S.NA the last trip to New Orleans, King Cake Baby, for me, has become a symbol of everywhere in the diet. Kok King is a sweet, sweet -beloved Mardi Gras season, and when the bakers who cook them are hidden, they hide a small plastic child in each of them. Everyone who gets a segment with the child receives good luck next year.
I write about toxic chemicals for a livelihood, so when I learned of traditions, she allowed small shelters while estimating the number of strict plastic that the child should raise in the cake.
Then I reviewed myself. The amount of plastic or chemicals that will leak to the slide where the child ends small.
I look at these things completely, and the exact gesture everywhere. After I wrote about careful plastic for years, I have developed some of the principles that I think about when I took steps to avoid it. I will share them below.
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1. You cannot avoid it completely
Deficient plastics everywhere in the diet – seafood, waterand Produceand Meatand beerAnd rice, especially Very processed foods. Meanwhile, plastic kitchen appliances are a major source of pollution at home. Everything adds: one appreciationOn average, we take about 3.8 meters of careful plastic annually, and a lot through food.
Possible health effects of strict plastic are still in concentration, but some of them are still research He linked them to an increase in the risk of heart attack and stroke, for example, and there are scientists who suggest that it is wise to try to reduce exposure.
Some plastic will definitely end in your food, regardless of what you do. Do not lead yourself to madness in an attempt to avoid each last one, and do not have to get rid of everything in your kitchen today.
Instead, set the easiest priorities that you can take to avoid chemicals, such as switching plastic kitchen utensils with elements made of safer alternatives, such as wood and stainless steel, which are largely toxic materials. For example, if you have a plastic script, try this stainless steel.
But also give priority to those situations where there is a consistent source of flour plastic, or plastic chemicals, in your diet. Chemicals are the most dangerous when there is fixed exposure to them over time. For example, I realized a friend that the espresso maker that you use three times a day has a heated plastic pieces. This may be a great source of chemicals for plastic and plastic chemicals. She does not expel her immediately, but she also started thinking about alternatives to a dose of delicate plastic three times daily. (My friend is looking for some plastic espresso makers here))
2. Avoid plastic heating
Plastic box It contains Any of about 16,000 chemicals, thousands of them It is believed to be “Very dangerous”, and these chemicals and fine plastic He can wear At much higher rates when heated or contact with food and hot or acid drink.
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The level in which the plastic leaks in hot materials in some scenarios is somewhat amazing-I have recently encountered research that showed that paper cups of coffee are one use. It can climb Elasticate parts of plastic when adding hot liquid. Likewise, tea bags It can be released Billions of particles, and the microwave plastic is Also a problem. Plastic tools that come in short with hot pans, from my view, are a little less anxiety – but it is also easy to avoid, by getting new utensils.
3. Reduce plastic, even if you could not avoid it completely
For years, I used a mixer with a large plastic jar to make morning juices. Plastic can permeate at higher rates where the pieces are used over and over again, and I recently faded that I may have got more plastic than I wanted in my juice.
But I did not find any plastic -free mix. The covers and ingredients appear at the bottom that carry the blade and the jar is installed on the base made globally from plastic.
You will face similar scenarios where there is no plastic free alternative. When this happens, just do what you can. I ended up turning into a mixer with a glass jar that did not remove all plastic from the process, but it greatly reduced the amount that comes into contact with the morning juice.
You will find the same problem with a food therapist. It can be found with glass jars, but also has plastic ingredients. Another great example – most of which are made of plastic, or contain some plastic ingredients. In some cases, this is the best that can be done, and this is good. Any step in the right direction is meaningful in the long run.
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