{"id":33087,"date":"2018-04-03T09:22:02","date_gmt":"2018-04-03T14:22:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=33087"},"modified":"2018-04-03T09:22:02","modified_gmt":"2018-04-03T14:22:02","slug":"9-mindful-ways-to-start-breaking-up-with-plastic-for-good","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=33087","title":{"rendered":"9 Mindful Ways to Start Breaking Up With Plastic \u2013 For Good!"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3><a href=\"http:\/\/readynutrition.com\/resources\/9-mindful-ways-to-start-breaking-up-with-plastic-for-good_02042018\/\">9 Mindful Ways to Start Breaking Up With Plastic \u2013 For Good!<\/a><\/h3>\n<p><center><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-45548\" src=\"http:\/\/readynutrition.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/water.jpg\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" srcset=\"http:\/\/readynutrition.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/water.jpg 500w, http:\/\/readynutrition.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/water-300x290.jpg 300w\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"483\" \/><\/center>One of the big problems with our prepackaged, modern, consumer spending-based economies is that <em>everything<\/em> is mass-produced in plastic with little or no regard for the future problems\u00a0it creates.\u00a0To date, 14 billion pounds of garbage are dumped into the ocean every year \u2013 most of it being plastic.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/amzn.to\/2ptQ2tm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com\/images\/I\/51i13OyQ1EL._SX346_BO1,204,203,200_.jpg\" alt=\"Image result for the jungle upton sinclair\" width=\"196\" height=\"281\" \/><\/a>The book \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/amzn.to\/2ptQ2tm\">The Jungle<\/a>,\u201d by Upton Sinclair basically was the blueprint that propelled the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fda.gov\/AboutFDA\/WhatWeDo\/History\/FOrgsHistory\/EvolvingPowers\/ucm054819.htm\">FDA<\/a> into action against big industry and how detrimental it can be to the individual.\u00a0 Time, however, is the factor that erodes both conscience and consciousness, in that order.<\/p>\n<p>Each generation faces new challenges from a system designed to follow profit-potential rather than the welfare of the people confined within it.\u00a0 No exceptions are to be found in the food and beverage industries: most of their products are either unhealthy or outright poisonous due to dyes, preservatives or additives.\u00a0 No less the containers and packaging they are in.<\/p>\n<p>Recently several articles surfaced that categorized these problems.\u00a0 Rather than \u201crehash\u201d the information, in a nutshell, I will summarize it.\u00a0 <strong>BPA\u2019s<\/strong> <strong>(Bisphenol A\u2019s)<\/strong> are chemicals used in plastic bottles, containers, and on the interior liners that are found in many food <a href=\"http:\/\/readynutrition.com\/resources\/whats-lurking-in-your-canned-goods_13042011\/\">cans<\/a>.\u00a0 This chemical has been in use for more than fifty years and is found to be linked to male infertility, low sperm counts, and prostate cancer, as well as, breast cancer in women.<\/p>\n<p><strong>How This Will Affect Your Body<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>BPA lodges<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-45540 alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/readynutrition.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/plastic-dishes.jpg\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 388px) 100vw, 388px\" srcset=\"http:\/\/readynutrition.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/plastic-dishes.jpg 350w, http:\/\/readynutrition.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/plastic-dishes-300x282.jpg 300w\" alt=\"\" width=\"388\" height=\"365\" \/> in the body\u2019s fat cells and disrupts endocrine function\u2026this is your body\u2019s hormonal system.\u00a0 Here are two articles you can read to reference these problems:<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;click on the above link to read the rest of the article&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>9 Mindful Ways to Start Breaking Up With Plastic \u2013 For Good! One of the big problems with our prepackaged, modern, consumer spending-based economies is that everything is mass-produced in plastic with little or no regard for the future problems\u00a0it creates.\u00a0To date, 14 billion pounds of garbage are dumped into the ocean every year \u2013 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[19665,395,12881,630,638,6787,11732],"class_list":["post-33087","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-environment","tag-containers","tag-health","tag-jeremiah-johnson","tag-plastic","tag-pollution","tag-ready-nutrition","tag-storage"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33087","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=33087"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33087\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33088,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33087\/revisions\/33088"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=33087"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=33087"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=33087"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}