Leo Galland
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 The quality of bottled water is completely unregulated. Some bottled water comes from municipal water supplies. To discover the source of any bottled water, call the bottler and request documentation about the nature and purity of the source. bottled water that comes from municipal water supplies or lakes should be treated by reverse osmosis before being bottled, if it is to be considered safe.
Avoid using ice unless you feel secure about the purity of the water from which it was made. Remember that automatic ice-makers use un-filtered tapwater. |
Jonathan V. Wright, M.D. and Alan R. Gaby, M.D.
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 What about bottled water?"
"If you can get a certificate of analysis from the company. Not all bottled waters are the best quality. Speaking of that . . . I'm glad you're visiting natural-food stores more. They have a greater percentage of healthful food than regular supermarkets, but it's not all good for us. Let me see . . . you mentioned yogurt, ice cream, and 'energy bars'. It's true that natural-food-store versions are safer . . . usually less chemicals, but cow's milk products of any sort aren't such a good idea. Decades ago, a Dr. |
Leo Galland
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| The quality of bottled water is completely unregulated. Some bottled water comes from municipal water supplies. To discover the source of any bottled water, call the bottler and request documentation about the nature and purity of the source. bottled water that comes from municipal water supplies or lakes should be treated by reverse osmosis before being bottled, if it is to be considered safe.
Avoid using ice unless you feel secure about the purity of the water from which it was made. Remember that automatic ice-makers use un-filtered tapwater. |
Dr. Edward F. Group III, DC, ND, DACBN
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| You might be saying, "I drink bottled water, so I don't need to read this section."
• What about the toxic water the cows, pigs, fish, or chickens drink that ends up in the meat you eventually eat?
• What about the water used to grow the vegetables and fruit you enjoy each day?
• What about the water you use to wash your dishes, clothes, towels, and bedding?
• What about the water you swim in or bathe in?
All of these sources and more can expose you to toxic chemicals in water! |
| When buying bottled water, make sure it is packaged in glass whenever possible.
Cleanse your colon regularly to prevent the build up of arsenic, fluoride, chlorine, and other water toxins. (See Chapter 5—The Oxygen Colon Cleanse).
Test your water source for arsenic. The PurTest® Arsenic Test is a simple home screening kit for checking water levels for this heavy metal.
Eat foods that naturally provide sulphur such as garlic, eggs, and onions. Sulphur helps remove arsenic from the body.
• See also "Water Purification" in the Resources. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 This idea that consumers should not be informed their high-priced bottled water is really just filtered tap water is consistent with the aims of food, drug and beverage corporations, who almost universally agree that consumers should be given less information, not more, about the products they're swallowing. Over the last several decades, corporations have vigorously opposed truth in labeling laws and regulations, including those requiring the labeling of trans fatty acids, sodium content and even ingredients lists! |
KC Craichy
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 Choose a bottled water that is high in pH, such as Trinity, Penta, or Fiji, as this significantly reduces the likeliness of leaching plastic into the water.
¦ PET or PETE bottles are generally considered the safest single-use plastic bottle choice. PET (polyethylene terephthalate) is brighter than PVC plastic, very transparent, and almost looks like glass. Easy to recycle and remanufacture, this type of plastic is accepted by most curbside recycling programs. |
| It can save potentially thousands of dollars a year on bottled water costs, and you have the comfort and confidence of knowing the water that you and your family drink is safe. If you are on a budget, you can begin by getting one sink system that filters your drinking water and as many shower head filters as you can afford. Your skin drinks water too.
¦ The Wellness Filter®. Developed over 25 years ago in Japan by Haru Naito, a famous physiologist, this filter combines purification and enhancement technologies to produce a purified and enriched water. |
Joseph E. Mario
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 Tapwater measures +400 in the oxidizing range of the oxidation/reduction scale, bottled water measures +200. Microwater pH is adjustable from 3 to 10 pH/ supercharged Alkal ine Water with Calcium, Magnesium, Sodium and Potassium concentrates; the electrolysis can add an electron polarizing reduced, energized, absorbable Alkaline Water that measures -250 to -350 mv. |
Ray Dodd
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 Energy drinks containing large doses of caffeine and herbal stimulants like ephedrine, guarana, and ginseng have overtaken bottled water as the fastest-growing sellers in the beverage business. The Starbucks Corporation, which sells coffee drinks, started as a local coffee shop in Pike Place Market on the waterfront in Seattle, Washington. Just 13 years after going public, it has more than 6,300 locations in 30 countries (yes, there is one on every other corner!) with annual revenues of $5.6 billion and climbing. |
KC Craichy
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| A major shift to bottled water as a means of combating tap water contaminants raises serious equity issues for lower income individuals and families. In addition, the manufacturing and shipping of billions of bottles cause unnecessary energy and petroleum consumption, leading to landfilling or incineration of bottles, which can release environmental toxins.26
Remember, all plastics break down under extreme conditions. It is a good idea never to subject plastic containers to high temperatures (as found in storage, microwave, or dishwasher situations). |
Phyllis A. Balch, CNC
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 Use bottled water when you brush your teeth. Diarrhea is common when traveling in other countries, so it may be advisable to take certain preparations with you. Lactobacillus GG, a type of probiotic, is a natural alternative to both antibiotics or bismuth subsalicylate (Pepto-Bismol).
Q Chronic diarrhea in very young children is evident if the child has five or more watery stools a day. A baby with diarrhea can become dehydrated very quickly and should be evaluated by a health care provider. |
KC Craichy
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| Below is a list of products I've researched and now recommend as healthy and relatively safe bottled water choices:
¦ Mountain Valley Spring Water® (glass bottle)—water originates at a protected natural spring in Hot Springs, Arkansas. The natural unique mineral content of this water has remained constant over the last 60 years. It contains calcium, magnesium, sodium, potassium, fluoride, iron, zinc, and a pH of 7.7. This is available in five-gallon glass bottles for water dispensers. www.mountainvalleyspring. |
Linda Mason Hunter
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 Though bottled water is required by law to meet the same standards as tap water, the federal government doesn't require that bottled water be tested, nor does the government monitor this water.
If you choose to substitute bottled water for tap water, check with the bottler to find out where the water comes from and what minerals, chemicals, and bacteria may be in it. Buy your water in glass bottles, not plastic. The best kind to buy is distilled spring water, although it will have only trace amounts of the healthful minerals in it. |
Elson M. Haas, M.D.
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 Americans drink about thirteen billion liters of bottled water a year. A 2000 report conducted by Yankelovich Partners of the Rockefeller University discovered that 2.3 eight-ounce servings of the total 6.1 servings of water that are consumed daily per person are bottled water in the United States.
And just as with water intake, coffee consumption is on the rise. Social events increasingly include fashionable coffee beverages such as espresso, cappuccino, and lattes. |
Gabriel Cousens, M.D.
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 Natural Resources Defense Council), this may not be as good a choice as the bottled water label suggests. Carbon-filtered water may vary from marginal to excellent.
Reverse osmosis filtering is good; it doesn't necessarily get all the TDS out or destroy the toxic patterns in the water, as does distilling, but bringing the reverse-osmosis-filtered water TDS level down to 200 makes it second best to mature distilled water. A TDS of 100 is good and 50 is excellent. It will optimize the health quality of the water. |
Mark Hyman, M.D.
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 You should also investigate the quality of your bottled water. For more information, read what water expert Dr. Mel Suffet, professor in the Environmental Science and Engineering Program at UCLA, has to say at www.ioe.ucla.edu/publications/report01/ BottledWater.htm.
• Avoid drinking bottled water stored in a cloudy plastic container; the plastics leach into the water, especially when stored in hot conditions.
• Ask your local public health department for a reference lab in your area that assesses water quality—it's part of their job to oblige. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 An elderly woman was seen handing out bottled water on the Interstate. A bar patron adopted an abandoned dog and named her "Katrina."
It's a scene of everyday Americans doing the right thing: truck drivers, firefighters, bartenders, teachers, and of course cops and firefighters. Most days, there's an abundance of heroism bundled up in the American people, and it only took the appearance of a natural disaster to unleash it. Personally, I'm just happy to be in a country where even if the government is incompetent, the people can collectively rig up solutions to almost anything. |
Antoinette Saville and Antony J. Haynes
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 We were advised that bottled water was a must, even for brushing our teeth.
Filarial worms, hookworms, whipworms, pinworms, flatworms, and ameba affect more than two billion people around the world, not just confined to the developing world, causing a long list of afflictions ranging from elephantitis to blindness and serious intestinal problems. They are also potentially one of the biggest causes of food intolerance.
It matters not whether you are rich or poor. Parasites attack all socio-economic groups, including movie stars and the families of reputable cardiac surgeons. |
Linda Mason Hunter
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| Having water hauled in, getting water from a neighbor, or buying bottled water are options that should always be considered temporary solutions.
BOTTLED WATER In many cases water you buy in a bottle isn't any better than what comes out of the faucet. There's nothing to prevent bottlers from bottling and selling plain old tap water. The seltzer you buy in the grocery store is generally just tap water that's been filtered and carbonated. bottled water mostly comes from underground and is subject to the same contamination other groundwater is. |
Kevin Trudeau
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 What bottled water do you think is good and you drink?" or "What type of air filter is in your house?" or have you heard of this product or that product, or this doctor or that doctor, or this treatment or this technique, and what are your opinions Kevin? Well, I was always under the impression that living in America, sharing opinions between two individual people would not be a violation of any law. |
Dr. Paula Baillie-Hamilton
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 If you use bottled water, buy it in a glass bottle in preference to a plastic one. If you can, install a household waterfilterto reduce the chemicals absorbed through the skin during baths and showers. |
| Beverages
Drink at least eight large glasses (225 milliliters) of freshly filtered or bottled water a day. As well as keeping you well hydrated, drinking plenty of water will also help flush away unwanted chemicals. To aid detoxification even more, drink mineral water and flavor it with lemon or lime juice. Caffeinated coffee or tea should be avoided on the seven-day detox, while coffee substitutes, herbal teas, and filtered water can be drunk freely. Drinks or other products using artificial sweeteners should be avoided. |
Michele Simon
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 Adult Happy Meal" component, which included a "premium salad," bottled water, and a pedometer. Other "highlights" of the plan included how McDonald's promised to take an "industry-leading role" in working with HHS to determine the best way to "communicate" nutrition information to consumers. (Are the folks who invented the Big Mac really the best candidates for this job?)
An important concept in brand marketing is the "halo effect," which is the generalization of a positive feeling about a brand from one good trait. |
| Instead, vending machines will be expected to provide fresh fruit, milk, bottled water, and fruit juice. She declared that "the scandal of junk food served every day in school canteens must end."33 Oliver is apparently setting his sights next on overhauling school food in the United States. We could use him.
Can We Get Out of This Mess?
No matter how hard the soda and junk food companies try to position themselves as being part of the solution, the truth is they care more about the health of their own bottom lines than that of children. |
| Also, what about the ethics of selling bottled water to children in poor inner-city schools? Why can't we invest in fixing water fountains so that all children can have free access to an essential human need?
The trouble with any solution short of doing away with school vending machines altogether is that we will remain mired in endless debate over what constitutes good nutrition. At the same time, as long we allow the same food and beverage companies to remain in schools, they will just develop new "approved" products to brand kids with. Or new rules will be ignored altogether. |
Jack Challem
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 You can improve the taste of filtered or bottled water by refrigerating it and by adding a wedge of lemon or lime when you serve it.
European brands of sparkling mineral water, again with a wedge of lemon or lime, make a sensible beverage with lunch or dinner. Perrier, San Pellegrino, and Gerolsteiner are among the best-known brands. They have subtle variations in flavor, resulting from differences in their mineral content. And this mineral content points to the nutritional bonus of such waters: they provide substantial amounts of calcium and magnesium. |
Kelly Harford, M.C., C.N.C.
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 Why don't you guys just get a bottled water service and put a couple of dispensers in the fitness rooms?" I asked. "Seems like it would be a lot easier and healthier."
"Well, umm," the coordinator began hesitantly, "we have a contract with Coke that prohibits us from having water dispensers. Since the patrons are always complaining, this is my little way of skirting around it."
I was speechless. |
Phyllis A. Balch, CNC
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| The FDA regulations for bottled water allow for the various terms that have been defined to be used with one another
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Kevin Trudeau
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| They had no bottled water and I had an iced tea. The water that the iced tea was made in was probably full of chlorine and fluoride. What can you do? The question is was my meal good? No. But was it better than a meal at McDonald's, Wendy's, Pizza Hut, or Taco Bell? Yes. Sometimes, you have to say which is my best option? Sometimes, you aren't dealing with right or wrong, yes or no, but you're dealing with good, better, and best; and sometimes you're dealing with what's the best of the worst! |
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