Category: plastic

• Monthly food hacks for fewer toxins in 2025

  In addition to providing sustenance and enjoyment, the food we eat can be contaminated with hundreds of toxic chemicals, including pesticides, plastic components, and cancer-causing molecules formed during cooking. While you can’t avoid everything, there’s a lot you can do to reduce your exposure in the first place, in other words, to pre-detox. To figure out…

  laurelstandley

  January 31, 2025

  clean eating, food and beverages, pesticides, plant-based, plastic, reducing exposure, toxic chemicals

  environment, food, health, plastic, toxins, wellness

• “One word: plastics.” Health concerns and tips to reduce exposure in your diet.

  In the nearly sixty years since that line was uttered by Dustin Hoffman in the movie The Graduate, plastics have spread far and wide across the surface of the earth. They, or their breakdown products, are present in samples collected from the deepest oceans, on mountain tops, in air and clouds, our homes, our food, and…

  laurelstandley

  June 6, 2024

  food and beverages, plastic, reducing exposure, toxic chemicals

  diet, environment, exposure, food, health, microplastics, plastic, plastic-pollution