The news on the world’s worst chemical additive keeps getting worse… as a new study now links bisphenol-A — better known as BPA — to asthma.
But really, that’s one of the better conditions this toxin has been linked to. I’d take asthma over diabetes, cancer and a failure of my private parts any day.
Researchers gave pregnant mice BPA about a week before giving birth, and in amounts in proportion to what most humans get — in other words, way too much of this chemical from Hell.
Tests on the mice pups whose mousey mothers were exposed to BPA had far more indications of asthma than mice from mothers that were not exposed, according to the study published in Environmental Health Perspectives.
I can already hear the chemical industry whining that this is just a test on mice. But honestly, would anyone really be surprised if turned out to be true in humans as well?
This unnatural monster chemical is so bad I don’t doubt any of the conditions linked to it. I’ve already warned you about many of them, as well as the FDA’s complete inability to act on the information right in front of them. (Read "FDA still can’t get it right on BPA.")
See, as bad as this stuff is, it’s still in practically everything from plastic bottles and food containers to the linings of tin cans. The easy answer here is to do what’s right anyway and eat only fresh foods.
No plastic bottles, no cans… no problems.
The only good thing I can say about BPA is it makes plastics practically indestructible… so thousands of years from now, future archeologists will know we were here. Instead of pyramids, we’ll leave behind deadly waste.
But hey, at least it won’t take those future scientists long to figure out what we did to ourselves.
Taking on a toxic industry,