The Water Bottle Deception Surprisingly, the consumers are opting for bottled water over tap water, instead of the bottled water sales having come from declining purchase in soft drinks. This supports the notion that consumers prefer bottled water because of taste, convenience and perceived dangers associated with regular tap drinking water. Depending on where you live, tap water is likely not doing you more harm than bottled water. Many reports have found that there was almost no difference between the two at all. And despite the popular belief that tap water is inferior, supported for instance by grounded fears about chlorine use, bottled water has been found to contain thousands of chemicals, including endocrine disruptors. These chemicals mimic molecules that are normally used in cell signaling, and confuse your cells by giving them false information. In one study, tests were conducted on 18 different bottled water products to look for the presence of endocrine-disrupting chemicals (EDCs). The team identified roughly 24,520 different chemicals present in the tested water, by using an advanced combination of bioassay work and high-resolution mass spectrometry. Shockingly, 16 of the 18 samples were found to inhibit the body’s androgen receptors by 90 percent. Read more: wakeupcallnews.blogspot/2013/10/the-water-bottle-deception.html
Posted on: Tue, 01 Oct 2013 18:23:28 +0000