Wellness water
• Miracle Cures, Health Quackery
Used to be a tiny niche market but now major corporations are tapping into the market for 'oxygenated' and 'clustered' water:
Wessely, a confirmed tap drinker whose field is the study of modern health fears, said oxygenated water "doesn't have any healing or medicinal properties. It's marketing pure and simple, and it's using pseudoscience."
But consumers are responding. Sales are soaring by more than 25 percent a year in North America, Western Europe and Japan, Zenith International, a British beverage consultant, said.