Hottest day at Wimbledon – not just for Andy Murray
Andy Murray was the hottest British tennis star yesterday at Wimbledon on the hottest day for three years. The match was hotly contested, and the temperature meant that the crowd was hot, too.
The heat means everyone needs to take in more water. Most people on Henman Hill probably had a plastic bottle of water with them.
However, n the heat there is a chance that the bottles will warm up. When the plastic is warm toxins are leached from the plastic into the drink. By a coincidence the more environmentally-friendly the plastic, the more likely this is to happen.
Wimbledon tennis stars like Andy Murray and Stanislas Wawrinka take their drinks from a cool cabinet. Between the games we see the players drinking from plastic bottles filled with water or isotonic drinks. But the crowd is more likely to drink from a warmed bottle rather than miss the tennis action. Without knowing it they are risking taking in damaging toxins.
We are being encouraged to take water with us in this heat but many people don’t realise there is a potential health hazard, too.
Prevent toxins being leached from plastic with a few simple guidlines:
Don’t fill an old water bottle with new water
Don’t use an unopened bottle which has been in heat and cooled down as the damage is already done
Use a cool bag if you are going to be out and about in the heat and your water bottle might heat up (obtainable in many supermarkets)
Throw half consumed-bottles into recycling.
Drink from glass if possible.
This advice is important for all ages, from babies to the elderly but is especially vital for women who are pregnant or planning on becoming pregnant.
The new roof at Wimbledon esnures we get the hottest tennis action when it is raining or late into the evening, but we all need to keep our water intake cool.
July 30th, 2009 at 2:41 pm
I don’t get it, what do you mean by the 3rd paragraph?
August 3rd, 2009 at 1:14 pm
5 star article brilliant. I am new to blogging and you used a langauge I can understand
August 3rd, 2009 at 11:00 pm
Great article . Will definitely apply it to my site
August 4th, 2009 at 9:17 am
In truth, immediately i didn’t understand the essence. But after re-reading all at once became clear.
August 4th, 2009 at 5:24 pm
Many people do not understand that hot plastic is a problem. Glad you understood.
August 4th, 2009 at 5:27 pm
The more bio-degradable plastics actually can be more harmful in leaching toxins into the food or water they contain. You would imagine that the more “advanced” plastics would be less harmful but it is not so.