Have you ever found yourself perplexed at how to get Kangen Water® to people who believe they have to drink it to see if it works on them? I have.

The Enagic philosophy of sharing water is a wonderful, altruistic endeavor, but at times it’s simply not going to be feasible. So, the question is, “How does someone make a decision without trying Kangen Water™?

Let me take you back a few years when I was first introduced to ionized water. I was sick at the time. I had a strange virus in my digestive system that doctors said would take two to three years to get rid of. In other words it would take that long for my immune system to kick in strong enough to complete a good fight with this thing. “Trying” the water wouldn’t have done the trick in a reasonable amount of time. “Buying” the machine would. So after doing the research, running the numbers at a cost prorated over fifteen or so years, the expense was justified…in fact it was pretty darn cheap.

Research is key. I don’t know anyone who spends $2000, $3000, $4000 on any product for their home without doing it. Buying a $4000 appliance for their kitchen should be no different. Big dollar household appliances, like a refrigerator, don’t get to be taken home so they and the water from its dispenser can be tried before purchase. You rely on diligent research.

The Kangen Water® machine is no different. With independent third party resources that educate, you can supply data without a panic over whether water can or cannot be supplied. Start with Hiromi Shinya, M.D.’s bestselling book, The Enzyme Factor, and back it up with independent research reports from world-class research scientists that you can find at the U.S. National Library of Medicine-National Institutes of Health website, PubMed.gov. This is the best start for a newcomer to ionized water. It provides irrefutable evidence that electrolyzed ionized water works.

Here you will find all the reliable science you need that points to ionized waters efficacy.

Bottom-line, the fact is that ANY Enagic water device is more economical that buying water in bottles when you look at it lasting fifteen or twenty years. The fact is that ANY Enagic water device works more efficiently over time than any other brand…even the ones, ironically, that try desperately to shoot it down. The fact is that ANY Enagic water device produces the quality of water attributed to achieving and maintain true health in a manner that supports the research you will do when you read books like The Enzyme Factor and documents like the one, Electrolyzed-Reduced Water Scavenges Active Oxygen Species and Protects DNA from Oxidative Damage from a lengthy report in the Biochemical and Biophysical Research Communications Journal, 1997.

These are things to know. Enagic’s equipment is a kitchen appliance. It’s initially expensive. It’s high-quality, medical-grade machinery. It makes the healthiest water around. It’s environmentally practical. And it’s making an impact on individual health. If you want live personal stories, listen to “Health & Wellness with Dr. Dave Carpenter” every Thursday evening. What more does a person need if they want to make a serious upgrade to their water that significantly impacts the health of themselves and their families? This is more information than someone would get subscribing to Consumer Reports to buy that frige I talked about.

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There is a lot of misinformation either spoken or in print about the drinking of alkaline ionized water. This comes in spite of the extensive roads to education that have become available—from the Thursday evening ‘Health & Wellness Teleseminar with Dr. Dave Carpenter’ to the many informative meetings taking place throughout North America and the world in any given week to the extensive library of books available on the topic of electrolyzed structured water [ionized alkaline water]. One of the most recent questions put to me was, “Is it unhealthy or dangerous to drink alkaline water over an 8.5 pH?”

San Whang, engineer, scientist, inventor of many U.S. patents and author of the highly acclaimed book, Reverse Aging, discusses pH in relation to ionized water in easy to understand language. He explains the pH of ionized water this way. The mineral content in tap water affects the pH of the ionized water. City supplied tap water on average has a pH of 7.7 to 8.4. The pH value range for alkaline water after ionization is 9.5 to 10.4 whereas well water’s pH range is usually 7.3 to 7.9 and after ionization, alkaline water from this source is generally 8.9 to 9.5. Alkaline water made by an ionizer is most similar to true mountain spring water.

He goes on to answer the question, “Could harm come by drinking too much alkaline water with a pH as high as 10?” His answer will surprise some and others not at all. Whang tells us, “No [there is no harm done].” He goes on to say that it takes 32 glasses of ionized alkaline water to simply neutralize the acidic effect of one glass of soda having a pH of 2.5. This vital piece of information can shed more light on the Western lifestyle than anything else. In America, because of diet and lifestyle habits, patterns and excesses, we systematically manufacturer acid in our internal terrain better than that of most other countries throughout the world.

Another question that is raised from time to time is, “Is it possible for an ionizer to produce alkaline water without creating acid water?” The only possible way this could happen is if the original water was to be acid free in the beginning. This could be possible if the water came from a pristine mountain spring source.

Acid water, however, is one of the most underrated and overlooked by-products of ionization. It doesn’t get appreciated until people use it and come to realize that it is an insurance policy against harmful bacteria that often sits on our meat and produce without our being aware. What we know is e.coli and salmonella are frequent marauders ready to invade our biological terrain at the least suspecting moment. When meat and produce are cleaned with this powerfully disinfecting water—the strong 2.5 pH acidic water—worries about threatening and invasive bacteria are greatly reduced if not eliminated. The proof is evident when you can see dead bugs on produce float to the top of the bowl of acidic water after cleaning. 

You will know exactly what I mean and be glad for all of these new discoveries when you see them happen out of your own experience.

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Health Fit for Life has grown and now it is time to expand. What better time to do it than the beginning of a new decade?

I believe we can all agree that we’re glad 2009 is behind us and that we’ve had enough bank failings, foreclosure reports, auto manufacturer bailouts, ethics violations and healthcare crises—all contributors of significant stress that poses a threat to our wellbeing.

The masses are screaming for a better way. My Kangen Water™ Blog is a start. It began as a simple conveyor of information on the value alkaline water and an alkaline diet bring to life. We have attracted subscribers and visitors to the blog from around the world in our effort to present information that can change people’s hopes and dreams about health through awareness.

Health is an ongoing proposition. It requires constant vigilance and is the single common ingredient to a life well-lived. Whether it be mental or physical health, business or family health, we are limited if we can’t maintain our own optimum wellbeing. It is my goal to give you the very best possible tools to make life worth living.

To do just that the coming year is going to be one of even greater offerings from Health Fit for Life. Here is a sampling coming your way. Watch for expansion of my recommended book list with publications designed to enhance your lifestyle; greater information on specific topics such as my exceptionally well received “Moms & Babies” program; a collaborative presentation with my friend and colleague, Canadian Natural Body Building Champ, Wade Lightheart; a monthly newsletter to be incorporated with The Weekly Healthline and much, much more.

May you each have A MOST HAPPY NEW YEAR! I am extremely grateful for your support and appreciation in my effort to provide you with valuable information to enrich your life and your business.

Enjoy and use this article, but please be legal. Include this resource block and all is good…LouAnn Savage is publisher and editor of The Weekly Healthline, an online health publication. She is lecturer, researcher and marketer for health and fitness programs and product that advance the world toward true health. Follow LouAnn at her blog, http://www.KangenWaterBlog.com, on twitter.com/kangenwater and Facebook. 

When I finally sat down to write this week’s article, I had finished the most important task of my day. I had finally found the dolly pram stroller online that my adorable three year old granddaughter had asked Santa, or her Nana, that’s me, to give her for Christmas or her December birthday. You can imagine my relief and pleasure when I clicked “Submit” on the Target.com shopping cart. Relieved of the stress of finding it at all, finding it online and finding that I could get it to Phoenix by December 24^th where the whole family will be convening on Christmas Eve felt like pure heaven. And I was really; really pleased at how happy I was going to make this precious, wonderful granddaughter when she opened it up and saw she had just what she had been wishing for.

This year the potential for ultra-stress for everyone is going off the charts. Money is tight, budgeting is critical and it pains us not to be as generous as we have in past years. End result, big time stress that can create the potential for colds, flu and other ailments that can lay us up for days if not weeks. With all we have to do to stay ahead of life and its challenges, staying well is the most important of all. This brings me to Susan Lark, M.D. and James A. Richard, M.B.A’s book, The Chemistry of Success.

Ms. Lark and Mr. Richard’s book, written in 2000, has been around for awhile yet it is more relevant today than when it was first published. Every home library needs it.

The Chemistry of Success was born out of questions the authors asked of themselves, “Why do highly successful people have abundant energy and might these individuals have a chemical makeup that differs substantially from that of the rest of the population? And, if this is the case, can it be restored in people who have lost it or never had it?” Don’t miss chapter 2. It gives cold hard answers that will give you peace of mind and reduce your stress. I urge you to get this book. It’s recession proof. Originally a $25 hardback publication, you can have it now for under $6. It is the best priced, affordable gift you can give. What better gift than a gift of health? Pair it with another, The Enzyme Factor by Hiromi Shinya, M.D. and you have the perfect compliment.

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Over the last three years since Enagic’s Kangen Water has hit its stride in the U.S., it’s been a challenge to educate the masses about the way micro-ionized water works in the body. With testimony after testimony proclaiming the changes in people’s health, one might presume that the water miraculously “cured” their condition or disease. But this isn’t the truth.

The principle behind drinking Kangen micro-clustered, alkaline water is not that it cures, but that it helps the body bring about balance–biological balance otherwise known as homeostasis. This then contributes to a strengthened immune system allowing for the body to correct itself and to fight more effectively against disease. The result is a biological terrain responding to good hydration that makes for better cellular functioning.

Much has been researched and written of electrolyzed structured water which is the scientific term for water that has been micro-ionized by way of electrolysis. Unfortunately for Americans, very little to no concrete scientific studies on its use as a treatment exists in this country though the opposite is true in Japan where you can find some of the longest living people on earth. It’s known in that country that good water, water with strong reduction capability, has significant impact in treating ill people.  

A recognized fact is that an adult human’s biological make-up is 70% to 75% water. Bearing this in mind, it makes sense that if we can give our bodies the best water available it can provide the most efficient hydration which will keep the internal biological terrain and the cells that take up residence there free of active oxygen [free radicals] and performing at a peak level.

At the end of the day, it comes down to logic. All you have to do is think about it and then decide for yourself.

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An analysis of 57 studies conducted in the U.S. and Europe were analyzed by a team of scientists at Oxford University. It involved more than 894,000 people. The team was able to correlate deaths and longevity to body mass index [BMI]. BMI is commonly used to measure obesity as it relates to someone’s weight and height.

Like heavy smoking, it’s not unusual for gross obesity to take as much as 10 years off ones life if their BMI is over 40 and you are considered grossly obese. BMI over 30 is considered moderately obese and can cut a life short by two to three years whereas BMI over 35 can take 5 to 7 years off a life.

What is an amazing fact is that excessive weight is often associated with an excess of water. But that is a myth. According to Dr. Mu Shik Jhon, author of The Water Puzzle and The Hexagonal Key, he states that the overweight person has up to 20% less water than a normal weight individual. These same individuals have a reduced metabolic rate and a reduced amount of total body water.

Bearing these facts in mind, an increased amount of the right kind of water, meaning water best equipped to hydrate efficiently so as to help flush acids and toxins out of the body, is the water of choice for adequate hydration for the average person and the obese. ‘Dead’ water as defined by the Japanese and sold in plastic bottles throughout the world does not rise to this definition.

There has been case after case of people who have seen weight loss results after drinking structured alkaline ionized water. Does this mean that it’s a for-sure thing that structured water will affect weight loss? Absolutely not. It’s a case by case situation. But it can play a part and make for a good start to shift the internal terrain to the positive side.

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Feeling nauseous after drinking Kangen Water™? Can’t figure out why?  It’s a safe bet you’re acidic—very acidic. An inventory of your diet, including the beverages you are drinking, is your first order of business. Guaranteed, if you are drinking a hefty amount of soda and alcoholic drinks on a regular or daily basis, all the healthy eating and Kangen Water™ drinking in the world is not going to correct your internal biological terrain unless you are willing to take drastic action. So far, I haven’t met a person who could do what I’m about to suggest. Drink 30 glasses for every one glass of alcohol or soda just to get neutral.

Want to read that again? You MUST drink 30 glasses of Kangen Water™ for every ONE glass of alcohol or soda just to neutralize it. That boils down to 150 glasses of Kangen Water™ if you are drinking five 16 oz glasses or cans of alcohol or soda each day. That’s four gallons of Kangen Water™ everyday to neutralize 1 can of soda or alcohol and 19 gallons of Kangen Water™ EVERYDAY to neutralize five 16 oz glasses or cans. That’s a whole lot of water. Now keep in mind, we are not even talking about how much it would take to push your internal terrain over to the alkaline side.

With this much acid present, nausea as a reaction to a high alkaline pH is understandable. So here’s the solution. Cut down, then out the soda and most of the alcohol. Granted, cutting all of these harsh drinks out at once would be best, but that’s not a realistic expectation. Stopping all acidic drinks cold turkey is tantamount to a drug addict taking heroin one day and completely stopping the next and expecting to maintain. It’s not likely to happen.

For motivation to eliminate these drinks, know this. Soda is so bad for you that it has garnered the nickname “cancer in a can.” Here’s what to do so the nauseous feeling isn’t there and the health benefits are. Start with 8.5 pH Kangen Water™ for two weeks, then go up to the next level for another two weeks until you have satisfactorily reached the holy grail of alkaline water, 9.5 Kangen Water™. Now let’s back track for a minute. If you are drinking 8.5 pH and the nauseousness persists, cut the 8.5 pH in half by mixing it with the 7.0 neutral water. Follow the same regimen. Stay at the lower more satisfactory level for two weeks before moving up.

The right amount of good water is critical for the right results. That’s why I gave you an illustration of the amounts of good water to drink (4 gallons to one 16 oz can or glass) to bring an acidic condition neutral without changing your habits. But it is unrealistic. Yet, with a change in dietary habits, you are ready to begin drinking no less than ½ oz to 1 oz per pound of body weight of Kangen Water™ every single day.  If health problems are present and to see a difference in how you feel, you have got to go with the 1 oz per pound of body weight to change the biological terrain toward a more stable alkaline state.  

There is no question that high consumption of soda and alcohol on a regular basis makes you more acidic than you realize. At the end of the day, acidic drinks like alcohol, soda and sports drinks, even in small or moderate amounts, create a tremendously acidic terrain. And an acidic terrain fosters illness and disease—a situation that every Kangen Water™ devotee is striving to avoid. You may not be sick today, but if you maintain old habits without making some corrections, it’s only a matter of time before you will be.

Enjoy and use this article, but please be legal. Include this resource block and all is good…LouAnn Savage is publisher and editor of The Weekly Healthline, an online health publication. She is lecturer, researcher and marketer for health and fitness programs and product that advance the world toward true health. Follow LouAnn at her blog, http://www.KangenWaterBlog.com, on twitter.com/kangenwater and Facebook.

November is National Alzheimer’s Awareness Month. Sixteen million people worldwide suffer from the disease. In the Fall 2009 edition of the New York City chapter of the Alzheimer’s Association Quarterly Bulletin was a featured article by freelance writer, Sally Laden, M.S., a specialist in clinical therapeutics. It’s a comprehensive piece with a singular vision. For me, a very disappointing account of the kind of scientific treatment to come.

My interest in Alzheimer’s Disease [AD] stems from my mother’s war with it. She fought the brave fight for nearly 10 years before she died from its complications. My disappointment in this article was its shallow and narrow content that drew me in with a hopeful statement, “Research in diagnosis, genetics, and drug treatment is moving forward at a rapid pace.”¹

Ms. Laden went on to report, “…if disease modifying drugs are to be effective in slowing or stopping Alzheimer’s disease, they should be administered early in the course of the disease, ideally before symptoms become apparent.” Not once was prevention by any alternative means mentioned. Not once was a healthy diet addressed. Not once was the importance of water in relationship to the brain suggested. Not once was appropriate exercise discussed. And not once was affecting healthy blood flow to the brain a considered protocol.¹

A degenerative disorder, the exact cause of Alzheimer’s Disease is still unknown. Yet, there has been research that the Alzheimer’s Association doesn’t address. Clues point to nutritional deficiencies. Vitamin B-12 and Zinc are often at low levels. The B vitamins are important in cognitive functioning while it is well known that processed foods lack these critically important and essential nutrients.²

Compounding the problem is malabsorption. A common problem among the elderly, it makes them prone to these nutritional deficiencies. On the positive side, electrolyzed water [Kangen Water™] can play a promising role in alleviating this inadequacy when it facilitates the body’s absorption of essential nutrients and minerals.

With so much benefit to be gained from a proper diet and exercise, it’s unfortunate that a publication like the association’s bulletin with so much influence in the Alzheimer’s community overlooks key natural components that influence overall health and wellbeing. Our bodies are much like a machine. When it begins to break down we need to feed it what it needs to keep running. It must be tended to with its most basic and necessary elements—food and water. So why are most of the conversations, dialogues and articles only about drugs?

¹Sally Laden, M.S., Alzheimer’s Research: A Moving Target, Alzheimer’s Association New York City Chapter, Volume 33, 2009, pgs. 5-7.

²Phyllis A. Balch, CNC and James F. Balch, M.D. Prescription for Nutritional Healing. New York: Penguin Putnam Inc., 2000.

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As human beings our natural state is one of alkalinity. When a woman gets pregnant she starts giving up alkaline minerals to her fetus. In that process, toxicity becomes part of pregnancy.

Drinking Kangen Water™ is one of the best preparations for pregnancy and one of the best elements for nutritional maintenance before and during gestation. When combined with recommended vitamins and a healthier diet before becoming pregnant, a woman’s biological system is likely to be at its healthiest for conception.

We know Baby is drawing all of its nutrition from Mother. God made sure that between the two this new life gets the alkaline mineral priority. The very nature of pregnancy makes it easy to understand why the mother can become acidic. As Baby is being fed through the umbilical cord, its cells are being formed and waste results. Pregnant Mom’s biological job is to contribute alkaline minerals into the placenta so the fluid stays free of toxins that are acidic. Reserves of alkaline minerals are critical to both mother and baby’s health and wellbeing. Waste becomes the by-product of the metabolic process between mother and baby. It is important that the embryonic fluid stays as clean and as alkaline as possible—like an insurance policy for baby’s health. If Mom’s reserves are insufficient, a challenge occurs with a struggle to maintain whatever alkaline minerals are being depleted. If these vital minerals can’t be found in the reserves, the body looks elsewhere throughout Mom’s body like bones and teeth.

Among all of the changes going on throughout the Mom’s body, keeping toxicity and acidity for two people under control at the same time may be the most challenging. Baby gets the alkaline minerals first over mother which gives an advantage to baby’s cellular development. Baby’s cells divide and grow best when the embryonic fluid is at an optimum level. If it is not that is when we hear of women’s teeth becoming weak or falling out from depletion of calcium or their bones getting brittle.

Tony Robbins, in his Edge of Alkaline seminar, illustrates acid this way; sugar = acid and acid = glue. Excess acid creates solid waste and thickens the blood. Bad blood circulation is an invitation to all kinds of acid related conditions and problems. At some level, these results stem from a polluted internal terrain. Drinking the best alkaline water available is one of the best defenses for both mother and baby. Kangen Water™ lays the ground work on this point. Like sports, the best defense is a strong offense.

Source: Dave Carpenter, N.D., Ac.C., Author, Change Your Water Change Your Life and Sang Whang, Author, Reverse Aging

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The big difference isn't that alkaline Kangen Water^(TM) is made by a machine and is far less costly over its life expectancy of 15 years than bottled water, but that it is a true antioxidant. That property along with its ability to micro-cluster and to become alkaline offers greater and more efficient absorption and hydration at the cellular level than any other water anywhere. In other words, it's 'wetter' water. With its low oxidation reduction potential [ORP], Kangen Water^(TM) naturally and efficiently carries oxygen to the blood stream and works to keep the 'rust' out of our 'body's radiator' by making sure our internal machinery is free from pollution–pollution that contributes to health challenges that can worsen overtime. Because this unique water fights free radicals that roam our body on a regular basis, it is the best stress and disease fighter in the marketplace and it is entirely drug free. At any price this wonder machine is a bargain. 

So how much does it cost? Initially, there is a greater out of pocket expense than bottled water. Over time, however, it is far less–about 85¢ a day. For the best water on the planet, an Enagic water ionizer makes more sense than buying bottled water from the market. Expensive and 'dead,' most 'market water' is made pure through a process called reverse osmosis. The Japanese call this "dead" water because it is devoid of good, healthy minerals resulting from the purifying process. Bottom-line, reverse osmosis water is a rip-off. If you were to drink only reverse osmosis water, you would pay a lot of money for mineral depletion and possible osteoporosis–a condition we see appearing more and more frequently in women and men.

Compare this to Kangen Water^(TM) where good, natural alkaline minerals are consistently present. The SD501water gets rid of impurities through its superior grade carbon filter cleaning process while leaving none of the good minerals behind. When the water is sent through the electrolysis chamber, it passes over seven platinum coated titanium electrode plates. Here the water, by way of electrolysis, is split into alkaline water (-ion) and acidic water (+ion). The two waters delivered through two separate hoses gives you an endless, cost-effective supply of super-charged, antioxidant-rich alkaline water for super hydration to your organs, muscles, joints and skeletal system. Through the secondary hose comes the acidic water that is the best drug-free disinfectant for killing bacteria on your skin that money can buy.

Kangen Water^(TM), like no other, most closely resembles the earth's original water. It comes to you conveniently and efficiently, over and over and over again through your kitchen tap without having to lift one back-breaking case of bottled water. All completely sustainable, superbly beneficial and without environmental and negative health concerns, this is one water people can't seem to live without.  

Enjoy and use this article, but please be legal. Include this resource block and all is good…LouAnn Savage is publisher and editor of The Weekly Healthline,an online health publication. She is writer, lecturer, researcher and marketer for health and fitness programs and product that advance the world toward true health. Follow LouAnn at her blog, http://www.KangenWaterBlog.com, on twitter.com/kangenwater and Facebook.