More Good News
Sep 16th, 2008 at 2:03 pm by Susie
LONDON (Reuters) - A study has for the first time linked a common chemical used in everyday products such as plastic drink containers and baby bottles to health problems, specifically heart disease and diabetes.
Until now, environmental and consumer activists who have questioned the safety of bisphenol A, or BPA, have relied on studies showing harm from exposure in laboratory animals.
But British researchers, who published their findings on Tuesday in the Journal of the American Medical Association, analyzed urine and blood samples from 1,455 U.S. adults aged 18 to 74 who were representative of the general population.
Using government health data, they found that the 25 percent of people with the highest levels of bisphenol A in their bodies were more than twice as likely to have heart disease and, or diabetes compared to the 25 percent of with the lowest levels.
NO WAIT! NOT TRUE!
And do you know how I know? Because those kindly chemists who developed the stuff and profit from its sale SAID SO. Sheesh… if we can’t trust a completely biased source, just who CAN we trust?
GRRRRR.
Of course, the poor trash who eat all that junk food we encase in BpA got all those diseases because their lifestyles are lousy, so don’t blame us.
No, really.
That’s their counterclaim.
But since the companies that chose to encase their food in BpA also made the food, it’s kinda desperate, the fingerpointing….