Chemicals and Our Health

[Natasha]

Chemicals and Our Health

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/16/opinion/16kristof.html
NICHOLAS D. KRISTOF
7/16/09

However careful you are about your health, your body is almost certainly
home to troubling chemicals called phthalates. These are ubiquitous in
modern life, found in plastic bottles, cosmetics, some toys, hair
conditioners, and fragrances — and many scientists have linked them to
everything from sexual deformities in babies to obesity and diabetes.

[lizbeth]

at first I thought this article was written by Bill Kristoff. After I picked up my jaw from the floor and put all the gooey brain matter back in my head from the uncontrolled explosion of my head I realized it was not Bill Kristoff at all and was a very good article instead.

all the studies of the effects of phthalates on lab animals, if I recall correctly, have no conclusive proof that phthalates break down from our actual plastic bottles so this is all in theory.

I'm more concerned about the growth hormones that the US and UK use in the meat supply and supplementing everything with corn - to me those 2 things are much more likely to cause obesity and diabetes. not to mention early puberty in girls and a perceived increased in women's bust size over the years when growth hormones were being used more often.

[NicholeW.]

I'm more concerned about the growth hormones that the US and UK use in the meat supply and supplementing everything with corn - to me those 2 things are much more likely to cause obesity and diabetes. not to mention early puberty in girls and a perceived increased in women's bust size over the years when growth hormones were being used more often.

Yep, that and the fact that in order to make money from all that corn-fed, corn-generated food stuff instead of just having it waste away we have manged to induce the population to raise their caloric intake in excess of about 700 calories/day in the past 80 years.

We feed our children the way the big farm industries feed their livestock -- lotsa corn and high fructose corn syrup and then we stand back and moan about rising obesity and diabetes!

Of course, none of that is any body's "fault." Just an occurrence, doncha know? Kinda like a new comet sailing through akasha.

[lisagurl]

I recall correctly, have no conclusive proof that phthalates break down from our actual plastic bottles so this is all in theory.

Read " Doubt is their Product"

Every health problem due to chemicals has been fought by the manufacturing sector. They hire mercenary scientists and lawyers to create doubt in a court of law. It takes years for the research to be verified and shut them down while thousands die. Remember smoking, mercury, lead, uranium, vinyl chloride, triglycerides, radium, popcorm flavor, DDT, dioxin, MBT,DCB, DCBT, etc. In some cases it took more than 100 years. Remember Corporations are in business to make money only. They will use every trick in the book and plenty of money to continue unsafe practice as long as there is a profit in it. Junk science is done to baffle and tie up the system as the media is also owned by the corporations.