Avoid chemicals in your food.

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CAFFEINE.

A drug that is rapidly absorbed into the body. Like other drugs, it has to be detoxified in the body
and excreted. it occurs naturally in tea leaves,coffee beans,cola beans, cola seeds and guarana
(a berry with a natural caffeine content).

It is present in many coffee,tea and guarana drinks, cocoa,hot chocolate and chocolate. It is
also persent in many soft drinks and even some orange and other flavoured drinks.
Most "enegy", "sports" or "smart" drinks contain large quantities of caffeine.


Health effects.
Caffeine is mildly addictive, act as a stimulant  of the central nervous system and
has many other side effect of the body.
Caffeine stimulates the brain and nervous system, the heart, muscle and kidneys.


Useful tips.
> Children should avoid cola drinks "energy" or "soft: drinks  containing caffeine.
>Women should eliminate consumption of coffee and coffeine - containing drinks during
pregnancy and while breastfeeding.
>If you must drink coffee, buy decaffeinated cofee that has been processed with
water, not chemicals.( Methylene chloride, used to decaffeinate coffee, is an acknowledged
carcinogen linked to liver and lung cancer.

Many uses.

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PVC clingfilms have many domestic uses.
They are most commanly used for wrapping foods such as sandwiches and for covering
cold foods in a container before storage in a refrigerator.

They are  also used  to wrap cheese, meat,cakes,  etc, before  prolonged storage in
a freezer, or for a lesser period in the  refrigerator.

Some people also use clingfilm to cover food or food containers during cooking
or heating in a microware oven.

In Britian, it was found that some authors of cookery books recemmended
the use of clingfilm for intimate contact with food to be cooked in a
microwave or conventional oven, but this is not recemmended by
the manufactures of the film as many cause softening or even melting
of the film.

Another use of PVC is in the form of bags or casings for the packinging
of meat loaves, pre-cooked chickens, frankfurters and bacon joints.

PVC coating plasticised with  a low level doz (a plasticiser used in 
plastics) may also be applied to aluminium foil.

Toxics in plastics.

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What plastic is used where.

Low density polyethylene.
     Most common plastic. 90 % used as packaging film(eg. polythene bags,
     sacks and bin liners, pallet wrap,shrink film).

High density polyethylene.
      Bottles,crates,bottle caps and closures.

Polyethylene terephthalate( pet).
      Fizzy drinks bottles, oven-ready meal trays.

Polyethylene.
     Tubs for margarine and salads, bottle caps and closures,film
      wrappings for biscuits and crisps,sweet wrappings,microware
     trays for ready meals,clear jars for pickled onions.

Polystyrene.
      Yoghurt pots, clear egg packs, bottle caps, closures,lids,
       wedding cups.

Acrylonitrile buta-diene styrene(abs).
      Lids,tubs for salads and margarines.

Foamed polystyrene.
      Food trays, egg boxes, fresh produce cartons.

Polyvinyl chloride (pvc).
     Food trays, lids:,cake and sandwich packs,: bottles for fruit squash,
     cooking oil, mineral water, shrink wrap,: clingfilm.

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