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Chemicals in Our Food, and Bodies
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Your body is probably home to a chemical called bisphenol A, or BPA. It’s a synthetic estrogen that United States factories now use in everything from plastics to epoxies — to the tune of six pounds per American per year. That’s a lot of estrogen.
More than 92 percent of Americans have BPA in their urine, and scientists have linked it — though not conclusively — to everything from breast cancer to obesity, from attention deficit disorder to genital abnormalities in boys and girls alike.
Now it turns out it’s in our food.
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Readers should also follow the link to the http://www.consumerreports.org/health/healthy-living/health-safety/bpa/overview/bisphenol-a-ov.htm and see their recommendations. I have one more: Fundamentally reform the deeply corrupt US federal and state governments to eliminate all the various forms of lobbying. Half steps: Mandate the disclosure of all funding sources for all “studies” used to develop and set policy. This rule should also be applied to the nation’s universities.