The source quoted is from Scott Belcher “Biphenol-A Is Released from Polycarbonate Drinking Bottles and Mimics the Neurotoxic Actions of Estrogen in Developing Cerebellar Neurons,” -from Toxicology Letters January 30, 2008, pp.149-156.

This book “Ecological Intelligence” by Daniel Goleman is of major importance, analysing all the factors in the production of consumer items, and enlightening us on how best we can make choices for our health and the health of our planet.

Published in the UK by Allen Lane, Penguin, 2009, Euro 18.99, Sterling £16.99

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JUST A REMINDER…….

No plastic containers in microwave
No plastic water bottles in freezer
No plastic wrap in microwave

Johns Hopkins has sent this out in their newsletter ..some time ago, it’s definitely worth repeating, and it’s definitely worth noting.

This information is being circulated at Walter Reed Army Medical Center

Don’t freeze your plastic water bottles with water as this releases dioxins in the plastic.

Dr. Edward Fujimoto from Castle Hospital was on a TV program a while back explaining this health hazard. (He is the manager of the Wellness Program at the hospital.)

He was talking about dioxins and how bad they are for some.

He said that we should not be heating our food in the microwave using plastic containers. This applies to foods that contain fat.

He said that the combination of fat, high heat and plastics releases dioxins into the food and ultimately into the cells of the body.

Dioxins are carcinogens and highly toxic to the cells of our bodies.

Instead, he recommends using glass, Corning Ware or ceramic containers for heating food. You get the same results, without the dioxins. So such things as TV dinners, instant processed food and soups, etc .should be removed from the container and heated in something else. Paper isn’t bad, but you don’t know what’s in the paper.

It’s just safer to use tempered glass, Corning Ware, etc.

He said we might remember when some of the fast food restaurants moved away from the foam containers to paper. The dioxin problem is one of the reasons. To add to this, plastic wrap placed over foods as they are nuked, with the high heat, actually drips poisonous toxins into the food; use paper towels.

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Thanks to Mairead for passing this on to me.

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I don’t think I will ever fly long haul again, and am seriously cutting back on my travel. I have been invited to read my poetry at a conference in Brussels, organised by Dr Franca Bellarsi of the Universite Libre de Bruxelles, on behalf of the European Association for the study of literature, culture and the environment. It is paradoxical to be travelling to a ecology themed conference, yet it is an opportunity also to bring the work of a great Irish writer of nature, Patrick Kavanagh, to a world wide audience of literary specialists. In the future, I expect that most conferences will feature pod-casting, DVD viewing, and other marvels, instead of live presenters. The day is not far off
Still busy on my prose work, I am also putting together a word document for a friend, for publication of her poetry. I am enjoying reading too, including “The Classical World -n an Epic History of Greece and Rome” by Professor Robin Lane Fox of Oxford, and a chilling account of crime in our time, “McMafia” by Misha Glenny. It is time the problem of drugs and crime was tackled in a realistic way.
The poetry world has been saddened by the death of Robert Greacen, whose passing will be mourned. He was an individual voice of great courage.
The Trinity readings are still going on, I heard that Anne Enright gave a wonderful performance, and I bought her book of short stories, which are hilarious. However, I am not sure if they dig deep enough for me, I am curious as to how this post-modern society has come about, what lies there at the root. I do think growing up in a culture with so much advertising on television has to have some effect. I don’t like the idea that sex is used to sell everything. We are heading for a re-visit to the Roman Empire. Look what happened there. It’s happening around us, now. Help!

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Since then, I have been busy putting a prose work together, of uncertain destination as yet. I took some time off to hear the first of the Trinity Readings, organised by the Oscar Wilde School of Creative Writing in Trinity, and enjoyed tremendously the readings of Derek Mahon, Mary Morrissy and George Szirtes – the latter’s work seemed to me to be elegant, beautiful, sonorous and magical.

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