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Why you need to STOP microwaving plastic
Plastic is everywhere. It's sneaking into our food, our water, and even the air we breathe. New research shows these tiny microplastics can harm our health, leading to cancer, infertility, and hormone disruptions. Want to cut down on your plastic intake? We'll walk you through ways to reduce your exposure - and that includes the microwave!
FEATURING:
Tracey Woodruff, Professor, UCSF
READ MORE:
- The CalSPEC Microplastics Report: uccs.ucdavis.edu/calspec/2022-research-topic
- I'm a microplastics researcher. Here's how to limit their dangers: www.ucsf.edu/news/2024/02/427161/how-to-limit-microplastics-dangers
CITATIONS:
Study on how microplastics affect our health
uccs.ucdavis.edu/sites/g/files/dgvnsk12071/files/media/documents/CalSPEC-Report-Microplastics-Occurrence-Health%20Effects-and-Mitigation-Policies.pdf
Study on microplastics in microwaved plastic containers:
pubs.acs.org/doi/full/10.1021/acs.est.3c01942
Study on microplastics in tap water vs bottled water:
www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9103198/
Microplastics in Every Human Placenta:
hsc.unm.edu/news/2024/02/hsc-newsroom-post-microplastics.html
Effects of Swallowing Microplastics: Distribution, Harm, and Inflammation in Mice:
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/17435390.2021.1996650
Association of Microplastics and Erectile Dysfunction:
www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5675227/
Can Meat and Meat-Products Induce Oxidative Stress?
www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7402184/
Comprehensive Review of Red Meat Consumption and the Risk of Cancer
www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10577092/
Plastic particle pollution in human blood:
www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0160412022001258
Analysis of Microplastics in Human Feces:
pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acs.est.1c03924
Laundry is a top source of microplastic pollution:
www.pbs.org/newshour/science/laundry-is-a-top-source-of-microplastic-pollution-heres-how-to-clean-your-clothes-more-sustainably
#plastic #plasticfree #healthtips
CHAPTERS
00:00 We’re eating how much microplastic?!
00:29 What are microplastics?
01:26 Where do microplastics come from?
01:53 How microplastics effect our health
02:48 Microplastics and cancer
04:01 Why you shouldn't microwave plastic
04:21 How to avoid microplastics
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FEATURING:
Tracey Woodruff, Professor, UCSF
READ MORE:
- The CalSPEC Microplastics Report: uccs.ucdavis.edu/calspec/2022-research-topic
- I'm a microplastics researcher. Here's how to limit their dangers: www.ucsf.edu/news/2024/02/427161/how-to-limit-microplastics-dangers
CITATIONS:
Study on how microplastics affect our health
uccs.ucdavis.edu/sites/g/files/dgvnsk12071/files/media/documents/CalSPEC-Report-Microplastics-Occurrence-Health%20Effects-and-Mitigation-Policies.pdf
Study on microplastics in microwaved plastic containers:
pubs.acs.org/doi/full/10.1021/acs.est.3c01942
Study on microplastics in tap water vs bottled water:
www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9103198/
Microplastics in Every Human Placenta:
hsc.unm.edu/news/2024/02/hsc-newsroom-post-microplastics.html
Effects of Swallowing Microplastics: Distribution, Harm, and Inflammation in Mice:
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/17435390.2021.1996650
Association of Microplastics and Erectile Dysfunction:
www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5675227/
Can Meat and Meat-Products Induce Oxidative Stress?
www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7402184/
Comprehensive Review of Red Meat Consumption and the Risk of Cancer
www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10577092/
Plastic particle pollution in human blood:
www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0160412022001258
Analysis of Microplastics in Human Feces:
pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acs.est.1c03924
Laundry is a top source of microplastic pollution:
www.pbs.org/newshour/science/laundry-is-a-top-source-of-microplastic-pollution-heres-how-to-clean-your-clothes-more-sustainably
#plastic #plasticfree #healthtips
CHAPTERS
00:00 We’re eating how much microplastic?!
00:29 What are microplastics?
01:26 Where do microplastics come from?
01:53 How microplastics effect our health
02:48 Microplastics and cancer
04:01 Why you shouldn't microwave plastic
04:21 How to avoid microplastics
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Everyone knows this. Too bad nobody cares. In all of Asia, plastic takeout containers are the dominant vehicle for takeout and delivery. Imagine boiling hot soup being poured straight into a plastic bag. Each and every meal is like this. Hopefully education improves.
I say we allow companies to overproduce and force feed us plastic.i can’t wait to be full of the petroleum byproducts of our wealthy overlords 🫡
What about #5 plastic Polypropylene?
HMMmmmmm micro plastic
Full on my macro and micro plastics
can we just ban plastics at this point and deal with it
I really enjoy my brita filter. The water was noticeably clearer, and it tasted better. An electric countertop distiller would be even better if one can afford it.
Cooking + plastic = a big no-no! With that principle in mind, I don’t use non-stick pots and pans, or even plastic coffee machines(!), for the same reasons why microwaving plastic containers is not great
What if someone rips it out of your head? 🤕
It's not my fault that these companies are using these materials and selling these products to me as if I can't survive without it. I just live here.
Only ceramic or glass should go in the microwave
Marvel will create a superhero call Plastic-man.
The benefit of plastic outweigh the negative.
Ive been drinking bottled water for years. Guess im part plastic
Si si claro,se yo e tenido golpes en la cabeza muchos más fuertes que esa y mírame,lechuga como fresco
But, what about silicone Tupperware.
A lot of reports I'm hearing equate microplastics with chemicals in plastics. Not the same thing.
Mind your damn business.
Lolololol the brokeback mountain clip BROO 😂
Seems like part of the issue might be the choke hold oil and petrochemical companies have on our politicians, the reason we are not slowing down on plastic production is because the oil companies don't want us too! So cool, they are polluting the air and environment with petrol fumes and now effecting our bodies with plastic byproduct waste.
mmmm microplastics 😋
Microplastics are stored in the balls
Plastic is used everywhere because it is cheap. Else products would be beyond the reach of the poorest consumers. And the rest of us in society is too lazy to transfer food to metal or glass containers at home. It's one of those "live 10 years shorter but enjoy the time we have more" kind of things.
Too short
So what to use to meal prep and freeze the food? Sometimes I prepare 12-16 containers of food and store it in the freezer. Container manufacturer claims that they are both freeze and microwave safe, so I do defrost and heat these meals in the microwave. Is there any other way to safely do the same?
How about microwave safe ones?!
No thanks. I like the taste of microplastic in my irradiated food.
So, my mom was right all along...
what? no, I never even started. people are microwaving plastic???
I have been on a glass and bamboo container streak for years. I actually am a kid of a former roughneck and I'm pretty sure plastics and petrochemicals and pesticides are why my immune system is so bad lmao
Did he really just tell me to drink tap water 😂
In what world are plastics indestructible? They get scratched easily, shedding those microshavings. Drop a polystyrene box with inbuilt planned obsolescence. Containers have to have at least one part an elastomer to form a seal. If you store some crystals like suger in there, it gets stuck in the threads and the plastic gets abraded into dust. Plastics ned to be collected and burned instead of waiting for them to break up into this hazardous dust. That landfill on the illustration might as well be a pool of petroleum. I don't heat plastic in a microwave oven at all. Heat and plastics don't mix.
How to avoid micro plastics? Do nothing lol is too late already and corporations don’t care in continuing using plastic. You can’t just put this on normal people like it happened with the failed recycle programs. This has to come from the very top which is the production lines and regulate the use and fabrication of plastics
So I can drink tap water and be poisoned with forever chemicals or drink bottled water and get microplastics. Great.
Eating red meat is not a cause of cancer.
5 min vidéo starts at 4:00
This is so interesting and engaging! Splendiferous efforts.
But plastic makes food taste so good 😊
I see frozen food which are to microwaved in plastic containers 😭
With all the fear mongering around health and diet, it's good to hear advice from the experts.
You know what else causes cancer?? Telling everyone that everything they do to function in the society they live in... wait for it... causes cancer! Brain cancer if you ask me. As if we don't have enough stupid shit to try to avoid. It doesn't matter does it? Because what can you really do about it?? Go live in an underwater cave? Mars? Climb a tree and never come down? Instead of adding to the never ending bullshit parade, how about the money spent on studies to link rubicks cubes to colon cancer be redirected to finding a solution for CANCER. It's so obviously not the goal of any research institue. What would they do if they found a cure? Get jobs doing real work? Have you seen the new ad campaign? Here in Ohio there are billboards asking in huge letters. Are you Pre-Diabetic? What? I must be if I'm not already a diabetic right? What do I do? OMG!! I'm gonna DIE!! I better start paying attention to another bogeyman. Maybe I'll ask my doctor if insulin is right for me. Like the TV ad suggests in every pharma ad I have ever seen or heard. It's sickening.
Can't do nothing no more
But if the argument is to stop microwaving plastic containers because after 3min the covalent bonds begin to break... don't we wash our dishes with a plastic sponge or alternatively with a dish washer that uses plastic tubing in most modern areas of the world? If so wouldn't our non-plastic dishes and plastic dishes have similar levels of microplastics to begin with and thus already 'muddies the water' with what's recommended vs reality?
Why did someone began microwaving plastic in the first place?
Mmm
Tap water instead of bottled!? What about PFAS and leaded pipes??? How are experts recommending anyone use Americas water infrastructure for drinking water when considering the prevalence of leaded pipes???
So my mother was right... time to apologize now 😅
Okay I'll stop using a plastic spoon to stir 🥲 my water is still "filtered" through a plastic filter. Everything else I use is glass. I hate it here.
Microplastics are filtered at water treatment plants, which means there are none in the water that we drink. Microwave safe plastic and bpa free plastic do not leech chemicals into the water or food. There is so little reasearch done on Microplastics because its pretty much recognized by the scientific community that Microplastics have basically zero negative effect on the environment. This video is nothing but another fear mongering news piece.
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