Comments on: Plastic Water Bottles: Harming Your Health And The Environment http://www.gardenmandy.com/plastic-water-bottles-harming-your-health-and-the-environment/ Organic Living, Gardening, Health and Environmental Issues Daily Fri, 03 Feb 2012 23:36:25 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Øystein Lund http://www.gardenmandy.com/plastic-water-bottles-harming-your-health-and-the-environment/comment-page-1/#comment-1112 Øystein Lund Sun, 10 Aug 2008 11:18:20 +0000 http://www.gardenmandy.com/?p=280#comment-1112 Part of the problem is that the recommendation to drink all that water is bleeping marketing - there's no reason to be gulping down 8 glasses a day just for the sake of it: http://www.webmd.com/diet/guide/wonders-of-water and http://www.webmd.com/news/20080402/health-benefits-of-water-oversold both talk abut how 8 glasses of water a day is an urban myth. It's worse that that - it's marketing, from Pepsi and Coke. They make 1000 times the profit margin on water that they do on sodas, so of course they're going to go out of their way to make you drink more of it, but there's no point, three-quarters of the water you need you get from your food, and the rest you drink from the tap when you're thirsty. Part of the problem is that the recommendation to drink all that water is bleeping marketing – there’s no reason to be gulping down 8 glasses a day just for the sake of it: http://www.webmd.com/diet/guide/wonders-of-water and http://www.webmd.com/news/20080402/health-benefits-of-water-oversold
both talk abut how 8 glasses of water a day is an urban myth.

It’s worse that that – it’s marketing, from Pepsi and Coke. They make 1000 times the profit margin on water that they do on sodas, so of course they’re going to go out of their way to make you drink more of it, but there’s no point, three-quarters of the water you need you get from your food, and the rest you drink from the tap when you’re thirsty.

]]> By: erichansa http://www.gardenmandy.com/plastic-water-bottles-harming-your-health-and-the-environment/comment-page-1/#comment-1021 erichansa Mon, 28 Jul 2008 10:11:25 +0000 http://www.gardenmandy.com/?p=280#comment-1021 Since we can't always use sustainable materials it's important to reuse materials in creative ways. I like turning my plastic water bottles into giant earrings. They're pretty heavy and my ears hurt, buy at least my footprint is smaller. Since we can’t always use sustainable materials it’s important to reuse materials in creative ways. I like turning my plastic water bottles into giant earrings. They’re pretty heavy and my ears hurt, buy at least my footprint is smaller.

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