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| This is a picture of the bottle I used for 3 years, religiously. Turns out it wasn't so great for me. |
The very bottle that some water comes or is stored in can leach chemicals that are harmful to our bodies. It was only a few years ago, living in Canada, when working so hard to lose all my weight, that I had a big, plastic Nalgene bottle. I carried this bottle with me, full of water, everywhere. I thought I had bought the same bottle, that all health enthusiasts recommended and serious athletes used. I thought I had bought the best water bottle, ever. A couple years after having bought my first Nalgene bottle, the reports started circulating about the bisphenol A (BPA). There are always opposing sides to every issue. Here is what the pro-BPA side has to say:
Facts about BPA (published by the Polycarbonate/BPA Global Group of the American Chemistry Council) and myths according to them:
http://factsaboutbpa.org/what-are-the-bpa-mythshttp://factsaboutbpa.org/what-are-the-bpa-myths. Wow, that was the perfect example of don't believe everything you read. (You don't even have to believe what I write, but just know that I have mine and my family's best interests at stake and I am not a huge corporation based on millions of dollars.) They claim on their website that "Based on several studies on human volunteers, the very small amount of BPA that may be ingested by a person during normal daily activities is efficiently converted to biologically inactive metabolites, which are eliminated from the human body within 24 hours." They lead us to believe that there is absolutely nothing wrong with BPA. At the time of my writing this blog entry, the site actually had a photo of a woman, smiling ear to ear, as she holds a BPA-lined can of soup while grocery shopping. It reminded me of the same feeling I got when I saw this old ad:
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| This ad is a hoax, but I almost believed it was for real! |
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