Show 1381: How to Eat Less Plastic

The People's Pharmacy

Joe and Terry Graedon

Health & Fitness, Medicine, Kids & Family, Alternative Health

4.5 • 934 Ratings

🗓️ 10 April 2024

⏱️ 72 minutes

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Chemists use compounds such as bisphenols and phthalates to help make plastic packaging strong and durable. In this episode, two experts describe how these chemicals get into our food and how we can minimize our exposure. They share their advice on how to eat less plastic. You may want to listen through your local public […]

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0:00.0	I'm Joe Gradyton and I'm Terry Grady. Welcome to this podcast of the People's Pharmacy.
0:06.1	You can find previous podcasts and more information on a range of health topics at people's pharmacy.com.
0:15.0	Plastics permeate our lives.
0:17.0	They're in our plumbing, water bottles, and yogurt containers.
0:20.0	Now chemicals from plastic are in us.
0:23.0	This is the People's Pharmacy with Terry and Joe Grayden.
0:27.0	How do plasticizers end up in the foods we're eating? Consumer reports has done a thorough
0:40.0	investigation into this growing problem.
0:43.0	They found plastic compounds in beverages, canned beans, fast food, milk, and yogurt,
0:49.0	as well as many prepared meals.
0:51.0	How did they get there and what can we do to avoid them?
0:55.0	We talk with two of the Consumer Reports experts behind this expose.
1:00.0	Are substitutes for endocrine disruptors any safer?
1:03.6	Coming up on the People's Pharmacy
1:05.7	How to Eat Less Plastic. In The People's Pharmacy Health Headlines, Excessive Salt Intake has been linked to hypertension and other cardiovascular complications.
1:23.6	Getting people to cut back on salt is a challenge, however.
1:27.6	That's because people like the taste of salt.
1:30.6	Imagine chips, pretzels, or chicken soup with no salt. Is it possible to get a salty flavor
1:38.0	without sodium chloride? Will such salt substitutes be beneficial?
1:44.0	A new study in the annals of internal medicine examined 16 randomized control trials of salt substitution.
1:51.0	Over 30,000 volunteers were part of these trials. These studies showed that
1:56.5	replacing some of the sodium chloride in salt with potassium chloride reduces
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