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[interesting] If you're chewing gum right now, you may be chewing microplastics too ๐Ÿงช์ง€๊ธˆ '๊ปŒ'์„ ์”น๊ณ  ์žˆ๋‹ค๋ฉด '๋ฏธ์„ธํ”Œ๋ผ์Šคํ‹ฑ'๋„ ํ•จ๊ป˜ ์”น๊ณ  ์žˆ์„ ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค ๐Ÿงช

 Hello, everyone! 

Today we're going to tell you the truth about the microplastics hidden in our favorite chewing gum.



๐Ÿฌ Thousands of microplastics in one piece of gum?


Professor Sanjay Mohanty and his team at UCLA recently presented their interesting findings at the American Chemical Society (ACS) Spring Meeting 2025.


โ€œAn average of 100 and as many as 637 microplastics can be released into saliva per gram of gum.โ€


A simple calculation of this is that you can ingest up to 3000 microplastics from a single piece of gum (based on 2-6 grams) ๐Ÿ˜จ.


๐Ÿงช Where do microplastics come from?


Chewing gum is usually made of the following ingredients


Rubber base: vegetable polymer or petroleum-based synthetic rubber.


Additives: sweeteners, flavors, etc.


Researchers tested five different brands of gum, both natural and synthetic, and found that most gum released microplastics into saliva within two minutes, and 94% of the total amount within eight minutes.


The microplastics are not caused by enzymes in saliva, but by โ€œchewing frictionโ€.


๐Ÿšจ What are the effects of microplastics on the human body?


The jury is still out, but some studies have suggested the following associations


Increased risk of dementia and brain disease


Increased risk of heart disease and stroke


Decreased hearing and balance


Decreased male reproductive health


In other words, it's hard to ignore the microplastics getting into your body, right?



โœ… Tips for chewing gum to stay healthy


Chew a piece longer, not often!


Chewing the same piece of gum for a longer period of time reduces the release of microplastics, rather than constantly chewing a new piece.


Choose a natural gum


There are some gums, like Chewle, that are based on plant-based rubber.


Reduce mindless chewing


It's a great way to relieve stress and freshen your breath, but don't do it too often.


๐Ÿงพ In closing


Isn't it amazing that a single piece of gum can contain so much microplastic? ๐Ÿงผ Although this study is preliminary and hasn't been peer-reviewed, it's a reminder of how defenseless we are to plastic exposure in our daily lives.


Small everyday choices are the start of a healthy life, so why not think about it the next time you chew gum ๐Ÿ˜Š?


๐Ÿ” Related search terms (SEO)


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๐Ÿท๏ธ Hashtags


#microplastics #chewinggum #healthfacts #chewinggumwarnings #healthconsciousness #plasticsinourlife #plasticsfree #healthyhabits


References


UCLA microplastics research (presented at ACS Spring 2025)


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์•ˆ๋…•ํ•˜์„ธ์š”, ์—ฌ๋Ÿฌ๋ถ„! 

์˜ค๋Š˜์€ ์šฐ๋ฆฌ๊ฐ€ ์ผ์ƒ์ ์œผ๋กœ ์ฆ๊ธฐ๋Š” '๊ปŒ' ์†์— ์ˆจ๊ฒจ์ง„ ๋ฏธ์„ธํ”Œ๋ผ์Šคํ‹ฑ์˜ ์ง„์‹ค์— ๋Œ€ํ•ด ์•Œ๋ ค๋“œ๋ฆด๊ฒŒ์š”.

๊ปŒ 1๊ฐœ์— ๋ฏธ์„ธํ”Œ๋ผ์Šคํ‹ฑ ์ˆ˜์ฒœ ๊ฐœ?

๋ฏธ๊ตญ UCLA์˜ ์ƒŒ์ œ์ด ๋ชจํ•œํ‹ฐ ๊ต์ˆ˜ํŒ€์€ ์ตœ๊ทผ ์—ด๋ฆฐ ๋ฏธ๊ตญํ™”ํ•™ํšŒ(ACS) ์ถ˜๊ณ„ํ•™์ˆ ๋Œ€ํšŒ 2025์—์„œ ํฅ๋ฏธ๋กœ์šด ์—ฐ๊ตฌ ๊ฒฐ๊ณผ๋ฅผ ๋ฐœํ‘œํ–ˆ์–ด์š”.

"๊ปŒ 1g๋‹น ํ‰๊ท  100๊ฐœ, ๋งŽ๊ฒŒ๋Š” 637๊ฐœ์˜ ๋ฏธ์„ธํ”Œ๋ผ์Šคํ‹ฑ์ด ์นจ ์†์œผ๋กœ ๋ฐฉ์ถœ๋  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๋‹ค"

์ด๋ฅผ ๋‹จ์ˆœ ๊ณ„์‚ฐํ•˜๋ฉด ๊ปŒ 1๊ฐœ(2~6g ๊ธฐ์ค€)์—์„œ ์ตœ๋Œ€ 3000๊ฐœ์˜ ๋ฏธ์„ธํ”Œ๋ผ์Šคํ‹ฑ์„ ์„ญ์ทจํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๋‹ค๋Š” ๊ฑฐ์ฃ .

#healthyhabits

๋ฏธ์„ธํ”Œ๋ผ์Šคํ‹ฑ์€ ์–ด๋””์„œ ๋‚˜์˜ฌ๊นŒ์š”?

๊ปŒ์€ ๋ณดํ†ต ๋‹ค์Œ ์„ฑ๋ถ„์œผ๋กœ ๋งŒ๋“ค์–ด์ ธ์š”:

๊ณ ๋ฌด ๋ฒ ์ด์Šค : ์‹๋ฌผ์„ฑ ํด๋ฆฌ๋จธ ๋˜๋Š” ์„์œ  ๊ธฐ๋ฐ˜ ํ•ฉ์„ฑ๊ณ ๋ฌด,๊ฐ๋ฏธ๋ฃŒ, ํ–ฅ๋ฃŒ ๋“ฑ ์ฒจ๊ฐ€๋ฌผ

์—ฐ๊ตฌ์ง„์€ ์ฒœ์—ฐ ๊ปŒ๊ณผ ํ•ฉ์„ฑ ๊ปŒ 5๊ฐœ ๋ธŒ๋žœ๋“œ๋ฅผ ๊ฐ๊ฐ ์‹คํ—˜ํ•œ ๊ฒฐ๊ณผ, ๋Œ€๋ถ€๋ถ„์˜ ๊ปŒ์—์„œ 2๋ถ„ ๋‚ด์— ๋ฏธ์„ธํ”Œ๋ผ์Šคํ‹ฑ์ด ์นจ์— ์„ž์—ฌ ๋‚˜์˜ค๊ณ , 8๋ถ„ ๋‚ด์— ์ด๋Ÿ‰์˜ 94%๊ฐ€ ๋ฐฉ์ถœ๋œ๋‹ค๊ณ  ๋ฐํ˜”์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

๋˜ํ•œ, ์ด ๋ฏธ์„ธํ”Œ๋ผ์Šคํ‹ฑ์€ **ํƒ€์•ก ์† ํšจ์†Œ ๋•Œ๋ฌธ์ด ์•„๋‹ˆ๋ผ '์”น๋Š” ๋งˆ์ฐฐ๋ ฅ'**์— ์˜ํ•ด ๋ฐœ์ƒ๋œ๋‹ค๊ณ  ํ•ด์š”.

๋ฏธ์„ธํ”Œ๋ผ์Šคํ‹ฑ์ด ์ธ์ฒด์— ๋ฏธ์น˜๋Š” ์˜ํ–ฅ์€?

์•„์ง ๋ช…ํ™•ํ•˜๊ฒŒ ๋ฐํ˜€์ง„ ๊ฒƒ์€ ์—†์ง€๋งŒ, ์ผ๋ถ€ ์—ฐ๊ตฌ์—์„œ๋Š” ๋‹ค์Œ๊ณผ ๊ฐ™์€ ์—ฐ๊ด€์„ฑ์„ ์ œ์‹œํ–ˆ์–ด์š”:

์น˜๋งค ๋ฐ ๋‡Œ ์งˆํ™˜ ์œ„ํ—˜ ์ฆ๊ฐ€

์‹ฌ์žฅ๋ณ‘๊ณผ ๋‡Œ์กธ์ค‘ ์œ„ํ—˜ ์ƒ์Šน

์ฒญ๋ ฅ ๋ฐ ๊ท ํ˜• ๊ฐ๊ฐ ์ €ํ•˜

๋‚จ์„ฑ์ƒ์‹ ๊ฑด๊ฐ• ์ €ํ•˜

์ฆ‰, ๋ฏธ์„ธํ”Œ๋ผ์Šคํ‹ฑ์ด ๋ชธ์†์œผ๋กœ ๋“ค์–ด์˜ค๋Š” ๊ฑธ ๋ฌด์‹œํ•˜๊ธฐ ์–ด๋ ต๋‹ค๋Š” ๋œป์ด๊ฒ ์ฃ ?

๊ฑด๊ฐ•์„ ์ง€ํ‚ค๋Š” ๊ปŒ ์”น๊ธฐ ํŒ

์ž์ฃผ ๋ฐ”๊พธ์ง€ ๋ง๊ณ , ํ•œ ์กฐ๊ฐ์„ ์˜ค๋ž˜ ์”น์ž!

์ƒˆ ๊ปŒ์„ ๊ณ„์† ์”น๋Š” ๊ฒƒ๋ณด๋‹ค, ๊ฐ™์€ ์กฐ๊ฐ์„ ์˜ค๋ž˜ ์”น๋Š” ๊ฒŒ ๋ฏธ์„ธํ”Œ๋ผ์Šคํ‹ฑ ๋ฐฉ์ถœ์„ ์ค„์ธ๋‹ค๊ณ  ํ•ด์š”.

์ž์—ฐ ์œ ๋ž˜ ๊ปŒ์„ ์„ ํƒํ•ด๋ณด์ž

์น˜ํด ๊ฐ™์€ ์‹๋ฌผ์„ฑ ๊ณ ๋ฌด ๋ฒ ์ด์Šค ๊ปŒ์ด ์ผ๋ถ€ ์กด์žฌํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

๋ฌด์‹ฌ์ฝ” ์”น๋Š” ์Šต๊ด€์„ ์ค„์ด๊ธฐ

์ŠคํŠธ๋ ˆ์Šค ํ•ด์†Œ, ์ž… ๋ƒ„์ƒˆ ์ œ๊ฑฐ๋„ ์ข‹์ง€๋งŒ ๋„ˆ๋ฌด ์žฆ์€ ์„ญ์ทจ๋Š” ํ”ผํ•˜๋Š” ๊ฒŒ ์ข‹์•„์š”.

๋งˆ๋ฌด๋ฆฌํ•˜๋ฉฐ

๊ปŒ ํ•œ ์กฐ๊ฐ์ด ์ด๋ ‡๊ฒŒ ๋งŽ์€ ๋ฏธ์„ธํ”Œ๋ผ์Šคํ‹ฑ์„ ํฌํ•จํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๋‹ค๋Š” ์‚ฌ์‹ค, ์ •๋ง ๋†€๋ž์ง€ ์•Š๋‚˜์š”? ๐Ÿงผ ๋น„๋ก ์ด๋ฒˆ ์—ฐ๊ตฌ๋Š” ์˜ˆ๋น„ ์—ฐ๊ตฌ ๋‹จ๊ณ„์ด๋ฉฐ ๋™๋ฃŒ ํ‰๊ฐ€๋ฅผ ์•„์ง ๋ฐ›์ง€ ์•Š์•˜์ง€๋งŒ, ์šฐ๋ฆฌ๊ฐ€ ์ผ์ƒ ์†์—์„œ ํ”Œ๋ผ์Šคํ‹ฑ ๋…ธ์ถœ์— ์–ผ๋งˆ๋‚˜ ๋ฌด๋ฐฉ๋น„์ธ์ง€ ๋‹ค์‹œ ์ƒ๊ฐํ•ด๋ณด๊ฒŒ ํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

์ผ์ƒ ์† ์ž‘์€ ์„ ํƒ์ด ๊ฑด๊ฐ•ํ•œ ์‚ถ์˜ ์‹œ์ž‘์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์•ž์œผ๋กœ ๊ปŒ์„ ์”น์„ ๋•Œ ํ•œ ๋ฒˆ์ฏค ์ƒ๊ฐํ•ด๋ณด๋ฉด ์–ด๋–จ๊นŒ์š”?

#๋ฏธ์„ธํ”Œ๋ผ์Šคํ‹ฑ #๊ปŒ๊ฑด๊ฐ•์ •๋ณด #๊ปŒ์ฃผ์˜์‚ฌํ•ญ #๊ฑด๊ฐ•์ƒ์‹ #์ƒํ™œ์†ํ”Œ๋ผ์Šคํ‹ฑ #ํ”Œ๋ผ์Šคํ‹ฑํ”„๋ฆฌ #๊ฑด๊ฐ•ํ•œ์Šต๊ด€



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