<p>A fellow customer at my local bicycle shop cautioned me against using the typical plastic sport water bottle, saying that plastic compound lnalgene eeches minute amounts of dangerous chemicals into the water. However, apparently many cyclists and others like nalgene plastic bottles because the bottles tend not to disflavor the water like other kinds of plastic. Is anyone familiar with the ‘evidence’ of the alleged health trade-off?</p>
<p>From what I’ve heard you’re not supposed to reuse those regular bottles, but Nalgene ones are the best for no plastic/taste transfer, if washed correctly.</p>
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<p>I don’t use nalgene
what seems to be safer is use disposable bottles once or twice</p>
<p>Maybe I’m dense, but why would it be better to use the bottled water (who knows how long the water has been sitting in that bottle?) rather than the nalgene that you might just keep water in for an hour or so while you work out?</p>
<p>So assuming that this statement is true, it would still require that the water be sitting in the bottle for some amount of time and if the dangerous chemical (if it even exists doesn’t just dissolve and attacks the water at once, it is a gradual change. So if you are scared, you could just toss out the water every day or something.</p>
<p>wasn’t this on snopes as false a few years ago?</p>
<p><a href=“http://www.snopes.com/medical/toxins/petbottles.asp[/url]”>http://www.snopes.com/medical/toxins/petbottles.asp</a></p>
<p>The safety of Nalgene water bottles has not been completely determined. Like many other “scares”, the science is still being studied. Nalgene is a product used in water quality labs all the time. </p>
<p><a href=“http://www.mndaily.com/articles/2006/04/10/67942[/url]”>http://www.mndaily.com/articles/2006/04/10/67942</a></p>
<p>I had no knowledge of this controversy. This moring I read a couple of items on Health Science websites. The Nalgene company swears its lexan bottles are safe, and that use by millions of hikers, cyclists, young parents etc. with no evidence of poor health bears out the safety of the product.</p>
<p>But a lot of doctors insist that lexan and PET plastics are risky for food and beverage storage. In addition to aluminum bottles, doctors recommend that containers made of the following plastics are safe for water etc.;</p>
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<p>Aluminum bottles - - I don’t think so. I remember the old army canteens full of corrosion. We even got rid of all our aluminum cooking containers. Tomato sauces and other acidic foods would pit these and clearly the metals were dissolving into the food.</p>
<p>There seems to be no end to the rumors about plastic water bottles and beverage containers. Last year there was a big fuss about freezing these containers. I guess this started as a hoax and a lot of overly concerned or gullible individuals took the hoax seriously. I always have wondered about Kraft cheese slices. The taste always reminds me of the plastic wrapper.</p>
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<p>Given the nature of the product, it probably doesn’t make much difference if you eat either the pasteurized processed cheese food, or the wrapper.</p>
<p>I’d say the risk is overstated with domestically produced bottles suitable for containing food. </p>
<p>You’d die much sooner from heat stroke or a stress-induced heart attack from NOT drinking enough water during exercise than from whatever minute compounds would leach out of such containers. Maybe if you’d were force-fed billions of gallons of liquid from said bottles…oops, that might kill you in the process long before any cancer could develop, so much for that risk.</p>
<p>Go forth, exercise, drink appropriately and be hydrated.</p>
<p>Finally, I purchased a couple of LDPE4 water bottles from a bike shop. I did check out Nalegene lexan bottles. Nice looking (LOL), but 10 bucks or more??? I’m not that thirsty. Incidentally, even the Nalgene company makes LDPE4 plastic water bottles, or so I understand.</p>