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How environmental awareness can become intrusive thoughts

I read about microplastics in everything and now I cannot eat or drink anything without thinking about the plastic particles going into my body.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Knowledge of pervasive contamination transforms basic life-sustaining activities into sources of contamination anxiety.

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Worth thinking about

“Where Are You with Environmental health — toxins and exposures?”

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