KILLING US SOFTLY…

The Breast Cancer Fund Calls on Manufacturers to Replace Toxic Chemical with Safer Alternative.

Significant doses of PBA found in canned food may very well be killing us without our even being aware of it. Am I being overly cautious – A little dramatic even? No! I believe we have a right to know what we are eating and how our food is prepared. Now that the BCF has jumped on the wagon the least we can do is offer our support.

When you open a can you may notice that it is lined with a plastic coating, usually white. This is where the potentially harmful PBA is located.

This is what I got from the BCF website:

“Consumers have no way of assessing BPA levels just by looking at cans on supermarket shelves,” said Gretchen Lee Salter, policy manager at the Breast Cancer Fund. “The findings of this report highlight the urgent need to remove BPA from food packaging so that shoppers can be confident that the food they are purchasing is safe for their families—not only on Thanksgiving, but every day.”

“We know from recent research that a BPA meal creates a spike of this estrogenic chemical in the blood,” said William Goodson, M.D., a breast cancer surgeon and senior clinical research scientist at California Pacific Medical Center Research Institute, who in September published a study showing that BPA causes non-cancerous cells to grow and survive like cancer cells. “Natural hormones work by spikes, so this is exactly what you don’t want, especially in young kids, who shouldn’t have any estrogenic spikes at all.” 

Read the full article at http://www.breastcancerfund.org/media/press-releases/bpa-in-thanksgiving-food.html#.TuRD2vtJSVk.email

You can also watch the interview at http://youtu.be/oIsLHWcIW3Y