
Healthy Eating Support Group
This community is a forum for people who are determined to improve their eating habits for health, personal wellness and other reasons. What you eat can have a dramatic impact on your life expectancy, your mood, your physical and mental well-being and much more. Share your experience eating healthy, get advice and find others who have similar goals.
Aquafina is good, but don't place too much importance in all the fluffy and expensive waters because the majority of them are no better than regular tap water.
DO keep drinking your water though.
It is funny my husband made me do a taste test. Blindfolded and I drank store brand water, Aquafina and Dasani. I picked the store brand one as Dasani. Hmm cheaper option
I live in Maine, so I prefer Poland Spring... local! Other than that, I like Fiji, I just can't reconcile myself to the amount of energy it takes to get water all the way around the globe to my stomach.
Thanks again very much, and enjoy your weekend!
http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/local/312412_botwaterweb.html
"One of the simplest things folks can do to reduce their "energy footprint," he said, is to drink tap water rather than buy bottled water. If you don't like the taste, he said, buy a filter."
"More than 8 billion gallons of bottled water is consumed annually in the U.S. -- an 8-ounce glass per person per day -- representing $11 billion in sales. The Earth Policy Institute estimated that to make the plastic for the bottles burns up something like 1.5 million barrels of oil, enough to power 100,000 cars for a year. Nearly 90 percent of the bottles are not recycled."
"According to a 2001 report of the World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF), roughly 1.5 million tons of plastic are expended in the bottling of 89 billion liters of water each year."
I'm betting the author of that report has done more then his share of polluting the water supply.
Just in case you're wondering, I don't drive anymore, and my cleaning supplies are purchased from the health food store for minimal environmental impact. In addition, anyone out there still using disposable diapers - stop it. Yeah, sure, right folks? How many of you are going to give THAT up for the sake of your children's future?