Back in 1976, after living a year in the Boston macrobiotic community, I found myself living in Chapel Hill, outside in a tent without any macrobiotic support so I went back to S.A.D. and after six moths got very sick because I started eating a lot of donuts.
Lucily, my cousin who was traveling in Europe, left me his pressure cooker and I started eating a sauteed onion, carrot, cabbage, wakame, hatcho miso soup (remember that this was midwinter and nighttimes outside dropped down to 20 below zero!), brown rice and beans, using the local water from a back yard spigot.
That rebirth has carried me to this very day and though I was using chlorinated water (and organic vegetables) I was able to go from extreme yin where I felt like I was going to die, to very yang where I felt I could lift up the front end of a car with my bare hands.
The point being that we don't have to use pure water to live a healthy life, it just helps, that's all!
Since that time I have used well water, bottled spring water, filtered tap water, all kinds of pure water and twenty years ago, I bought a solid block carbon filter from a mlm company thinking it was the only option available to me besides a silver impregnated granulated activated charcoal filter being sold by another mlm company.
Many macrobiotic people bought the filter that I still use but after I bought it for almost 400 dollars, I discovered that there were many water filters of all kind besides the counter or under counter carbon filters!
You got carafe, faucet, countertop, under counter, shower, whole house, travel, camping, spa/pool and gardening filters!
You have granulated activated charcoal (loose, GAC), solid block carbon, silver impregnated GAC, redox, KDF (copper-zinc), reverse osmosis, ceramic, ultraviolet, ozone, electric and solar powered distillers for media.
Because I support Simply Natural run by my good friend Gary Miller who I've known for ten years, in this environment I only promote the filters that he is selling which are under the counter and counter top
CuZn (KDF, copper zinc) gac filters which will provide excellent pure water for a year or more, either as a permanent or refillable (cartridge) filter and are affordable to the average consumer!
The other kind of filter that Natural Simple is selling is the
Wellness Water Filter which I consider to be the best and the best tasting water coming from a water filter that money can buy!!
If you are presently poor, as so many people are but you would like to experience some luxury for a little while, you could buy the refillable cartridge
Wellness Carafe Filter which will give you 50 gallons or more of exceptional healthy and delicious water in a gravity filter that you will keep in your refrigerator.
If you are doing pretty good and you want a good investment, the
counter top or
under the sink Wellness Water Filters are good investments for exceptional health and fantastically delicious water!
At
macroCOOK, I am introducing persons to the wider world of water filter devices and media so that interested people can learn about and if they wish make a decision on what they want based on a more complete knowledge of available water purification technology!
If you want a good water filter as soon as possible Naturally Simple has a good selection to choose from but if you want to take your time and see what's out there, then either the information that I'm providing elsewhere (but please don't expect to find all the information that I can provide already there because it all takes time to write it down and since no one is paying me for this information my paid work comes first!) or the information that you can gather, yourself (on search engines like Google) might serve you well.
It's all up to you!
Thank you, very much.
Bruce Paine