One Side of Microplastics, Please. Foods With Plastic Inside and Swaps to Make

A recent study found a whole plastic spoon's worth of tiny plastic shards in human brain tissue. Pretty wild, right? Some researchers have estimated that people consume between 39,000 and 52,000 microplastic particles each year. If we add how much we take in when breathing, that number goes up to 74,000 to 121,000. Microplastics aren't something we can outrun. They're in our water, our clothes and our kitchens. Experts have also found them in the foods we eat. OK, that sounds bad, but how bad is it? "There is no officially established 'safe' or 'unsafe' level of microplastic intake. It makes sense to want your exposure to be as low as possible," Dr. Joseph Mercola, a board-certified family medicine osteopathic physician, said in an email. Microplastics can enter our food due to contamination where the food was grown, raised or processed. Mercola explained that the use of plastic mulch and plastic seed coatings in agriculture, and irrigation with contaminated water, are among the var ... Read full article.