Chlorine Raises Bladder Cancer Risk
Chlorine has long been accepted as a common, necessary addition to our drinking water in the U.S., as well as our other household-use water sources and our swimming pools. I don’t like the taste, I don’t like the smell, and my eyes and nose burn when I’m around most indoor swimming pools. Now I’ve got another reason to avoid chlorine.
Newly published research (in the Jan. 2007 edition of the American Journal of Epidemiology) suggests a link between drinking, bathing or swimming in chlorinated water, and the risk of bladder cancer. The Reuters Health report of the research relays the researchers’ observations that absorbing chlorine through the skin or lungs (by swimming or bathing) “may have a more powerful carcinogenic effect because it does not undergo detoxification via the liver.”
I am very glad to have the best selling NSF-certified reverse osmosis water purifier to remove chlorine from my drinking water.
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