How many of you reading this blog buy bottled water on a regular basis? If so, you're wasting your money.
According to Time's Wellness site, a recent study of different populations, made up approximately of one-third Caucasian, one-third Latino and one-third African-American, showed surprisingly that the Latino and African-American parents were much more likely to give their kids bottled water to drink, exclusively or almost so, reasoning that bottled water is better than tap water.
In fact, according to a National Resources Defense Council investigation, 17% of bottled water had unsafe levels of bacteria, and 22% were contaminated with such chemicals as arsenic and would not pass many state standards.
An interesting aside to this involves the demonstrated fact that about 25% of bottled waters actually contain nothing but tap water, despite what the labels say. (Whatever happened to "truth in advertising?")
Yeah, I know: bottled waters are just so convenient. But save your money and do what I do: take an empty plastic drink bottle and fill it with tap water. It's cheaper, probably safer and is ecologically more friendly. One bottle will last a long time. Now how hard is filling up some bottles at your sink and keeping them in the fridge until you're ready for them? No harder than picking up a case at the store, carrying it out to the car and then carrying it into the house! Think about it, folks.
You can read the full story at http://www.healthland.time.com/2011/06/07/study-the-perils-of-a-heavy-bottled-water-habit/#ixzz1P0m2Cl6v
Saturday, June 11, 2011
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