BPA – Lowering Testosterone

Men’s Testosterone Levels are Lowering Worldwide – BPA Chemical Destroying Men’s Health

Want some REALLY BAD NEWS? It turns out that McDonald’s and KFC serve you BPA (Bisphenol A) with their already obesity promoting and heart clogging meals.

The receipts for a McDonald’s Happy Meal purchased in Clinton, Conn. on Apr. 21 had approximately 13 milligrams of BPA which is an endocrine disruptor.

This is an equivalent the amount of BPA in approximately 126 tinned cans of peeled tomatoes.

What’s MORE disturbing is that receipts from CVS, Safeway, Wal-Mart and the U.S. Postal Service also showed ALARMING amounts of Bisphenol A. But wait, it gets better. Turns out that at least one store in the Whole Foods chain gave out BPA-laden receipts as well. That means if you decided to eat healthy, bought an organic apple at Whole Foods for lunch, touched the receipt given to you, then ate the organic apple while walking home; you most likely have consumed the BPA that rubbed off from the receipt onto your hands.

Although the BPA amounts on these receipts is a lot higher than in tinned canned foods and BPA plastic bottles, EWG says the risk of BPA contamination is unlikely to be proportionally higher for these receipts. This is what they said: “The amount of BPA that enters the body after a person handles a receipt is unknown but likely a fraction of the total BPA on the paper.”

However, EWG shows a July study with the Official Food Control Authority of the Canton of Zürich, Switzerland that found that BPA can easily be absorbed into the skin from receipts and many other BPA sources such as plastic bottles . “This raises the possibility that the chemical infiltrates the skin’s lower layers to enter the bloodstream directly.” Furthermore, if you happen to lick your fingers, bite your finger nails or touch food after touching receipts, you’d be directly putting this toxic substance into your mouth or onto your food.

Here’s the latest research on this hormone damaging chemical: It is a known toxic endocrine disruptor, and hundreds of independent studies published in the last decade by doctors and scientists have found that laboratory animals exposed to low levels of Bisphenol A have significantly higher rates of diabetes, breast and prostate cancers, diminished sperm count, reproductive problems, early puberty, obesity, neurological problems as well as a host of other autoimmune diseases.

Let’s take a closer look at the five most common sources of BPA exposure to humans:

• Tin canned foods, aluminium food and drink cans are often coated with BPA-containing epoxy films.
• Reusable water bottles (Polycarbonate plastic code #7)
• Soda/soft drinks and beer (in metal cans)
• Processed fast food (pizza, burgers, deep fried foods, sugary treats and so on)
• Cash register receipts from most stores

And to make things more complicated, a “BPA-free” label does say that the BPA has not been used, but it does not say what other chemicals they used instead of Bisphenol-A. Unfortunately, it’s highly likely that this will be a substance that has not been tested as well as our original chemical culprit. It may very well be that the substitute lining chemical is non toxic, in which case this is good news. However, because substitute chemicals have not been studied as thoroughly, they can just present a greater health problem than even BPA itself. 

My advice is to eat REAL food that comes from nature. Avoid plastic, avoid processed junk food, avoid soda and avoid anything that has been created to lay on the shop shelves for months, if not years. Real food spoils and perishes within a few weeks. Junk food from McDonald’s doesn’t spoil, it dries up and hardens. If bacteria won’t touch McD’s, why are you still eating it?

Now you all know why men have literally been becoming emasculated with testosterone levels dropping heavily worldwide. It’s BPA which is found everywhere and most likely by design.

Protect your health, protect yourself.

Your friend,

Alex G

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