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Where would we be without plastic?

Parents rely on plastic passifiers,

plastic toys, and plastic bike helmets.

This is the People's Pharmacy with lightweight and unbreakable. They make great food containers.

Now they're everywhere, including in us. Is that a problem?

Young people have more plastic in their bodies relative to their size than older folks.

One major source of plastic is ultra-processed food.

Microscopic particles of plastic are often embedded in the food and are also in the

packaging.

Can busy parents feed their kids without relying on ultra-processed food.

Coming up on the People's Pharmacy, protecting children from the perils of plastic. In the People's Pharmacy Health Headlines.

Doctors could predict women's risk of heart disease

decades in advance if they use three common blood tests.

Research published in the New England Journal of Medicine demonstrates that

inflammation and a Del cholesterol and L.P. L. L.A. levels in the 1990s for nearly 30,000 participants of the

Women's Health Study. Thirty years later, these healthy middle-aged women had experienced more than 3,600 cardiovascular events.

People with the highest levels of CRP were 70 percent more likely to have had one. High levels of LDL cholesterol increased the risk by 36

percent, while women with high levels of L.P. Little A. were 33 percent more likely to have had a heart attack or stroke.

Doctors rarely measure LP little A even though it's a key risk factor in heart disease.

When there's a history of heart attacks and families,

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