There has been a lot of news this week about the impact of artificially created organic chemicals on our bodies. Now a major new finding comfirms what I have been suspecting all along: Bisphenol-A suppresses adiponectin--the hormone in fat that is part of the system that regulates how much additional fat our bodies put away.
Bisphenol-A is found in hard plastics like water bottles and baby bottles. It is also used in the lining of food cans, which means if you ever eat commercially prepared foods you are exposed to it, since much restaurant food starts out in cans.
Here's a good write up about this research:
Toxic Plastic Linked to Metabolic Syndrome
From that report we get this description of the study, published in the Aug. 14, 2008, online edition of the journal Environmental Health Perspectives:
"In a laboratory study, using fresh human fat tissues, the UC team found that BPA suppresses a key hormone, adiponectin, which is responsible for regulating insulin sensitivity in the body and puts people at a substantially higher risk for metabolic syndrome."
If you've been following the news, you will have noted that the plastics industry and its lobbyists have been fighting hard to keep this plastic in our environment and the FDA--that has never found a lobbyist whose interests it won't serve--continues to claim it is safe.
Other research has shown that many of us have detectible levels of Bisphenol-A in our bodies. And yet more research has shown that heating a plastic baby bottle releases a lot of Bisphenol-A into the milk in that bottle.
Plastic baby bottles made of Bisphenol-A have been around for a generation. But the plastics industry would have you believe that it is totally coincidental that the generation that grew up drinking from those baby bottles has the highest rate of obesity ever seen in our society.
Completely coincidental. Oh yeah.
Don't those lobbyists have kids and grandkids too?
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