Research from New York University has revealed that the chemicals in plastics are secretly harming our health, leading to a surge in diseases such as obesity, preterm birth, ai, diabetes, heart disease, and even brain damage in young children! So where does all this plastic come from? In daily life, the most common in disposable food packaging and outside boxes of perfluoroalkyl; food bags, plastic wrap and other commonly used additives phthalates; electronic products, furniture and textiles of polybrominated diphenyl ethers; do not let these common items at home, become our health hazards.
Reduce the entry of microplastics into the human body by adopting these 5 habits.
1.Reduce the use of disposable plastic products
Reduce the use of disposable plastic tableware, because the use of disposable paper cups, plastic lunch boxes, plastic bowls and spoons, bags, etc. are plastic products.
2. Develop the habit of boiling water to drink their own cups, preferably glass, enamel cups, or stainless steel cups. Try to boil their own tap water to drink or cool white, less drinking bottled water.
3. Do not eat in a bowl set of plastic bags
Do not put plastic bags in the bowl of hot food; need to pack the best use of degradation box, bring your own lunch box is better. Because high temperature will increase the rate and number of microplastics.
4. Adopt the habit of using less plastic straws
Liquid contact with the wall of plastic straws will bring microplastics into the body, and hot drinks will increase the risk, some people like to bite the straw.Some people like to bite the straws, and plastic straws produce more microplastics when they are subjected to external forces.
5. Eat less processed foods wrapped in plastic.
Eat less processed food. Processed food is packaged in layers, which puts it at a higher risk of microplastic contamination. The inside of canned food is usually coated with BPA, and microplastics will inevitably degrade in the food.
Finally, plastic bottles, plastic bags, don't throw, garbage classification into the designated trash cans to reduce environmental pollution, to avoid microplastics through the food chain into the human body.
