Urban Thought | 7 Observations 
If it isn’t one thing, it’s another. Bottled water may be bad for your teeth according to a news report, I listened to last night on CBS2NewYork.
As summer hits we all look to stay hydrated. Water has always been the healthiest substance for your body. But leave it to some scientist to tell you that bottled water will erode the enamel on your teeth and the NYC tap water is better for you because of the fluoride additive.
I’m all for drinking NYC water as long as I can get it from the source. Once it comes through the pipes of the city itself, it doesn’t taste as good anymore.
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Seems misleading to me. I don’t think that article can really claim that drinking bottled water LEADS to tooth decay. It really seems to be saying that the city water has ONE benefit that bottled water doesn’t - the added fluoride.
So if you don’t drink it, you’re not actually promoting tooth decay, you’re just not taking the ***extra**** preventative measure of drinking more fluoride. After all, if you’re taking care of your teeth, you get fluoride from toothpaste AND regular dental check ups (plus maybe it comes naturally in food somewhere too).
Besides the fluoride issue, there’s the whole arsenic/carcinogens/lead/chlorination thing to consider with tap water too…
I have the water report from my old house and it had levels listed for radioactive contaminants, arsenic, mercury and nitrate among other things (!!!!)
Hopefully bottled water/filtered water filters some or all of that stuff out. So for the most part I’m willing to risk letting my dentist worry about my fluoride levels in order to ingest less arsenic, lead, etc. especially since I live in a much older building now than I did when I got that water report.
But, when I do have a glass straight from the tap, I just figure I’m having a few extra minerals. Y’know…like LEAD. *shrug shrug*
Oh yeah & I meant to also say…it may be that strictly speaking lead is NOT a mineral…I don’t know. I don’t know a whole lot about what I don’t want to be drinking, only that I don’t want to be drinking it!
:-) 
ALSO probably you should take everything I said with a big ole’ grain of salt (whether that’s a mineral or not) since you might not want to take advice about appropriate fluoride levels from someone who may have a root canal in her foreseeable future!!!!
Is it out of bounds for my comments to be three times as long as the original post & almost as long as the article itself?!?!?????? :-0 :-0 :-0
Oh, I get it, since the bottled water story was a hoax- the bee story must be a hoax as well. Logic never fails to entertain me!
One more cell head in denial- making stuff up as usual.
“If it’s not one thing, it’s the other- now they are saying that one unrelated posthulum is causing another, quite unrelated notion to be wrong- jusz because “If it’s not one thing, it’s the other!” Are you Maria (Gilda Rdner’s memorable character on SNL) Latelle’s brother or something? Where is YOUR source?
Jill: It’s OK that the comments are longer than the post or the article itself. I think they put these reports out just so we can talk about it. Perhaps someone out there is so board with Paris & Lindsey knews that they find time to actually do some sort of research.
In any case, I can’t stand to drink from the fountain at either of my jobs. You can taste the pipes and that isn’t a good thing. Is water supposed to leave an after taste? I think not. So I don’t bother.
Thank you for stopping by.
pace pace: The source was linked on the page. Unless I misunderstood your comment. I don’t make these things up unless otherwise noted.
I would have to do some video research on Maria Latelle’s brother to actually answer that question. In may copious free time I’ll find a way to get back to you on that.
I’ve read about how drinking only bottled water was making people more prone to cavities, hmm, last year? I think the response from the bottled water companies was to add flouride to some types of bottled water (I mean the purified waters,like I think Disani, have minerals added back in).
I drink bottled water when traveling but at home - I just use tap with one of those water-filter carafes. My city’s water is known to be really good, though. It’s just my tendency to be careful that has me using the filter!
I have been to cities where the water can not only taste bad but smell bad! I was in Dallas and pee-eww! The water in this restaurant smelled like a pond! I asked the waiter and he said that yeah, it was harmless but sometimes this, I dunno, algae blooms in the water for a few weeks and makes the water smell and taste bad.
I usually don’t ask for bottled water in a restaurant but I did that time!
Ms. Q: I only drink bottled water at work or when I hit the gym. I’ll drink restaurant water before I drink water at home. Actually, I don’t drink water at home, only juice. But that isn’t all that sad considering I’m never home.
I’ve been to Dallas. You are right. The water smells and tastes bad there. Aside from the smell and taste the water also has a tendency to leave my skin dry after getting out of the shower. I haven’t returned to Dallas since.
Would you believe that NYC tap water ofen beats bottled water in taste tests? Strange but true. It was’t that bad when I drank it. Maybe the deadly effects will present themselves later but so far I feel fine.