Today too, like every day, you started your morning with tea and packaged toast. For breakfast, tasted packaged bread with jam packed in a plastic container. Sipped chaani with packed breakfast in the office. The lunch we ate in the afternoon was home-made, but the ice cream we ate with it came out of a packaging box. How routine and normal all this seems.
But do you know that the packaging food we use in daily life can give rise to breast cancer in our body. Yes, a recent research has confirmed that every day we include 76 such chemicals in our diet, knowingly or unknowingly, which promote breast cancer. Breast cancer is a silent killer. Due to this, lakhs of people lose their lives every year and in many cases even deaths are not registered.
Recently a study was published in the world famous journal 'Frontiers'. This study shows that 189 cancer-causing chemicals have been found in food contact materials used for food packaging, out of which 76 are such that they are going into our body. It also contains hazardous chemicals such as per- and polyfluoro-alkyl substances (PFAS), bisphenols, and phthalates. This is extremely dangerous for the human body.
Not only this, another study published in 'Journal of Exposure Science and Environmental Epidemiology' by Switzerland-based Food Packaging Forum Foundation has revealed that more than 3,600 chemicals used in food packaging have been found in the human body, out of which about 100 chemicals are harmful. It is extremely dangerous for human health.
so today in 'health water' We will tell you about ways to avoid cancer causing chemicals found in food packaging. You will also know that-
Earlier we have told you in detail about breast cancer. So here we will discuss only packaging food.
Why are packaged foods dangerous?
We often use packaged food in our daily routine without any thought and consider it safe, but it is very dangerous for our health. Because most of the food packaging materials contain plastic elements and dangerous chemicals, which enter the body through food and invite many serious diseases like breast cancer.
Ways to avoid food chemicals To avoid chemicals in packaged food, first of all you have to be health conscious. Avoid using any packaged food items. Do not use plastic utensils for cooking. In the following graphic, we are telling you some tips to avoid food packaging chemicals.
13 million people die every year in the world due to environmental toxins.
Environmental toxins are also one of the main causes of diseases. Let us know what environmental poisons are and why they are so dangerous? Environmental toxins are natural and man-made chemicals that can mimic or interfere with the body's hormones. This is known as endocrine system. These include naturally occurring compounds lead, mercury, radon, formaldehyde, benzene and cadmium and man-made chemicals such as BPA, phthalates and pesticides.
These endocrine system disruptors are found in the products we use every day. This includes some plastic bottles and containers, foods, detergents, flame retardants, toys, beauty products and pesticides. Each of these poisons affects our body in different ways. They stop our body from functioning and put our health at risk, unbalance our hormones and can even reduce longevity. According to the World Health Organization (WHO), 13 million people die every year in the world due to environmental toxins. Learn about diseases caused by environmental toxins .
Ways to reduce exposure to environmental toxins We can't completely control our environment, but we can reduce our risks by being aware of the problems we face. Learn about this in the following pointers.
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