{"id":70326,"date":"2025-01-12T19:17:58","date_gmt":"2025-01-12T19:17:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/?p=70326"},"modified":"2025-01-12T19:17:58","modified_gmt":"2025-01-12T19:17:58","slug":"fears-tap-water-could-be-putting-27-million-brits-at-risk-of-dementia-why-drinking-soft-water-could-lead-to-degenerative-disease-as-map-shows-worst-affected-areas-of-the-uk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/2025\/01\/12\/fears-tap-water-could-be-putting-27-million-brits-at-risk-of-dementia-why-drinking-soft-water-could-lead-to-degenerative-disease-as-map-shows-worst-affected-areas-of-the-uk\/","title":{"rendered":"Fears tap water could be putting 27 million Brits at risk of dementia: Why drinking &#8216;soft water&#8217; could lead to degenerative disease &#8211; as map shows worst-affected areas of the UK"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span><p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2025\/01\/11\/20\/93997257-0-image-a-4_1736629036526.jpg\" alt=\"A\u00a0study suggests people who live in 'softer water' areas of the UK \u00bf 40 per cent of the UK population, around 27 million Britons \u00bf may be at increased risk of the degenerative disease (stock image)\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Millions of people may be up to a third more likely to develop dementia because of their tap water, new research has found.\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-14274407\/27-MILLION-Britons-soft-water-dementia.html\"> Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span>Millions of people may be up to a third more likely to develop dementia because of their tap water, new research has&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":37979,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[154],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-70326","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-health"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/tap-water.jpg","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70326","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=70326"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70326\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":70327,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70326\/revisions\/70327"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/37979"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=70326"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=70326"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=70326"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}