posted on March 2, 2006 08:01:22 PM new
I was haveing a discussion today with someone who says she buys a bottled water in the morning and refills it throughout the day with tap water. I see no problem with that for use throughout the day. But she says sometimes she'll put one in the fridge over the weekend and keep on reusing it the next week.
I saw a TV show a long time ago that said DON'T DO THIS for safety reasons. Unfortunately, I cannot remember the details. Bacteria? Some kind of tap water chemical?
Anyone know?
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posted on March 2, 2006 08:11:11 PM new
Could be true. But I have reused the bottles, I've filled them with tap water, and put them in the freezer or refrigerator and took them when we go running or whatever. Haven't got sick from it yet, knock on wood
posted on March 3, 2006 03:45:03 AM new
I did that,but after two weeks,lines starting showing up on my face.A week after that,worms starting crawling out of the cracks,by nose turned inside-out and my eyeballs did a 180.However,Im not sure if it was from drinking the tap water out a used bottle water.
It has something to do with the chemicals in the plastic bottle itself. You should never freeze these bottles, either. I don't see the harm in using it for a day, though. While bottled water is a novel idea, it's not good to drink all the time. There are some good additives and nutrients in tap water. You are better off getting a filter for your faucet.
I just found out this: don't give your animals bottled water. They need the nutrients that happen to be found in tap water. I have a friend who used to give his dogs nothing but bottled water until the vet told him to stop.
Cheryl
"Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter." - Martin Luther King, Jr.
It has been recongized as an urban legend that plastic releases dioxins when frozen or microwaved.
An updated version of an earlier message dating from 2002 — not only contains inaccurate information, it is falsely attributed to a Johns Hopkins University newsletter. No such information was ever issued by any department of the university.
To combat the inaccuracies, Professor Rolf Halden of Johns Hopkins' Bloomberg School of Public Health addressed the email's opening allegation in a special news release:
OC&PA: What do you make of this recent email warning that claims dioxins can be released by freezing water in plastic bottles?
RH: No. This is an urban legend. Freezing actually works against the release of chemicals. Chemicals do not diffuse as readily in cold temperatures, which would limit chemical release if there were dioxins in plastic, and we don’t think there are.
posted on March 3, 2006 07:59:37 AM new
OH! I heard another one, not sure if its true.
To buy only the milk in the carton, and never buy the jug of milk that you can see through (sort of, the opaque jugs we all get) I 'heard' it is very bad for the milk....
posted on March 3, 2006 10:04:02 AM new
I don't like milk from the white plastic jugs. It gets a plasticy taste. I use the carton milk instead. Plus no added hormones.
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posted on March 3, 2006 10:50:24 AM new
It's probably a good idea to use glass rather than plastic in the microwave.
Other comments by the Johns Hopkins scientist....
OC&PA: What about cooking with plastics?
RH: In general, whenever you heat something you increase the likelihood of pulling chemicals out. Chemicals can be released from plastic packaging materials like the kinds used in some microwave meals. Some drinking straws say on the label “not for hot beverages.” Most people think the warning is because someone might be burned. If you put that straw into a boiling cup of hot coffee, you basically have a hot water extraction going on, where the chemicals in the straw are being extracted into your nice cup of coffee. We use the same process in the lab to extract chemicals from materials we want to analyze.
If you are cooking with plastics or using plastic utensils, the best thing to do is to follow the directions and only use plastics that are specifically meant for cooking. Inert containers are best, for example heat-resistant glass, ceramics and good old stainless steel.
OC&PA: Is there anything else you want to add?
RH: Don’t be afraid of drinking water. It is very important to drink adequate amounts of water and, by the way that’s in addition to all the coffee, beer and other diuretics we love to consume. Unless you are drinking really bad water, you are more likely to suffer from the adverse effects of dehydration than from the minuscule amounts of chemical contaminants present in your water supply. Relatively speaking, the risk from exposure to microbial contaminants is much greater than that from chemicals.
And here’s one more uncomfortable fact. Each of us already carries a certain body burden of dioxins regardless of how and what we eat. If you look hard enough, you’ll find traces of dioxins in pretty much every place on earth. Paracelsus the famous medieval alchemist, used to put it straight and simple: it’s the dose that makes the poison.--Tim Parsons
Public Affairs media contacts for the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health: Tim Parsons or Kenna Lowe at 410-955-6878 or [email protected].
