Common habit floods your body with 90K microplastics: study

Here’s some bitter news to sip on.

Microplastics are impossible to avoid, lurking in everything from the food you eat and the water you drink to the clothes you wear and the cosmetics you apply.

Now, a new study suggests that one everyday habit could flood your body with tens of thousands more of these tiny plastic particles each year — and your health might be paying the price. 3

Researchers at Concordia University in Canada analyzed more than 140 scientific articles and found that the average person ingests between 39,000 and 52,000 microplastic particles annually.

But if you regularly drink from single-use plastic water bottles, you could be swallowing an extra 90,000 of these pesky polymers every year compared to those who stick to tap water.

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