Higher BPA Levels, More Heart Disease?

The bottom line is ... "You Are What You Eat!" ... the old adage come home to me recently when I was prescribed insulin to combat my diabetes. I research and found that if I cut all sugars out of my diet, my diabetes would get better. AND IT DID. A lot better as a matter of fact. It's just a matter of eating foods that don't spike your blood sugar level so fast that your pancreas can't make insulin fast enough. Read more about it at Diabetic Diets Cure - www.diabeticdietscure.com

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And how about getting rid of soda machines and bringing in fruits and vegetables by the truckload for school lunches.

PE! American kids need (and want more) of it!

While the battle continues between a powerful industry that has enslaved itself to BPA as an easy answer to so many of our needs, and underfunded and unappreciated researchers who strive for clarity and understanding necessary to protect our health, we are left hanging in limbo. And even as we may strive to minimize our intake of BPA we continue to ingest BPA because it has become almost impossible to avoid. One insidious source that is still off the radar is our water supplies that continuously provide us with micro-doses of BPA. Most municipal water storage tanks are lined with BPA-based epoxy. The linings leach BPA into the water that comes out of our faucets. The linings break down and particles of epoxy come out of our faucets. We drink it, cook with it, bathe in it. Foods are processed and packaged in BPA-laced water, too, because industrial water storage tanks are also epoxy lined. So, even if the foods are packaged in BPA-free containers, they are still contaminated with BPA. But never mind - the industry is too big to fail in protecting their bottom lines at all costs - including at the expense of our health and well-being.

Holy Moses, insulin has nothing to do with the "break down" of food, or the "break down of fat and carbohydrate"!! The breakdown of food occurs through digestive enzymes in the stomach and intestines. How hard is it to accurately describe the action of insulin by saying that it regulates the storage of glucose and fatty acids into fat and muscle cells? Readers are not in kindergarten, they can handle an accurate description.

This has been discussed as the problem for so long now. I am grateful for another research study, but when will this knowledge be implemented into changes in the way we process and distribute our foods? Clearly the plastics industry has a well paid lobbyist group! Janet Still Board Certified Family Nurse Practitioner http://stilljanet.com

I wonder if BPA is responsible for these lengthwise ridges in my fingernails. I use a lot of commercially canned tomatoes in my cooking.

Uh, kidding, you know? Did I really have to put in a snark tag?

TP is made of recycled paper. Remember the little plastic windows in the envelopes.

So it's a potentially dangerous chemical. Great, get rid if it. But stop pretending it has anything to do with the obesity epidemic. I have hypothyroidism which presented with severe symptoms and been difficult to treat. Yet I am a 5'8" male who weighs 145 lb. As someone with an actual metabolic disorder who manages to maintain a perfectly healthy weight, I am so sick of hearing about HFCS, BPA, saturated fat, and other boogeymen. The bottom, scientifically-proven line is this: you can eat ANYTHING you want, even trans fat, so long as you eat it in moderation and pair it with an active lifestyle. Even with a strong family history of type 2 diabetes, exercising and maintaining a healthy weight reduces your risk by 90%. I won't dispute that pesticides and hormones and the other junk that is put into food can be harmful, but the attempt to use every single minor study to find a scapegoat for a personal failure to maintain proper health needs to stop. If you sat down an Olympic athlete, refused to let him exercise, and fed him 4,000 calories a day, he'd he obese too - not from freaking BPA, but from eating 4,000 calories while being sedentary.

Just on the point of 2. Buy glass bottles and bottle your own. Bottled water is pretty handy; a good filter can make it even safer than chemical-filled tap and bottled water.

They're putting plastic in TOILET PAPER now? Sigh. Why did that even surprise me? 1. Make as much of your own food from fresh as possible. 2. Don't drink pop or bottled water: because pop contains as much sugar as 2 candy bars, and because it usually comes in plastic, and bottled water has fewer testing requirements than tap water ... and it comes in plastic. Which is not biodegradable. 3. You can get re-usable linen sandwich bags for your kids. Save money AND reduce your kids' exposure to BPA. 4. Uh, on the TP, use a bidet?