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Toxic Baby Bottles: A Risk of Cancer

January 9, 2010 By Leave a Comment

EmpowHer
January 5, 2010

Did you know that a common chemical used in the manufacture of plastics has been linked with cancer and numerous other conditions? The chemical, Bisphenol-A, or BPA, has been used to make plastic baby bottles for decades and has put billions of people throughout the world, who were bottle fed, at risk of cancer, hormone disorders and infertility.

BPA is in many other products from DVD’s to resin, but its use in baby bottles is particularly concerning because when BPA heats up, it can leach out of the bottle and end up in formula milk to be ingested by the baby, causing tissue damage, hormone disruption and increasing the risk of developing cancer in later life.

Filed Under: Environmental Health, Pregnancy, Women's Health Tagged With:

232 Toxic Chemicals found in 10 Babies

January 3, 2010 By Leave a Comment

Mercola.com

Posted by: Dr. Mercola
December 31 2009

Laboratory tests commissioned by the Environmental Working Group have detected bisphenol A (BPA), a plastic component and synthetic estrogen, in umbilical cord blood of American infants.

Nine of 10 randomly selected samples of cord blood tested positive for BPA, an industrial petrochemical.

Filed Under: Environmental Health, Estrogen, Hormones, Pregnancy, Teen Pregnancy, Women's Politics Tagged With: ,

Sex and BPA Don’t Mix, Say Researchers

November 11, 2009 By Leave a Comment

US News World Report

November 11, 2009 11:10 AM ET | Ford Vox

Bisphenol-A, better known as BPA, is the building block of polycarbonates and epoxy resins, plastics that have facilitated modern life. (They’re in microwave containers, baby bottles, laptops, and even canned foods.) Tiny amounts circulate in the bodies of more than 90 percent of Americans. And now a team of Chinese and U.S. scientists says it has linked the stuff to sexual dysfunction in men. Even before today’s news, plenty of people were getting the willies about BPA. Should this news make you feel less virile? Let’s take a closer look.

Filed Under: Estrogen, Hormone Cycles, Hormone Imbalance, Men's Health, Sexual Health, Testosterone, Wellness Tagged With:

FDA’s $7 Million Cover Up

October 14, 2009 By Leave a Comment

Corruption Chronicles

A Judicial Watch Blog

Last Updated: Wed, 10/14/2009 – 11:37am

The famously unscrupulous government agency responsible for protecting public health and safety will waste millions of tax dollars to further examine a common household chemical that’s already been deemed unsafe in hundreds of scientific studies and banned in several states.

To appease the chemical’s manufacturer the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is delaying issuing a negative report by essentially disregarding the results of nearly 1,000 reputable scientific studies that have collectively concluded it presents a public health risk. Used to make hard, clear plastic Bisphenol A, or BPA, has recently been banned in cities and states across the nation based on the research.

Filed Under: Breast Health, Gardasil/Silgard, Mothers & Daughters, Social/Political, Vaccinations, Women's Health Tagged With: , ,

Chemical used in baby bottles create fertility issue

July 16, 2009 By Leave a Comment

Puppet Gov

Posted by PUPPETGOV on Jul 13th, 2009

BY MONIFA THOMAS~Chicago Suntimes

Exposure to Bisphenol A, a chemical widely used in plastics, may impair the growth and function of female reproductive cells in mice, a new study from the University of Illinois has found.

Previous lab tests in animals have linked BPA to adverse effects in fetuses and newborns, raising concerns about similar effects in people.

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BPA linked to cell damage in post-menopausal women but not men, younger women.

July 14, 2009 By Leave a Comment

Environmental Health News
July 13, 2009

Yang YJ, YC Hong, SY Oh, MS Park, H Kim, JH Leem, and EH Ha. 2009. Bisphenol A exposure is associated with oxidative stress and inflammation in postmenopausal women. Environmental Research http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.envres.2009.04.014.

Synopsis by Michele A. La Merrill, Ph.D. and Wendy Hessler

Women in menopause are more prone to the BPA-associated health effects of inflammation and oxidative stress than either men or women who are still menstruating, finds this study of Korean adults. This is the first time BPA has been linked to these conditions in people and suggests older women may be more susceptible to the chemical’s estrogen-like manner that drives these particular types of cell damage. Oxidative stress can be involved with aging, cancer and other disease states.

Filed Under: Cancer, Environmental Health, Menopause, Post Menopausal Women, Women's Health Tagged With: ,

Fun for the Whole Family: Girls Can Now Expect Longer Puberty

May 6, 2009 By Leave a Comment

The Huffington Post
Charlotte Hilton Andersen

Runs the health and fitness site The Great Fitness Experiment
Posted May 6, 2009 | 04:36 PM (EST)

In what had to be one of the most awkward studies to both participate in and administer, Danish researchers studied the onset of breast development in 2,095 European girls. Let’s hope that was self-reported. All pedophilic weirdness aside, the researchers found something very interesting: the average age of breast development in European girls has dropped one year, from 10.8 to 9.8 years.

Filed Under: Adolescent Girls, Birth Control Pills/BCP's, Breast Health, Estrogen, Hormone Cycles, Hormones, Menstrual Cycle, Mothers & Daughters, Puberty, Wellness Tagged With: , , , , ,

Hormonal Headaches Explored

May 3, 2009 By Leave a Comment

Health & Wellness Digest

Posted by hwd editor in Headache on May 3, 2009 |

Hormonal headaches are suffered by women and can take place during the menstrual cycle. Hormones are what induces the pain response so both men and hormones prompt women’s headaches. Headaches are sometimes our body using a warning system that something serious is going on. Hormones regulate and start many of the body’s functions, so it is not surprising that they are in some way connected to headaches.

Filed Under: Acne, Adolescent Girls, Bioidentical Hormones, Estrogen, Hormone Cycles, Hormone Imbalance, Hormones, Menstrual Cycle, Migraines, Mothers & Daughters, Natural Progesterone, Periods, PMDD, PMS, Premenstrual Syndrome, Premenstrual Tension, Sexual Health, Teens, Women's Health Tagged With: , , ,

Progesterone Infertility

May 3, 2009 By 1 Comment

“Progesterone infertility can mean there’s either an excess of estrogen, a condition called estrogen dominance, or there’s a deficiency of progesterone. Progesterone and estrogen are two vital hormones to the life and well-being of every woman. However, progesterone is the hormone of fertility and pregnancy.”

Filed Under: Adolescent Girls, Bioidentical Hormones, Cervarix, Endometriosis, Estrogen, Hormone Cycles, Hormone Imbalance, Hormones, Infertility, Menopause, Mothers & Daughters, My Sister's Song, Natural Progesterone, Peri-Menopause, PMDD, PMS, Polycystic Ovarian Syndrome, Post Menopausal Women, Postpartum Depression, Pregnancy, Premenstrual Syndrome, Premenstrual Tension, Teens, Vaccinations, Women's Health Tagged With: , , , , , , ,

Sip of bottled water or drinking sex hormone?

April 21, 2009 By 1 Comment

Hindustan Times April 21, 2009 Drinking mineral water from a plastic bottle may mean you are also drinking a sex hormone that affects your reproductive system. Researchers have found evidence of chemicals containing the hormone oestrogen leaching out of the packaging into the water. Oestrogen is the main female sex hormone, and taking it unwittingly Continue Reading …

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