The Perils of Warm Plastic - Some Advice
Charles Paxton April 8th, 2008
We received an email recently with a request that it should be shared. Here goes…
WARN YOUR WIVES/GIRLFRIENDS, MOTHERS AND
DAUGHTERS
“Bottled water in your car can be very dangerous, woman!
This is how Sheryl Crow got breast cancer. She was on the Ellen show and said this same exact thing. This has been identified as the most common cause of the high levels in breast cancer, especially in Australia.
A friend whose mother was recently diagnosed with breast cancer. The Doctor told her: women should not drink bottled water that has been left in a car
The doctor said that the heat and the plastic of the bottle have certain chemicals that can lead to breast cancer. So please be careful and do not drink bottled water that has been left in a car, and, pass this on to all the women in your life. This information is the kind we need to be aware of and it just might save us!!!! The heat causes toxins from the plastic to leak into the water and they have found these toxins in breast tissue.
Do use a stainless steel Canteen or a glass bottle when you can!”
Forwarded by Misty F.
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Thank you Misty, for forwarding this sound advice. Though it may not be possible to prove that Sheryl’s cancer came from a plastic bottle, it is nevertheless sensible to take precautions. The increased cancer risk may be due to oestrogen mimics leeching out of the plastic and these are suspected to be dangerous even in very, very small doses. Men should be just as concerned about biologically active plastics because they can suffer hormone related cancers that are equally horrific.
Currently there’s no indication on plastic packaging that shows which plastics are biologically interactive and which are not, nor at which temperatures- therefore its probably safest to consider them all to be suspect until health and safety labeling states otherwise.
If you want to minimize the risk, it has been suggested that you should transfer food from plastic containers/packaging to ceramics or glass before micro-waving. Avoid polystyrene or styrofoam packaging, too. Avoid food canned with plastic coating and yes, avoid drinking warm water from plastic bottles.
Convenience may sometimes have dangerous consequences long term - even lethal ones.
For more on this see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Endocrine_disruptor