Bottled water overtakes soda as America’s No. 1 drink — and you should avoid both
Bottled water is not without chemicals, according to studies of European
bottled waters carried out in Germany, Switzerland, Italy and France — one published in 2011 and the other in 2013
— by the Goethe University Frankfurt’s Department of Aquatic
Ecotoxicology. Among the main compounds Wagner found: Endocrine
disrupting chemicals, or EDCs, which can act like hormones in the body
and have been linked to diabetes, breast cancer and cardiovascular
disease. (The International Bottled Water Association said the origin of
these EDCs may have been environmental rather than from a packaging
material.) (Not so)
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