Study Finds BPA Actually Changes Your Brain

'Researchers at North Carolina State University found that bisphenol-A (BPA) exposure in early life stages can actually cause gene expression changes. These effects are seen in a part of the brain called the amygdala, which can lead to increased levels of anxiety. What may surprise you is that soy—which has been accused of mimicking estrogen, as has BPA—prevented the behavioral changes.'


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BPA-Free Products Still Contain Bisphenols Of Equal Toxicity

'Now that consumers are refusing to buy BPA-containing containers, manufacturers have had no choice but to oblige with seemingly bisphenol-free alternatives. 

Ironically, however, BPA is used to make Sippy Cups (and polycarbonate) shatterproof, and therefore "safer." But, instead of manufacturers actually removing the danger in BPA-free labeled products, many are capitalizing on this dialectical marketing opportunity by removing only the perception of danger, opting to substitute BPA for equally toxic bisphenols within the same chemical class.'


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How to get rid of hormone disrupting BPA for good

 

by Dr. William Campbell Douglas


'Wish you could just flush all the BPA right out of your body? Too bad -- this hormone-like chemical is in you, right now, and there's not much you can do about it: A new study finds you can completely cut out all foods from BPA-laced containers and STILL have plenty of this junk left over days later. Thank your local chemicals industry lobbyist for that. Researchers recruited five families from the San Francisco Bay Area that regularly ate and drank processed and canned foods, frozen dinners, and meals microwaved in plastic containers -- all top sources of BPA exposure.' 


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Melissa Breyer Which Plastics to Never Use with Food

'Although the apron-wearing, martini-bearing, housewife-in-heels with her rainbow of Tupperware may be a thing of the past, the quest for a well-organized kitchen persists. To see tidy stacks of food-filled plastic containers in the fridge and freezer is comforting in a primal kind of way. But then comes the procession of warnings about storing and cooking food in plastic, and leaching chemicals, and hormone disruption, and ACK! So here it is: The lowdown on plastic food containers.

Flip over your favorite plastic food storage container and check the recycling code number. If you spy a number 3 or 7, well, those containers should probably go to the craft room or garage to store buttons or screws rather than food. If there is no number listed, contact the manufacturer. (And to be fair to Tupperware, they do manufacture products that are not made of these plastic types.)'

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Canada: BPA officially labelled 'toxic' Chemical could cause prostate, breast cancer

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'The federal government has made good on a two-year-old promise to add bisphenol A, a hormone-disrupting chemical linked to some cancers, to the country's list of toxic substances, in spite of industry opposition. 

In 2008, Canada became the first country in the world to ban the chemical, an estrogen-mimicking substance also known as BPA, in baby bottles after concluding that the industrial chemical could eventually lead to prostate and breast cancer. 

 The next step for the government was to designate the chemical as toxic under the Canadian Environmental Protection Act.'

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Tests Reveal Poison in Nearly All Campbell's Soup

'The food processing world is reeling right now one day after a shocking new series of tests released by Consumer Reports revealed that many leading brands of canned foods contain Bisphenol A (BPA)—a toxic chemical linked to health risks including reproductive abnormalities, neurological effects, heightened risk of breast and prostate cancers, diabetes, heart disease and other serious health problems.

BPA is used in the lining of cans and the toxin leaches from the lining into the food. According to Consumer Reports just a couple of servings of canned food can exceed scientific limits on daily exposure for children.'

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