The recipe for healthy nutrition is commonly known and easy: we should eat a lot of fruits and vegetables. Broccoli, cabbage, carrots oranges and grapefruits are said to be the most healthy ones. Moreover, it is good to eat wholemeal bread and lean meat. We also have to avoid eating junk food and fried food, eating in a hurry or irregularly is not advisable.

Although everyone knows what to eat and how to eat, many people are not aware of the chemical processes that take place in food when we use plastic bottles or plastic caps . Producers of plastic packaging bombard us with new, colourful and funny bottles, containers or wrappings and we use them not even thinking how they influence our health. It has been scientifically proved that when we put vegetables into plastic containers, they lose the majority of vitamins and microelements. In addition to that, when chemical substances that a plastic container is made of mix with substances that fruits or vegetables have, the composition of a given fruit/ vegetables changes. A vegetable kept in a plastic container starts producing various chemicals that can be harmful for human health. Read the rest of this entry »

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