Tag: bottled-water

  • 12 Brands Of Bottled Water Full Of TOXIC Fluoride

    Just how badly is fluoride really affecting our health? Is it really as bad as everyone thinks? Recent studies have shown that fluoride is terrible for our health, high levels of fluoride have been shown to cause neurotoxicity in adults which causes negative impacts on the brain when it comes to learning and memory. It has also been found by the Harvard School of Public Health and China Medical University in Shenyang that fluoride negatively affects the cognitive development in children.At least seventy percent of the United States water supplies are fluoridated meaning this could be happening on a widespread scale.
    All water treatment chemicals, with the exception of fluoride, are added to make drinking water safe and pleasant to consume. Fluoride is the only chemical added to treat people who consume the water, rather than the water itself. Fluoridating water supplies can thus fairly be described as a form of mass medication, which is why most European countries have rejected the practice.

    For many years people thought fluoride was able to prevent tooth decay, but there is no significant evidence that can link the two. Fluoride can actually be detrimental to oral health. Recent large-scale studies from the United States have found little practical or statistical difference in tooth decay rates among children living in fluoridated versus non-fluoridated areas. In addition, data complied by the World Health Organization (WHO) shows that tooth decay rates have declined just as rapidly in non-fluoridated western countries as they have in fluoridated western countries. Read more. 

    Fluoride is added to 37% of Idaho’s public water supply. SIGN THE PETITION TO ELIMINATE TOXIC FLUORIDE FROM PUBLIC WATER SYSTEMS IN IDAHO

    Many people have bought the marketing that bottled water is healthier. Unfortunately, they are paying higher prices for a bottle of water filled with health damaging fluoride. The main chemicals used to fluoridate drinking water are known as “silicofluorides” (i.e., hydrofluorosilicic acid and sodium fluorosilicate). Silicofluorides are not pharmaceutical-grade fluoride products; they are unprocessed industrial by-products of the phosphate fertilizer industry. 

    REDUCE YOUR FLUORIDE EXPOSURE 
    AVOID THESE FLUORIDE TAINTED BOTTLED WATER:

    • Arrowhead
    • Crystal Rock
    • Crystal Springs
    • Belmont Springs
    • Deer Park
    • Diamond Springs
    • Ice Mountain
    • Mount Olympus
    • Zephyrhills
    • Ozarka
    • Poland Springs
    • Sierra Springs

    For a full list click here, yes there are many more.

    Still feel a need to grab a bottle of water?
    Here is a list of fluoride-safe bottled water brands:

    • Black Berry Farms
    • Cascade
    • Arbor Springs
    • Aqua Pure
    • Blue Ice Natural Mineral Water
    • Century Springs
    • Deja Blue
    • Dannon
    • Clear Mountain Spring Water
    • Crystal Spring Natural Spring Water
    • Eureka
    • Evian
    • Flowing Springs
    • Fresh Market
    • Glacier Bay
    • Hidden Valley Natural Mineral Water
    • Mountain Valley Spring Water
    • Oasis Pure Drinking Water
    • Polaris Water
    • Smart Water

    Learn more about the health dangers of fluoride: 

    SIGN THE PETITION TO ELIMINATE TOXIC FLUORIDE FROM PUBLIC WATER SYSTEMS IN IDAHO

  • The World’s Biggest Bottled Water Brand Admits: “It’s Just Tap Water”

    Aquafina. Processed tap water in a plastic bottle. You are paying $7.50 a gallon for water that doesn’t have to be tested for contaminants as often as tap water. 

    The world’s biggest bottled water brand has been forced to admit that their water comes from the exact same source as your tap water.

    USA Today reports Aquafina has changed its labels to specify P.W.S. — Public Water Source — under pressure from Accountability International.

    The company said it was reasonable to make people understand that they were paying for water that is easily available in their bathroom sink.

    Of course, Aquafina is filtered and purified, but it’s certainly not mountain spring water. It’s just processed tap water — the same stuff that you can find in your kitchen sink.

    As ConvergEx Group Chief Market Strategist Nick Colas stated in an interview with Business Insider:

    “The [bottled water] industry grossed a total of $11.8 billion on those 9.7 billion gallons in 2012, making bottled water about $1.22/gallon nationwide and 300x the cost of a gallon of tap water,” Colas says. 

    “If we take into account the fact that almost 2/3 of all bottled water sales are single 16.9oz (500 mL) bottles, though, this cost is much, much higher: about $7.50 per gallon,” according to the American Water Works Association. 

    That’s almost 2,000x the cost of a gallon of tap water and twice the cost of a gallon of regular gasoline.

    According to the Beverage Marketing Association, a trade group, nearly 50% of all bottled water sold in the U.S. is just tap water that’s been purified.

    Unfortunately, bottled water is often just as bad, or even worse, than tap water in the United States and elsewhere.

    For instance, the EPA requires large public water suppliers to test for contaminants as often as several times a day, but the FDA requires private bottlers to test for contaminants only once a week, once a year, or once every four years, depending on the contaminant.

    Have you seen the new EWG.org files about the quality of our tap water? https://www.ewg.org/tapwater/#.WY-u6lF96Uk

     

    Ouch!

    If you want to save yourself a whole bunch of money – and cut down on plastic water bottles! – just filter your tap water yourself. You can easily find a good filter for the price of not so many of those plastic bottles.

    Sources

    http://www.consumerreports.org/cro/magazine/2012/07/do-you-know-where-your-bottled-water-comes-from/index.htm

    ABCNews

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