The plastic in your water bottle is as small as a micron.Using new laser techniques, biophysicists at Columbia and Rutgers universities discovered about 250,000 pieces of nanoplastics per liter of five different brands of bottled water, says Andrew Wong, MD, primary care provider for the Hartford HealthCare Medical Group in Westport."These are a micron in size. For reference, a strand of hair is 80 microns in width," says Dr. Wong. "There have been studies on what's visible to the naked eye, but not to this number."The pieces, he says, are polyethylene plastic molecules broken off from the bottles or the plastic filters used in production.>Related: Puas yog 'Cov Tshuaj Tiv Thaiv Mus Ib Txhis' cuam tshuam rau Koj Kev Noj Qab Haus Huv?
Plastic won't affect the taste, but could be dangerous to consume.While not affecting the water's taste or texture, it's possible the plastic can be dangerous to consume, Dr. Wong says."We know certain types of plastic carcinogenic, but they're not used to make plastic bottles. Yet, we know water bottle waste affects multiple systems in sea life," he says.The body can absorb the particles and even cross the blood/brain barrier to trigger cellular structure or DNA damage."We know cancer has increased 13% in the last 10 years in people under 50, probably the biggest consumers of bottled water," Dr. Wong begins. "We also know the risk of colon cancer is two to four times higher in people born after 1990."At the same time, he notes a 15% increase in digestive disorders like inflammatory bowel and Crohn's diseases."We don't know the cause of these increases, so now need to investigate the impact of plastic water bottles," Dr. Wong says.>Xav tau xov xwm kev noj qab haus huv ntxiv? Sau ntawv StartHere rau 85209 txhawm rau sau npe rau cov ntawv ceeb toom
3 txoj hauv kev zoo dua los haus koj cov dej Tsis tau muaj kev txav mus los txwv tsis pub cov dej ntim hauv lub raj mis, tab sis Dr. Wong qhia txog cov kev xaiv no kom tau txais koj cov dej hauv:
Siv cov thawv ntim khoom txhuas lossis iav.
Haus dej haus.
Lim dej los ntawm cov khoom siv dej ceramic los yog carbon.
Tab sis yog tias koj siv cov fwj dej yas, tsis txhob ua qhov yuam kev no. Tseem nyiam qhov yooj yim ntawm cov fwj dej yas?" Tsuas yog tsis txhob tso lawv kom sov lossis tshav ntuj, xws li tawm hauv lub tsheb thaum nruab hnub. cov yas kom tawg, "Dr. Wong hais.
