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Beware the Food Wrappers

As if you didn't already have enough reasons to dump those packaged meals and snacks (artificial/indecipherable ingredients, unhealthy, wasteful), here's a study that should give you some food for thought: researchers from the University of Toronto found that perfluorinated chemicals commonly found in wrappers can migrate into some foods which, once ingested, become bioavailable in the human body. The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA) Science Advisory Board classified perfluorina...

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