Sentences with phrase «causes leaching»

Synthetic fertilizers, almost 973 million pounds of which were used on U.S. upland cotton in 2015, [23] are considered detrimental to the environment, causing leaching and runoff affecting freshwater habitats and wells.

Please do not brew your apple cider vinegar in stainless steel pots, as the acidic vinegar will causing leaching of heavy metals such as carcinogenic nickel.

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The first time Prozac lost its magic for her, Slater wrote: «Prozac had betrayed me, but not before its belief system had leached to the very root of me, the belief that, when all is said and done, we are beyond the grace of stories, that only chemicals can cause hurt, and thus only chemicals can cure.»

Conventional boiling led to a significant loss of flavonoids (66 %) from fresh raw broccoli, while high - pressure boiling caused considerable leaching (47 %) of caffeoyl - quinic acid derivatives into the cooking water.

High animal protein consumption also causes more metabolic acid, which can leach calcium from bones (think high rates of osteoporosis).

The top crust was beautiful but the frozen peaches I used leached out too much water and caused the bottom crust to become a disgusting pale paste intermixed with a gelatinous peach filling.

now i heard that chia seeds eaten without lots of water will leach moisture out of the body and cause dehydration.

BPA is a chemical used in plastics and kitchenware that can leach into your food, causing a host of scary side effects like infertility, breast and prostate tumors, and several metabolic disorders including polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS)(3).

This obviously causes even more concern if these diseases leach into our water supply.

Plastic / polycarbonate bottles leach bisphenol - A (BPA), a chemical that mimics the hormone estrogen, and can cause chromosomal abnormalities.

The extreme heat could cause the plastics to leach chemicals, making them unsafe for your baby.

Phthalates, a class of chemicals known to cause reproductive and developmental defects, leach into the air, water and bodies from the PVC.

In fact, it's been noted that constant sterilization via boiling can cause older plastic bottles to leach out BPA quicker.

«when run through a simulated dishwasher 50 to 75 times, name - brand baby bottles leach the chemical bisphenol A, or BPA, in levels that have caused reproductive abnormalities in lab animals...» This is one of the highest - volume produced chemicals in the world,» says Fredrick vom Saal, a Missouri biology professor and BPA researcher.

Steam for around 8 to 10 minutes, or boil in a little water until tender (but do remember that boiling may cause some of the nutrients to leach into the cooking water).

Protein from animal sources is believed to cause more leaching of calcium than protein derived from vegetable sources.

That caused lead to leach from aging pipes.

Facilities that compost vegetation appear to cause contaminants to leach into groundwater and should be more tightly regulated by the state, according to a new Suffolk County report.

Because it works on the ceramic surface and leaches very slowly, it doesn't cause problems downstream.

But during this heyday, heavy rains caused several manure lagoons in the state to rupture; public outrage swept the country as pathogen - laden sludge leached into waterways.

However, traces of chloramine in the water may not be to everyone's liking either, because it causes rashes after showering in a small percentage of people and can apparently increase lead exposure in older homes as it leaches the heavy metal off old pipes.

And because, for instance, BPA is not put into food but leaches into food from containers, it doesn't qualify for the Delaney clause, which mandates that if an additive causes cancer in any amount in two species, we can't put it in the food supply.»

Where that shield is intact, relatively low levels of lead will dissolve, or leach, into the water causing contamination.

The river water was more corrosive than the Detroit system's and caused more lead to leach from its aging pipes.

From there it leaches into groundwater, eventually finding its way to rivers and lakes, where it causes algae blooms that suffocate aquatic animals.

As part of a search for the cause, geologic tests revealed large deposits of arsenic - rich minerals steadily leaching into groundwater, causing levels in many wells to top 500 ppb.

In Flint, alert parents forced complacent officials to stop denying the problem and remove the cause: water from the Flint River that was so corrosive that it leached lead from city water pipes.

Omitting orthophosphate, which controls metal corrosion, caused lead embedded in the pipes to leach into the water.

Various chemical and electrolytic reactions cause the uranium to leach out of the porous basket (12) and migrate through the molten lithium chloride towards the cathode (22).

More nutrients stay in the soil instead of leaching into groundwater and causing pollution.

High alcohol consumption only exacerbates the problem, causing B vitamins — particularly thiamin — to be leached from the body.

When I looked a bit deeper, I learned that too much sugar actually upsets the calcium to phosphorus ratio in the body, which in turn will cause calcium and other minerals to be leached from teeth and bones, weakening them.

If you opt to use plastic kitchenware, at least get rid of the older, scratched - up varieties, avoid putting them in the dishwasher, and don't wash them with harsh detergents, as these things can cause more chemicals to leach into your food

At the same time, mercury is leaching into your saliva and being swallowed, making its way down your digestive tract where it causes inflammation and damages your immune system — because the frontline of your immune system is in your gut.

The acidity from tomatoes cause BPA to leach into food, and each liter of canned tomatoes contain 50 micrograms of BPA which is the upper exposure limit.

When you cook plastic in a microwave, the heat causes these chemicals to leach into the food, ready for you to eat.

For example, it decreases magnesium absorption by 60 percent and zinc by 20 percent, and too much phytic acid can cause minerals to be leached from your bones and teeth.»

Boiling not only leaches goitrogens into the cooking water, but also brings the vegetable to a higher temperature, causing a greater thermal destruction of the goitrogens within it.

For instance, Bisphenol - A, which is ubiquitous in the environment and large amounts of which can leach into food and liquids from plastic water bottles and the lining of aluminum cans, is shown to significantly block thyroid activity in all tissues except the pituitary, potentially contributing to or causing weight gain, fatigue, and depression but not detected by TSH testing (128,129,132,133,275).

Protein helps absorption from diet but then the acidity of that protien causes mucles to leach calcium therefore weakening the muscle.

Microwaving dramatically increases the leaching process and almost guarantees that BPA will get into your food and cause acne.

Combining a BPA lining with an acidic food such as tomatoes causes large amounts of BPA to leach out of the can.

Cast iron gives us a toxic form of iron, but it's mostly a problem if you cook acidic foods or are cooking with metal utensils that will chip away at the cast iron and cause it to leach in the food.

Some say that a protein rich diet can «leach» calcium from bones and cause osteoporosis.

Unfortunately, acidity which is a prominent characteristic of tomatoes, will cause the BPA to leach into your food.

Ceramic's naturally tough surface means it won't leach unsafe chemicals into your food — chemicals demonstrated to cause cancer.

BPA is a chemical used in plastics and kitchenware that can leach into your food, causing a host of scary side effects like infertility, breast and prostate tumors, and several metabolic disorders including polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS)(3).

Any symptoms you may experience are similar to those caused by other organisms, such as abdominal pain, bloating, diarrhoea, and mineral / vitamin deficiency since nutrients will be leached from your system.

Microwaving onions causes about half the flavonoids to leach into water and half to remain in the onion.

«Boiling can cause water - soluble nutrients — like vitamins B and C — to leach out into the water, but they're retained with steaming,» explains Slayton.