Bottled water - better than tap water?
January 3, 2008 by Elaine
Filed under Cancers, DNA, General Genetics and Health, Genetics Blogging
(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
