In this article, Mike Adams puts the dangers and myths surrounding plastic water bottles into perspective and offers helpful tips for selecting water filters. Mike Adams is the founder of NaturalNews.com.
Kevin: Well, Mike, I want to welcome you to this call.
Miguel: Hi Kevin…it’s great to be here. Thank you for allowing me to join this program.
Kevin: It’s an absolute honor and there are probably some people who don’t know who you are, or maybe they haven’t heard of some of the things you’ve done before. So why don’t we give everyone a brief introduction and then jump right into the water aspect. We have a lot of things to cover today.
Miguel: Really sure. Well, I’m the founder and publisher of Natural News.com. It is a website to now reach over a million readers a month with news, headlines, alerts, warnings on everything related to natural health and the benefits of natural medicine and the potential dangers of pharmaceuticals and medicine. conventional. It’s just a great informational resource. I love doing that.
Kevin: If anyone hasn’t gone to naturalnews.com, you’ll find a lot of great stuff and it’s good to read some of it, because it’s so refreshing. That’s what I found.
Miguel: We can pull our punches. We tell it like it is and I try to keep a lot of informed skepticism in what I write about, so I always do independent product reviews and such for readers.
Kevin: We’re going to talk a little bit about skepticism, because we’ve already prepared for this call, but what I want to start off with is, since we’re talking about water, I want to talk about something that’s prevalent in our media. now and probably will be for a while and is the use of plastic applied to water. So water bottles, even in plastic containers for cooking or microwaving and whatnot, let’s talk about some of the things we should be concerned about when dealing with plastic bottles.
Miguel: Well, I think people are well aware of the danger of bisphenol A, BPA as it is called. There has been a lot of press recently about this chemical in plastic bottles and baby bottles. Did you hear that, I think Toys “R” Us is going to stop selling baby bottles made with that chemical now?
Kevin: wow.
Miguel: That was an interesting development, but like many stories in the press, it’s very hard to put it in context. I think people need to be aware of the proper context for this potential risk. Yes, these plastic bottles contain BPA. Yeah, if you drink water that’s shaken vigorously in these bottles, which is done during shipping, by the way, and you do that for 10 or 20 years, then sure, it probably increases your cancer risk, but I want to reassure you people aware that drinking a can of soda is much more toxic, probably much more toxic to your body than drinking a bottle of water from a plastic bottle. In my opinion, eating food cooked with Teflon is a hell of a lot more toxic than drinking something out of a plastic bottle or eating hydrogenated oils or fried foods or the like or smoking a cigarette. You could probably drink a thousand bottles of water that were made from plastic bottles and it would be less toxic to you than smoking a cigarette. So you have to put this in perspective. I drink from plastic bottles from time to time. It’s not my first choice, but I do it when I travel and it doesn’t scare me.
Kevin: Yes. I know that bottle number seven has been criticized recently. Is that the only one who should be somewhat concerned, or is it general?
Miguel: No. It’s across the board.
Kevin: It’s okay..
Miguel: As I understand it, the lower the number, the more toxic the bottles can be. You don’t want to drink from the really cheap bottles, which are often number two or number three. Seven is better than the lower numbers and you certainly don’t want to feed your baby; actually, if there’s one area of legitimate concern, it’s with babies and children, but as an adult, if you’re on a lot of cancer drugs. nutrients and you’re eating sprouts and you’re having some superfoods, you’re exercising and getting vitamin D, then the occasional drink from a plastic bottle is nothing to be alarmed about.
Kevin: What about alternatives, like stainless steel water bottles, or something like a glass-lined thermos?
Miguel: I think glass is great to drink from. That’s what I usually do. I even take it to the gym, although they don’t like the fact that I carry a glass bottle.
Kevin: Right.
Miguel: For obvious reasons, but some people are drinking out of aluminum bottles, which I think is crazy. How is aluminum better than plastic? Stainless steel is definitely the best way to do all of this. When you get stainless steel, you want low nickel steel, because there are different types of stainless steel. They’re made with chrome and nickel and whatever, and they’re all alloys. So you want low nickel, because whatever is in that steel eventually some of it gets into your body and nickel is not a great nutrient to have in large amounts for sure.
Kevin: Right. Do you know how you would know if it is low on nickel? I suppose a fashion company would publish it.
Miguel: You can go online and look up the stainless steel number. For example, a lot of stainless steel is number 420 or something like that. The 420 means it has a certain percentage, I think like 5% nickel and 13% chromium or something. I don’t know the exact numbers, but I know you can find it. So find out the stainless steel number. Like stainless steel number 380 or 420 or something like that.