The Nutrition Science Podcast Toxins in Your Kitchen: Are BPA, PFAS, And Aluminum Harming Your Health?
Are you being exposed to toxic chemicals from your cooking and food storage practices? Do you find it confusing when you hear claims that certain chemicals in common kitchen items like pots, pans, cooking dishes, and tupperware may be harming your health?
If so, this is the episode for you! In this week’s episode of the podcast, we discuss:
- What PFAS, also known as “forever chemicals,” are and potential exposure sources in your cookware
- How you will most likely be exposed to BPAs and PFAS
- What cookware you can use to decreases your risk of potentially harmful
chemicals - How aluminum products may be impacting your health
And more.
Tune into the show to learn how to learn the truth about our exposure to BPA, PFAS and heavy metals and learn some simple habit changes you can make to limit your exposure to these chemicals.
Further Reading/Scientific Research:
Research on PFAS:
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/35202231/
https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC8915917/
Research on BPA: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/22889897/
Research on aluminum: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/28458989
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