Posted on 03/15/2018 9:33:14 AM PDT by Signalman
You’ve been told to drink more water more times than you can count. Heck, more than half of Americans drink bottled water and one-third of us suck it down on a regular basis, as the Chicago Tribune noted. Chugging water has become the staple of the trying-to-be-healthy lifestyle.
But you might want to rethink the plastic bottle you’ve been lugging around wherever you go. As the BBC reports, an alarming new study has shown that many bottles of water, which the $4 billion industry has marketed to us as clean and pure, may actually be chock full of microplastics. So just how safe is that bottled water?
In the largest investigation of its kind, 250 bottles bought in nine different countries were examined, the Telegraph notes. Researchers found nearly all of them contained tiny particles of plastic. There were typically 10 plastic particles per liter of bottled water, and each particle was larger than the width of a human hair. Yuck.
Led by the non-profit journalism organization Orb Media and conducted at the State University of New York in Fredonia, the study tested brands such as Aquafina, Dasani, Evian, Nestle Pure Life and San Pellegrino.
Sherri Mason, a professor of chemistry at the university, ran the analysis. As she told BBC News: “We found [plastic] in bottle after bottle and brand after brand.”
“It’s not about pointing fingers at particular brands,” she says. “It’s really showing that this is everywhere, that plastic has become such a pervasive material in our society, and it’s pervading water — all of these products that we consume at a very basic level.”
It should be noted that there is no hard evidence that consuming very small pieces of microplastic is harmful to your health but it remains an issue of concern.
(Excerpt) Read more at mercurynews.com ...
Tap water is OK, although many will filter it too. It varies according to municipalities standards.
Bottled water in plastic has plastic micro-particles which leak into the liquid.
The longer the liquid has been in a plastic bottle, the more micro-particles it has.
The micro-particles mimic estrogen, thus confusing the body's natural chemistry, and affecting fertility.
That is why the male fertility rate is rapidly declining in the U.S.
Better to drink from glass, or other container, other than any plastic container.
Most beer, wine, and liquors are bottled in glass, although many are bottled in plastic to reduce weight in transport.
I never thought that drinking beer from a glass bottle would become a positive health issue,
but I am willing to try (!). For those of us who regularly drink beer, especially 'craft beer', we now have an excuse for why we have so many children,
and to think that we used to blame snow storms, Catholicism and 'the Irish'.
Just in time for St Patrick's Day, no less !!
I never buy water. I drink it from a glass from my tap, or from drinking water fountains.
What will they think of next?
For all of your information, I am going to die, sometime.
So what. It goes in, goes out.
I deeply despise the concept of bottled water. There’s a reason God made our bodies the way He did. We’re supposed to be able to fight off stuff to build our immune systems. By demanding excess purity, we become sicker.
I’ll bet I haven’t drank more than 50 water bottles in my life. We’ve gotten some on occasion for use on a trip or in rare instances when no tap or well was available.
A few years ago, I took a group of boys to a scout camp. One of the mommies insisted on sending cases of bottled water because little precious didn’t like the taste of well water.
I refused. Let junior drink from the well. That taste is called minerals and it’s good for you.
In backcountry, I filter creek water. I once drank straight from Lake Superior. Cold and tasty.
1st thing i thought of.
Well, I’ll be darned!
I don't really notice plastic when drinking sodas, but I never drink coffee out of plastic, like those travel mugs. I can't seem to taste coffee when it's in a plastic container. There are metal travel mugs with plastic inserts which also suck. My travel mug is all metal. Don't know if they even make them any more.
I often wonder if the number of gay men we are now dealing with is a result of the amount of estrogen in the water supply.
On a personal note: I cannot stand the taste of tap water anymore. It leaves a metallic taste in my mouth for a long time after I drink it.
On the rare occasion I make a pot of pasta; as I stand by the sink filling a large pot with tap water, I can smell the chemicals in that water. I feel like I am cooking my pasta in water from a swimming pool. Yuck.
We have a good well. No chemicals uphill.
Monk! Just watched all 8 seasons Sept-Dec last year.
Such a great character.
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