Microwave Popcorn | Fatal Conveniences™

SuperLife with Darin Olien

Darin Olien

Activism, Motivation, Environment, Education, Self-improvement, Fitness, Wellness, Health, Alternative Health, Health & Fitness

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🗓️ 13 April 2023

⏱️ 21 minutes

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Summary

Microwave popcorn is a worldwide popular comfy food we have all enjoyed while at parties, movie nights, family or friends gatherings, and much more. Many brands offer a wide variety of flavors and presentations, and while we all know it can be a nice addition to happy memories we will explain how it is simply much better to wipe them out of your diet. Not only do they have a high concentration of chemicals, preservatives and unnatural ingredients that can be harmful to human health they are also a relevant contributor of waste and unwanted chemicals in the environment. Regardless of their practicality and easy-to-prepare methods, the potential negative impacts that you might experience later on are not worth some popcorn.

Reliable Sources where you can learn more:

• Bioavailability and health risk assessment of potentially toxic elements in popcorn kernel from sandy loam Ferric Luvisol amended with municipal solid waste compost

• Spirometric Abnormalities and Lung Function Decline in Current and Former Microwave Popcorn and Current Flavoring Manufacturing Workers

• Risk assessment of per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) in food: Symposium proceedings

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Transcript

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0:00.0	Microwave popcorn is a worldwide, amazing popular comfort food.
0:09.2	We all enjoy popcorn.
0:11.3	I still enjoy popcorn.
0:14.1	Parties, movie nights, family, friends, gatherings, the crunch, the flavor, it's so good and it
0:21.4	comes with so many happy memories.
0:23.9	Today, we will explore how this seemingly innocent comfort food has been hijacked in the way
0:32.9	that we are now consuming it in our diet.
0:36.4	Not only do we have a high concentration now of chemicals, preservatives, and unnatural
0:44.4	unrecognizable ingredients in that comfort food of popcorn that we now know it is absolutely
0:53.1	harmful to our health, to children's health, and it's taken the comfort and has added a fatal
1:01.0	aspect to it.
1:02.4	Regardless of their practicality and ease to prepare this comfort food, this popcorn,
1:11.9	it has potential negative impacts that you might be experiencing later in your life consuming
1:20.3	a cacophony of many chemicals that are labeled forever chemicals.
1:28.5	We are going to dive into this fatal convenience, microwave popcorn.
1:34.7	I want to send a huge thank you to my sponsor, Bite Toothpaste.
1:41.7	I love this company.
1:44.2	This brand now is a critical part of my life because I have eliminated toothpaste tubes
1:51.8	and I didn't realize I hated them.
1:54.8	Now, I don't because I just have these bites that are in the glass container and if I'm
2:02.7	going on vacation on a trip, I just grab a few bites and it's easy.
2:09.7	Bite Toothpaste bits I've been using now for a long time and I love this refillable
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