Formula milk: no fatty acids - Babies given formula milk are noticeably deficient in a particular fatty acid. ...

Bottled water everywhere - and not one fit to drink - Everywhere you go these days, you’ll see people obses-sively clutching and sipping bottles of water. It’s all so chic. Across the globe, bottled-water...

Bottled Water: Now they can put fluoride in it - Watch out for that ‘healthy’ bottled water you’re drinking – it might contain fluoride. America, the world’s largest market, is now allowing ‘natural...

Contact lenses: Don't wash them in tap water - Don’t clean your contact lenses with tap water, and don’t swim in swimming pools when you’re wearing them.

Borrled water worse than tap water - In your story on pesticides (WDDTY) vol 6 no 3, Tuula Tuormaa advises readers to filter their water or "even better, drink bottled water, which is pro...

Diabetes: Tap water may be a major cause - Although doctors have thought the disease is brought on by poor diet and lack of exercise, scientists believe that low levels of inorganic arsenic tha...

Formula milk propaganda: surprise, surprise, it happens here too - We re all familiar with the marketing and educational efforts of some baby milk formula suppliers to encourage mothers in developing countries to st...

Cleaning up your water - Do not fill the kettle with hot water from the tap. It dissolves minerals, including lead, from the pipes much more easily than cold water. Fill your...