Jerusalem Post - Israeli Government Okays Adding Magnesium to Drinking Water

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Jerusalem Post - Israeli Government Okays Adding Magnesium to Drinking Water

(NMA News)

http://www.jpost.com/Health/Article.aspx?id=270296

Magnesium is a mineral that is vital to health because, as research has shown,

it maintains the heartbeat and thus prevents heart attacks. It is estimated that

each year, several hundred lives would be saved by regular consumption of

magnesium in desalinated water, in either regular rainwater or bottled mineral

water.

Prime Minister and former health minister Binyamin Netanyahu and Deputy Health

Minister Ya’acov Litzman decided on Wednesday to launch a pilot project in

Ashkelon to restore the magnesium to drinking water that is lost in the process

of desalination.

The project, whose extent and time frame will be determined by an inter-ministry

team, is regarded as urgent due to the increasing share of purified sea water

that is being used for drinking.

Israel has desalinated more of its water supply than any other country in the

world.

The pilot program was recommended by Litzman, his director-general Prof. Ronni

Gamzu and other senior ministry officials. Ashkelon was chosen for the first

stage since residents depend on desalinated water there.

There has been no controversy about adding the magnesium from a health

perspective, but the cost has been debated for more than three years – with the

Treasury and the Water Authority on one side, and the Health Ministry on the

other. The Water Authority maintains that adding the mineral would cost hundreds

of millions of shekels annually, thus significantly hiking the consumer price of

tap water, which is already high. The Health Ministry counters that the cost

will be much lower and not top NIS 20 million annually.

There have also been arguments over the government’s decades-long policy of

adding fluoride to water, which does not appear in adequate amounts in the

natural supply. It is not expensive, and global research has proven that it

significantly protects teeth – especially childrens’ – from cavities. It is also

widely regarded by health experts as absolutely safe, but extreme groups in

various parts of the world deny this despite the evidence.

A meeting to work out details of the pilot project will be held on Thursday

between Litzman and Harel Locker, director-general of the Prime Minister’s

Office, in participation with Water Authority and Treasury staff.

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I am all for the magnesium. I am totally against fluoride which is a

pesticide. It is a total fiction that it protects anyone's teeth

against cavities, and here is the Jerusalem Post regurgitating so called

conventional wisdom as scientific fact.

Good post, Z.Latz

Gerry

> Jerusalem Post - Israeli Government Okays Adding Magnesium to Drinking Water

> (NMA News)

> http://www.jpost.com/Health/Article.aspx?id=270296

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> Magnesium is a mineral that is vital to health because, as research has shown,

it maintains the heartbeat and thus prevents heart attacks. It is estimated that

each year, several hundred lives would be saved by regular consumption of

magnesium in desalinated water, in either regular rainwater or bottled mineral

water.

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> Prime Minister and former health minister Binyamin Netanyahu and Deputy Health

Minister Ya’acov Litzman decided on Wednesday to launch a pilot project in

Ashkelon to restore the magnesium to drinking water that is lost in the process

of desalination.

>

> The project, whose extent and time frame will be determined by an

inter-ministry team, is regarded as urgent due to the increasing share of

purified sea water that is being used for drinking.

>

> Israel has desalinated more of its water supply than any other country in the

world.

>

> The pilot program was recommended by Litzman, his director-general Prof. Ronni

Gamzu and other senior ministry officials. Ashkelon was chosen for the first

stage since residents depend on desalinated water there.

>

> There has been no controversy about adding the magnesium from a health

perspective, but the cost has been debated for more than three years – with the

Treasury and the Water Authority on one side, and the Health Ministry on the

other. The Water Authority maintains that adding the mineral would cost hundreds

of millions of shekels annually, thus significantly hiking the consumer price of

tap water, which is already high. The Health Ministry counters that the cost

will be much lower and not top NIS 20 million annually.

>

> There have also been arguments over the government’s decades-long policy of

adding fluoride to water, which does not appear in adequate amounts in the

natural supply. It is not expensive, and global research has proven that it

significantly protects teeth – especially childrens’ – from cavities. It is also

widely regarded by health experts as absolutely safe, but extreme groups in

various parts of the world deny this despite the evidence.

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> A meeting to work out details of the pilot project will be held on Thursday

between Litzman and Harel Locker, director-general of the Prime Minister’s

Office, in participation with Water Authority and Treasury staff.

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How intelligent of them...not like crazy U.S. who adds toxic fluoride to our

waters, foods, etc..!!!!!

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Jerusalem Post - Israeli Government Okays Adding Magnesium to Drinking Water

(NMA News)

http://www.jpost.com/Health/Article.aspx?id=270296

Magnesium is a mineral that is vital to health because, as research has shown,

it maintains the heartbeat and thus prevents heart attacks. It is estimated that

each year, several hundred lives would be saved by regular consumption of

magnesium in desalinated water, in either regular rainwater or bottled mineral

water.

Prime Minister and former health minister Binyamin Netanyahu and Deputy Health

Minister Ya’acov Litzman decided on Wednesday to launch a pilot project in

Ashkelon to restore the magnesium to drinking water that is lost in the process

of desalination.

The project, whose extent and time frame will be determined by an inter-ministry

team, is regarded as urgent due to the increasing share of purified sea water

that is being used for drinking.

Israel has desalinated more of its water supply than any other country in the

world.

The pilot program was recommended by Litzman, his director-general Prof. Ronni

Gamzu and other senior ministry officials. Ashkelon was chosen for the first

stage since residents depend on desalinated water there.

There has been no controversy about adding the magnesium from a health

perspective, but the cost has been debated for more than three years – with

the Treasury and the Water Authority on one side, and the Health Ministry on the

other. The Water Authority maintains that adding the mineral would cost hundreds

of millions of shekels annually, thus significantly hiking the consumer price of

tap water, which is already high. The Health Ministry counters that the cost

will be much lower and not top NIS 20 million annually.

There have also been arguments over the government’s decades-long policy of

adding fluoride to water, which does not appear in adequate amounts in the

natural supply. It is not expensive, and global research has proven that it

significantly protects teeth – especially childrens’ – from cavities. It

is also widely regarded by health experts as absolutely safe, but extreme groups

in various parts of the world deny this despite the evidence.

A meeting to work out details of the pilot project will be held on Thursday

between Litzman and Harel Locker, director-general of the Prime Minister’s

Office, in participation with Water Authority and Treasury staff.

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[Guest guest]

They certainlh want their people to live longer. Here it is try to kill as much

as you can.

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> How intelligent of them...not like crazy U.S. who adds toxic fluoride to our

waters, foods, etc..!!!!!

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