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What this infographic fails to mention is that almost all the bottled water starting its life as municipal water has been filtered via reverse osmosis, and proc
by teilo 16y ago
What this infographic fails to mention is that almost all the bottled water starting its life as municipal water has been filtered via reverse osmosis, and processed via UV and ozone during the bottling.
What does this gain you? The main advantage is that you remove the fluoride. America is insane for fluoridating her water supply. Intentionally adding poison to the water, using dental care as the excuse. Sorry, but medicating the entire population is just stupid. There is no way to monitor dosage.
- tedkimble 16y agoThankfully my municipality does allow me to monitor dosage: http://www.city.milwaukee.gov/water/about/WaterQuality.htm http://www.city.milwaukee.gov/water/about/WaterQuality.htm For 2009, the highest fluoride levels were 2.06 mg/L and the median level was 0.77 mg/L. So there's at least one data point.
- sosuke 16y agoI have family that doesn't live in a large or even a medium sized town, their water tastes terrible, you put a filter on it (PUR, Brita) and it still tastes bad. They almost have to buy bottled water for drinking. Not everyone lives in a city with good water treatment facilities. That alone is reason for them to buy bottled water but I'll add your fluoride facts to my conversations in the future.
- evgen 16y agoAnything is poisonous/toxic given the right conditions and dosage. Under the right conditions I can kill you using pure O2. The only thing that is "stupid" is clinging to silly good chemical/bad chemical dichotomies without taking context and dosage into consideration. Low-dosage flouride in a water supply has been shown over and over again in epidemiological studies to reduce the incidence of oral cavities from 15-40%. There have been no reputable studies to show that there are dangers to this low dose.
- JshWright 16y agoPlease elaborate on how you would make pure O2 toxic...
- wooster 16y agohttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oxygen_toxicity http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oxygen_toxicity
- teilo 16y agoDosage is exactly my point. Dosage is cumulative. Those studies do not correlate the dosage of water to the fluoride people receive from other sources, such as their food. Nor do they measure the concentrating effect that the use of fluoridated water in the production of various food-stuffs has on the end product. This is a big "?" that no one wants to address.
- nostromo 16y agoNote to lobbyists, creating this kind of a website only makes you look guilty: http://www.fluorideworks.org/ http://www.fluorideworks.org/