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Welcome to The Well-Fedwomen Podcast.

This is episode number 365.

I'm so happy you're here.

I'm your host, Newell Tar of coconuts and ketoballs.com.

Today I'm going to be talking with the pediatric hospitalists about something that we all come

into contact with every single day, and that is plastic.

And more so than us, our kids are coming into contact with plastic all the time at every

turn.

In 2018, something really profound happened.

The American Academy of Pediatrics took a stand and said, in quotations, rapidly accumulating

scientific evidence suggests that certain chemicals added during the processing of food

and those that may come into contact with food as part of packaging or processing may

contribute to disease and disability.

According to the AAP, these additives are particularly dangerous for our children,

and that's because children are more sensitive to chemical exposures because they eat and

drink more relative to body weight than adults do and are still growing and developing, and

it can actually hinder their growth and development.

So in their report, they actually called for the FDA to correct weaknesses in its policies

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