Take a moment to read this article on Rodale. It talks about new research from the journal PLoS ONE on Bisphenol-A (BPA), an endocrine hormone (estrogen) mimic found in plastics that disrupts the body’s normal estrogen. In this case, heart tissue exposed to BPA lost its ability to maintain normal rhythm (arrhythmia) by changing cellular [...]
Please take a moment to read the recent blog post of Bill Couzins, Founder of Less Cancer. Here’s my favorite line: “People in the United States live under the false impression that if something is legal, it is safe for humans and the environment…. None of this is about panic, but it is about avoiding [...]
More on the studies on Bisphenol-A (BPA) that I mentioned here. In this blog post by Tara Parker-Pope, some great quotes from the researchers who conducted the canned soup study… Dr. Michels noted that all the participants were fed amounts of soup that were smaller than what people probably would consume on their own. “One [...]
I’m going to start this off with two quotes. The first is from a Harvard research study published in JAMA, the second from Evolutionary Psychiatry paraphrasing an article from the journal Pediatrics. Neither is funny. Both are scary. “Urine samples were taken on the 4th and 5th days of each phase. Urinary BPA was found [...]
