What if you don't need heart medication and you are getting it anyway? How about blood pressure medication, maybe birth control? Think about consequences!

If you are drinking or bathing in tap water you may be getting prescriptions prescribed for someone else and you won't ever know it! The pharmacist isn't messing up nor your doctor, read on and see what prescriptions you are really taking!

If you are having health problems and drinking or bathing in Tap water, could good old water be culprit? May be!

A 2000 U.S. government analysis showed nation's waterways are awash in chemicals used in beauty aids, medications, cleaners, and foods. Among substances found were caffeine, contraceptives, painkillers, insect repellent, perfumes, and nicotine. How much? All they know for sure it's unacceptable levels! That was 2 one-half years ago and more have been added since?

Scientists say problem is that these substances largely escape regulation and defy municipal wastewater treatment facilities. All long-term effects of exposure are still unclear and there are not many studies being done to find out. The few studies that have been published are not good news!

Compounds of all kinds, and more being added daily, are sold on supermarket shelves and found in virtually every medicine cabinet and broom closet as well as at farms and factories. And they are flushed or rinsed down drain every day. But they do not disappear or break up, researchers warns.

Having worked in medical offices for twenty plus years I can attest that this does happen... We were taught to flush outdated medications down toilet. We all assume our government local, federal and state will have something to clean our water. Boy what ostriches we are sticking our heads in sand. I can only regret my actions that contributed to this problem and will absolutely never do it again...

Look at all medical offices and thousands and millions of outdated medications, in each office, dumped into your tap water? Not a pretty thought!

This is first generation to be raised with such horrendous chemical dangers and we still do not know whole affect that is being put upon us. My grandmother always said, "Better to be safe than sorry." I thought she was just old but you know she was smarter than I gave her credit for. Now it's my turn to pass on wisdom gained by age. But at least I have lived to age because my childhood was free of poisons that my children and grandchildren have been and are subjected to daily!

Are you and everyone in your family going to be so lucky? Not unless you watch what goes into and on your body!

What some say is good for us isn't!

Those careening free-radicals are causing billions of dollars a year in health care! Are you next?

Free-radicals careen around wildly like unguided missiles, damaging everything they touch and causing a chain reaction of trauma. It is now well established that free radicals are a critical factor in most health problems, including hardening of arteries, which can lead to conditions involving heart, eyes and bone/joint health (Knight 1995) & (Cures, Robert Willix, M.D. 1994)

A most interesting fact about free radicals is that they cause same reactions within cells that occur during exposure to radiation, and results of these reactions are indistinguishable from those of natural aging (Riley 1994). Consequently, it has been suggested that certain compounds known to protect against radiation damage also would be useful antioxidants and may even be beneficial for increasing life span.

Free radicals are even suspect to be an important mechanism of aging; more of them that are running amok, greater vulnerability of healthy cells. However, there's a way to take back your power, up odds in your favor and defeat this deadly force.

Free radicals are not always harmful; they're used by immune system to destroy many invading microorganisms. In bone and joint problems body's own antibodies begin to attack joints, causing cellular damage, as they are unleashed by body upon itself (Barber 1994).

But free radicals tend to react with cellular DNA, often causing DNA strand to actually break. There is also strong evidence that FREE RADICALS may not only initiate DNA mutations, but also encourage damaged cells to multiply.

Scientist, Dr. Denham Harman, M.D. PhD founder of Free Radical Theory of Aging feels that free radical reactions play a significant role in age-related deterioration of cardiovascular and central nervous systems. Free radical reactions also may be significantly involved in formation of neuritic plaques associated with senile dementia of Alzheimer type. In studies, these plaques were more prevalent in senile people than in those who were not senile. Studies are ongoing in that department.