If you can afford a reverse osmosis filter and you will add the minerals back in, this is way better than a Brita. Flouride is poison and a Brita won’t remove it, only reverse osmosis will. I haven’t researched the filters though so can’t recommend one. I will be buying one asap as I am tired of buying bottled water and the chemicals in the plastic I’m not thrilled about either.
Basically, you do what you can do with what you can afford.

FYI. Even though fluoride in water is toxic, if a person eliminates all other sources where it is added, i.e. foods, toothpaste, personal care products, dental treatments, etc., the small amount in water won’t cause problems.

However, reverse osmosis creates it’s own set of problems:
1) a lot of water is used up in the process
2) all natural minerals in water is eliminated
3) minerals drops can’t possibly duplicate Nature’s minerals found naturally in water

Q:
you say to eat two meals a day because your body needs time to digest so i am assuming you mean breakfast and dinner since skipping lunch would give time for the body to digest and sleeping would give the body time to digest dinner.

or does it matter? can i skip breakfast and eat lunch and dinner or just breakfast and lunch. i’m just curious to hear your thoughts on this. i have also read a book called the Warrior Diet which i find very interesting because it advocates eating very small amounts throughout the day and having one big meal at night. i actually followed it for about a week and i feel pretty good but at the same time i do not think it is practical to stay on it for too long.

A:
It’s fine to eat three meals a day. Two-three is ideal. I tend only to eat two meals a day because I am just not hungry enough to eat more than that. If you do choose only to eat two meals, it is up to you if you want to eat breakfast and dinner or lunch and dinner. I usually eat around 9:30-10am and again around 5:30-6pm.

The key is to eat enough at one meal so that you aren’t snacking between meals. It’s good that the digestive system has time to do its job and then to rest in between. If you eat 5-6 meals a day, there is no time for it to rest.

This is an excerpt from one article:
Snacking & Eating More than 3 Meals Per Day

Your body only needs 3 square meals per day, and some people do better only eating 2 meals per day. Snacking between meals or eating more often is not healthy.

Your body needs the time between meals to digest, absorb and utilize the nutrients without having its energies directed towards digesting more food. If you eat enough food at mealtime, two to three times a day, it will sustain you until the next meal.

Here’s a question I’ve received from a reader:
Q: Since Vitamin D isn’t even a vitamin and acts as a steroid hormone in the body ( much like prednisone ), wouldn’t that mean it suppresses the immune system instead of boosting it?
The reason I ask is, I met someone who had terrible psoriasis and had been put on every med imaginable for the condition. This went on for years and it never got better….until she met a functional medicine doctor who told her to stop ingesting vitamin D and stay out of the sun. Then like magic, the psoriasis started to disappear. This doctor told her the Vitamin D was suppressing her immune system and not allowing it to fight off a bacteria in her system.
I thought psoriasis was caused by an overactive immune system, but if vitamin D was suppressing it, why did the psoriasis clear up when she lowered her D levels in her body?

A: Psoriasis and all other kinds of skin diseases, eruptions, moles, etc. are caused by toxins coming out through the skin, which is one of the body’s best ways to detoxify since it protects vital inner organs. “True” vitamin D from fish liver oils and foods helps the body’s entire detoxification processes, working along with other nutrients and “good” fats I recommend – no nutrients work in isolation of many others. In fact many readers have cured all kinds of skin problems using our program, including getting rid of skin tags, rashes, rosacea, moles, psoriasis, etc.