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Where does your bottled water really come from??

  • Posted by Gentel
  • Last updated: Friday, February 4, 2011
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I read a very interesting article a couple of weeks ago about the sources of bottled water brands. I think about the commercials and advertisements that I’ve seen over the years and they always advertise their water as being “all-natural” and “straight from the finest springs”, and for some reason, you believe that. I mean, [...]

What exactly is MTBE???

  • Posted by Gentel
  • Last updated: Monday, January 10, 2011
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We here at Stonybrook have been saying for years that our filtration system removes the harmful chemical, MTBE. I was curious to find out exactly what this chemical is, how it gets into our water in the first place and what it does to our bodies.
MTBE is short for methyl-t-butyl-ether, which is among a group [...]

Drink this, not that!

  • Posted by Gentel
  • Last updated: Sunday, January 2, 2011
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We live in a society where obesity is quickly becoming an epidemic. The problem is especially concerning in children and teenagers, the prevalence of obesity in kids and teens has DOUBLED in the last 20 years!
A study was published in 2010 in the Archives of Pediatrics and Adolescent Medicine, which concluded with a simple and [...]