Is bottled water better than tap?
"Americans are spending Billions on a drink that is virtually free."
John Stossel reports!
http://abcnews.go.com/2020/Health/story?id=728070
Here is what I got out of this online report:
Many americans claim that they drink bottled water because it tastes better, but what if they filled up a glass of tap water and popped in a few ice cubes? Would it taste the same? 5 brands of bottled water were compared to a sample of tap water from a drinking fountian right smack dab in the middle of New York City. Surprise! There wasnt a single difference, yet Americans are paying 500 times more for their brand name water to be put into a bottle. Did you know that Everest water in fact ISNT transported all the way from Everest? Nope! It's from the oh so refreshing Chorpus Christi, Texas. And Glacier clear water isnt from a glacier in Alaska but is simply tap water that got put into a bottle that fooled millions of Americans into believeing it was "fresher" than the tap. More popular dasani and aquafinas' sources are from scattered cities around the world. A few people off of the streets of New York (Bottled drinkers) were asked to taste samples of 5 different bottled water companies and tap, without knowing which was which. Most of the people liked tap water when they were the ones who claimed tap is "dull and flat." They were asked to rate the water with a good, average, or bad. The K-mart brand or bottled water came in 1st place, Aquifina in 2nd, Iceland Spring and tap tied for 3rd, 5th place, Poland springs bottled water, and in last place, by far, was the chic, overpriced french water; Evian. In conclusion, test after test has showed that bottled water is of equal level on the health scale. And if you are purchasing trendy bottled water such as Evian, you're probably just believeing the social hype, and wasting your money.
Monday, October 8, 2007
Subscribe to:
Post Comments (Atom)
No comments:
Post a Comment