Doctors warn of the dangers of a new popular teenage challenge. VIDEO

American doctors called dangerous the new teenage challenge, which was called #ShellOnChallenge. Young people eat peeled vegetables and fruits, which usually require cleaning, and also use food directly from plastic or cardboard packaging.

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Teenagers eat whole lemons and bananas without peeling them, bite carrots through a plastic bag, chew cereal through the outer layer of a cardboard package, and bite and chew sausage straight from the plastic casing. They film all this and publish it on social networks - mainly on Snapchat, writes aol.

Doctors warn about the dangers of such a challenge. According to experts, eating the package is unlikely to kill a person, but digesting products that are not food can have detrimental long-term consequences for the body.

“Organic material such as fruit peels is generally not hazardous. Lemon peels (zest) are often used in recipes, says New York City doctor Max Plitt. “But eating plastic can be dangerous. It is assumed that its components affect hormones. And plastic packaging chemicals, such as vinyl chloride, have been linked to cancer.”

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Pediatrician Andrew Bernstein, a representative of the American Academy of Pediatrics, suggested that the package may contain “toxic” microorganisms, for which protection it was developed.

“Packaging is designed to ensure products are germ-free and environmentally friendly,” he told Health. — If you eat the packaging, dangerous bacteria or chemicals will enter your body. They can be toxic or cause illness."

What is #ShellOnChallenge?

This challenge originated from the very risky “test” of the Tide Pod challenge, which required eating capsules of laundry detergent, as well as the Hot Water challenge, during which people poured hot water or drank it through a straw.

The trend has become frighteningly popular in Snapchat over the past two weeks. There are several videos showing how teens eat unpeeled bananas or chew cereal right from the box.

Someone Liam Hamm, a high school student from Tempe, Arizona, ate a plastic bag of carrots. He signed his video: “You all, eat your lunch with or without packaging.”

if anyone wants the video pic.twitter.com/y12ye5DbkT

- Liam Hamm (@ LiamHamm1) April 17, 2019

The teenager said that he had seen many other participants of the Challenge, adding: “It just looks funny, because in reality it’s not a shell, but people call it that. I think this is the funny thing. ”

Here are some more video of the challenge:

#shellonchallenge pic.twitter.com/NiASGPrJ7F

- Ben and Dana (@ BandD963) April 23, 2019

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