STUDIES RELATING TO WATER MINERALIZATION AND HEALTH

IN disease RECENT (CHD) years, has coronary accounted heart for disease ( HD) has accounted for about 29 per cent of all deaths in the United States and continues to rank as the nation's leading killer.1 There are many students of the disease who believe that there is truly an epidemic of CHD in progress in most of the more developed countries. The magnitude of the problem is such that any research which sheds even a glimmer of light on factors affecting the development of this disease may have vast implications in terms of world health. With this in mind, the authors have reviewed the research of the past decade pertinent to the hypothesis that there is a factor in drinking water influencing the course of CHD and other cardiovascular disease (CVD).

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