medicine water

tripledouble

the healing gift of water?youre drinking it whether you like it or not http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080309/ap_on_re_us/pharmawater_iyo everthing in this world is so thoroughly polluted to such a microscopic level, we might as well just accept it

twoply

This reminds me of that thread about guy in Dubai who was busted for a microscopic piece of weed on his shoe. If you're looking for something hard enough to detect "parts per billion or trillion," you're probably going to find it all sorts of places you'd never expect.

day

This reminds me of that thread about guy in Dubai who was busted for a microscopic piece of weed on his shoe. If you're looking for something hard enough to detect "parts per billion or trillion," you're probably going to find it all sorts of places you'd never expect.

Wow this is a really fucked up article. Just when I think it's over they drop even more bad news. I can't believe there's no laws to prevent or test for this shit?!

Twoply, check this out:

Many independent scientists are skeptical that trace concentrations will ultimately prove to be harmful to humans. Confidence about human safety is based largely on studies that poison lab animals with much higher amounts.

There's growing concern in the scientific community, meanwhile, that certain drugs ??? or combinations of drugs ??? may harm humans over decades because water, unlike most specific foods, is consumed in sizable amounts every day.

Our bodies may shrug off a relatively big one-time dose, yet suffer from a smaller amount delivered continuously over a half century, perhaps subtly stirring allergies or nerve damage. Pregnant women, the elderly and the very ill might be more sensitive.

Anyway it goes, this shit can't be good. They're making it sound like this is much more widespread than ever thought before.

BreakSelf

If you're looking for something hard enough to detect "parts per billion or trillion," you're probably going to find it all sorts of places you'd never expect.

Incidentally, this is exactly how homeopathic remedies are concocted.

tripledouble

Anyway it goes, this shit can't be good. They're making it sound like this is much more widespread than ever thought before.

right...you cant even be like, "well i'm only drinking evian or getting water out my well" cause apparently those are all tainted too. and a lot of this stuff works its way up the food chain...plankton eats the toxics,plankton gets eaten by fish,fish get eaten by a bear, bear gets eaten by rednecks, rednecks get eaten by cannibals, who get turned into spam, that gets eaten by hawaiians,etc.

Anyway you cut it, we are probably all full of PCBs, estrogen, toxins, viagra and prozac!

twoply

Twoply, check this out:

Many independent scientists are skeptical that trace concentrations will ultimately prove to be harmful to humans. Confidence about human safety is based largely on studies that poison lab animals with much higher amounts.

There's growing concern in the scientific community, meanwhile, that certain drugs ??? or combinations of drugs ??? may harm humans over decades because water, unlike most specific foods, is consumed in sizable amounts every day.

Our bodies may shrug off a relatively big one-time dose, yet suffer from a smaller amount delivered continuously over a half century, perhaps subtly stirring allergies or nerve damage. Pregnant women, the elderly and the very ill might be more sensitive.

Yeah, I'm aware of that, but I kind of feel like there are way more known toxins we're exposed to every day that are far more frightening. I'm more worried about the fact that every day I walk along busy streets, ingesting god knows how much vehicle exhaust. Or the additives in the food I eat. Or the chemicals and fumes lingering around many of the places I've been employed. I'm not saying this issue is no cause for concern, but really, I think someone can find harmful conditions just about anywhere if they look hard enough.

I can't wait to see what Harvey has to say about this.

tripledouble

I think someone can find harmful conditions just about anywhere if they look hard enough.

sad and scary. but i guess we cant dwell on it.
scientific community (and industry) need to stay on their feet, though. like with DDT, problems will inevitably spread and species will go extinct. think of the bunnies!!!

day

Twoply, check this out:

Many independent scientists are skeptical that trace concentrations will ultimately prove to be harmful to humans. Confidence about human safety is based largely on studies that poison lab animals with much higher amounts.

There's growing concern in the scientific community, meanwhile, that certain drugs ??? or combinations of drugs ??? may harm humans over decades because water, unlike most specific foods, is consumed in sizable amounts every day.

Our bodies may shrug off a relatively big one-time dose, yet suffer from a smaller amount delivered continuously over a half century, perhaps subtly stirring allergies or nerve damage. Pregnant women, the elderly and the very ill might be more sensitive.

Yeah, I'm aware of that, but I kind of feel like there are way more known toxins we're exposed to every day that are far more frightening. I'm more worried about the fact that every day I walk along busy streets, ingesting god knows how much vehicle exhaust. Or the additives in the food I eat. Or the chemicals and fumes lingering around many of the places I've been employed. I'm not saying this issue is no cause for concern, but really, I think someone can find harmful conditions just about anywhere if they look hard enough.

I can't wait to see what Harvey has to say about this.

I hear you, but you can escape air pollution (to an extent) by moving out of the city and you can grow your own food, but this is in something we need to ingest every day to live.
I'm not sounding the alarm, but this is disconcerting:

"The federal government doesn't require any testing and hasn't set safety limits for drugs in water."

bthav

plankton eats the toxics,plankton gets eaten by fish,fish get eaten by a bear, bear gets eaten by rednecks, rednecks get eaten by cannibals, who get turned into spam, that gets eaten by hawaiians,etc.

thank u for this

HarveyCanal

Yep.

ariel_calmer

Anyway it goes, this shit can't be good. They're making it sound like this is much more widespread than ever thought before.

On the plus side, I drank a quart of tap water and my headache went away.