by James Hubbard, M.D., M.P.H.

I’m sure you’ve seen the headlines, “study finds contaminants in bottled water.”  Just the type of health news everyone loves to print, the scare of the day.  I’m doing it, too.  Who cares who did the study or was it peer reviewed?  This news sells.  An environmental advocacy group called Environmental Working Group did the tests on bottled water.  I don’t know the group.  I assume they are legit.   But what did they really find?

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by James Hubbard, M.D., M.P.H.

One hundred years ago today, the U.S. began adding chlorine to drinking water, says Andre M. Blackman, publicist for the industry association American Chemistry Council. Now I know there is a controversy with some regarding dangers of chorine, but can anyone truly argue that it hasn’t save lives? It has virtually wiped out the deadly diseases typhoid and cholera where it’s used–not to mention numerous viral, bacterial and parasitic infections.

Four of the points Blackman noted to JHMFD managing editor Leigh Ann Hubbard are:

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