Replace your toxic microplastic leaching Tupperware away and switch to reusable borosilicate glass!
Make the switch to Glass Food Storage Containers
Microplastic are in us. We cannot escape it.
However, we can minimize our consumption of them.
Heating food in Tupperware containers significantly increases our exposure to microplastics (Hussain et al., 2023)
I believed I was eating healthy by bringing my lunches to work and heating them up. Unaware that I was consuming millions of micro/nano plastics with every mouthful. (Even refrigerating can still release millions of microplastics over a period of months.) Hussain and co found that in 3 minutes of microwaving only one square centimeter of plastic released 4.22 million microplastic and 2.11 billion nanoplastic particles.
(Guo et al., 2023) also concluded that “heating lead to significantly higher release of Microplastics”. I won’t sit here and misrepresent what the studies say because they do mention a “safe level” of 20.3 ng/kg·day for infants drinking microwaved water. I am just struggling to understand what that means. Hussain indicated a deadly level and that too I am finding difficult to interpret.
I’m just a builder trying to better understand and avoid toxins that we are readily consuming.
I have found the studies showing how much plastic leaches into us, particularly when heated. I can find studies demonstrating how microplastics in particular damage our reproductive health. With studies like from Zurub et al. (2024) we begin to see a picture of microplastics effects on human reproductive health, pregnancy and child health. They go over how plastic exposure increase directly co insides with the worrying drop in male sperm production. Male and female reproductive health are at risk.
Zurub and co also describe microplastics devastating effects on mice and their offspring. The damage microplastics do to other species is much clearer and I don’t want any part in it.
We just don’t have the quantity or quality of science that we need for regulators to make firm decisions.
Why not? I think it’s because studies require money, and the investors expect a return on their money. Finding out in which way micro, or nano plastics disrupt and damage our cells doesn’t make anyone any money.
The decision to consume food through plastics becomes your prerogative. Your choice. That is empowering.
You can gamble and “wait for the science” or you can use your intuition.
How long did the science take to realise Asbestos was bad? 4 decades before cancerous nonstick Teflon was banned? or can I simply mention Cigarettes.
Make the best decision for your health, spend $40 and slash your microplastic exposure.
Chances are I will be offering a 4 Glass Containers 4 $40 on my website. If the deal isn’t there, try flick me a message on Instagram and we might be able to work something out.
My mission is to help people live a healthier life and I make minimal money on many of my deals but I am fine with that because I sleep good knowing that I am helping people.
Since the 1980’s the prevalence of obesity has almost doubled. To the extent that almost a third of the world’s population is now seen as obese. (Chooi et al., 2018) In the frequency of adults with diabetes has also doubled in a similar time frame (Lucye, 2021)
Evidently despite having access to more information on how to live healthier we are becoming unhealthier?
The British Health Foundation estimated that in 1990 an estimated that globally 305 million people were living with a circulatory heart condition. At the turn of the century the figure was 375 million and rose to 480 million in 2010 (Global Burden of Disease 2024)
Allergies, people with intolerances, asthma (Lv et al., 2024) and even back pain statistics are on the rise (Freburger et al., 2009). It is estimate that the prevalence of ADHD has almost doubled from 1997 to 2016. Additionally according to Richter (2024) Autism rates in the US have gone from 1 in 150 in the 2000’s to 1 in 36 today.
Mental health issues are at record highs. We seem to becoming unhealthier and unhappier.
My message is do what we can.
We can control what and how we put things in our bodies.
We can replace our Tupperware with Glass Containers, we can replace plastic water bottles with reusable Stainless Steel bottles, we can throw away our non stick pans and use Cast Iron or Stainless Steel. We can replace our parents jug from ones with plastic components on the inside to stainless steel one (true story)
There are things we can do to reduce our exposure to harmful toxins. So, what are you waiting for?
Let’s move together on the path towards better health
References
Chooi, Y. C., Ding, C., & Magkos, F. (2018). The epidemiology of obesity. Metabolism, 92, 6–10. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.metabol.2018.09.005
Freburger, J. K., Holmes, G. M., Agans, R. P., Jackman, A. M., Darter, J. D., Wallace, A. S., Castel, L. D., Kalsbeek, W. D., & Carey, T. S. (2009). The rising prevalence of chronic low back pain. Archives of Internal Medicine, 169(3), 251. https://doi.org/10.1001/archinternmed.2008.543
Global Burden of Disease (2024) estimates for 2021 http://ghdx.healthdata.org/gbd-results-tool
Guo, X., Dai, H., & He, L. (2023). Migration testing of microplastics from selected water and food containers by Raman microscopy. Journal of Hazardous Materials, 462, 132798. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jhazmat.2023.132798
Hussain, K. A., Romanova, S., Okur, I., Zhang, D., Kuebler, J., Huang, X., Wang, B., Fernandez-Ballester, L., Lu, Y., Schubert, M., & Li, Y. (2023). Assessing the Release of Microplastics and Nanoplastics from Plastic Containers and Reusable Food Pouches: Implications for Human Health. Environmental Science & Technology, 57(26), 9782–9792. https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.est.3c01942
Lv, J., Kong, X., Zhao, Y., Li, X., Guo, Z., Zhang, Y., & Cheng, Z. (2024). Global, regional and national epidemiology of allergic disorders in children from 1990 to 2019: findings from the Global Burden of Disease study 2019. BMJ Open, 14(4), e080612. https://doi.org/10.1136/bmjopen-2023-080612
Lucye. (2021, May 4). Diabetes diagnoses double in the last 15 years. Diabetes UK. https://www.diabetes.org.uk/about-us/news-and-views/diabetes-diagnoses-doubled-prevalence-2021
Richter, F. (2024, April 2). The rising prevalence of autism. Statista Daily Data. https://www.statista.com/chart/29630/identified-prevalence-of-autism-spectrum-disorder-in-the-us/#:~:text=While%206.7%20in%201%2C000%20children%20were%20diagnosed%20with,from%201%20in%20150%20children%2020%20years%20ago
World Health Organization: WHO & World Health Organization: WHO. (2024, November 14). Diabetes. https://www.who.int/news-room/fact-sheets/detail/diabetes
Zurub, R. E., Cariaco, Y., Wade, M. G., & Bainbridge, S. A. (2024). Microplastics exposure: implications for human fertility, pregnancy and child health. Frontiers in Endocrinology, 14. https://doi.org/10.3389/fendo.2023.1330396