A study in the New England Journal of Medicine was completed to see if MNPs are a potential risk for heart and blood vessel ...

Researchers at NYU Langone Health discovered that daily exposure to chemicals in common household items could have been a factor in more than 356,000 heart disease deaths in 2018 alone.

A UCLA study found that chewing gum from both synthetic and natural brands can release microplastics into saliva, with some brands shedding more than 600 fragments. Many gums use petroleum-based ...

A UCLA study found that chewing gum from both synthetic and natural brands can release microplastics into saliva, with some brands shedding more than 600 fragments. Many gums use petroleum-based ...

Researchers found that chewing gum — from both synthetic and natural brands — released an average of 100 plastic fragments per gram. Stacey Leasca is an award-winning journalist with nearly ...

A pilot study by UCLA engineers found that microplastics are also present in chewing gum. The research suggests that regular gum chewers could potentially be ingesting tens of thousands of ...

A person chewing 160 to 180 pieces of gum a year, they said, could potentially be ingesting 30,000 microplastics. And while the effect of ingested microplastics on human health still isn't clear ...

this does not necessarily mean that the microplastics cause the problem. Perhaps a diseased artery or brain accumulates them more readily. But now we have the added concern that chewing gum also ...

If you enjoy a refreshing stick of gum now and then, you may be biting off more than you should chew. A recent pilot study found that chewing gum – even those labeled "natural" – can release ...

Now another source of microplastics in the body has been discovered: chewing gum. Chewing gum contains long molecules called polymers. Some brands of gum contain natural polymers from tree sap.

Chewing gum has been added to the growing list of things that lead us to ingest hundreds and thousands of microplastics. But is it really surprising considering gum is pretty much made of plastic?