Sugar
cell phones/screens
Sugar, especially in the US where it’s literally added into everything. What’s worse is the alternative (substitutes like aspartame) might also be a candidate and we just don’t know it yet because enough time hasn’t passed to study the long term effects. I try to take stevia as much as possible because it’s more “natural”, but only a few sugar-free products use it over aspartame. I read recently the WHO still considers aspartame as a carcinogen, but only in excessive amounts, like several glasses of soda a day.
Teflon.
Worth noting companies usually know it’s dangerous way before the public does.
The chemicals used in Teflon manufacturing
Plastics.
Yes, all plastics. Even bpa free plastics leak estrogenic chemicals into food, and fpod is often stored in plastic containers. Even milk cartons are lined with plastic.
Teflon(nonstick coated pans and pots) arr similarly terrible
Shoes with a raised heel is bad for your knees. (Easily measurably bad. Especially for running)
Social media. All forms. Including this one.
progestin-based contraceptive implants
Fiberglass insulation.
Everyone knows that you don’t want asbestos getting into your lungs, but there seems to be a prominent disregard for basic safety in preventing inhilation of fiberglass for people who work with the stuff because it’s “better” than asbestos.
Generally you don’t want to be breathing in any kinds of particulate, but fiberglass is literally fibers made of glass. You are breathing in shards of glass.
Artificial sweeteners?
Micro plastics. We were advertising them in facial scrubs ffs.
This, big time. Pretty much every product or package contains some plastics, including so many one-time use disposable ones. Plastics are infesting the Earth from pole to pole, they are everywhere. Clothes are made of plastic, do laundry and a bunch of microplastics go down the drain. Car tires drop microplastics as they wear. And then there’s all the large ones we can see like plastic bags, bottles, etc.
Plastic in general, except that we know and just keep doing it. I’m trying to use less plastic if I can but it’s frickin everywhere. If you want to buy an ear of corn it’s wrapped in plastic as if it isn’t already wrapped in nature’s protection. Seriously people.
So, the movie The Graduate was prophetic.
PFAS, which are needed to produce teflon and other nonstick materials. It currently begins to attack attention, but wasn’t really an issue a few years ago. It doesn’t decay naturally so it will be forever in the environment. The EU is even planning to ban all PFAS.
Perhaps microplastic? I know it already kills by choking turtles or so but no answer yet if it can cause some health effects.
Edit: Just saw the comments now microplastic seem to be the most common comments. So here is another go, The chemical they used in cars I think it’s VOC/ also known as new car smell currently it can make some people sea sick. Right now there is lack of study that it is actually toxic.
Social media
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I thought the comments section would be filled with vapes.
Guys, i think vapes are a good candidate for something that hindsight will show us was dangerous, and i think images of teens smoking Juul will age as poorly as kids drinking beer.
