Are you guilty of the plastic addiction sin? Ask yourself if you are someone who cannot do without items of plastic in your daily activities. Do you accept hot food takeaways or online take-outs packaged in plastic containers?

A new study found chemicals can leach from plastic takeout containers into food, impacting the gut biome—and then the heart

The study, which was conducted on rats, found that the chemicals had leached into the food and damaged heart tissue, altered gut microbes responsible for well-being of the cardiovascular system and impacted metabolites or substances that are produced when the body breaks down food.

Disposable plastic containers could be leaching dangerous chemicals into your takeaway food, potentially increasing your risk of cardiovascular disease. In experiments on rats, researchers in China have found evidence that drinking water exposed to the various chemical additives that seep from heated plastic packaging causes changes to the body,