a day. I don't drink ANYTHING but the water unless I note it here in the blog.

Alkalinity

The theory behind alkalinity is that our body builds up fat to protect us from the acids in our system from the foods we eat and our stress and exercise. So if we alkalize our body by eating foods that are more alkaline that acidic most of the time and drink alkaline water, you will automatically loose weight. We can see that last week I still lost 15 ounces even though all of my food and snack choices were not alkaline. The goal is to eat about 70-80% alkaline, which would be green foods and vegetables and things like almonds and drink alkaline water. I’m trying to make some of my own salad dressings, so that I’m not eating lots of sugar. But when I got to Claim Jumper, which is about once a week, I have huge amounts of their Thousand Island dressing, probably more that 8 table spoons full. That has sugar and mayo in it, and I’m still losing weight. Bet you couldn’t do that on Jenny Craig!

Results

1.28.08 Weigh in for Nedalee, 158.1 down 15 ounces from last week.
Ronnie is starting to eat better today. Better late than never.
He currently weighs 269 pounds and that's down about 5 pounds since he stopped drinking so much beer with his friends. Right now he plans to cut back on sweets. He loves to binge the weekend before starting to eat better, sot his was an interesting weekend to watch.
He currently measures 50" chest 50 3/4" belly and 49 inch hips. I'll post some of the pictures I took last night soon.