I will err on the side of not wanting them in my body
I will err on the side of not wanting them in my body
I am fairly sure the question that should be asked is "How bad is it" not "Is it bad". For THOUSANDS OF YEARS we didn't have plastic and it did not exist in the human body and now it is invading every cell of the body. This cannot be a good thing. Especially since some plastics leach chemicals that act like hormones.
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>In March last year, researchers found that among a group of nearly 300 participants, people who had higher concentrations of plastics in deposits of fat in their arteries (arterial plaques) were more likely to experience heart attacks or strokes, and more likely to die as a result, than those in whom plastics were not detected1. Since it was published, the New England Journal of Medicine study has been mentioned more than 6,600 times on social media and more than 800 times in news articles and blogs. The issue of whether plastics are entering human tissues and what impacts they might have on health is understandably of great interest to scientists, industry and society. Indeed, for the past few years there have been news stories almost every month about peer-reviewed articles that have reported findings of plastic particles in all sorts of human tissues and bodily fluids — including the lungs, heart, penis, placenta and breast milk. And in multiple countries, policymakers are being urged to implement measures to limit people’s exposure to nanoplastics and microplastics.
I am fairly sure the question that should be asked is "How bad is it" not "Is it bad".
For THOUSANDS OF YEARS we didn't have plastic and it did not exist in the human body and now it is invading every cell of the body.
This cannot be a good thing. Especially since some plastics leach chemicals that act like hormones.
Archive: https://archive.today/EB2bC
From the post:
>>In March last year, researchers found that among a group of nearly 300 participants, people who had higher concentrations of plastics in deposits of fat in their arteries (arterial plaques) were more likely to experience heart attacks or strokes, and more likely to die as a result, than those in whom plastics were not detected1. Since it was published, the New England Journal of Medicine study has been mentioned more than 6,600 times on social media and more than 800 times in news articles and blogs.
The issue of whether plastics are entering human tissues and what impacts they might have on health is understandably of great interest to scientists, industry and society. Indeed, for the past few years there have been news stories almost every month about peer-reviewed articles that have reported findings of plastic particles in all sorts of human tissues and bodily fluids — including the lungs, heart, penis, placenta and breast milk. And in multiple countries, policymakers are being urged to implement measures to limit people’s exposure to nanoplastics and microplastics.
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