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Blacks, Latinos have a thirst for bottled water

A study published in the Archives of Pediatrics & Adolescent Medicine suggests African- American parents are three times more likely than their white peers to waste a sizeable chunk of their income on bottled water.

Dr. Marc Gorelick, who led the study, says black parents are likely to prefer bottled water because they think it is safer, cleaner, better-tasting and more convenient than tap water, reports Medpage Today.

"I would argue that people should save their money and drink tap water," Dr. Gorelick told Reuters Health.

Researchers surveyed 632 parents visiting an emergency department in Milwaukee and found that a quarter of blacks and Hispanics give their children only bottled water, compared to eight percent of white parents.

According to Gorelick, there can be a downside to drinking bottled water.

"Most bottled water is just purified tap water -- there really aren't any more nutrients in it," he explained.

Related Articles

• Mother Jones: Why Bottled Water Companies Target Blacks and Latinos
• Forbes: Why Minorities Reach for Bottled Water over Tap & How Marketers Persuade Them

QUESTION: Do you drink tap water?
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Researchers surprised by study of black patients on dialysis

For years, medical studies have reached the same conclusion: African-American patients do better on kidney dialysis than their white counterparts. But new Johns Hopkins research, published in the Journal of the American Medical Association, shows that younger blacks — those under the age of 50 — actually do much worse on dialysis than equally sick whites who undergo the same blood-filtering process. The findings - called “surprising” by the research team - found that blacks between the ages of 18 and 30 were nearly twice as likely to die on dialysis as white patients of the same age. (Read more)

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