The DANGEROUS Chemical BPA-Which Drinking & Baby Bottles Are Made With It
Scientists have finally discovered what might be causing the epidemic of heart disease and diabetes in this country.
Is your baby safe from BPA in bottles?
If you live in America and eat any packaged foods at all, you are probably also consuming the chemical bisphenol A, or BPA. Previous studies showed that BPA causes precancerous conditions, kidney and developmental problems in animals. But new research, published in the September 17th edition of the Journal of the American Medical Association, shows that humans could be walking time bombs of health problems due to just “normal” exposures to BPA.
They have come to the conclusion that having BPA in your system at “normal levels,” can increase your risk for cancer, cardiovascular disease, (angina, coronary heart disease, or heart attack combined) diabetes liver and kidney disease by 39%. That figure might be low compared to how much plastics we use.
This protential killer, BPA is coming from plastics. Plastic bottles, sippy cups, plastic wrap, plastic containers, the plastic that lines cans, such as tomato sauce and anything with acid acid. If you sit and think…we have a huge amount of those products in our homes right now.
If you are noticing…most all of the alerts that I send you, are not natural issues, something that nature made, but something that man in his ultimate wisdom and knowledge has made…like PLASTICS. Money is not the root of all evil…perhaps man is…?
Recent studies have shown that people with the highest BPA concentration had nearly three times the odds of heart disease and 2.4 times the risk of diabetes when compared with those with the lowest levels. Plus, higher levels of BPA concentrations were also associated with abnormally elevated levels of three liver enzymes. The liver as you know is the filter to our bodies.
SO, where is FDA when you need them? Probably having lunch with a pharmaceutical company…or trying to talk the American public into think that irradiating food is good for us…when it is NOT! Is anyone in Washington going to listen? They certainly haven’t in the past.
The Department of Health and Human Services’ National Toxicology Program released a report on the safety of the chemical and warned BPA could cause health and developmental problems.
As expected, warnings about BPA, have been hotly contested by plastic industry leaders. Much like the pharmaceutical industry, the plastics industry wants consumers to believe their chemicals are so safe that your children are safe with them. So, we need to be so vigilant about protecting ourselves and our children from plastic packaging.
Clearly, mainstream medicine is just now recognizing that the chemical contaminant is a real health concern.
Still…BPA production has reached about 7 billion pounds per year and the chemical has caused massive planetary CONTAMINATION. Why? Consider the fact that products containing BPA, like microwavable food containers, and water bottles often end up in landfills and dumped into water ecosystem.
Canada, in it’s ultimate wisdom, has declared the chemical to be a major worldwide pollutant. While we, the American public, have been waiting for years for the government to even acknowledge that BPA is a health hazard, it makes little sense to rely on the FDA to to protect us from the chemical.
Here Are Some Ways To Protect You and Your Family from BPA:
- Avoid baby formula as much as possible.
- Eat fresh, not canned, food.
- The EWG has found that food and drink cans are lined with BPA laden plastic. Canned soups and spaghetti cans have the highest levels. Don’t buy them.
- Pay attention to the kind of plastics you use for food and drink.
- Don’t use plastic containers to heat food in microwaves.
- Choose safe bottles.
The plastics that have the most BPA are those made of polycarbonate plastic, they are usually rigid and transparent and used for toddler cups, baby bottles, food storage containers and water bottles. They are marked on the bottom with the letters “PC” and the recycling number 7. Plastics with the recycling numbers 1, 2 and 4 on the bottom are better choices, so like reading the ingredients, flip that bottle over and look at the numbers. Sometimes the numbers are inside a recycle triangle.
Personally, I also have issue with plastic wrap. When you cover your food and place it in the microwave…and heat it…there must be gases and chemicals coming off the plastic wrap. The food heats, condensation forms, plastic heats, chemicals mix with condensation…drop right into your food. My new campaign is to get rid of the microwave and plastic. Easy and quick is not neccisarily what is good for you.
Remember, avoiding BPA doesn’t automatically protect your health. Consumer the dangers that are often inside the BPA laden containers. Some of the top infant formula products sold in the United States are contaminated with hexane residues, and many infant products are made with as much as 50 percent refined sugars and corn syrup solids. Pay as much attention to what’s inside the bottle as you do the bottle itself.
Special Note: According to the Environmental Working Group (EWG), a non~profit organization comprised of scientists, engineers, policy experts, lawyers and computer programmers who have been in the forefront of pointing out the potential health and environmental hazards of BPA, all U.S. manufacturers of formula use a BPA containing lining on the metal part of their containers. Opt for breastfeeding exclusively if possible, or use a dry formula that is mixed with filtered water.
I beg you…Please watch this video if you are going to have children or grandchildren…
~The Baby Boomer Queen~
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“They are marked on the bottom with the letters “PC” and the recycling number 7. Plastics with the recycling numbers 1, 2 and 4 on the bottom are better choices, so like reading the ingredients, flip that bottle over and look at the numbers. Sometimes the numbers are inside a recycle triangle.”
Clear as glass plastic bottles,in other words.