Water and oil do mix. Not in the gut all at once but you do need to increase your water intake to give the good fats a chance to fight the good fight. Within the non-carbonated bottled water market there are two primary products: spring water and purified water. These two products account for the majority of the industry's sales and consumption.

Also included in this market are bottled artesian, drinking and mineral waters, but they only represent a small percentage of sales. With so many types of water on the shelves, how do you know exactly what you are getting? Fortunately for American consumers, bottled water is a regulated food product. Local public health departments, along with the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), oversee the packaging and labeling of bottled water products in the United States.

The FDA carefully regulates the statements that producers put on bottled water labels and prohibits deceptive or misleading labeling. While the FDA does a good job of monitoring label content, the average consumer is generally unaware of what constitutes the water in that bottle. To help define bottled waters on the market, the FDA has definitions for the various types of drinking water available today:

Artesian Water: Water from a well that taps a confined aquifer (a water-bearing underground layer of rock or sand) in which the water level is above the top of the aquifer.

Drinking Water: Water that is sold for human consumption in sanitary containers and contains no added sweeteners or chemical additives. It must be calorie-free and sugar-free.

Mineral Water: Water that has a level and constant proportion of minerals and trace elements that are naturally occurring from the source and cannot be added.

Purified Water: Water that has been produced by distillation, deionization, reverse osmosis or other processes and that meet the definition of purified water in the U.S. Pharmacopoeia (USP) 23.

Spring Water: Water derived from an underground source that flows naturally to the surface of the earth. Generally, spring water goes through a treatment process such as filtration or ozonization (in which ozone is added to disinfect it) when bottled.