We Wear Plastic

My goal, though it is an ever-evolving path, is to be the healthiest person that I can be, to live a life with as little sickness as possible, and to live as long as I can.  It is my belief that we cause most diseases through our choices in food and our exposure to toxins in our environment.  Unless we are careful consumers, society is set up to make it easy for us to fill our lives with products that speed up our demise.  It is impossible to lead a toxin-free life, but I believe that it's in our best interest to do whatever we can to minimize the toxins that we do come into contact with.

That said, a lot of our clothes are made of plastic.  I don't want to wear plastic clothes.  I don't want my baby girl to wear plastic clothes.  I think I've lived in a bubble for a long time.  I don't think I realized what synthetic fabrics were.  They are plastic!  I don't want plastic touching my food, I don't want it in my baby's mouth, and I certainly don't want it up close and personal with the largest organ in our bodies.  In fact, I believe that it's things like this, things that we never give a second thought, that are causing more and more cases of cancer in the United States.  We don't eat the right foods, and this.  All of the things like this.  We wear plastic.

To exacerbate the issue, the plastic from washing these clothes is polluting the ocean.

I have bought a lot of cheap clothes for a very long time.  I don't think that our clothes need to be organic, but they certainly should be some kind of natural fiber, such as cotton, hemp, linen, cashmere, silk, or bamboo. One website recommends that we stay away from rayon, polyester, acrylic, acetate, triacetate, nylon, and anything static resistant, stain resistant, permanent press, wrinkle-free, stain proof or moth repellant. I am not going to throw out my whole wardrobe, but while shopping from here on out, I am going to limit my purchases to non-plastic clothing.