More News about Plastic and Cancer – warning to parents
Posted by Rosemarie Rowley on Jun 26 2009
Reading the book “Ecological Intelligence – Knowing the Hidden Impact of What We Buy” by Daniel Goleman,
an extremely valuable book linking us to the environmental and health cost to our purchases, I came across a reference in Chapter 5, p. 57; that the plastic in the bottles (of water) posed potential adverse health impacts from chemicals leaching into the bottled water. The suspected endocrine disrupter BPA (biphenol A, a basic chemical building block of many plastics) spreads into fluids fifty-five times faster than normal if the bottles are filled with boiling hot liquid – a common practice among climbers in cold climates and
routine with parents putting formula into plastic baby bottles.
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
June 29th, 2009 at 4:22 pm
Hello. There is an interesting dialogue between Daniel Goleman and Dr. Michael Lerner about contemporary standards of chemical testing, how pre-natal chemical exposure effects gene expression, etc…
it’s part of the ecological awareness series on morethansound.net but you can also just listen to that dialogue separately…