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What item you use frequently would you be least surprised to learn is secretly bad for you?
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My insulin.
this post was submitted on 07 Dec 2024
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Plastic food containers. I mean, we already know it's pretty bad, but I would not be surprised if it ends up being way worse than we think. That, and most aerosols. Febreze, hairspray, spray tans, things of that nature
I stopped microwaving plastic containers like 15-20 years ago. Hopefully thatβs enough.
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I just saw an article the other day that black plastic utensils are toxic. I'm right there with you.
A couple places near me still use styrofoam. I can't get past it.
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Our phones are probably doing something to us
We know that depending on your use it can ruin your attention span. But I agree, it's probably worse than we know.
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Probably my asbestos fake snow.
But your snow is, at least, fireproof!
Not all snow can make that promise. Some is quite flammable.
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The electric heating pad I sleep on. I wouldn't be surprised if some study finds that something about sleeping on wires would be kinda bad long-term. Maybe something about residual currents or the minimal magnetic field from the wires, idk
I haven't been able to use one of these since I used a crummy one about 12 years ago and got burned, but it was so insanely nice to be so toasty.
Yeah, that's very valid! I'd like to think that the technology got safer in the past years, but honestly I don't even wanna check and risk having to give up the coziness
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The fireproofing chemicals are pretty bad for you.
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Probably my vape tbh
I figure we may see documetaries in yhr next decade on how Vape industry was complicit like the tabacco industry was
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I wouldn't be surprised. I wish there was a way to enjoy flavor without any horrific side effects.
Tea, maybe?
I also drink tea but in between swallows I could see myself enjoying a vape, if they weren't bad for me. Which is why I have never used one.
E: Drinking Yukon Gold at the mo'.
But, I want it in my lungs and steaming liquid flavor water doesnβt sound like itβll mix well with those.
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Does it count if I already know whiskey is bad for me?
It absolutely counts, if you wouldn't be surprised to learn that it's worse for you than you know.
Toothbrush. In one hand it scrubs food and gunk away and helps distribute fluoride toothpaste around. On the other itβs made of tiny plastic bristles that are probably disintegrating when in your mouth and growing a fun ecosystem when out of it.
Ever since I heard of microplastic, this has been on my mind quite a bit. Although it might not be "ingested" if they are micro enough, it can probably still get absorbed every time you brush. Multiple that by every day of your life and, boom, now there's plastic in my balls and I'm 3D printing on my girl's face.
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the number of things growing on your toothbrush is definitely non zero but being frequently scrubbed in sodium fluoride probably inhibits a good portion of it\
related though, electronic toothbrushes are way, way better in terms of tooth care, and my understanding the last time I read through marketing bullshit a few years ago was that the rotational/mechanical ones were better than the ones that just vibrate i.e. Oral B vs Sonicare, but the fucking Oral B toothbrush heads have fucking exposed bits of the mechanism, like, there's these holes in it, so like, guess what? mold grows in there
I don't understand how that isn't like, you know, a massive design flaw that should be changed immediately, but I guess they want people to swap toothbrushes more often than mold would grow, idk
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This is a clever answer and now I completely agree with you.
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