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In just one more reason to use a reusable water bottle news, tap water is heather for your child’s teeth than bottle water. Tooth decay in children is on the rise, not the decline, and one reason could be bottled water. A survey last year by Children’s Hospital Boston found that around 63% of families with young children drink nothing but bottled water. Few bottled waters contain adequate amounts of fluoride which sucks since fluoride strengthens teeth and prevents tooth decay.
Tap water on the other hand (in most cities), does contain fluoride. In addition, many water filters – or home water purification systems remove fluoride from tap water. Note: charcoal filters, such as Brita and Pur, do not remove fluoride.
For over five decades, the American Dental Association (ADA) has continuously suggested that community water supplies should contain fluoride and that the use of fluoride-containing products are safe and effective measures for preventing tooth decay. The ADA further agrees with the Children’s Hospital Boston – bottled water is a less healthy choice than tap.
All of this adds up to a fairly major health issue. You’ve got bottled water without fluoride which does nothing to prevent cavities along with the insane non-recycling mind-set of Americans (just 23% of all plastic water bottles are recycled). Water filters pose another eco-problem with few systems being fully recyclable along with the fact that many are draining fluoride from the water.
Fact – MOST tap water is perfectly safe to drink and will provide your child with proper fluoride and tap water won’t contribute to plastics in the landfills or hefty recycling costs. The healthiest choice for your family and the planet in most cases is good ol’ tap water.
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…In reality, the fluoride added to the public water supplies in the United States is not organic fluoride at all. It is in fact fluorosilicic acid, which is purchased in bulk from chemical companies, who must be laughing loudly at the idea that they can actually sell this toxic waste product. Why? Because if cities weren’t buying it and putting it into the public water supply, these industrial companies would have to spend millions of dollars disposing of fluorosilicic acid because it is an EPA regulated toxic waste…
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We all know disposable water bottles are wasteful and bad for the environment, yet their production is growing rapidly everywhere. Just 20 years ago the market for plastic water bottles was practically nonexistent, but today we produce billions of these completely unnecessary products. There can be only one sane response, plastic water bottles must be banned!
http://www.selfdestructivebastards.com/2009/10/water-bottle-manifesto.html
Earth 911, the EPA, and others all quote a 27.1 and 23.1% recycling rate of plastic water bottles; that means 8 out of ten bottles, or over 38 million water bottles end up in landfills annually. http://earth911.com/plastic/plastic-bottles/facts-about-plastic-bottles/
As for the fluoride, I’ve heard both sides of the debate. But more studies thus far have sided on fluoride being an effective method of fighting cavities than fluoride being toxic (yes, I’ve read those studies). I do agree that too much fluoride is a bad thing. Kids don’t need tap water, toothpaste AND fluoride supplements on top of that.
YOU ARE WRONG WRONG WRONG!
Fluoride is a registered toxin and there is NO scientific proof that it helps teeth because it doesn’t, in fact all scientific test and studies shows it causes cavities and cancer.
Tap water is NOT safer as it is full of toxins, drugs, metals, odour.
Bottled water is much safer and healthier because it is much purer.
As for the recycling, again your information is wrong and misleading, over 63% of water bottles are recycled.
If you are going to write something, please write the truth and not misleading information.
Dr Rita Atkins