I'm not sure that it does promotes healthy drinking habits as much as it promotes drinking a specific product (WAT-AAH!), a water beverage (one of the varieties is pure water, the other flavors include other ingrendients and flavorings, such as calcium and other electrolytes).
I think it reinforces the ideas that there's something worng with "plain" water - and that even plain water should be purchased in bottles to be healthy.
Water sold in single-use plastic bottles, creates a lot of unnecessary garbage. It's not a dietary issue, but it is an economic and ecological one.
I'm not saying it's a bad product, but it's primary purpose is to sell that product. If parents want to buy it, that's fine, but I don't think the commercial will do much if anything to convince kids to drink water out of the tap, which is the most enconomical, ecological choice, and usually just as healthy (in most cases tap water is no more or less healthy than bottled water.
Bottled waters can be unfiltered tap water - and even when filtered, most people can get the exact same results with a Britta or other cheap filtering system.
Last edited by kaplods; 05-21-2010 at 03:10 PM.
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