I have to agree... wouldn't life be sooo much easier if everything just had a red light or a green one?
Anyhow, here's my anecdote in terms of plastic. I have suffered from horrible migraines since I was in high school. I've been on all sorts of medications (both preventative and PRN) cut out tons of foods, yadda, yadda, yadda. Nothing helped. The only thing I knew for sure was that fluctuating estrogen levels (like during my period) would trigger them without fail.
Soooo one night I was up late flipping channels when I happened upon a documentary about environmental estrogens. Basically, it said that we are exposed to a bunch of chemicals that mimic estrogen on the body - in the documentary they were interviewing scientists studying hermaphrodite fish and a woman doing breast cancer research whose samples were all growing wildly and messing up her study - turned out the plastic in the test tubes was leaching into the samples and having the same effect as estrogen.
Anyhow, the show said that the chemicals are mostly found in plastics, detergents and herbicides. So I decided that maybe, just maybe those chemicals were if not causing, then certainly exacerbating my migraines. So I tried an experiment for a few months and did what I could do minimize my exposure. I stopped storing liquid foods in plastic, stopped putting it in the microwave, stopped eating canned foods (BPA in the lining of the cans), stopped wearing a plastic mouth guard at night, and stopped using weed killer on my lawn.
The result was miraculous. I went from 2-3 headaches per month to 2-3 per year! Now... that's not even close to a scientific study, but it was enough to convince me. I admit that I have slipped a bit over the years, and I do use more plastic than I used to (and I also have a few more migraines than when I was being really careful.)
So take that for what it's worth!
Oh... and being a redhead, I too worry about sun damage. I was one of those kids required to wear a t-shirt in the pool and I was NEVER allowed to wear sleeveless shirts. But I certainly got my fair share of bad sunburns. I guess there's nothing I can do about it now other than try to be careful. Of course there are people who think that skin cancer is caused by a vitamin D deficiency and sunscreens are making it worse... AAARRRGGGHH!
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Anyhow, here's my anecdote in terms of plastic. I have suffered from horrible migraines since I was in high school. I've been on all sorts of medications (both preventative and PRN) cut out tons of foods, yadda, yadda, yadda. Nothing helped. The only thing I knew for sure was that fluctuating estrogen levels (like during my period) would trigger them without fail.
Soooo one night I was up late flipping channels when I happened upon a documentary about environmental estrogens. Basically, it said that we are exposed to a bunch of chemicals that mimic estrogen on the body - in the documentary they were interviewing scientists studying hermaphrodite fish and a woman doing breast cancer research whose samples were all growing wildly and messing up her study - turned out the plastic in the test tubes was leaching into the samples and having the same effect as estrogen.
Anyhow, the show said that the chemicals are mostly found in plastics, detergents and herbicides. So I decided that maybe, just maybe those chemicals were if not causing, then certainly exacerbating my migraines. So I tried an experiment for a few months and did what I could do minimize my exposure. I stopped storing liquid foods in plastic, stopped putting it in the microwave, stopped eating canned foods (BPA in the lining of the cans), stopped wearing a plastic mouth guard at night, and stopped using weed killer on my lawn.
The result was miraculous. I went from 2-3 headaches per month to 2-3 per year! Now... that's not even close to a scientific study, but it was enough to convince me. I admit that I have slipped a bit over the years, and I do use more plastic than I used to (and I also have a few more migraines than when I was being really careful.)
So take that for what it's worth!
Oh... and being a redhead, I too worry about sun damage. I was one of those kids required to wear a t-shirt in the pool and I was NEVER allowed to wear sleeveless shirts. But I certainly got my fair share of bad sunburns. I guess there's nothing I can do about it now other than try to be careful. Of course there are people who think that skin cancer is caused by a vitamin D deficiency and sunscreens are making it worse... AAARRRGGGHH!
xoxoxo,
Cat