i surely don't'
I have written on this many times in my columns - and I choose to live where I have my own sweet well water. If anywhere else, I get spring water - NOT just bottled water.
Did you know that most of the expensive bottled waters, like Pepsi's Aquafina and Coke's Dasani - "purified" water, is nothing but big city tap water? From cities like LA, Denver, Jacksonville.
If it doesn't list the source as spring water on the bottle , it's city tap water.
Want to read some more labels?
Just about all sodas and candies and anything we think of that used to have sugar in them now have, instead, high frutose corn syrup. Sounds safe? NOT. it's pure poison. Research it. Not only is it dangerous to your health, is puts on more pounds than sugar.
And then there's the problem with ANY carbonated drink..with reported studies linking them to loss of bone density - which can result in osteoporosis. (I learned the hard way. I was a "coke-a-holic" for years - and one day, I was 'attacked' with excruciating pain = two vertebrae had suddenly fractured: osteoporosis. I went cold turkey on the cola - )
We simply have to be our own physicians for the most part. And we are fortunate with the plethora of information now in print and on the net.
You sir, and a bit out there.
HFCS, is the made of the same stuff as regular sugar. It is a mix of sucrose, fructose, and a bunch of other sugars. Corn syrup has a lot more fructose than sucrose, and tastes a bit different.
I have seen both being made, and neither is very “natural”.
You've got that right. That's probably why the FDA wants to "regulate"(ban?" herbal and other homeopathic remedies.
As for the fluoride problem, I read an article about how fluoride can diminish your thyroid gland function. We have water from an underground aquifier, but the drought is affecting the quality of that water. I don't know if it is fluoridated, but I should find out. I have to take thryroid meds.
Speaking of soda, I kicked my 2 liter bottle a day habit of Diet Coke last year. There is a thread here that outlines the dangers of the preservative commonly used in such products. It messes up your liver, especially if you're taking Vitamin C along with it. Like products containing acetamenophine(sp) :(
All those artifical sweetners will probably bite us all soon, as well.
I'm looking to get an inexpensive water filter for the shower heads and the kitchen faucet. We rent, so I'm not buying an RO device. I'm just so tired of lugging home bottles and bottles of spring/distilled water.
Hope your back problem is under control. Back problems are the pits. Oh yeah, they put that bloody Tylenol in the codeine. The codeine doesn't destroy your liver, but the Tylenol will build up and poison you.