Before you brew your next cuppa
Let’s use this week to consider our habits and rituals around tea.
@TheLawyerAngela tracks all the lawsuits on toxins. Here’s her spilling the tea on tea:
She says: “Things I won’t do when I feed my family as a lawyer who tracks all the lawsuits. Billions of microplastic particles have been found to be released in a single plastic tea bag in hot water to be mainlined straight into your body. Paper tea bags still often use plastic to seal and the silky nylon mesh ones are allegedly the worst. “
We are just beginning to understand how much plastic is making its way into our bodies. And what the impact of these plastics are.
The full answer is, we don’t know. But early studies in mice suggest reproductive issues and cancer to start.
So Long, Tea Bags
As a Project 100 team looking for easy changes to serve our long, robust lives, can we agree to say no to tea bags from this week forward? Or as Marie Kondo advises, thank you, good bye!
Let’s go old-school and return to brewing loose leaf tea. Or if you’re like me with a big box of something delicious packaged in sachets, simply cut open the bags, free the leaves, and brew in a metal tea strainer.