Mineral Water and Plastic Bottles (Toxic Chemicals)

[THEV1LL4N]

So I'm one of those people that (and I'm sure a number of you) re-use mineral water bottles to refill them with tap water. I've heard of this before, but i've only just read this article on it. What's your take on the leaching of these chemicals?

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-379624/The-poison-lurking-plastic-water-bottle.html

Has this affected you in any way? I wonder why I'm so bloody depressed at times lol. Could make sense since i re-fill every day for uni with out fail. I do drink a lot of tap water from a glass (morning, evenings and night), so i dont know if that will dilute the chemicals or make any difference at all.

Is this one of those things that the media is trying to induce fear with (similar to swine flu)...

 

[vg4030]

I do this all the time and my breasts have never looked better

 

[Jokerman]

(We have a new health forum for threads like this.)

Sure this is a problem. Plastic is toxic. Antimony trioxide is a suspected carcinogen and listed as a priority pollutant by the US Environmental Protection Agency. However, no studies have been done on people to say how much will definitely cause problems. We're exposed to any of 80,000 man-made chemicals on a daily basis. Most of them have not been tested for their effects on humans by themselves, let alone in combination with all the other ones. Antimony is just one more that we shouldn't be exposed to.

Use a steel water bottle to hold your liquids, like the ones here:

http://www.kleankanteen.com/

 

[THEV1LL4N]

of course there are always multiple linkages to x, y and z conditions and diseases... just wondering about the severity. i do sometimes get a stick feeling in my stomach after drinking from a bottle... a feeling I don't get whenever I drink water from home (since i use a pint glass for my water when at home).

 

[Casey]

I can't do it. I'm sensitive to stuff like that. I tried re-using a water bottle a few months ago for the first time in years.... after a couple of days I could tell something wasn't right. I just drink water from a glass.

 

[THEV1LL4N]

i think im so desensitised to it that i cant even tell any more. i've been re-using bottles and refilling them with tap water since like 4 years old. that's been pretty much my whole life. i keep them for months before changing them (because i look after my stuff). i have a place where i keep it before i use it again.

i wonder if it has any effect on cognition... hopefully, there'll be more info released on this very soon.

 

[Jokerman]

Why would you re-use plastic bottles, and why would you drink tap water? Tap water has more chemicals in it than plastic bottles. And batteries.

 

[masta247]

I never drink tap water. Whenever I buy drinks I usually pick glass bottles but I have to confess to drinking mineral water from plastic bottles and soft drinks from aluminium cans. They are probably much more toxic.

 

[S O F I]

Why would you re-use plastic bottles, and why would you drink tap water? Tap water has more chemicals in it than plastic bottles. And batteries.

I thought studies showed that store-bought water was no safer than tap water. So fuck an an Aquafina.

 

[Pittsey]

I don't drink water. Water is for wimps. Use your brains, drink Vodka.

 

[Da_Funk]

I thought studies showed that store-bought water was no safer than tap water. So fuck an an Aquafina.

I think he was implying you should be using a Brita water filter, or get a fridge with a water filter. Which I couldn't agree more with.

 

[Pittsey]

^^

I tried a Brita water filter. Still tastes different to bottled water.

 

[THEV1LL4N]

you do get used to filtered water. we had a brita filtered one some years ago.. was okay, but the tap water tasted better.

in my opinion the tap water in my area tastes very nice. and the fluoride is good for the teeth which is why i drink it.

 

[Pittsey]

I don't agree with adding Fluoride to water. I clean my teeth with a pronamel tooth paste. I don't need it.

 

[Jokerman]

Fluoride is a toxic poison. You are drinking unprocessed, industrial waste-product of the phosphate fertilizer industry. Many times worse than antimony.

http://fluoridealert.org/fan.2010.review.html

 

[Pittsey]

^^

Which is why I thought we didn't add it in the UK. We definitely don't in my area.

 

[Bobby Sands]

Why would you re-use plastic bottles, and why would you drink tap water? Tap water has more chemicals in it than plastic bottles. And batteries.

you really are a doom merchant lol

 

[THEV1LL4N]

for goodness sake. there's no escaping it. i LOVE water and drink plentiful amounts a day... so it annoys me.

 

[masta247]

Lol. It's true that fluoride is terrible for your health though. It gets accumulated in bones too, that's why it makes your teeth "healthier". It doesn't make them healthier really, just harder.
Actually you have a toxic byproduct of aluminum production on your teeth that makes it harder for bacteria and acids to create new cavities.
And drinking it does no good to you at all. Adding it to tap water serves no positive purpose other than getting rid of a toxic waste in an easy way. It's like eating lead to make your bones harder, or small amounts of plutonium because you'd like your skin to look younger.
There's also chlorine in most tap water. Here we have it too. Already two reasons to avoid tap water. And there's a lot more of bad stuff in it.

 

[Jokerman]

Just drink Yoo-Hoo.