mommykink@lemmy.world to Showerthoughts@lemmy.world · 9 months agoYou don't really see people chewing gum anymore.message-squaremessage-square108fedilinkarrow-up1193arrow-down141
arrow-up1152arrow-down1message-squareYou don't really see people chewing gum anymore.mommykink@lemmy.world to Showerthoughts@lemmy.world · 9 months agomessage-square108fedilink
minus-squareguyrocket@kbin.sociallinkfedilinkarrow-up20arrow-down2·9 months agoDoesn’t help anything that most “gum base” has PLASTIC in it.
minus-squareStereoTrespasser@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up16·edit-29 months agoYea I loved gum right up until the recent study clearly linking microplastics in the body and chewing gum.
minus-squareImmersive_Matthew@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkarrow-up4·9 months agoReally? I am not entirely surprised but did the study say how the plastic was getting in there?
minus-squareintensely_human@lemm.eelinkfedilinkarrow-up8arrow-down1·9 months agoTurns out the flavor crystals were just ground up spoons
minus-squarefrunch@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up4·9 months agoI’m just gonna go ahead and believe this without further research, that’s too good an explanation to let go of, lol
minus-squarelobut@lemmy.calinkfedilinkarrow-up8·9 months agoYeah the microplastics in gum thing really threw me off when I found out about it.
minus-squarePossibly linux@lemmy.ziplinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up6arrow-down21·9 months agoWell your bowl of ice cream has carbon in it. Does it matter? No
minus-squareNefara@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up12·edit-29 months agoYou’d probably mind if your ice cream had lead in it. Microplastics will be the lead poisoning of the new century. They’re carcinogens and endocrine disruptors and we don’t even know the full extent of the effects they have.
minus-squareDarkenLM@kbin.sociallinkfedilinkarrow-up8·9 months agoA good chunk of the atoms in our bodies are carbon, yet we don’t see plastic being naturally created on our bodies, now do we?
minus-squarePossibly linux@lemmy.ziplinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1arrow-down1·9 months agohttps://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biopolymer
minus-squareDarkenLM@kbin.sociallinkfedilinkarrow-up3·9 months agoFYI, not all polymers are plastics. All plastics are polymers, but it’s not a double equivalence.
Doesn’t help anything that most “gum base” has PLASTIC in it.
Yea I loved gum right up until the recent study clearly linking microplastics in the body and chewing gum.
Really? I am not entirely surprised but did the study say how the plastic was getting in there?
Turns out the flavor crystals were just ground up spoons
I’m just gonna go ahead and believe this without further research, that’s too good an explanation to let go of, lol
Yeah the microplastics in gum thing really threw me off when I found out about it.
Well your bowl of ice cream has carbon in it. Does it matter? No
You’d probably mind if your ice cream had lead in it. Microplastics will be the lead poisoning of the new century. They’re carcinogens and endocrine disruptors and we don’t even know the full extent of the effects they have.
A good chunk of the atoms in our bodies are carbon, yet we don’t see plastic being naturally created on our bodies, now do we?
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biopolymer
FYI, not all polymers are plastics. All plastics are polymers, but it’s not a double equivalence.