Myths About Health

6 Myths About Tap and Bottled Water

admin on 08 20, 2009

The subject of bottled water benefits becomes more popular during last years. Bottled water manufacturers ascribe a lot of healthy features to their product. What is true and what is just a fairy tail. Let us compare bottled and tap waters to uncrown some known water myths.

Myths number 1: tap water is worse than the bottled water.

Obviously, it is not everything is true what advertise the mineral water bottles. The come from rather common sources like municipal water supply. Sure, they are filtered, but they are not to much better than the water we filter by ourselves.

Myth number 2: purified water tastes better.

It is not a secret, the distilled water (read the purest water) does not have any taste at all. It can be explained by the fact, that the flavor water has is given by the minerals like calcium, sodium, magnesium etc, that are removed in the purification process. The tap water tastes flat because of chlorine. But it can be easy removed by keeping the water in fridge for one night, and it tastes better.

Myth number 3: bottled water is healthier because of minerals, protein, vitamins.

The aim of marketing is to add any extra things to the product to increase sales. But the fact is that the most of the additive materials doesn’t have any influence for the health because of their insignificant amount. Moreover, usage of sugar can add calories instead. While tap water provides more fluoride to the body which proves it is better than the bottled water.

Myth number 4: average statistical body needs 8 ounce of water per day.

Doctors recommend 91 ounces of fluid per day. Evidently, not all of 91 ounces are gained from water, but 80% should come from water. The rest comes from juice, tea, coffee, other beverages and food.

Myth number 5: bottled water is much better after working out.

During the work out session the body water and electrolytes are wasted and needs to be replaced. Tap water is fine for their replacement if it is clean.

Myth number 6: bottles are friendly to the environment.

This myths is based on the fact that bottles are recyclable. But 70 million bottles can be recycled per one day of production, but about 87 percent still goes to trash.