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                        style="FONT-SIZE: 30px"><STRONG>Terrifying New Study 
                        Finds "Big Increase" in Amount of Microplastics Making 
                        Their Way Into Our Brains. We Need to Ditch Single-Use 
                        Plastics, 
                    Now!</STRONG></SPAN></P></DIV></DIV></TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE></TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE></TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE>
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                        style="FONT-SIZE: 16px"><A 
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                        style="FONT-SIZE: 16px">Between 2016 and 2024, the 
                        amount of microplastics and nanoplastics found by 
                        researchers in human brains increased by about 
                        50%.</SPAN></STRONG></A></SPAN></STRONG></P>
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                        style="FONT-SIZE: 16px"><STRONG>This is incredibly 
                        alarming. </STRONG>Nanoplastics are small enough to 
                        travel from our food, drinks, and environment into our 
                        cells, bloodstreams, and organs. Many of the ones found 
                        in this study came from the material that is used in 
                        <STRONG>plastic packaging, bags, and drink 
                        bottles.</STRONG></SPAN></P>
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                        style="FONT-SIZE: 16px">Additionally, plastics are 
                        manufactured using a variety of chemicals, and are 
                        themselves made out of fossil fuels. <STRONG><A 
                        style="COLOR: #0e6da8; TEXT-DECORATION: underline" 
                        href="https://www.care2.com/go/z/e/A0Syo/zYUl/DCXRB" 
                        rel=noopener target=_blank><STRONG>Plastics deposited in 
                        our bodies have been linked to cellular and endocrine 
                        disruption.</STRONG></A></STRONG> This is what is 
                        now lodged inside our bodies, and they don't 
                        disappear. <STRONG>The particles just build up more 
                        and more inside our systems.</STRONG></SPAN></P>
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                        Costco, and Whole Foods stop carrying products packaged 
                        in plastic that's invading our bodies and brains! 
                        </STRONG>No generation has faced the level of pollution 
                        we are facing, but alternatives to plastic exist, and 
                        it's time to push the industry in the right 
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