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I personally try to avoid canned drinks and foods to avoid metal poisoning. I typically buy two liter sodas in plastic bottles and avoid softer plastics. Styrof
by DoreenMichele 3y ago
I personally try to avoid canned drinks and foods to avoid metal poisoning. I typically buy two liter sodas in plastic bottles and avoid softer plastics. Styrofoam cups and other styrofoam food containers are awful. If you get hot food in a styrofoam go box, the box is often visibly marked by contact with hot food and you can smell it and taste it.
It's also potentially a reason to switch to an electric vehicle -- to avoid exposure to gas fumes while refueling your vehicle. (Or you can be "an extremist nutter" like me and give up your car entirely.)
- quickthrowman 3y agoCanned food and beverage cans are lined with epoxy or plastic.
- romseb 3y agoThis is what you ingest when you drink/eat food from a can: https://youtu.be/pGZyT9vGraw?t=135 https://youtu.be/pGZyT9vGraw?t=135
- hinkley 3y agoWhen I was young and poor I used to use a spatula to get the last 20 calories out of the can. Now I plop out whatever comes out and then rinse the remainder down the drain before dropping it into recycling. I figure some large fraction of the leachate stays near the lining (unless you shake vigorously, or the contents are highly liquid at room temperature)
- lm28469 3y ago> I typically buy two liter sodas in plastic bottles and avoid softer plastics. If you drink that plastic is the least of your problems > It's also potentially a reason to switch to an electric vehicle -- to avoid exposure to gas fumes while refueling your vehicle. Car interiors are off-gassing nasty shit all the time, especially when they sit in the sun
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- Taywee 3y agoBoth of those things are straight-up improvements, even if they're not perfect. You can nit-pick every single thing all you want, but better is better.
- digging 3y agoChanging the container your soda comes in is like sanding off splinters from the sharpened stake you're about to stab into your leg.
- DoreenMichele 3y agoIt's a lot more complicated than that. And I will note that I drink a lot of tea and fruit juice, which also come in plastic bottles. Most drinks come in plastic or metal containers these days. Most of the time, I buy mine in plastic containers. I wish it were different and I've lived without a car for more than a decade in the US. Try advocating for a less car dependent infrastructure in the US. It gets you mostly pissed on. Individuals have limits on how much they can control given the larger context of the world they live in. Attacking my consumption of cola drinks as the focus willfully ignores my real point that styrofoam food containers are dramatically worse than plastic bottles.
- carabiner 3y agoNot complicated. US has normalized sugar addiction and obesity. Rest of the world sees this as fucking bizarre, like pretending that cigarettes are ok as long as you don't have cancer at the moment.
- DoreenMichele 3y agoA. I only drink diet coke. It contains no sugar. B. I have a genetic disorder. Diet coke contains extracts from the coca plant -- thus the name "Coca Cola" -- minus the hallucinogen cocaine. They have medicinal effects on the gut and lungs, both important systems significantly impacted by my genetic disorder. C. Before someone else jumps up to tell me I'm evil incarnate, diet coke is the only thing I consume that contains sugar substitutes. I generally avoid them as well. And I drink no other cola drinks. Full stop. I generally don't discuss this on HN. I don't intend to discuss it further in this thread. Note to self: I thought it was just a few of my relatives who were nutters who believe all sodas are the work of the devil and if you have any health issues and ever drink a single drop of cola, your health problems are entirely your fault for drinking colas. But, no, there are more people out there cast from the same mold. Edit: comment not 100 percent accurate. I also drink ginger ale. Feeling like you need to defend your personal choices at gun point from judgy random internet strangers is not the best means to engage in meaningful discussion.
- civilized 3y agoWhat is metal poisoning? Should we be concerned about it if we use stainless steel containers?
- DoreenMichele 3y agoStainless steel is ok.
- McSwag 3y agoYou can’t get metal poisoning from cans…because they’re lined with BPA! :)
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