Workin On My Fitness - Living Healthy & Fit » Living Green http://www.workinonmyfitness.com A Chick Wanting To Be Fit Mon, 25 Jan 2010 00:44:04 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 en hourly 1 Plastic Bottles Dangerous? http://www.workinonmyfitness.com/2008/08/04/plastic-bottles-dangerous/#utm_source=feed&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=feed http://www.workinonmyfitness.com/2008/08/04/plastic-bottles-dangerous/#comments Tue, 05 Aug 2008 01:31:07 +0000 Sue http://www.workinonmyfitness.com/?p=253 In addition to eating healthy and clean, I’m also a fan of living green.  You gotta stare somewhere, sometime, right?  Well, I’ve been using reusable tupperware and plastic bottles to consume food and drink, and I heard about how certain plastics can be harmful!  Really scary considering I use these things to store my lunch and drink fluids.

Klean Kanteen Water BottleBPA, or biphenol-A is a potentially harmful chemical that can leach into your food or drinks which are contained in some plastics.  The worse thing about BPA is that is can cause health problems such as infertility or cancer.  If you turn over your plastic container and it has a #7 recycling code on the bottom and the letters ‘PC’ then BPA is present.

The best thing to do to keep food and drinks safe is to heat foods in glass or ceramic containers, and never plastic.  Also with water bottles the best kinds are the steel versions like Klean Kanteen Water Bottles or Sigg Water Bottles.  They’re eco-friendly too. :)   I really need to get me one of those water bottles!

]]> http://www.workinonmyfitness.com/2008/08/04/plastic-bottles-dangerous/feed/ 0 A New Direction http://www.workinonmyfitness.com/2008/07/09/a-new-direction/#utm_source=feed&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=feed http://www.workinonmyfitness.com/2008/07/09/a-new-direction/#comments Thu, 10 Jul 2008 01:30:05 +0000 Sue http://www.workinonmyfitness.com/?p=235 For a while now, I’ve been thinking of the direction of where this blog is going.  My intention of this blog is to share with others living a healthy lifestyle, and that can’t really work unless I’m living a healthy lifestyle.  For the past 2 weeks, I’ve been eating a lot better, and really came to the conclusion that I really like eating as natural as possible, especially anything organic.

With weekly trips to Greenwise and sometimes Whole Foods, I’ve also really gotten into living green, and want to continue living that way, by recycling, and reusing, as well as just simplifying my life.  I realized that my room is just full of stuff that is just collecting dust, and I came to the conclusion that I’m a packrat!

With that said, the direction of this blog is going to change a little bit, as I want to be committed to sharing topics that are related to natural/organic eating, living a green lifestyle and ways to live a simple life, all the while exercising and being fit, which is all tied up to living healthy and fit.

Hope you’ll join this journey with me!  Of course, I always welcome suggestions from my readers! :)

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