Pack your child’s lunch in steel boxes

Parents, what is it that you packing your kid’s lunch in? Aluminium foil, plastic food wrap or plastic lunch box are some of the common options. However, you might be surprised to know that none of these are doing any good to your child’s health.  Steel lunch boxes with food wrapped in muslin cloth can be great for kids’ health. Steel bottles or copper bottles should be used as a replacement for plastic water bottles.

How plastic lunch boxes and aluminium foils are harming kids?

It is important to know that food picks up chemicals or substances from the material that is packed in. This is especially true when you pack hot food.These  harmful chemicals known as xenoestrogens. These chemicals mimic estrogen hormone in the body and disturb hormonal balance in children at their growing stage.

Aluminium foil has somewhat similar effect on food. Even though they have been used for wrapping rotis, paranthas and numerous other food items. And while companies manufacturing these aluminium foils claim that they keep food warm (when they clearly don’t), you will be shocked to know that these foils leech Aluminium into food. Once this food is inside the body, it replaces Zinc, which is an important mineral for functioning of insulin. Impaired functioning of insulin can cause obesity, PCOD, fatty liver and diabetes to name a very few.

Packing nutrient-rich food to a non-plastic and non-aluminium source can have a positive impact on your child’s health.

So, it’s time you ditch all the plastic lunch boxes and go buy some traditional steel lunch boxes and even some muslin cloth for packing both yours and your child’s lunch.