4 Easy Ways to Slash Your BPA Exposure

stuartbramhall:

 

 

Studies link bisphenol A (BPA) with high blood pressure and asthma, obesity and brain and prostate development in children. And it’s everywhere.

Originally posted on thekirkshow:

The thing I hate most about shopping is not navigating a crowded store or staring at my pasty reflection under the dressing room’s harsh lighting. Nope, that stuff doesn’t bother me. If you ask me, the most dreaded store moment is watching the machine spit out a footlong receipt, and then swimming in awkwardness because no freakin’ way am I touching that thing.

“Um, can you just toss that for me?” I always ask—as I back away in horror.

OK, so that’s a slight dramatization, but it does accurately represent my feelings regarding receipts. My reason: they’re coated with bisphenol A (BPA), a chemical that the National Toxicology Program deemed worthy of “some concern for effects on the brain, behavior, and prostate gland in fetuses, infants, and children at current human exposures” after reviewing the research in 2008. Two studies just this year linked handling receipts to elevated levels of BPA in the body.

Previous research has shown an association between BPA and heart problems, as well as asthma and obesity risk in…

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