Our environment has obstacles to our health. Chemicals are modern conveniences but can play havoc with your health. We need to be mindful of how we use these chemicals and ways to decrease our exposure and thus decrease our toxic load. Fueling up our automobiles is a necessary chore. Gasoline is toxic, it contains methane and benzene. Both are proven carcinogens. Your fueling strategy is to stand upwind while putting gas in. If you can smell gas, move. How about those plastics. Have you heard of Bisphenol-A? BPA for short. That is a chemical manufactures put in plastics to mold them and make them hard. BPA is a well known endocrine disruptor. That means it interrupts your hormone system. So foods and drinks stored in plastics containing BPA will be contaminated with it. The more fat there is in the food the higher the level of contamination. One way to decrease your exposure is to store your food in glass containers. Also, your plastic drink containers are a problem. You can swit