HERE If you haven’t heard of any of this it’s because of the efforts of the Society of the Plastics Industry, a lobby that represents thousands of products made with BPA.  Sales of that chemical now top $6 billion dollars a year, and for decades that industry has been able to control the debate on whether BPA is harmful to human health.  According to a recent expose published by the Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel, The Food and Drug administration has been relying on studies financed by the industry itself to declare the chemical safe.  So much for reliance on Big Brother to look out for your best interests.

But now the truth is leaking out.  A rash of new studies are showing that the chemical is far from benign; that it’s capable of doing much more damage to humans much more quickly than anyone had previously suspected.

Here’s what makes it worse: letting those water bottles sit around for a long time, and exposing them to heat.

Imagine you’ve just taken a tray of warm cinnamon rolls from the oven. That wonderful smell that’s filling your house is billions of molecules actually leaving the hot pastries and filling the air. What is entering your nostrils are really billions of tiny, invisible, quantum bits of cinnamon roll that have been violently thrown off by the heat and are now flying around the room.

That’s pretty much what’s happening with Bisphenol-A, but in a much less delectable way. Billions of molecules of the stuff are constantly dissolving off the inside of the bottle and into the water you will eventually drink.  Heat speeds up the process, and heat plus time only makes it worse. If you’ve got cases of water just sitting in your garage summer after summer, you’re asking for trouble big time.

Have you ever wondered how far those flats of water have traveled by train or truck before they ever got to the store, and how much heat they’ve been exposed to along the way? The trucks carrying that water are not refrigerated, and in the summer those bottles can get very hot.  Scientists estimate that within six months of bottling, enough BPA has leached into the water in that bottle to seriously mess you up.  This isn’t the water you want to have waiting for you in an emergency.

The good news is that some experts believe BPA does not stay in your system permanently. The bad news is that the average person still absorbs the poison so frequently (BPA is also present in the packaging of virtually every microwave meal), that it’s probably present in your system all the time anyway, constantly working it’s evil magic. full report HERE

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