I wonder what the next thing will be that's equivalent to smoking. Something that everyone does now, without much thought. We know it isn't great for us but we do it anyway. Someday it will become something that almost everyone knows is absolutely horrible for you and less and less people will do it over time. And when our kids have kids they will be like "My mom used to _____ while she was pregnant with me! Can you believe it?"
Fast food? Cell phones in the car? What do you think?
cantaloupe / 6923 posts
Tap water? I kid, I kid. I try not to think of these things, because if I am doing them and ignore what everyone says about them (tanning) I am safe.
honeydew / 7811 posts
@highwire: fast food is a pretty good guess, especially for Americans. I'd say caffeine/energy drinks or cell phones/texting while driving.
wonderful clementine / 24134 posts
I would agree with fast food. When I got Dx with cancer that's one of the things they asked "how much fast food do you eat"?
wonderful clementine / 24134 posts
Another one I would think would be pesticides used on food and around the home.
Like haha we used to have a bug man come and spray chemicals IN our house on purpose!!!
pomelo / 5509 posts
I kind of think things like tanning and eating fast food are already identified as bad for you, so if we had to pick something that we are totally unaware of as being bad for us now...hmmm...
Maybe cell phone use linked to brain cancer? I hope not, but there's been speculation/research.
blogger / wonderful cherry / 21628 posts
I hope it isn't cell phones! Everyone I know has theirs near them at all times.
wonderful pea / 17279 posts
@Running Elley: I agree. Caffeine in coffee, sodas and energy drinks.
Starbucks just announced a price increase. Who knows maybe the American caffeine addiction will begin to wane.
@T.H.O.U.: Pesticides is a good one. That and hormones. We pump so much junk into animals and produce that we develop issues.
blogger / honeydew / 7081 posts
I bet its aspartame or something like that! Something that we put in everything, and that's even billed in some cases as 'healthy'.
pomelo / 5509 posts
@Running Elley: Really? What makes you say caffeine? And do you mean caffeine alone, or are you referring to all the chemically-enhanced drinks and energy supplements?
I feel like we would have known by now if plain old caffeine - just coffee or tea - caused huge health problems, since people have been drinking it for so long. But I do agree that the enhanced stuff is scary due to all of the chemicals and unnatural ingredients.
ETA: I meant to mention that there have been studies done showing that caffeine can help ward off dementia.
blogger / wonderful cherry / 21616 posts
I think soda/diet soda
cell phones in pockets- one girl on the news got breast cancer at 19 from storing her phone in her bra.. During my pregnancy I stored mine in my sweatshirt pocket and now worry I have "infected" my child!!
wonderful clementine / 24134 posts
@IRunForFun: I agree caffeine is good for us on some level. Probably not on te levels today or with the other stuff it is served with.
My dad always says sugar is the worst.
grapefruit / 4582 posts
High fructose corn syrup. My old nanny is a chemist. She says its pretty much the worst thing you could put in your body
blogger / wonderful cherry / 21616 posts
@luckypenny: oh yes this!! I have def researched it and stay far, far away. And it always surprises me how many people are okay with it.
pear / 1571 posts
@luckypenny: My uncle is a doctor and says the same thing! No refined sugar is good, but that one is evil, evil!
And I'm going to go out on a limb here and probably get flamed pretty hard, but I say vaccinations during pregnancy is going to be found out to be a pretty bad idea. Either that, or GMOs and growth hormones in our food supply.
eggplant / 11824 posts
I think all the crap we put into food (especially cheap food) like chemicals, hormones, plastic that we line cans with, etc. People know these things are not good, but I think it will get really obvious that ingesting these foreign substances messes with our systems.
eggplant / 11287 posts
SODA!
Or, I second the high fructose corn syrup. That's also a good guess.
persimmon / 1233 posts
Anti-flammable chemicals added to furniture and kids clothes.
And not quite the same thing, but I've wondered which of our childrearing practices will turn out to be harmful (like the tummy sleeping of our era), and just recently some experts came out and said tummy time isn't necessary (not harmful though, fortunately!).
wonderful grape / 20453 posts
Processed food. All that fake shit that goes into making them.
pear / 1548 posts
I think it'll be a combo of a few things. I think it'll be processed foods with all the chemicals, along with soda, fast food, and HFCS. I think they all fit within the same realm- unhealthy foods that are not "real".
That being said, I do enjoy fast food and try not to eat it but sometimes I just crave it! Bad, bad, bad!
pomegranate / 3275 posts
I agree with @farmwifegina GMOs and growth hormones found in our food. Processed foods in general, it can't possible be good for us.....
pomegranate / 3314 posts
Processed food and soda, I'm thinking. I do pretty well at staying away from the former, but not having soda is soooo hard. I am down from having 1 or 2 a day to maybe 3 or 4 a week, so I guess that's progress?! I know it's terrible for me, but I love it.
persimmon / 1328 posts
I would agree with HFCS. I have a corn allergy/intolerance and it is amazing how many things have HFCS in it. And those commercials for it make me mad. My body definitely can tell the difference between HFCS and regular sugar.
blogger / wonderful cherry / 21616 posts
@FarmWifeGina: I appreciate you going out on your limb 
I hope that they change the preservatives. If formeldahyde is a known carcinogen and aluminum has been evident in brains of Alzheimer's patients- I don't understand why those are still common additives. Just like they finally realized thimerasol was a dangerous ingredient. Just my two cents
pear / 1571 posts
@MrsScallop: I'm curious if you're sensitive to all types of corn, or just GMO corn. Or hybrids? You don't hear a lot about corn sensitivities.
pomegranate / 3580 posts
I agree with a lot of the above but especially the cell phones and processed foods. Also. I'm sure the chemicals in sunscreen (and lots of other beauty products) aren't the greatest thing to slather across our skin.
persimmon / 1328 posts
@FarmWifeGina: Eating whole corn doesn't bother me (not yet at least, my sensitivity has gotten worse as I age), but processed corn things definitely do. I haven't thought too much about GMOs, but to be honest, I would also consider any domesticated plant to be a GMO on some level. We dont know if our artificial selection for certain traits carried others along that could cause problems for us.
pear / 1571 posts
@MrsScallop: Well, GMO is not the same thing as hybridization, but I get what you're saying. I am gluten intolerant and there is no such thing as GMO wheat (at least, not officially, not on the market) and I blame the hybridization.
pomelo / 5509 posts
I didn't name some of these things because I feel like it's already known that they're bad for us - artificial sweeteners, high fructose corn syrup, antibiotics/hormones in meat, etc. I definitely agree that all of them will prove to be detrimental to our health. Maybe not as bad as cigarettes, but still harmful.
I know sugar isn't "good" for you, in terms of weight and things like that, but I'll eat pure cane sugar any day over the artificial stuff, which is pure chemicals.
grapefruit / 4862 posts
This is so crazy to think of! I bet it'll be something like a certain additive or something that they all of a sudden realize is SUPER bad, not just potentially not great.
And sidenote- back when EVERYONE smoked, my mom said her house was always full of smoke. Her and most of her 9 siblings, AND her parents. Her aunt and uncle also had 10 kids but a few of them had really severe asthma, so they didn't allow smoking in their house. My mom's mom and aunt had the same lamps they bought together at a sale, and my mom said she started to realize that maybe smoking was bad when after a year, the lamp at her aunt's was perfect (the no-smoking house) while the one in her house was dirty and pitted (it was metal) and looked nasty. She said it made her wonder what smoke did to HER if it destroyed METAL. She quit not long after! Crazy right?
pomegranate / 3329 posts
My Mom bought me a book called Wheat Belly, she's told me a little/enough about it that wheat scares the daylights out of me. My vote is for wheat.
coconut / 8430 posts
I'm paranoid about the microwave! I try not to have my LO in the kitchen when I'm microwaving stuff.
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