I've long avoided hydrogenated fats. Even as a kid I didn't like margarine. Tasted wrong to me. But I've going to have to watch out for that other stuff.

That's a good link. I rarely eat shellfish but that other item - propyl gallate – is something I'll have to watch out for. All the more reason to avoid baked commercial crap.

I need to finally get it together on water bottles. I gather the #1 bottles, the PET plastic is not as bad as the BPA stuff but I keep reading that the PET is far from perfect. I suspect I've been getting endocrine disrupters in my diet for years.

I have three 5 gallon water jugs that I've been refilling at the large commercial water filtration machines for about 10 years (?!). I looked on the bottom tonight, has #7 in the triangle. I'm finding some info that says the #7 rating is inconclusive, a sort of blanket category. Other info that it's bad, it's BPA. I had been under the impression that the 5 gallon jugs would be higher quality. Ass – u – me.

Hard to know which of this stuff is seriously bad and which isn't. One site says the 5 gallon jugs made of #1 are better. But then I also read that you shouldn't refill the #1 water bottles, the 1.5 liter type as they will leech chemicals. What a bleepin mess.

I mean, I'm not growing breasts but I'd like to get my chemistry ship shape.

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