Wednesday, September 19, 2012

Bon appetite


 

   Egg Yolks: As Bad as Smoking ?


That's the headline picked up by worldwide media recently. 
There's an interesting read by Jonny Bowden, PhD, C.N.S., at the Huffington Post


The author gives an insight into the how these studies are conducted and their shortcomings


   Plastic Chemical BPA
Linked to Childhood Obesity      .   



  • Bisphenol A was discovered in 1891 by Russian chemist Aleksandr Dianin
  • Used as an artificial estrogen
  • First used to enhance the growth of cattle and poultry
  • Used since the 1950s to harden polycarbonate plastics and make epoxy resin
      used in the lining of food and beverage containers.

USA TODAY
CNN 
Scientific American 



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