| K-Mart bottled water is said to be great, but is it? | | | | tap water for more than 60 years. |
| In early 2005, John Stossel of ABC News did a | | | | Fluoride Can Be Toxic |
| special report on bottled water. Stossel and his | | | | A growing number of reports indicate that fluoride |
| team talked to people about why they choose | | | | in drinking water can be toxic, especially to |
| bottled water over tap water. Most said, of | | | | children. |
| course, they chose bottled water because they | | | | While proponents of fluoridation assert that there |
| consider it safer. Some chose bottled water | | | | is no legitimate scientific controversy over either |
| because it tasted better. | | | | the benefits or safety of adding fluoridation to |
| K-Mart bottled water entered the report when | | | | water, records show that there had been clear |
| Stossel and his team ran a taste test. K-Mart | | | | scientific controversy from the outset. There |
| bottled water, the discount brand American Fare, | | | | continues to be scientific controversy to this day. |
| was pitted against New York City tap water and | | | | Reading just a few of the many facts available on |
| 4 better known, brand-name bottled waters. | | | | the Internet shows the honest reader that there |
| Many of the people who participated regularly | | | | are real dangers involved in adding fluoride to |
| rejected tap water for bottled water. They were | | | | bottled water. |
| sure they could tell the difference in taste. | | | | 1. Dental fluorosis is pandemic in areas where |
| What Happened | | | | fluoride has been added to tap water. This |
| 1. One of the five waters was termed particularly | | | | condition is defined as: "an abnormal condition (as |
| bad by many participants. It was not New York | | | | mottling of the teeth) caused by fluorine or its |
| City tap water, though. It was bottled water. In | | | | compounds." |
| fact, it was Evian, an expensive French bottled | | | | 2. Dental fluorosis is recognized globally by |
| water. | | | | scientists to be the first clinical sign of fluoride |
| 2. One of the five waters tasted was judged | | | | poisoning. |
| better than the other four. It was not the better | | | | 3. Other countries besides those in North America |
| known brands, though. It was not New York City | | | | have documented staggering health problems as a |
| tap water either. It was K-Mart bottled water. | | | | result of adding fluoride to drinking water. |
| These five water samples, four of them bottled | | | | 4. Approximately twenty nations show health |
| water, all tested as equally healthy. When it came | | | | problems that are clearly traceable to the |
| to taste, K-Mart bottled water beat the other | | | | ingestion of fluoride such as is being added to |
| four. | | | | bottled water. |
| American Fare | | | | 5. Nearly two years ago, as of the writing of this |
| K-Mart bottled water is, as mentioned above, the | | | | in April 2007, 11 EPA employee unions asked for a |
| discount brand labeled as American Fare. That tells | | | | moratorium on fluoridated drinking water. These |
| us little, but since it is a private label, it is difficult | | | | 11 employee unions asked the EPA to recognize |
| to find information about American Fare bottled | | | | the cancer risks associated with adding fluoride to |
| water. | | | | tap water and bottled water. |
| In mid-March of 2007, K-Mart expanded its | | | | Conclusion |
| American Fare line of beverages. The bottled | | | | The teeth are said to be a mirror of what is |
| water did so well that it is adding products such | | | | happening to the bones of the human body. I am |
| as vitamin water, bottled green iced tea, energy | | | | not a scientist, but the pictures I have seen of |
| drinks, fruit-flavored water, and juice pouches. | | | | dental fluorosis are frightening enough to make |
| If you search long enough and far enough, you will | | | | me choose water without fluoride. The scientific |
| learn that American Fare bottled water is | | | | facts regarding fluoride that abound on the |
| produced for K-Mart by "Famous Ramona Water, | | | | Internet are frightening enough to make me avoid |
| Inc." in Ramona, California. Once you have learned | | | | bottled water that has been fluoridated. |
| this, you can inquire into the quality of American | | | | K-Mart bottled water may be among the least |
| Fare bottled water. | | | | expensive, but one must question whether it is |
| What's in K-Mart Bottled Water? | | | | even worth the low price asked when it floods |
| Famous Ramona Water, Inc. is one of 20 | | | | the body with fluoride, a substance that is causing |
| member companies of the International Bottled | | | | growing concern. |
| Water Association (IBWA) that add fluoride to | | | | If you care about what is in your bottled water, |
| their bottled water. The practice of adding fluoride | | | | you may want to research the effects of fluoride. |
| to water is good, right? It has been added to U.S. | | | | |