Hey all, I just wanted to make sure you all knew about the new research that surfaced about the plastic used for some baby bottles. They are finding that bottles that have the chemical Bisphenol is really bad stuff. We have the Avent bottles and are throwing them away. You can read more about if you want – I went to CNN.com and searched for Baby Bottles: http://search.cnn.com/search.jsp?query=baby%20bottles&type=web&sortBy=date&intl=false Video Here Take care,
saw this last night on the news. Kids today have no chance of going thru life without cancer. First all the lead in there toys, now this crap in there bottles. wow.
News is a bit behind. Plastic baby bottles have been a point of contention for out-gassing bad stuff from the plastic for a while now. I don't even have any plastic cups in my house, only glass and ceramic. Maybe I'm crazy but I've always been able to "taste" the plastic from plastic cups when drinking water or something out of them.
Bisphenol A is in Nalgene bottles too. I really doubt you will get die from them, but the possibility remains that babies could develope reproductive and or brain disorders during develpoment. Its also in DVD/CDs, bulletproof glass, anything of the sort = Lexan
Yeah, anything polycarbonate will have it. So yes, Nalgene bottles, basically any hard, clear plastic bottle. Typically the chemical will only be leached out if the bottle is scratched and/or heat cycled. The amount probably isn't an issue for adults, but with little kids you can never be sure how little of something will affect them. Interestingly, my son adam hated the Avent bottles (this was 3 years ago before this surfaced widely), so we always used the Medela ones.
Yep, we's all gonna die. The more we try to be techno-cool the more we f things up it seems. Granola ftw! But seriously, it is pretty scary when you look at some of these things. Birth defects, autism, cancers and other later in life illnesses, animal populations, pest-borne diseases, climate. Hell, just on the baby bottle topic the WHO estimates that 1.5 million children die each year due to improper nutrition specifically because of formula being pushed in countries where it is inappropriate for reasons such as clean water availability.
Bisphenol-A is used as a plasticizer in the production of plastics. It's an endocrine disrupting chemical and messes with your body. It is leached out easier/faster from plastics in either very acidic conditions or under high heat, or when exposed to detergents. I avoid using plastics when I can, but drinking one glass of water out of a plastic bottle isn't going to harm you. Bisphenol-A exposure is a little like smoking, once isn't going to kill you but repeated over a long time it can have cumulative effects. -Steve
Thanks for the information, I did see this on the news and it's no good. Along with that lead scare it just plain sucks. I want to go back to burlap sacks and straw huts and digging for grubs with our toenails! Yum Seriously though, it's so frustrating but at some point you have to just do the best you can do. We're all dying anyway.. lol so morbid.
But the toenail harvesting is even worse. Just imagine women growing toenails so long they can be used as shovels and pitchforks.... Wow. So emo. :emo:
+1 My wife gets paranoid over every scare on tv. That whole "blood clot while flying" thing had her more afraid to fly than 9-11. Result: I don't let her watch the news. :biggrin:
I try to keep her off of it, cnn, foxnews, and all those other stuff. Next thing you know, she'll try to keep me off meat. :ugh:
You know they take that so seriously now that my work hosted a seminar on DVTs for my teams since we fly every week. Mostly it was to assuage fears since they really only affect you if you're old, in poor shape, smoke a lot, or any other number of things that make you susceptible to things like this. Even then you'd have to be doing international flights weekly, like 8+ hours in your seat each trip, to really be at risk. One more sensationalized media story I guess. Take some true story and leave out certain facts to draw people in and make you think you're a legitimate news outlet.
If you/anyone has a TV in their bedroom, take it out or sell it, doing so has been beneficial for me. Since I sold my 40'' TV, more things have been getting done around the house, I'm going to sleep easier, no TV there means I am forced to just sleep, resist the urge to watch something thats useless and will not help me sleep or make me worried. I can not do anything about whats happening over seas in the mid-east, or here, no use getting my blood pressure all out of whack over something that is out of my control.
forget cancer and stuff.. how about the poor kids don't stand a chance with the English and spelling this country teaches
My TV is holding down my dresser. Rarely used, but there for decoration. Like Bubb Rubb's Whistle tip. I keep a note pad and a pen by my bed because I think of all kinds of stuff to do at night- and writing them down lets me forget about them without forgetting about them.
That is a great idea! I do all my thinking just before falling asleep and then in the shower when I wake up. I get a little anxious because I don't want to forget so I might start doing that. Don't know about what to do with the ideas I get while in the shower though. A pad of paper might get a little soggy.
comments?? I suggest taking pics of said ideas ok seriously I was kidding.... (and also hoping you are a girl cause otheriwse this is one for the signature books)
