Bottled Beers

Clifford Beers

A great reformer has passed on. Clifford Whittingham Beers died on July 9th, 1943, at Providence, U.S.A., but his fine enthusiastic and farseeing spirit has left behind it work which persists and grows. At a time when such ideas as his were regarded as almost too progressive, and, in some quarters indeed, as subversive and revolutionary, he, a recovered patient, demonstrated the value of indivi...

Bottled & Sold: The Story Behind Our Obsession with Bottled Water

In Bottled & Sold, Peter Gleick offers a broad indictment of the bottled water industry, which Gleick asserts has successfully pulled the wool over the eyes of a generation of Americans who would be better off drinking from the tap. Criticism of bottled water is not new; for more than a decade, environmental organizations and others have observed that the water in the bottle is often of no bett...

2012 Beers Criteria.

Is bottled water better?

Sir-In a French case-control study of breast cancer (Le et al., 1984), we interviewed as controls (nonmalignant disease or no disease) 403 women aged 25 to 45 years in eight French hospitals and clinics during the period 1981-1984. All these women already had an experience of sexual intercourse. The year of birth was strongly associated with the main characteristics of oral contraceptive (OC) u...

Bottled water and bacteria.

Buyers of bottled water, mistakenly believing it “greener” and safer than the tap variety, have had a terrible shock recently. Suddenly, the packaging and long-distance transportation of mineral water in plastic or glass has been recognised as environmentally barmy. Journalists reporting the volte-face have also been pointing out that the product is nothing like as pristine as its purveyors cla...