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.
(Excerpt) Read more at consumerist.com ...
While there might be some connection between the packaging and obesity, I’d bet dollars to doughnuts that there’s an even better correlation between obesity and what’s IN the package.
Sign me up...
Ping...in case you find this of interest.
Yes. And then I mix them all together and pour oodles of ketchup on it from those plastic fast food packets.
Is this real science or junk?
I mean the research they were reporting on.
Done.
Peruse the abstract in the link at comment 12.
BPA found not to be harmful.
And yet the study in link 12, published in January of 13 (several months after that forbes article) found just the opposite.
The subsequent study investigated the effects on multiple generations post exposure.
I’ll post a bit of the abstract here:
“Gestating F0 generation females were exposed to either the “plastics” or “lower dose plastics” mixture during embryonic days 8 to 14 of gonadal sex determination and the incidence of adult onset disease was evaluated in F1 and F3 generation rats. There were significant increases in the incidence of total disease/abnormalities in F1 and F3 generation male and female animals from plastics lineages. Pubertal abnormalities, testis disease, obesity, and ovarian disease (primary ovarian insufficiency and polycystic ovaries) were increased in the F3 generation animals.”
f0 is the initial generation. F1’s are their children. F2’s are their grandchildren and f3’s are the great grandchildren.
BPA showed up in the food supply en masse in the late 60’s. We’re just now seeing the f2’s of that exposure being born. I personally know 3 women born in/around the mid/late 70’s who were told in their late 20’s that they had the ovarian capacity of a 40 something woman. Ie, they were infertile at 27.
Of course, mass infertility is a completely desirable side effect of this stuff if you’re a globalist gaia worshipper. Like most of the elites.
But hey, if you think it’s safe, absolutely consume as much of it as you can. Your kids too. Natural selection happens even today. I’m sure the cigarette/health studies were all fearmongering hype too.
Thanks for the ping!
You’re Welcome, Alamo-Girl!
I’d be interested, too! :)
I like plastic because it doesn’t break if it gets dropped and plastic cups hold ENOUGH ice tea or water. Gonna have to change.
Done.
[Fat, sick Americans are easier to manipulate and more needy for government provided ‘healthcare’]
Bingo.
And Observe the symbiotic relationship between the the insurance industry which ‘invests’ the McSheeples premiums in the pharmaceutical industry, which is financed by insurance...
Fat, sick Americans = CASH COWS
The giant glass beer mugs I found at walmart are great for coffee, iced tea or just water. I think I paid $2 and change for them each.
Hubby also likes using quart mason jars for water and iced tea. They’re really cheap. I think we paid $9 and something for a case of 12. I use the 8oz jelly jars sometimes and so do my kids. We don’t use those for ‘company’ but for ‘just us’ they’re perfectly acceptable and if they get dropped they don’t shatter into a billion pieces. And cost less than $1.
We had thought about using regular stoneware coffee mugs and the like but then realized that they’re all ‘made in china’ and who knows what’s in the glaze on them. So clear glass, Made in USA, it’s been since.
Plastics cause changes in hormone levels and can turn rooster into hens:-).
Just look at Justin Beiber and other boys of his generation. No real secondary sex characteristics to be had in those males...
Giant beer mugs - that sounds like my style.
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