In Bob Barney’s recent broadcast entitled Your Health Today – It’s in Your Hands, he touches on the amount of plastic we carry around in our bodies. As we are exposed to plastics of all kinds from the water bottles we drink from all the way to the plastic wrappings even our organic vegetables are enrobed in… we really don’t have a fighting chance. Here is a compilation of some recent studies to read, to challenge, and to explore with your health in mind.
So which IS safer, tap or bottled? Experts give their verdict after startling study found 240,000 cancer-causing Nano plastics in average liter of water in stores
Researchers at Columbia University found the average liter bottle of store-bought water contains over 240,000 nanoplastics, tiny molecules linked to cancer, infertility and birth defects.
DailyMail.com spoke to the lead authors of the new study, who said the entire team reduced their bottled water consumption after uncovering the tiny particles.
They said they were eager to get the results to the public to help them make informed decisions about their habits. READ MORE>>>
Average bottle of water contains 240,000 pieces of cancer-causing nanoplastics – 100 times more than previously thought
Bottles of plastic water contain hundreds of thousands of toxic microscopic plastic particles, new research has found.
The findings are likely to shock anyone who has swapped from tap to bottled water, believing it was better for their health.
Drinking water from a bottle could mean you are contaminating your body with tiny bits of plastic, which scientists fear can accumulate in your vital organs with unknown health implications. University of Columbia researchers tested three popular brands of bottled water sold in the United States – and, using lasers, analyzed the plastic particles they contained down to just 100 nanometers in size.
The particles – nanoplastics – are much smaller than the microplastics previously detected in bottled water.
However, the particles are considered potentially toxic because they are so small that they can enter directly into blood cells and the brain.
These microscopic particles carry phthalates — chemicals that make plastics more durable, flexible, and lasting longer.
Phthalate exposure is attributed to 100,000 premature deaths in the US each year. The chemicals are known to interfere with hormone production in the body.
They are ‘linked with developmental, reproductive, brain, immune, and other problems’, according to the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences.
The highest estimates found 370,000 particles.
Nanoplastics had been too difficult to detect using conventional techniques, which could only find microplastics ranging from 5mm down to 1 micrometer – a millionth of a meter, or 1/25,000th of an inch. Nanoplastic particles are less than 1 micrometer across.
Groundbreaking research in 2018 found around 300 microplastic particles in a liter of bottled water – but researchers were limited by their measurement techniques at the time.
Research is now underway across the world to assess the potentially harmful effects.
The team used a new technique called Stimulated Raman Scattering (SRS) microscopy, which was recently invented by one of the paper’s co-authors.
The method probes bottles with two lasers tuned to make specific molecules resonate, and a computer algorithm determines their origin.
The results showed that nanoparticles made up 90 percent of these molecules, and 10 percent were microplastics.
One common type found of nanoparticle was polyethylene terephthalate or PET. READ MORE>>>>
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