1. Ease up on the meat
DID YOU KNOW to produce 1 kilogram of boneless beef it takes 6.5 kilograms of grain, 36 kilograms of roughage (coarse grains and pasture), and 155 litres of drinking water.  A vegetarian diet has been calculated to require only 300 gallons of water per day, while a meat eating diet […]

We all know that tap water is bad.  It smells it is harsh on our outer appearance and also the inner side of the bodies.  Tap water has chlorine, to parasites, to lead, and all kinds of contaminants.  It has been researched there are over 2,200 contaminants in tap water.  Yuck all that is going […]

The day you choose to purchase and use a filtered water bottle will be the day you decide to improve your health. Now you are probably wondering how a filtered water bottle can improve your health. Believe it or not, the average person does not drink the recommended daily allowance of eight 8oz glasses of […]

It is estimated that about 60 million plastic bottles are thrown away every day! Yes, that’s every day!
Almost all of these bottles, as you can imagine, are from water bottles. Consumers are craving clean, fresh water wherever they go and are thus using these plastic water bottles at an ever-increasing rate every day. Even with […]

FDA’s rules exempt many forms of what most of us would consider bottled water from its definition of “bottled water,” and therefore, according to FDA, exempts them from all of FDA’s specific standards for bottled water testing and contamination. If the product is declared on the bottle ingredient label simply as “water,” or as “carbonated […]

Chlorine- is one of the most dangerous poisons in our drinking water today.  Water facilities use chlorine to disinfect all the other contaminates, but what’s killing the other contaminates is harming out bodies as well.  Chlorine is one of the causes for bladder and rectal cancer, also causing asthma.
Lead- it makes it way through after […]

The following is a list of gaps and loopholes in bottled water regulation by the FDA:
1. Water bottled and sold in a single state — the majority of bottled water sold in the United States — is not covered by FDA rules, according to FDA.
2. FDA’s definition of “bottled water” covered by its standards irrationally […]

The FDA trusts bottled water companies testing filtering systems, and has refused to require lab certification. FDA regulations specify that either “qualified bottling plant personnel” or “competent commercial laboratories” use approved water quality test methods. The FDA and it does not require that such personnel or laboratories be certified or otherwise establish their qualifications to do the required tests. […]

Tap Water and Bottled Water are not equal, and neither are the regulations that should make us safe when drinking! If you think bottled water if safe, you may want to think again. 
The first difference in regulation is weaker chemical-contaminant testing requirements for bottled water.

Under EPA rules, a city must test its tap water for […]

An article in the Chicago Sun Times in April did a great job helping us get the word out about how bottled water is made, how it hurts the environment, and how recycling these bottles is a massive waste of energy. Click here to read the article. However, while I hate to poke holes in people’s work; it’s […]