06 Oct Man Boobs, Knowing the Common Everyday Chemical that Contributes to Moobs.
We love the convience of bottled water, but unfortunately a chemical that makes up the bottle of bottled water, has also been found to leach into the water itself. That chemical is bisphenol A, or BPA. It was originally created as an estrogen mimicking pro-hormone, which I’m thinking can’t be a good thing for our bodies. The FDA thought so too, when it failed to pass BPA due to it’s ability to damage the liver, ignite cancer, contribute to heart disease, and contribute to diabetes. That didn’t stop science from figuring out another way to recycle BPA. The story goes, a chemist figured out how to “attach” the BPA molecules together through a process called poymerization, and viola, it’s a new world, and BPA has multiple new uses, many of them as food containers, and billions of plastic water bottles.
As you know, you cannot get through a single day without touching plastic, from your clock, food products, kids toys, car steering wheel. Plastic is everywhere, but in this case think of the plastic we use for food and drink. Especially think of kids with growing bodies, kids that guzzle milk from plastic gallon containers daily. Kids that are sent to sports practices with water bottles that contain BPA. It’s not certain how much of the BPA leaches out of the containers, but one thing is certain, our bodies do not know how to get rid of BPA once it has been digested. So BPA builds up over time, imagine that, this toxin building up in the bodies of our daughters, and our sons, helping their bodies to load up with an estrogen pro-hormone. Nature did not intend for men, or little boys and little girls to have breasts, but that is what is happening. And this is happening to kids at younger and younger ages.
The good news, some companies are getting on board, recognizing the ill effects of BPA, but it’s not happening soon enough. To fight back, you just need to be aware, and start making some choices directed at getting BPA out of your families diet. If your family drinks milk, look for bottles made of glass, like Hilhoff Dairy in West Michigan, which is sold at Health Hutt in Grand Haven, and Muskegon. The glass containers can be recycled by the farm itself. Plus, if the farmer is going the extra distance of using glass, that farmer surely would not be using Bovine Growth Hormones on their cows, which is another dark story about toxins. Drink filtered water from your tap, using a reverse osmosis filter that will get the flouride out. Flouride is a carcinogenic compound that you do not want to be drinking, or cooking with, or brushing your teeth with. Again, another dark story exists there. Store that water in bottles that do not contain BPA, which on the bright side, are getting easier and easier to find. Plus you won’t be contributing to the 3.2 billion discarded water bottles filling up land fills. See, the good news continues.
No one intended men to have breasts, or little kids for that matter. I know it’s hard to avoid, almost impossible, but the more you are aware of the dangers of BPA, then you’ll make smarter choices. Making the choices to avoid buying products with BPA, will help more companies to follow the wants of their customers. Us.