I am tired of hearing news which warns us about harmful side effects of certain products with the most recent one being plastic utensils.
Plastic contains BPA, a chemical which is suspected to cause brain dysfunction and mood disorders. Under curcumstances where you purchase a plastic container solely for decorative purposes, there is no way the BPA can get into your body. However, I believe most of us uses plastic containers to hold our food so that we can eat them. Heres the catch; food contains acids which will gradually break down the BPA inside the plastic and when the BPA goes into the food, we will ingest them together with whatever we are eating. Similarly, microwaving and washing plastic containers with detergent and warm water will also contribute to this BPA breaking down process.
SO, for our health's sake, we have been advised to use glass containers.
What now? Are we supposed to exchange all our plastic containers to glass containers? No, definitely not. These kind of reports come and go. Who knows, one year down the road, some researchers will realise that actually there are microscopic glass shards inside these glass containers which will cut up our organs if we ingest them. So we should switch to metal containers instead. No, wait! The metallic atoms inside the metal containers will gradually get detached one by one and get ingested by us. This increases the chance of CANCER! Stop using metal containers at once.
What then? Use our hands like those people living near the Indian Ocean? No! STOP! Our hands are full of bacteria. Stop killing yourself!
Goodness. This is endless.
First, chocolate is bad for our health. Suddenly, someone realises something and dark chocolate is good for our health. Alcohol is bad for health but red wine helps reduce the risk of cancer. We should drink as much water as possible as it is good for health. But now, drink too much and we risk getting water intoxicated. If something were to be harmful to us, then why market them in the first place? Isnt it just so that some megacorps can earn heaps upon heaps of fortune from consumerism?
Ultimately, if we have the intelligence and discipline to take everything in moderation, nothing will affect us. I just feel that these reports are being generated just so somebody can be recognized for their works. In other words, redundant information.
Seriously, why is our world so shallow?
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