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Ingredients # water

Water

You can, and should just drink water!
This is probably the most important and most overlooked ingredient for raw food recipes.
"Water is the basis of all life and that includes your body. Your muscles that move your body are 75% water; your blood that transport nutrients is 82% water; your lungs that provide your oxygen are 90% water; your brain that is the control center of your body is 76% water; even your bones are 25% water.
Our health is truly dependent on the quality and quantity of the water we drink."
Dr. Batmanghelidj from The Water Cure website.
It's worth reading some of Dr. Batmanghelidj twenty years of research on water and health, either through his books or via the link to The Water Cure website below.
The relationship between water demand, agriculture and livestock farming, and the impact on the environment is explored in a number of websites below.
If you happen to live near a spring where clean fresh water burbles out after having been filtered for hundreds of years then lucky you. For the rest of us we have to deploy the next best solutions.

If you do use a water filter

clean the micro filter sponge regularly to avoid a build up of bacteria. If necessary change it.
renew the filter regularly depending on the type.

Links

The Water Cure A definitive site about water and health, including Tony Robbins interviews Dr. Batmanghelidj.
"You're not sick; you're thirsty. Don't treat thirst with medication." Dr. F. Batmanghelidj
http://www.watercure.com/
UNESCO " The state of human health is inextricably linked to a range of water-related conditions: safe drinking water, adequate sanitation, minimized burden of water-related disease and healthy freshwater ecosystems. Urgent improvements in the ways in which water use and sanitation are managed are needed to improve progress towards meeting the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) related to human health."
http://www.unesco.org/.../basic_needs.shtml
VIVA "The production of meat is an inefficient use of such a vital limited resource. It takes 1000 litres of water to produce one kilogram of wheat, yet it takes 100,000 litres of water to produce one kilogram of beef (27). The University of California studied water use in their state, where most agricultural land is irrigated, and said it uses between 20 to 30 gallons of water to produce vegetables such as tomatoes, potatoes and carrots to create an edible pound of food. It takes 441 gallons of water to make a pound of beef (28)."
http://www.viva.org.uk/guides/planetonaplate.htm

water

ice

ice (made from water)