Think Twice Next Time Before You Order Your Drink With Ice Why ?

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Think Twice Next Time 

Before You Order    

Your Drink With Ice 

Why?

How clean is that ice in your drink, really? Investigations have shown that if you're in a restaurant, it's probably not as clean as you'd think.

Does anything sound more refreshing than an ice cold drink when you’re thirsty? Unfortunately, there’s a pretty gross reason you might want to skip the ice next time you’re at a restaurant or bar.

Business Insider asked more than 30 bartenders what they wish they could tell their customers, and one response made our stomachs turn. “Almost no restaurants or bars clean their ice machines as regularly as they’re supposed to,” one bartender revealed. Translation? Germs—and lots of them.

The FDA is pretty vague when it comes to how often an ice bin should be cleaned. Its Food Code just says restaurants should follow the manufacturer’s cleaning recommendations (usually at least two to four times a year), or “develop a cleaning regimen” if the equipment maker doesn’t specify.

Even if restaurants are diligent about cleaning their ice machines and bins, though, your ice isn’t necessarily germ-free. If employees are sick or don’t wash their hands correctly, those germs could spread. Their hands could bump the ice while scooping with a glass, or a scoop’s handle could touch the ice after an employee handles it. Disturbingly, there’s actually a very good chance their hands aren’t clean after washing. One Michigan State University study of more than 3,700 people found that only 5 percent of people actually wash their hands for 15 seconds or more—and the CDC recommends scrubbing for a full 20 seconds. 

And that one bartender wasn’t alone in thinking restaurant ice is pretty gross. A recent BBC investigation found 13 out of 30 U.K. coffee chain locations tested, including Starbucks, had fecal coliform in their ice.  A 2014 report from Utah’s ABC4 found that all four restaurants they investigated had bacteria and fungus. The only place to come out clean was an ice distributor.

Getting sick from dirty ice isn’t common, but it isn’t unheard of. In 2008, investigators said a sick bartender and a dirty ice machine got a bride, groom, and about 70 guests sick at a wedding reception. In 2002, a 15-year-old golfer died and about 80 other golfers got sick, and officials think it’s because a sick employee didn’t wash his hands before handling ice to put in the coolers. “[Contaminated ice is] not going to smell funny. It’s not going to look funny,” microbiologist Debra Huffman, PhD, told NBC at the time. “These are microscopic.”

Even though these cases are far from the norm, it can’t hurt to avoid ice when eating out. In restaurants, shell out a little extra for a bottled drink instead of letting an employee serve you from the fountain, or instead of ordering a shaken cocktail, go for a glass of wine or beer, or order your liquor served “neat.” 

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Sipping From Plastic Straws Has Devastating Effects Not Only On The Environment But Also On Your Body

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 Sipping 

 From Plastic Straws 

Has Devastating Effects 

Not Only On 

The Environment 

But Also 

On Your Body

Before you mindlessly stick a straw in your iced tea, consider that single-use plastics are having a devastating impact on marine life.

The answer to protecting and saving marine wildlife can start with cutting back on something Americans use every day—plastic drinking straws. Actor Adrien Grenier, best known for playing Vincent Chase in the 2015 movie Entourage, has launched a campaign to reduce the amount of single-use plastic usage in this country in order to protect and save marine wildlife and the environment. Plastic drinking straws are among many single-use plastic products contributing to the devastating loss of marine life, but they’re a great place to start because they’re something Americans are using by the hundreds of millions without any clue that they’re so damaging.

According to Ecocycle, Americans use more than 500 million straws daily, which is enough to fill 127 school buses each day, and they can’t be recycled. That means plastic straws end up in landfills or oceans, where fish and other marine wildlife mistake the small bits for food and ingest them. After seeing a photo of a whale beached on the shore with a belly full of plastic, Grenier felt the inspiration to launch the Lonely Whale Foundation, hoping to inspire and educate others on the challenges facing marine life.

Along with stopping the use of straws, Grenier hopes to educate consumers on the dangers of other single-use plastic items such as grocery bags and water bottles. While many Americans use these plastic products in their daily life, there are more sustainable alternatives that can help protect the environment. Ecocycle recommends the use of straws made from stainless steel, glass, and even bamboo instead of plastic. You can buy a number of these environmentally friendly straws online and in stores.

Along with quitting your straw habit, you can further help the environment by taking the I Choose to Reuse pledge, and stop your use of single-use coffee cups, checkout bags, bottled water, and polystyrene to-go containers. Instead, take advantage of any number of alternative reusable products, including stainless steel water bottles and reusable grocery totes. 

Need another reason to stop sipping from straws? According to celebrity esthethican Renée Rouleau, using straws can cause wrinkles. In an interview with Marie Claire, Roulealu revealed that when drinking out of a straw, “the movement of the mouth area that you have to make will encourage the breakdown of collagen and elasticity more quickly, causing unnecessary wrinkles and lines.”

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How Or Why Water Refilled In A Plastic Water Bottle Can Make U Sick As Well As Have Harmful Effects On Your Body

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How Or Why Water Refilled 

In A Plastic Water Bottle 

Can Make U Sick 

As Well As 

Have Harmful Effects 

On Your Body

We’re all guilty—but the consequences can be seriously harmful to your health.

Most of us don’t think twice about refilling our plastic water bottles. After all, it’s all in the name of personal hydration and it’s eco-friendly! And there’s absolutely nothing harmful about a simple bottle of water, right?

Wrong! That plastic water bottle could actually do your body more harm than good, experts say. Why? You can thank Bisphenol A (commonly known as BPA), a chemical used to manufacture plastics, for your water woes. This harmful chemical can leach into the water and quickly grow dangerous bacteria in the bottle’s cracks—that’s one of the reasons you should stay away from straws, too—and the health consequences are pretty serious.

We spoke to Kent Atherton, CEO of PuriBloc technology, about the risks of reusing plastics. “Sadly, many people buying plastic water bottles do so because they believe they are making a healthy choice when the opposite is more likely to be true,” said Atherton. “Even BPA free products are not safe since manufacturers are now substituting other estrogenic chemicals, not as widely known, which may pose the same danger to human health. ”

These estrogenic chemicals can have a negative effect on human beings’ hormonal balances, but the potential dangers of plastic water bottles don’t stop there. In a study of 259 plastic water bottles at the State University of New York at Fredonia, scientists found that 93% of the surveyed bottles had some form of microplastic contamination. Additionally, single-use plastic bottles are mostly made of polyethylene terephthalate, or PET, which is safe to use, but not reuse; these plastics can leach chemicals into your water if heated or scratched.

There’s also the bacterial factor to consider. “The thing about water bottles is that, like all beverage containers, they come into contact with our mouth and hands—which are home to a lot of germs,” says Professor Stephanie Liberatorein the academic journal The Science Teacher. “Their openings are small, which makes them difficult to clean. This, combined with their moist environment, can make water bottles a bacterial breeding ground.”

To hydrate without harm, smart drinkers should avoid re-using disposable bottles. Instead, you should recycle them after drinking up once; or, better yet, invest in a BPA-free plastic bottle or one made from glass or stainless steel. Not only will doing so benefit your health, but you can help the environment, too. 

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