Health Nation: chicken and bottled water are in, red meat is out

who said bottled water is healthy?

who said bottled water is healthy?

Whoever made this graph implies that total water consumption is captured by proxy by the total sales of bottled water. This probably isn't true. Total water consumption could have stayed the same and some of the tap-water drinkers simply might have converted over to bottled water.

Also, why is increased chicken per capita good? What about the other dietary staples? Was the chicken cooked in lard? What's the trend of total meat consumption?

Too many confounders to make any conclusions without more research...

This doesn't take into account the people who have gone off the grid and buy from small local farms. AKA. FOODIES. You also don't see anything about fish and Vegetarians. Seeing as the data came from the .gov, it's biased and flawed anyway. They are subsidizers of Factory Farming which has contributed to most of the health problems coming from food.

And bottled water has been shown to have more contaminants than regular tap water. It's not healthier, just more convenient. Although I do find EVIAN to taste better than any other water even though it spells NIAVE backwards...

Funny that bottled water is seen as healthy, considering that it transforms a free, healthy, unpackaged product and turns it into a corporate commodity that creates massive amounts of garbage.

I'm worried that some people might construe that these trends and the rising obesity percentages are correlative. Do you know if this data takes into account fast-food sources of the aforementioned food types?