New Study Links Plastics To Heart Disease, Diabetes 266
fprintf writes "There have been a number of studies over the years, some of which have been debunked, linking plastics with human disease. Now British researchers have released a study again linking common plastics used in food/liquid storage with human disease."
Relative risk (Score:5, Insightful)
I wonder if they will compare the instances of disease to those from food poisoning from earlier methods of food storage?
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This is exactly why I use asbsetos food wrap and drink only out of cups made from coal.
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Plus, nothing makes for great conversation around the coffee maker at the office quite like a human skull fashioned into a mug.
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I wonder if they will compare the instances of disease to those from food poisoning from earlier methods of food storage?
Using glass jars sure caused a lot of food poisoning!
Or how about not using BPA in plastics used to store food? Is that so hard to ask? There are probably thousands of plastics that don't use BPA. Why even risk it?
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My wife is big on Tupperware and a quick check showed that some products contain BPA but not all. That's just one line of products. It's quite surprising how far spread these things are.
Anyways, it's like Transfats we shou
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Ah, you should switch to storing stuff in Thallium then, that should deal with the aging population problem.
And while you're at it, encourage people to smoke more (while taxing it heavily).
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I say why start worrying about that now?
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It's not all plastics; It's a simple subset. I did all the research earlier during the baby bottle scare, and it's not hard to get BPA free bottles, but it is hard to find canned goods (for example) that are BPA free.
This is one of those situations where I think there is enough concern to warrant labeling (at least) and sensible exploration of alternatives. There is no way to confirm the relationship without a series of long term studies, and there is nothing so amazing about BPA to justify keeping it.
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ok, just in case it wasn't clear - I should have said "the problem with these plastics"/p>
I do agree that it's "better safe than sorry" and if there is some chance of a problem then things should be labelled.
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"Using glass jars sure caused a lot of food poisoning!"
Actually, yes it did (and does). Improperly sealing glass containers used to cause many deaths from botulism, and is still a risk in home canning.
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Using glass jars sure caused a lot of food poisoning!
No, but crystal glas can cause other diseases [thenibble.com].
After centuries of enjoying beautiful lead crystal at table, it has recently come under the scrutiny of health authorities, who were testing paint and other products as possible sources of lead poisoning. Preliminary tests have shown that, over time, significant amounts of lead can migrate from lead crystal containers into liquids stored in them.
* One research team measured the amount of lead migration in Port wine that was stored in lead crystal deca
Plastics, m'boy! (Score:5, Funny)
Don't malign plastic, you dirty hippies. They saved my life in WWII! Why, when I was a lad, we would have KILLED to have plastic food storage. You know what I hear when you say plastics are dangerous? "blah blah blah I hate America blah blah I hate progress blah blah blah." Real Americans can eat plastic like it was apple pie and not get sick.
The same goes double for global warming & the ozone layer. In fact, let's just stop funding research into things that may be bad for us. Only sissies care. All you are doing with your sissy studies is holding back progress and making people worry over nothing.
Admit it: you want us all to go back to living in caves. You hate the modern world and everything in it and you want to destroy it with your evil 'studies.' Elitist intellectual claptrap.
America stands for progress. Except we're not progressive, the damn hippies stole that word and turned it into something dirty. Either you love progress and you know that everything new is better, or you hate America and want everyone to live in caves.
If you hate plastics, you hate the whole human race!
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The American way is the best way. And the American way to deal with environmental problems is to make fun of environmentalists.
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I see right through your scam! Anyone writing to Slashdot is a America hating commie...wait a minute...
BTW, to whoever labeled the parent flamebait; that wooshing sound you just heard is sarcasm going over your head.
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Oh, I think they understood the sarcasm all too well, and thus the flamebait mod.
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that wooshing sound you just heard is sarcasm going over your head.
Damn, I thought it was the giant sucking sound [wikipedia.org] of American jobs rushing overseas. Phew, what a relief that it was only sarcasm.
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If you hate plastics, you hate the whole human race!
And species, too!!! You misanthrope!!
Good food, bad food (Score:5, Funny)
Every week there will be a new study that reveals some common chemical in our daily lives, will be harmful or good for your health.
Often it will be both harmful and good on consecutive weeks.
Soon I'll be releasing my own study that shows excessive worrying about common foods causes diabetes, cancer and spontaneous combustion.
Re:Good food, bad food (Score:5, Funny)
Actually, you're on to something:
constant worrying about common foods = stress
and?
stress = heart health problems
Cancer is more destructive in those persons who are less able to defend against it.
Stress = weakened immune response
Spontaneous combustion? you're on your own with that one
This just in! (Score:3, Funny)
It has recently been revealed that a common thread has been found among all human ailments and syndromes.
Everyone that has been afflicted with a disease or syndrome has consumed large amounts of DHMO!
Carlin nailed it... (Score:2)
When it comes to common chemicals causing cancer, Carlin had a good line:
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Dozens of people spontaneously combust each year. It's just not really widely reported.
Snopes article is offtopic and strawman (Score:2, Informative)
http://www.snopes.com/medical/toxins/petbottles.asp [snopes.com]
Didn't you realize that the snopes article in the summary talks about a completely different chemical?
tag: badsummary
Junk food? (Score:5, Insightful)
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While I agree there is no reason to panic, it seems to me that we go about this sort of thing a little backwards. A study shows a correlation between a particular chemical and certain diseases. Scientists quickly state that further study will be needed t
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But wait. What if it's not the junk food that's killing us? What if it's really been the containers all along.
OK. I'm going with this model, because I would much rather have junk food than platics.
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Maybe its not the plastic, but rather the junk food inside the plastic?
Bad Snopes, Bad (Score:5, Insightful)
"some of which have been debunked"
Snopes is good at debunking (urban) myths. They are not, however, good at evaluating science. Debunking is not even an appropriate term or activity to apply to science (as stated by the poster, and as performed by Snopes). Their FAQ lists other forms of common fiction which are not urban myth, but fail to list badly researched statements by or about science among them.
Snopes reports the "debunking" coming from the International Bottled Water Association. Nobody conversant with science would accept a statement from such as biased source as authoritative. Their major hint should have come from the statement that the master's thesis was "not peer reviewed". A thesis is conducted by a student under a committee of professionals, at least one of which (the thesis supervisor) is an expert in that field. Peer review is conducted by the committee. A thesis is intended to be material suitable for rewriting into a publishable paper. It will have the committee members' names on it, in reference if not in the by-line. As professionals they will at least see to it that the result is worthy of carrying their names.
As for the quote in Snopes supposedly from Rolf Halden of Johns Hopkins that there are no dioxins in plastic, do your own research, as Snopes should have done to follow up, and as the Johns Hopkins people should have done before making the statement. Go to: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/sites/entrez [nih.gov] and put in the search terms "plastic" and "dioxin".
Snopes should also have done their research on the link they provide to the Johns Hopkins PR release (not a scientific publication of any sort, and certainly not peer reviewed) making the "hoax" claim. It is not from Halden, it is from Kellog Schwab. In addition to misattribution, they fail to note that the statement is made in the context of J.H. distancing themselves from misattribution in the emails titled "John Hopkins Cancer Update" and such, not in the context of research conducted or reviewed. There is a similar J.H. missive listed among the 150 results from PubMed. It is in a J.H. publication (peer review?) and has no authors credited.
Snopes appears to have found a way to become a subject of their own scrutiny, as they have delved into science and come up as debunkable urban science myth. Stick to urban mythology, Sponesites. Science can and does take care of itself, if you dig for it in science rather than press releases. Evaluating science requires taking the specific hypothetical statements and applying scientific expertise, not merely quoting vested interests (!) who happen to disagree for reasons other than replicable evidence.
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Snopes is good at debunking (urban) myths.
Not really. They suck at accepting corrections. For example, there's an article on whether Marilyn Monroe had six toes [snopes.com]. Now, I have no reason to believe that they reached the wrong conclusion, but I know for a fact that at least one of their reasons is fundamentally wrong:
Use Glass (Score:5, Insightful)
There is a reason all chemistry beakers, bottles, and flasks are made from glass, its the only cheap inert material that doesn't on some level mix with what you are containing. Metal and plastic eventually leech out.
Rather than going overboard with the results I would follow some common sense guidelines:
1) If you are a baby or preggers then use glass containers.
2) Use glass containers for heating things in the microwave or for long term liquid storage.
Given that the vast majority of everything we drink and eat these days is either stored in plastic or touches plastic at some point I think its almost impossible to go plastic free, and I doubt it matters much.
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Actually, what got us into this bisphenol A mess was that polycarbonate laboratory bottles became popular among regular consumers- chemists who enjoyed outdoor pursuits started taking Nalgene bottles (which are light, stable over a wide range of conditions, and nearly shatterproof) out of the lab and into the woods.
While I am not the sort to get caught up in scares about chemicals , I will admit the bisphenol A thing is a concern. This is Bisphenol A [wikipedia.org], and this is diethylstilbestrol [wikipedia.org]. A nonsteroidal estro
Science also says it doesn't enter the bloodstream (Score:2, Informative)
A Chemical Research in Toxicology article here [acs.org] stated that rats and humans handle bisphenol A in very different ways so I'd be careful drawing lines between rat and human results.
"Enterohepatic circulation of bisphenol A glucuronide in rats results in a slow rate of excretion, whereas bisphenol A is rapidly conjugated and excreted by humans due to the absence of enterohepatic circulation. The efficient glucuronidation of bisphenol A and the rapid excretion of the formed glucuronide result in a low body burd
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In regards to the article, it states that 90% of the population showed BPA in their bodies, and that the top 25% BPA correlated with increased disease. Since the BPA accumulates in fat tissue, this might also correlate with "t
Obligatory Bioshock reference (Score:3, Funny)
Everything causes cancer. (Score:3, Insightful)
Everything causes cancer, and cures it [today.com].
A lot of this "new study" stuff is horrendously [badscience.net] lazy [badscience.net] journalism [badscience.net] caused by having too much space to fill [today.com].
Plastics linked to longer life (Score:2, Insightful)
To parrot an industry-trade-group TV commercial, "imagine a world without plastics." No single-use hypodermic needles and other medical devices, fewer artificial body parts and almost certainly no pacemakers, etc. etc. etc.
Yes, certain plastics are harmful to certain parts of our bodies. Any decision to take them off the market or restrict their use must be made holistically, and not based on a single narrow "save the fill-in-the-blank" criterion.
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>must be made holistically, and not based on a single narrow "save the fill-in-the-blank" criterion.
I agree.
So I'm asking, out of curiosity: how does a society which has basically decided that it doesn't consider any level of risk acceptable, continue? Any advance that has the potential of hurting people gets attacked and legislated or lawyerized out of existence. People in regulatory or law-making roles actively participate in this because they stand to lose their jobs and careers if they've been show
But what you really have to look out for is.... (Score:2)
...life, as it is the disease that always leads to death.
Do Not Eat! (Score:3, Funny)
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Corelation. Is. Not. Causation.
So, what, you're suggesting people who live lifestyles that cause heart disease are more likely to also use plastic containers for their food and drink? Or people with heart disease are more likely to use plastic containers? What other correllation are you proposing?
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Actually the study was based on the number of rubber bullets fired at a persons chest. As the number increased, the probability of a heart attack also increased. The second part was based on the study of plastic heart valve installations. It was observed that the people who had these valves in their hearts were also likely to suffer from heart disease.
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Exactly. People who eat more prepackaged foods are more likely to be taking in all sorts of stuff---high fructose corn syrup, higher levels of sugar, higher levels of various preservatives (some of which break down into rather nasty stuff in the presence of citric acid), etc., all of which lead to increased levels of disease, whether it's heart disease, diabetes, cancer, etc. Those prepackaged foods are frequently packaged in containers made out of plastics that leach... yup, you guessed it... bisphenol A.
The correlation is interesting, but it isn't remotely close to proving causation. What would be required for that would be doing another study that compensates for dietary differences (and genetic predisposition and...).
What TFA actually says (Score:5, Interesting)
People who eat more prepackaged foods are more likely to be taking in all sorts of stuff---high fructose corn syrup, higher levels of sugar, higher levels of various preservatives [...]
It seems that no one bothers to actually read the articles before posting (save the "you must be new here", I'm being sarcastic).
You see, the study didn't test exposure to BPA. It only compared the likelihood of some diseases with the amount of BPA present in the body. That's an important detail.
In other words, this correlation may very well indicate causation... the other way around. Heart disease or diabetes may cause your body to retain more BPA. As simple as that.
Shooting off in random directions and making conjectures about the habits of people who come into contact with BPA is pointless (unless you're planning to back it up with data). For example, BPA is used in the packaging of several vegetables, so you can eat nothing but "health food" and still come into contact with BPA frequently. In fact the article points out that 90% of the people tested had some BPA in their body. Also, high-fuctose corn syrup is relatively rare outside the USA (extremely rare in Europe), and the study was (apparently) conducted in the UK.
In any case the study's authors are not claiming any causation, one way or the other, and they specifically say they did not identify any mechanism through which BPA would cause any illness.
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True about HFCS being rare in Europe. Doesn't mean that there aren't a lot of prepackaged foods with truckloads of sugar, though. And we got some yogurt in Italy last summer that was chock full of HFCS, IIRC, so it's not unheard of even there.
Even among the prepackaged health food crowd (with a few possible exceptions like fresh bagged carrots), people who eat prepackaged foods are more likely to be in a hurry (or else they would buy fresh), and thus more prone to stress, and thus more prone to obesity.
Re:I haven't even rtfa, but here goes (Score:5, Interesting)
Evidence that eating foods with more sweeteners leads to greater obesity, which in turn leads to diabetes? Do I really need to cite studies for something so commonly accepted? Okay, here's a good start:
http://news.healingwell.com/index.php?p=news1&id=521780 [healingwell.com]
http://healthlink.mcw.edu/article/941223597.html [mcw.edu]
http://www.healthsystem.virginia.edu/uvahealth/adult_diabetes/obover.cfm [virginia.edu]
I'm not saying that all type 2 diabetes is caused by obesity---it is well established that this is not the case---but it is well established that a fair percentage of people with type 2 diabetes became diabetic after gaining weight and that these people often cease to be diabetic after surgical intervention to forces weight loss. That's about as clear an establishment of causation as you can get.... The causative mechanism is even somewhat understood at this point.
Or did you mean the proof about the preservatives?
http://www.foodnavigator-usa.com/Science-Nutrition/FDA-re-opens-probe-into-benzene-contamination-of-soft-drinks [foodnavigator-usa.com]
Follow the links from there for loads of info on this subject.
It is fairly well established that sodium benzoate when combined with ascorbic acid (sorry, wrong acid in my previous post... my bad) releases benzene [wikipedia.org], which is a well known carcinogen.
Word to the wise: if you're buying soft drinks or fruit juices preserved with sodium benzoate, be sure to drink them immediately. Don't let them sit on the shelf of your home. What you don't know can kill you.
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Tell that to William Shatner.
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Exactly right. "Correlation is not causation" has become more like a reflexive meme around here rather than a thoughtful addition to the conversation.
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"Exactly right. "Correlation is not causation" has become more like a reflexive meme around here rather than a thoughtful addition to the conversation."
I don't see how you can say that, just because a lot of commenters tend to reflexively reply with that meme to articles about scientific studies linking one thing to another. There can be many reasons for this. Correlation does not necessarily equal cau... uh ... oh, I see your point.
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I wish I could mod you up a more.
I don't understand why everyone immediately fires off that stupid one liner every time someone proposes a logical conclusion. Do any of these people understand how science works? You come up with a hypothesis based on an educated guess, then you test to see if it's true. Refuting something outright, saying that there's no concrete proof is the basis of a creationist's argument. If there is evidence to support a claim then there is clearly reason to believe there is causation
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It's a defensive reaction, because most people think that correlation is causation.
Publish a study that shows how ice cream sales are correlated to shark attacks, to a very high degree. Watch how all the morons swarm out of the woodwork to talk about the evils of ice cream and how Nature is getting her revenge and all other kinds of stupid crap.
It's true that "correlation is not causation" does not add anything to the discussion. But it does keep things from being subtracted by idiots who can't grasp that c
I'm not convinced (Score:3, Insightful)
Look, if it were in response to any particular post or claim, I'd understand it. Heck, I could even swallow it as "just watch the hordes claim causation there." Then it at least also gave the question to which it answers.
But posted as a knee-jerk reaction by itself, it is just plain old dumb. And it almost invariably makes a claim about TFA, not about anyone who might misunderstand it.
I mean, picture the following conversation:
You: "But it does keep things from being subtracted by idiots who can't grasp tha
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Re:I did RTFA and still can't tell much (Score:5, Interesting)
And I don't think it's much of a stretch to conclude that people who consume quantities of food and drink from plastic containers might have a somewhat less healthly lifestyle than those who don't.
Another thing about detecting BPA in peaple's bodies. With each new generation of analytical equipment, we gain another decade of sensitivity. Almost anything can now be detected in anything.
OTOH, my tropical fish would die if I left my stock water in 5 gallon jugs longer than a week or so.
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Actually they corrolated the results to studies done in animals. So humans with the highest levels of BPA, had the highest levels of heart disease and Diabetes, and this corrolated with toxicity studies done on animals.
So what they are saying is that the toxicity studies done on animals are relevant to the human population. This is a study that is ALWAYS done whenever testing any product/medication/etc which has shown harm in animal testing.
Re:I haven't even rtfa, but here goes (Score:5, Informative)
From TFA
"At least from this study, we cannot draw any conclusion that bisphenol A causes any health effect. "
and:
"The researchers also cautioned that these findings are just the first step and more work is needed to determine if the chemical actually is a direct cause of disease."
Mod parent redundant (Score:5, Insightful)
From TFA: "At least from this study, we cannot draw any conclusion that bisphenol A causes any health effect. As noted by the authors, further research will be needed to understand whether these statistical associations have any relevance at all for human health."
As noted by the authors. The authors, and the person TFA got a quote from, and TFA all make this concession, and you try to karma-whore by stating the obvious. Read. The. Fine. Article.
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I haven't even rtfa but here goes
Corelation. Is. Not. Causation.
Translation: I don't like the conclusion so I'll make a baseless assumption and attack the article without any knowledge of it. Sounds like a severe case of cognitive dissonance to me.
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Actually he completely agrees with the conclusion, which was that there is correlation but as yet no evidence for causation. You fail it!
Maybe you should RTFA then. (Score:3, Informative)
Re:Maybe you should RTFA then. (Score:4, Insightful)
But don't you know that every media outlet known to man (and a few that are unknown) will grab this headline and run with "Teh cancer causing plastic!!!!!!111!! News at 11:00."
You've got your terror-inducing tagline wrong - too informative and too specific on time. It's supposed to go:
A shocking new study has found that a chemical found in 99.8% of US househoulds may be killing your family. We'll have details on that alarming story sometime in the next 90 minutes. So stay tuned, we return you now to the live coverage of the O.J. Simpson trial.
This should be followed by 6 minutes of live coverage of a lawyer shuffling papers, a commercial break, and a return to the same teaser. Repeat ad nauseum.
Nice troll, good angry responses, I give it a 7.5 (Score:2)
Well done. You were trolling, right?
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This is only kiddie_valind's 4th post and he's managed 17 replies as of the time of this post. The troll-fu is strong with this one. He's been fed well.
Re:I haven't even rtfa, but here goes (Score:5, Insightful)
If you have a genuine statistical beef with something, please actually explain it rather than smugly stating, "corelation(sic). Is. Not. Causation)
Either that or show me your PhD in statistics.
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Seeing as how the article comes right out and says, essentially, that correlation is not causation and there is no evidence for causation in the study, how can you possibly start out with those two questions in your post? His post completely agrees with the researchers who performed the study, and yet you somehow feel a need to sit there and lecture him for stating a fundamental fact of statistics. Well done!
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Correlation *is* causation for multi-normal distributions, and since these types of distributions are common in nature (cf. the central limit theorem), the discovery of a correlation, while not necessarily proving a causal link, at least raises a significant possibility of a connection.
Isn't it more likely ... (Score:2)
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Maybe So. But Corelation. Is. Not. Not. Causation.
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YES. THE WORDS. THEY ARE TRUE.
hahaha, I definitely cracked a smile at that one, thanks. I do enjoy idleispants, though.
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What's a mime?
A mime [wikipedia.org] is someone who acts out a story through body motions without use of speech.
They're easy not to like.
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n.
A modern performer who specializes in comic mimicry.
1. The art of portraying characters and acting out situations or a narrative by gestures and body movement without the use of words; pantomime.
2. A performance of pantomime.
3. An actor or actress skilled in pantomime.
4. Twenty (20) points if you run one over with a car
Re:BPA can cause more than that. (Score:4, Funny)
Keep using BPA products. And people wonder why girls are hitting puberty so much earlier now.
Internet? (reference: any adult web site)
attention deficit disorder
Internet? (reference: online games)
and neurological systems
Internet? (reference: goatse)
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Nice links. Can't imagine why Natural News would have such articles. Couldn't be anything about their bias to get people to buy "natural" products, is it?
You know, like Kevin Trudeau claiming the government is keeping cures for arthritis, cancer and other afflictions from the people and how he miraculously has all these cures, but only if you buy his book and visit his web site to buy the products.
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Nice links. Can't imagine why Natural News would have such articles. Couldn't be anything about their bias to get people to buy "natural" products, is it?
You know, like Kevin Trudeau claiming the government is keeping cures for arthritis, cancer and other afflictions from the people and how he miraculously has all these cures, but only if you buy his book and visit his web site to buy the products.
Do you have any proof of this bias? No
Did Kevin Trudeau write any of those articles I posted? No
Do you have any links or proof that he is providing miraculous cures? No
Good job at attacking a source you don't like instead of trying to prove anything they said wrong. Very intelligent!
Re:BPA can cause more than that. (Score:5, Informative)
Straight from their own front page:
Never said he did. I was merely pointing out a similarity between Natural News and Kevin Trudeau both claiming that "natural" remedies are more effective than man-made medicines (which are also natural).
Just a few. Like this one [naturalcures.com], this one [amazon.com] and this one [google.com]. So yes, I have proof he is providing miracle cures. That and his infomercials on which he peddles his book which has in its title, "Includes The Natural Cures For Over 50 Specific Diseases".
I never said I didn't like the source. Some "natural" items can be very beneficial to certain people. However, claiming that ONLY "natural" products, such as supplements which are unregulated and don't have to detail what they actually contain or what effect they may have on people, is disingenuous and potentially harmful.
As far as proving them wrong, I don't need to prove them wrong because studies over the years have proven them wrong. Here is one article [cnn.com] which discusses "natural" remedies, and this one [iula.org] which talks about Lycopene.
So yes, I was very intelligent to point out the bias of Natural News so people are aware of their bias. Whether people heed the warning is up to them but they have been warned.
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And people wonder why girls are hitting puberty so much earlier now.
That is because children have much better nutrition than there used to be. As a result, they are able to reach puberty sooner because of better health.
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That is because children have much better nutrition than there used to be. As a result, they are able to reach puberty sooner because of better health.
You're kidding right? I guess all healthy girls should be hitting puberty at 3. [dailymail.co.uk]
Or this study [cnn.com] showing that more girls from age 6 to age 9 are hitting puberty instead of from 10 - 11.
I really pray you were joking!
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Puberty is related to nutrition.
Did you read the article you link to?
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Yes I did. It said the causes is indeterminate, then they quoted some people who for all we know made up something off the top of their head.
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Or maybe you can ask the NIH itself:
http://cerhr.niehs.nih.gov/chemicals/bisphenol/draftBPA_MtgSumm080807.pdf [nih.gov]
The Expert Panel expressed some concern that exposure to Bisphenol A causes neural and behavioral
effects.
The Expert Panel had expressed minimal concern that exposure to Bisphenol A potentially causes
accelerations in puberty.
http://cerhr.niehs.nih.gov/chemicals/bisphenol/BPADraftBriefVF_04_14_08.pdf [nih.gov]
In addition to effects on survival and growth seen at high dose levels of bisphenol A, a variety of effects related to neural and behavior alterations, precancerous lesions in the prostate and mammary glands, altered prostate gland and urinary tract development, and early onset of puberty in females have been reported in laboratory rodents exposed during development to much lower doses of bisphenol A (⥠0.0024 mg/kg bw/day) that are more similar to human exposures.
Recognizing the lack of data on the effects of bisphenol A in humans and despite the limitations in the evidence for âoelowâ dose effects in laboratory animals discussed in more detail below, the possibility that bisphenol A may alter human development cannot be dismissed
How was this post modded troll? (Score:2)
I've never been modded troll for posting links to articles that can easily be verified with a simple google search before.
Maybe people really don't like information that is contrary to their beliefs.
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Why should I be modded down for other peoples laziness to do a simple google search to see if the the article is correct?
Just because you or others don't like the source or hate the fact that a source tries to make money to continue their profession doesn't mean the source is biased. I don't see anyone bashing CNN for having advertisements on their websites.
Since you were too lazy to type "BPA NIH" into google I'll do it for you.
http://cerhr.niehs.nih.gov/chemicals/bisphenol/draftBPA_MtgSumm080807.pdf [nih.gov]
The Expert Panel expressed some concern that exposure to Bisphenol A causes neural and behavioral
effects.
The Expert Panel had expressed minimal concern that exposure to Bisphenol A potentially causes
accelerations in puberty.
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Supersize Me was fixed. It was a joke. The guy that made that movie has publicly said that if he is making a show, he gets to spin things to look the way he wants. Just within the movie, they claim that eating McDonalds every day for a month was causing his liver to fail. Anyone who's liver fails from a month of McDonalds was seriously ill before the experiment ever started. So, either the guy was seriously ill before he ate at McDonalds and tried to blam
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Fish are friends, not food.