| In this article, Mike Adams puts the dangers and | | | | a bottle of water from a plastic bottle. Eating |
| myths surrounding plastic water bottles into | | | | food that was cooked in Teflon, in my view, is |
| perspective and offers helpful tips on selecting | | | | orders of magnitude more toxic than drinking |
| water filters. Mike Adams is the founder of | | | | something of a plastic bottle or eating |
| Kevin: Well, Mike, I want to welcome you to this | | | | hydrogenated oils or fried foods or things like that |
| call. | | | | or smoking a cigarette. You could probably drink a |
| Mike: Hey, Kevin.. It's great to be here. Thanks for | | | | thousand bottles of water that were from plastic |
| having me join this program. | | | | bottles and it would be less toxic to you than |
| Kevin: It's an absolute honor and there are | | | | smoking one cigarette. So you've got to put this |
| probably a few people who don't know who you | | | | into perspective. I drink out of plastic bottles from |
| are, or maybe haven't heard of some of the | | | | time to time. It's not my first choice, but I do it |
| stuff that you've done before. So why don't we | | | | when I'm traveling and I don't freak out about it. |
| give everyone just a brief introduction and then | | | | Kevin: Yeah. I know that the number seven bottle |
| we'll move right into the water aspect. We have a | | | | has come under fire recently. Is that the only one |
| lot of stuff to cover today. | | | | to be somewhat concerned about, or is it across |
| Mike: Okay, sure. Well, I'm the founder and editor | | | | the board? |
| of Natural It's a website to reaches now well over | | | | Mike: No. It's across the board. |
| a million readers a month with news, headlines, | | | | Kevin: Okay.. |
| alerts, warnings about everything to do with | | | | Mike: As I understand it, the lower the number |
| natural health and the benefits of natural medicine | | | | the more toxic the bottles can be. You don't want |
| and the potential dangers of pharmaceuticals and | | | | to drink of the really cheap bottles, which are |
| conventional medicine. It's just a great | | | | often number two or number three. The seven is |
| informational resource. I love doing that. | | | | better than the lower numbers and you certainly |
| Kevin: If anyone hasn't gone over there to you'll | | | | don't want to be feeding your baby - really, if |
| find a whole bunch of great stuff and it's nice to | | | | there's one area to be legitimately concerned, it's |
| read some of it, because it's very refreshing. | | | | with infants and children, but as an adult if you are |
| That's what I found. | | | | taking a lot of anticancer nutrients and you're |
| Mike: We can pull our punches. We tell it like it is | | | | eating sprouts and you're taking some super |
| and I try to maintain a lot of informed skepticism | | | | foods, you're exercising and getting vitamin D, |
| about what I'm writing about, so I'm always doing | | | | then the occasional drink out of a plastic bottle is |
| independent product reviews and things like that | | | | nothing to be alarmed about. |
| to the readers. | | | | Kevin: What about alternatives, like the stainless |
| Kevin: We're going to talk a little bit about | | | | steel water bottles, or say, something like a glass |
| skepticism, because we've already prepped for | | | | lined thermos? |
| this call, but what I want to start with is, since | | | | Mike: I think glass is great to drink out of. That's |
| we're talking about water I want about talk about | | | | what I usually do. I even take that to the gym, |
| something is so prevalent in our media now and | | | | even though they don't like the fact that I'm |
| probably will be for a while and it's the use of | | | | carrying around a glass bottle. |
| plastic as applied to water. So water bottles, even | | | | Kevin: Right. |
| in cooking or microwaving plastic containers and all | | | | Mike: For obvious reasons, but some people are |
| that, let's talk about some of the things that we | | | | drinking out of aluminum bottles, which I think is |
| should be concerned about when we're dealing | | | | crazy. How is aluminum better than plastic? |
| with plastic bottles. | | | | Stainless steel is definitely the better way to go in |
| Mike: Well, I think people are very well aware of | | | | all of this. When you get stainless steel you want |
| the Bisphenol A danger, BPA as it's called. There | | | | steel that has low nickel content, because there |
| has been a lot of press recently about this | | | | are different types of stainless steel. They're |
| chemical in plastic bottles and baby bottles. Did | | | | made with chromium and nickel and whatever and |
| you hear that, I think it was Toys "R" Us is going | | | | they're all alloys. So you want low nickel content, |
| to stop selling baby bottles made with that | | | | because everything that's in that steel, eventually |
| chemical now? | | | | some of it gets in your body and nickel is not a |
| Kevin: Wow. | | | | great nutrient to have in large quantities for sure. |
| Mike: That was an interesting development, but | | | | Kevin: Right. Do you know how you would know |
| like a lot of stories in the press it's very hard to | | | | if it's got low nickel? I guess a hip company would |
| put into context. I think people need to be aware | | | | put that out there. |
| of the proper context for this potential risk. Yes, | | | | Mike: You can go online and search for the |
| these plastic bottles contain BPA. Yes, if you drink | | | | stainless steel number. For example, a lot of |
| water that's vigorously shaken in these bottles, | | | | stainless steel is number 420 or something. The |
| which it all is done during shipping, by the way and | | | | 420 means that it has a certain percentage, I |
| you do that for 10 or 20 years, then sure, it | | | | think like 5% nickel and 13% chromium or |
| probably increases your risk for cancer, but I | | | | something like that. I don't know the exact |
| want to make people aware that drinking a can | | | | numbers, but I know you can find it. So find out |
| of soda is far more toxic, probably orders of | | | | the stainless steel number. Like stainless steel |
| magnitude more toxic to your body than drinking | | | | number 380 or 420 or something like that. |