Bottled water - better than tap water?
(Photo courtesy of Jim Mills)
Scott at b5’s Health and Men has written a great article on bottled water and the recycling debate. I would like to add my views on bottled water from a genetics perspective.
I drink bottled water quite regularly but each time I ask the question …why? It’s often over 2 years old with another year to go before the sell-by date expires. Now would you drink 2-3 year old water? Another factor which really concerns me is that over this time the water has been surrounded by plastic - with all those carcinogens leaching into it waiting to play ‘rearrange my DNA’…. not a pleasant thought!
Now I try and fill my plastic bottle with tap water - a lot cheaper, fresher and hopefully a tadge more healthy as well! But then there is the whole debate of what is added to tap water in the name of health and welfare …..
Just as a post script, the best ‘natural’ water I have ever tasted comes from an underground spring in the wilds of the Northumberland in the North of England - nothing added or taken away, pure nectar!
Elaine Warburton
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