[Sooth2222]

Since 1883, it's been the "Journal of the American Medical Association", not the "Journal of the American Medicine Association". Minor point, perhaps, but if the first sentence of the Boston Herald piece is wrong, one wonders what else the author has wrong about it. It would be best to read the original article (in JAMA, not in the Boston Herald) if this is a subject of interest.

[neverdem]

"BISPHENOL A (BPA) IS USED TO manufacture polycarbonate resin"

That's the first string of text from the JAMA article. When I searched for it on Google, I got the abstract linked in comment# 1.

Here's another quote from the article:

"In bivariate analysis, urinary metabolites of other phenols were not associated with overweight or obesity (eTable 4) with the exception of urinary benzophenone level with obesity." (I'm a doc. I get a courtesy hard copy of JAMA. I don't subscribe.)

For the benefit of those without knowledge of organic chemistry, this is what these molecules look like in a standard notation. You start with benzene:

http://www.chemspider.com/Chemical-Structure.236.html?rid=c3984e58-c253-4f80-9b7f-f78b5e807876

Here's phenol:

http://www.chemspider.com/Chemical-Structure.971.html?rid=3da5b009-c6ff-49a6-8873-a31880cfa023

Here's bisphenol A:

http://www.chemspider.com/Chemical-Structure.6371.html?rid=97b539ca-dcb6-4641-a56e-820926726af0

Here's benzophenone:

http://www.chemspider.com/Chemical-Structure.2991.html?rid=a6724351-9bd0-4bfb-bebe-ca250a50f428

Get the picture? The hypothesis that BPA is an endocrine disruptor is definitely worth testing, IMHO.