Eliminate Plastics
Plastics are not easy to stay away from during these times. Everything that we buy or use, more or less, have some components of plastic. These containers serve as storage for food and liquids and even used for heating or cooking. In this age of plastics, glass containers seem to have faded away. You can hardly find one. It is making us sick, unhealthy, and affecting the development and growth of our children. Eight year old girls having menses never actually happened during my teenage years. It doesn’t shock us anymore if this happens nowadays because we all know it’s due to the BPA in plastics that affects the estrogen in women. An astonishing 90% of the populace, as revealed in scientific investigations, have small traces of BPA in their bloodstream.
Even though the manufacture of Bisphenol begun in 1891, it was only in 1950 that its production were sold in the market. The delayed release in the market was justified because of BPA seeping out from the plastic containers from earlier production. BPA or Bisphenol A, according to its definition is a group of chemical compounds that are produced artificially and mainly used in polycarbonate products. Its effects on animals (even in tiny dosages), mimicking the hormone estrogen, have been determined to be detrimental to its development. Moreover, various experiments conducted on animals and those in test tubes that were found to have traces of Bisphenol A had hormonal imbalances thus it was termed as “environmental hormones”. This includes breast cancer, prostate cancer, early puberty, changes in brain structures and is particularly disturbing considering that most babies are drinking out of plastic baby bottles. The Canadian Health Ministry are actually aware of the highly adverse effects of BPA exposure and was first to take precautionary measures to control it. Everyone knows the danger the chemical poses when contact is made, that information is already too old. Estroginicity was initially recorded from experiments done in the 1930’s where ovariectomized rats are fed with BPA. (Dodds and Lawson, 1936, 1938) The study even undervalued the extent of BPA’s effect on human beings.
The purpose of putting BPA in plastic production is that it is a solidifier. It solidifies plastic, making it light, clear and resistant to heat, electricity and breaking. Glass lenses, storage discs, computers, tools, headlights, equipments for safety in sports and medicine, incubators, reusable containers and can linings – these are but a few of the many products that is polycarbonate made.
Worldwide use of BPA has reached about three million in metric tons during 2003 as published in the Handbook of Chemical Economics by SRI Consulting in August of 2004.
Decreased BPA exposure can be done in a number of ways. Buying food ingredients in glass jars in the market is best. One particular example is the tomato sauce. Tomato sauces packed in plastic leaks BPA when the tomato’s acid reacts to it. Have vegetables and fruits that are freshly picked as these have no BPA content. If you buy juices and sodas, choose the ones in the glass bottle. And please, use glass baby bottles.
I use ceramic or glass every chance I get. Remember your pets need feeding too and they have a container of their own. Try to make sure that your using a glass container or ceramic or stainless steel and not plastic. You can even find the most beautiful colored glass and ceramic birdbaths, too. They add a wonderful decorative touch to the yard and minimize exposure to BPA’s to domestic and wildlife and glass is recyclable. Glass is actually better than plastic, however you look at it!
Acquire a ceramic bowl for your pets. They deserve the very best from you. At Best Pet Products, they have a great deal of ceramic bowls to pick from. Purchase one now.
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