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DAILY POST JULY 28th:  MORE THAN ONLY VITAMINS & WATER

It’s not hard to analyze foods and beverages when you know what you look for.  Take your kids and their friends along for a fact-finding field trip to the grocery store.

Visit your local grocery store and have a look at the labels on water products.  First note if they say where the water originates.  If they are silent on the issue here’s the answer:  the tap.  Most bottled water is nothing more than tap water.  So unless they specify the mountaintop spring that produces their product, it’s just plain old H2O coming out of the faucet.  Which may, in fact, not be as good as the water out of your own kitchen.  And if you filter your water, it is better than half of the bottled waters you pay good money for.  Spend your dollars on a filter system, even if it’s the kind you filter by the pitcherful, like a Brita filter.

Look for two ingredients in bottled water, both sparkling and still:  sugar and salt.  It will be surprising to most people how much of each is present in what appears to be plain water.  The numbers skyrocket when you begin looking at sports drinks.  Know what you’re buying.  The Nutritional Label and Ingredients List tell you everything you need to know.

Compare the Ingredients List and the Nutritional Label against the front-of-package claims.  How many congtradictions can you find?