I would like POTUS to stop drinking bottled water....NOW!

[monmouth]

I'm sure you've read those articles on the chemicals seeping from these bottles into the contents and how very, very bad this is. I don't have one handy at the moment to accompany my post, but I really wish someone would get him one of those cool cups that keeps product cold/warm and looks pretty cool. They could get him one with the seal on it. I want POTUS healthy, and this goes for all of you bottled water folks too. They're dangerous.

[HarukaTheTrophyWife]

1. Puppies

[monmouth]

2. ?????

[Captain Hilts]

3. And I wish someone would hand him a glass so he doesn't have to drink out of the bottle. nt

[Qutzupalotl]

4. The link today was not about bottles

but the hard plastic containers that substitute for bottles (if I'm reading this correctly):

Boston, MA -- A new study from Harvard School of Public Health (HSPH) researchers found that participants who drank for a week from polycarbonate bottles, the popular, hard-plastic drinking bottles and baby bottles, showed a two-thirds increase in their urine of the chemical bisphenol A (BPA). Exposure to BPA, used in the manufacture of polycarbonate and other plastics, has been shown to interfere with reproductive development in animals and has been linked with cardiovascular disease and diabetes in humans. The study is the first to show that drinking from polycarbonate bottles increased the level of urinary BPA, and thus suggests that drinking containers made with BPA release the chemical into the liquid that people drink in sufficient amounts to increase the level of BPA excreted in human urine.
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=222x59959

[Laelth]

7. Looks like BPA seeps out of bottles with 7s on them. Avoid those. n/t

:dem:

-Laelth

[Ocracoker16]

8. yes, the plastic used in Obama's plastic bottles does not leach BPA into them

[RaleighNCDUer]

13. Correct - this is about the SAFE plastic everybody drinks out of, not

the dangerous, chemical leaching plastic everybody ELSE drinks out of.

[high density]

5. If you say so.

http://www.snopes.com/medical/toxins/plasticbottles.asp

[monmouth]

10. Thanks for posting that. I should have gone to snopes myself. Cleaning

out closets, etc....lol.

[wileedog]

6. The irony is I am seeing your post with an ad for

Fiji bottled water on it...

[cbc5g]

9. Is there anything safe anymore?

The American Diet (tm) is destroying our bodies.

[MoonRiver]

11. I have a "Klean Kanteen."

I fill it up with filtered tap water every morning before work and I'm good to go. It has no pollutants, and is very refreshing. Highly recommend to the POTUS.

[nutsnberries]

22. Klean Kanteen loves me!

I've bought at least 30 of them - turning more & more people onto them every day. :)

[Merlot]

12. He should stop drinking bottled water because the bottles are

bad for the environment. And the bottled water industry is ridiculous. Get him a glass, or one of those cool cups.

Set an example. Except for the First Puppy, the Obamas have done some good things to set an example. This could be an easy one.

[JuniperLea]

14. Now there's a valid reason!

Good call!

[Muttocracy]

23. bad for the environment, and less-regulated than municipal water

Municipal drinking water is regulated by EPA. Bottled water is regulated by FDA. It's supposed to meet EPA standards too, but only if it's distributed interstate, and it's not tested as often as tap water. In any event, it's not any safer than good tap water.

[phleshdef]

15. I'm still trying to decide if this post is serious or tongue in cheek.

[monmouth]

20. Oh no, it's for real.....n/t

[masuki bance]

16. He needs to stop the smoking too.

[AspenRose]

17. DC water isn't exactly the healthiest or safest

:scared:

[amborin]

18. to say nothing of the terrible message it sends

bottled water is such a fraud

corporations making huge $$$$$ on it

and the refuse is toxic and meantime many countries' citizens can't even afford potable water systems

[rAVES]

19. Haven't we been drinking other things from them bottles for like, years?

[TexasObserver]

21. You mean the thoroughly debunked hysterical emails people send each other?

Snopes is your friend.

It's the plastic content that is a problem, not the leeching of chemicals, which is confined to one type of bottle that isn't used for water bottles, but for baby bottles.