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Modern food innovations that could be destroying your health.

All right, number one, plastic in our food.

Microplastics are pieces of plastic smaller than 5 millimeters.

Some of them are used in cosmetics or tooth-based, but most result from the floating waste that is constantly

exposed to UV radiation and crumbles into smaller and smaller pieces in the

ocean or in our lakes and rivers. in the

smaller pieces in the ocean or in our lakes and rivers.

50 trillion such particles float in the ocean

where our marine life swallow them.

And as you know, you are what the animal you're eating ate and it turns out

that fish either fresh or salt water have actual pieces of microplastics contained in their flesh.

But that's not the only way plastics have made it into our food.

Plastic water bottles and foods wrapped in plastic packaging are also wrecking our health.

Here's how.

Every time we put something in plastic wrap, it leeches endocrine disruptors into us. Now I've written and

spoken a lot about endocrine disruptors, but let's give it another go-around.

Endocrine disruptors are endocrine-like substances,

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