What Is Your Poison?

You may be getting more than you bargained for in your beverages. Whether at home or abroad, the question could be, “Coffee, tea, or arsenic?” And don’t look for clues – this toxic element is colourless, odourless, and tasteless in water.

Arsenic is a natural component of rocks rich in certain link, including iron and sulphur compounds, such as iron pyrite. As part of normal erosion processes, arsenic leaches out of rock into groundwater supplies – and then can move into wells and other drinking water sources. These inorganic forms of link are more toxic than their link counterparts. Currently, the World Health Organization limit is 10 micrograms of arsenic per litre; many countries such as the US and link have adopted this guideline.

Chronic exposure to arsenic may lead to a host of link, including cardiovascular and pulmonary disease, neurological problems, skin complaints, and a higher risk of certain cancers. Exposure to arsenic is not reversible. You can find the entire article here link

I never even knew that arsenic was in these beverages? My poison would have to be coffee. I drink way to much of it. Very interesting article.

Coffee and sometimes tea. =( I’m trying to cut down. But sometimes, it’s really just the taste. It’s so good. EEEK!

Ouch, glad I don’t drink any of these. Now to try and convince my family to stop drinking it.

Mine is coffee also. The only thing though the article does not state specifics by country For instance, Colombian coffee is very popular but I saw no mention to Colombia. In the a IRC report prepared by members of UNESCO only 3 countries are mentioned in Eastern Europe.

[URL]http://www.irc.nl/content/download/29654/307381/file/TOP17_Arsenic_07.pdf>link

Coffee and sometimes tea. =( I’m trying to cut down. But sometimes, it’s really just the taste. It’s so good. EEEK!

I’m going to say that I don’t really have a poison. I drink mostly water and if the other things would disappear, I don’t think I’d miss them much.

I’m going to say that I don’t really have a poison. I drink mostly water and if the other things would disappear, I don’t think I’d miss them much.

The title of the IRC report is Arsenic in Drinking Water. So besides coffee and tea, you would be affected also.

I don’t drink coffee but I do drink soda pop, Dr Pepper. I don’t drink tap water either. I do drink bottled water. I guess I better start paying more attention.

This is interesting indeed, especially since I heard awhile back one of the bottled water companies admitted that their water was in fact the same water that came out of a tap.

Exactly. It’s not the coffee or tea, it’s the water used to prepare those beverages. Which means water in general is affected. Now, does arsenic survive the boiling process, or is it at least diminished? If so, there would be more risk in simply drinking tap water than in preparing drinks or food that require boiling. Plus, while iron and other minerals can be filtered out using water purification systems, if arsenic cannot, there seems to be no real way to battle it. If it is, that’s just another reason people should be a little more conscious of cleaning their tap water (plus then their tap water would be far better than the bottled kind anyway).

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Water filters can be purchased that filter out arsenic. It is quite scary to find out all the chemicals in our water!

Arsenic does not get affected by boiling..everending that is for sure and the more you drink the more get accumalated in the body….and you know what artificially ripened fruits and vegggies too have been found to contain arsenic!!!

You know what, life’s too short for me to have to go through it without coffee. I’ll make it my contribution to the planet that I don’t run around screaming my head off because I don’t have any.

My caffeine intake is necessary. It’s my way of cutting down on noise pollution, you see.