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A Chemical Threat Gains New Urgency

What you can do: Avoid recycled-paper food containers, canned goods, and polycarbonate bottles.

Questionable Chemical Could Seep Into Your Soda

What you can do: What you can do: Complain to Coke, contact your legislators, and when not drinking water, opt for beverages in glass or stainless steel containers.

Bottled Water Sellers Won’t Say What’s in the Water

What you can do: Stick with filtered tap water, keep reusable bottles handy, and learn to decipher bottle labels.

Chemical in Plastics May Be Especially Harmful to Women

What you can do: Reduce your exposure to BPA—stop drinking canned soda, avoid No. 7, water bottles, and choose fresh or frozen foods over canned versions.

Drinking Coffee in a Styrofoam Cup? Pour It Out

What you can do: Keep Styrofoam away from your java; bring a reusable mug to avoid both the health risks and environmental problems with foam coffee cups.

Popular Sigg Water Bottles Contained BPA, Company Admits

What you can do: Switch to stainless steel if you have an old bottle, and limit exposure to BPA in other aluminum products, such as food and soda cans.

Save Money, Keep Edibles Fresh with Bulk Food Storage Secrets

What you can do: Use airtight food-storage containers, and know which bulk foods need to stay in the fridge.

Protect Your Health: Shrink Your Plastic Profile

What you can do: Reduce your plastic exposure by targeting food containers and beach trash.

Smart Choice? What Does That Mean?

What you can do: Check labels for four key nutrition parameters; make life simple by eating more unpackaged, whole foods.

Tainted Turkey? Toxic Chemical Found in Familiar Food

What you can do: Until researchers can determine where the BPA is coming from, tell your legislators you want it banned from all food processing applications.