Speedy Gambling

There seems to have been an ongoing debate between the benefits of drinking tap water as opposed to bottled water and vice versa, for as long as I’ve been alive at least. There was a sudden rush of bottled water advocates back in the nineties, where everyone was suddenly adamant that bottled water was far purer and leaner than its tapped cousin. Then people from the tap camp retaliated with the message that tap water is perfectly healthy and, if anything, it’s good to expose the body to a bit of dirt to get the immune system performing at it’s optimum levels. So it went on this fued between tap and non tappers, and then the filtered tappers came into play too. Now there’s an idea doing the rounds that proposes that tap water is a possible danger to the unborn child of a pregnant woman. Apparently problem chemicals can be found in tap water that increase the risk of minor to major defects in children. These range from a cleft palate- which is 50% more likely, to the hole-in-the-heart defect- 80% more likely. These are disturbing discoveries. Whether there’s any weight behind them remains to be seen, but if you were pregnant, would you take the risk?