So, I've recently switched over from the refillable plastic bottles
that are apparently now toxic to glass and/ or stainless steel bottles that, as
recent reports seem to indicate, are less likely to give us cancer.
Are you
feeling inundated with reports of things you're doing wrong? I totally am. I
try to avoid paying too much attention to this kind of thing because guess
what? We're all going to die anyway, but every once in awhile I get suckered in
to reading a report or buying a book about how every single thing in my home is
killing me, like my makeup, my mattress, and apparently, my purple Listerine
flouride mouthwash that I enjoy so much. My purple flouride rinse! Say it
ain't so! Yeah, apparently now there's a thing where alcohol-based mouthwash is
supposed to raise risk of oral cancer by something like 900 %. Of course, now
this is all I can think of, so I'm probably going to end up at Whole Foods
buying some patchouli-flavored Tom's of Maine "mouthwash" that doesn't work, because let's be
honest, their deoderant is the reason why hippies smell so bad.
I guess
I'm just tired of hearing about how things I like are bad for me, and that even
when I change to things that are supposedly good for me, THOSE turn out to be
bad for me too. This is only not true of cigarettes, which were clearly bad,
and giving them up was good. But…mouthwash? For God's sake…..this seems
like a game we will never win. Another example: I try to eat less meat and
more fish, and then fish is bad because it has mercury, and oh by the way, the
water in my city has antibiotics in it, so I get a filter and some plastic
bottles, and then the BOTTLES are bad for me. Frankly, all of this makes me want to build a house out of bacon, then eat my house. Is that bad?
This whole post was inspired by a trip to the grocery store last week, during which I noticed this weird-looking box of organic brownie mix. Um, ORGANIC BROWNIES? Give it up, dude. You're eating brownies….it's ok to just go with the Duncan Hines. By the way, I am pretty sure that every
day on the way home from school, I drank water out of the sprinkler, and I am
still alive. Let's stop the insanity, shall we?