Posted on 08/19/2013 5:09:02 PM PDT by SMGFan
Because there are apparently not enough studies to convince the Food and Drug Administration that controversial chemical Bisphenol-A (BPA) should not be used in just about every form of food packaging, yet another study has been published linking BPA to childhood obesity. Meanwhile, a separate study released today showed a possible connection between a widely used plasticizer and diabetes.
Both studies are to be published in the September 2013 edition of the journal Pediatrics and are currently available for free online. The first study [PDF] investigated the relationship between levels of BPA in urine and subjects’ body mass index (BMI), as well as other chronic disease risk factors. BPA is a chemical commonly used in food and beverage packaging in the U.S., though it has recently been banned for use in the making of baby bottles and infant formula packaging. Researchers looked at around 3,300 Americans between the ages of 6 and 18, comparing their urinary BPA to measures of adiposity, cholesterol, insulin, and glucose. Results were adjusted for variables like demographics, tobacco exposure, and soda consumption.
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You and me both.
Pyrex makes some really nice containers for that sort of thing. They have freezer safe lids too. Just be careful. Hubby packs his in a lunch bag that’s insulated.
You seem to be a very learned man about many things, so I have an off the wall question for you.
What might be the best cut of goat for a person that has never before eaten goat?
“green” research
LOL I don’t know nuthin about no goats aside from the fact that the meat is fine but stringy.
Well THAT does it! I’m going to quit eating cash register receipts.
I’m in trouble. My favorite cups are plastic...
Well darn, I figured/hoped you would know. ;>) My wife wants to raise a couple head and I don’t want to raise anything we can eventually eat, if need be.
Junk science or relevant issue? I just found out today that another young coworker has cancer. Something is going on. I’m beginning to thing that post-WWII food advancements aren’t as great as we thought they were. I think my Depression era grandparents were doing it right when they shunned margarine, Crisco, sliced bread, and meat from the freezer section.
Thanks! Do we need a natural living ping list?
I knew there had to be a reason I’ve got a spare tire around my middle — its because I eat food wrapped in plastic. Yeah. That’s it! It has to be that; not the fact that I over-eat and under-exercise.
for later.
>>If anything, it sounds like people should stop feeding their kids so much pre packaged food.
Common sense like yours is now an uncommon virtue. This is what happens when government pays for science. Its like a study saying that the packaging for Oreos causes obesity. No...it’s the OREOs!
In reference to ‘Goat’...
Cabrito is a popular southwestern/Hispanic dish... I just goggled and lots of info there...
From Texas Monthly (an Austin super liberal rag):
“Cooking your own cabrito can be real simple—if you want to dig a hole in your backyard, as purists insist. All you need is a three-foot-deep pit with a mesquite or oak fire raging in it. Wrap a skinned cabrito in a gunnysack bound with wire and set the meat in the pit. Cover it with dirt to seal in the heat and let it cook all day. The cabrito will be smoke-seasoned and tender by nightfall. Apartment-dwellers might want to opt for the kitchen method of cooking cabrito: place half a cabrito in a roasting pan with salt, pepper, and two or three onions and baste with hot lard or shortening. Cook for an hour and 45 minutes in a 375-degree oven, turning every twenty minutes or so. Sure beats having to dig up the back yard. “
Do you handle the receipt and then grab a handful of french fries or onion rings?
Hubby had a big coffee cup that was plastic. I switched him out to a great big glass one (anchor hocking IIRC) that I found at WalMart for 2 bucks or something.
He actually likes the glass one better because the glass is a better insulator than the plastic and his coffee stays hot longer.
That program already exists in several forms: abortion and homosexuality.
Actually it’s less the packaging for Oreos or other cookies and more the lining in the cans (Campbell’s soup for example) and all the plastic soda, juice and water bottles. And the baby bottles they were fed from.
And apparently it’s even more critical that pregnant women avoid these as it’s the prenatal exposure that might be the most damaging.
That sounds like fun to me.
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