by ken winston caine

Need more motivation to give up plastic in your food supply?

Here’s a current scientific assessment about the apparent danger of just one chemical that leaches into our bodies from plastic bottles and containers — as well as from plastic coatings and linings that are used in canned foods and in cardboard food-and-drink boxes.

Getting plastic out of your store-bought food supply is nearly impossible to do. Plastic is used everywhere now. Over the past 25 years, it has almost universally replaced once-standard glass jars and unlined “tin” cans and waxed cardboard and waxed paper and foil packaging.

And maybe most shocking, just about a decade ago ingestible plastic suddenly appeared in the produce section of grocery markets.

It’s the shiny coating sprayed onto many fruits and vegetables.

The plastic sheen makes them look attractive in the supermarket and extends their shelf-life by sealing the surfaces, which slows the rate of surface oxidation and makes them appear to be fresher, longer.

Just try to avoid plastic for two weeks and you’ll see why I say that it is nearly impossible.

Dr. Joseph Mercola reports on “a statement by several dozen scientists, including four from federal health agencies” that analyzed 700 studies and concluded humans are exposed to dangerous levels of a chemical found in many plastics used for storing, preparing and serving food and water.

The chemical, bisphenol A, also referred to as BPA, is an estrogen-like substance known to cause cancers and reproductive disorders (more…)

Raw almonds will no longer be, well, raw, reports Mike Adams at NewsTarget.com.

The Almond Board of California has decided to require that all almonds produced in California be pasteurized or irradiated. And you won’t know. Because despite the fact that they will have been either heated or nuked, the packages will still say “raw.”

by ken winston caine

It is possible that bottled water is making you fat . . . and that it causes cancer.

Really.

The plastic bottles of designer water that you see people carrying everywhere are NOT good for you…

Packaging water in small plastic bottles has staggering environmental costs — both in the manufacturing process and in the waste-stream created when the bottles are used and tossed in the trash. You’re beginning to read a lot about that aspect of the $15 billion bottled-water obsession.

What you’re not hearing about — yet — are the little-known, but severe, personal health costs — the long-term damage you can suffer from consuming foods and liquids packaged and stored in plastic or plastic-lined containers.

It may take mainstream health and media another 10 years to get onto this. But you shouldn’t wait. You should get onto it now.

Writer Charles Fishman’s fascinating and exceptional piece of in-depth health-and-business investigative journalism in this month’s Fast Company details exactly how the plastic bottled water craze is hurting you and the planet.

Click that link and read the article.

Should you stop drinking water?

Should you stop carrying water with you?

No.

No, no, no, no, no…

The solution is simple: (more…)