From the article: 8 Ways to Reduce Your Exposure to BPA
Bisphenol A (BPA) is widely used in plastic products including baby bottles amd children’s toys, and in the linings of most food and beverage cans. But in many studies, BPA has been linked to serious health problems in humans. Given how common BPA is, what are you doing to reduce your exposure to BPA?
Get Smart
- Okay. There are chemicals in many things. If you are going to improve your health you will need to freeze leftovers in glass pyrex dishes, and then you can use them to cook in. Only use organic vegetables, fruit, and meat. Use milk from free range cows to lower exposure to hormones and antibiotics in milk products and only buy milk products which are organic and hormone/antibiotic free. Reduce your use of aluminum cans (aluminum has been linked to alzheimers) and certainly do not use corn products from the US since about 80% are suspected to be genetically engineered. Preliminary results of genetically engineered corn can cause health problems. Cut out all artificial sweetners, additives, and preservatives. Go as natural as possible, make your own bread from known wheat sources. If you do this.....then you'll feel better. It won't hurt you to reduce BPA exposure but that is not the only chemical in our food source that doesn't belong and can cause serious illness!
- —Guest Ann
money and receipts
- Just heard a report that 95% of all dollar bills have BPA. Any kind of receipt, cash register, ATM, etc.., has BPA. So use your ATM card and keep a separate envelope for receipts
- —Guest susan
Did it seem like a good idea anyway??
- So when did stuff wrapped up in completely unnatural crap start becoming appealing anyway? Stop your convenience-food addiction. Eat fresh food. Better still, grow your own. Stop drinking crap. Then you'll be less fat and more healthy. Fruit and vegetables should not be packed up....
- —Guest Rusty Bullethole
Re: Reducing BPA
- Guest Avris' suggestion is probably the wrong thing to do - because as the UL web site says - Polycarbonate is strong and durable, but over time it may break down from overuse at high temperatures. So just recycle the bottles.
- —meestair.g
Reducing already PRE-EXISTING BPA
- Am wondering which ways might be best to reduce BPA leaching out from polycarbonate #7 ?? I'd guess that it could help extracting as much BPA as possible before use by a) soaking such polycarbonate containers with a solution of household bleach and water for 8-10hrs, b) then washing these in warm soapy tapwater, c) then rinsing these in hot tapwater, d) then continually pouring in boiling water into such containers and then dumping the boiling water, e) and then finally, repeated container rinses with chlorine-reduced filtered water.
- —Guest Avris
Out with BPA
- After reading about the health hazards of BPA, my family has cut way back on canned foods, and we look for cans that are labeled BPA-free. It would be a good excuse for giving up soda, but we're not quite there yet. So we buy soda in glass or soft plastic bottles.
- —Guest Katrina