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How Dairy Products Complicated Our 2022 Study – And What We Had To Do To Solve The Issue

When we conducted the investigation for our 2022published paper, the goal was to create a menu that was a “typical” American diet as defined by the U.S. Department of Agriculture. That “typical” diet demanded that we include cow’s milk. And that was a problem. Dairy has many opportunities for plastic contamination For dairy products, we […]

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Oil for Cutting Boards

For treating wooden cutting boards, in our dietary intervention lab/kitchen, we used olive oil packaged in glass from a local supplier who has minimal plastic components in their oil-making mill. While some food sources suggest that vegetable-based oils will somehow turn rancid in contact with water, we found no evidence of this. This ad-free article […]

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Study Recipes & Trial Menus

Stealth Syndrome Study-Trial-Menu-Typical Diet (Excel) Stealth Syndrome Study-Trial Menu – Intervention Diet + Recipes (Excel) This ad-free article is made possible by the financial support of the Center for Research on Environmental Chemicals in Humans: a 501(c)(3) non-profit. Please consider making a tax-deductible donation for continued biomedical research. Intervention Study Recipes 2019 Kate’s Pasta Dough   Ingredients: 280g […]

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Why We Did Not Include Plant-based Milk Substitutes

Plant-based milk — while growing rapidly — represents only 15% of milk consumption (Nielsen data) and is therefore not yet part of the typical American diet. Even more importantly for this study, plant-based milk substitutes are ultra-processed, industrially synthesized products which involve substantial contact with plastic chemicals. This ad-free article is made possible by the […]

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Best Practices – Baking Powder Versus Yeast

This ad-free article is made possible by the financial support of the Center for Research on Environmental Chemicals in Humans: a 501(c)(3) non-profit. Please consider making a tax-deductible donation for continued biomedical research. Commercially purchased bread has numerous plastic contamination routes in preparation and packaging — some known and probably others unknown. Best kitchen practices, therefore, demand that […]

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Sourcing the Menu: Avoiding Microplastics, Biosolids and Nano-particles

NOTE: This is an edited version of portions of Appendices 3 of the “Revised Stealth Syndromes Study Protocol as approved by the University of California San Francisco Medical School Committee on Human Research. See also: Micro- and Nanoplastics: Health Implications As terrible as those plastic-polluted ocean photos are, your body is even more contaminated by […]

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