You gotta love the media ...
FDA backs BPA as study links it to heart disease, diabetes
FDA backs BPA as study links it to heart disease, diabetes
For the first time, a large, population-based study links a chemical in plastic baby bottles to heart disease and diabetes in humans. Some scientists say the study — released today to coincide with a Food and Drug Administration meeting— shows that bisphenol A, or BPA, is too dangerous to allow in consumer products, especially those used by babies and pregnant women.
Really, and I thought it was the all the junk food the corporations put in the plastic bottles that were the cause of those diseases. I guess the evil corporations are just hell bent on killing people...and the FDA, which is "backing" BPA is just doing the bidding of it's corporate masters..
And most important a study in JAMA by David Melzer and crew that ostensibly links high levels of BPA with increased incidence of heart disease and diabetes supposedly proves that BPA causes these illnesses. The study found "that higher BPA concentrations were associated with diagnoses of cardiovascular disease and diabetes. We also found associations between higher BPA concentrations and clinically abnormal concentrations of the 3 liver enzymes examined, namely GGT, alkaline phosphatase, and lactate dehydrogenase. Importantly, we observed no associations with the other common conditions examined, suggesting specificity of the associations. A series of sensitivity analyses provided further support for the specificity of the associations found."
Which lead a BPA expert named John Peterson Myers to invoke THE PRECAUTIONARY PRINCIPLE in a side-by-side editorial in JAMA:
"It's impossible to say that BPA is safe,"
http://www.usatoday.com/news/health/2008-09-16-bpa-heart_N.htm
The problem is that the 2003-2004 National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES) which were used to estimate daily intake of BPA, shows that most Americans, regardless of age, have a median intake have approximately three orders of magnitude below health-based guidance values of 50 mug/kg-day....
So Melzer et. al stacked the deck with respect to the BPA levels to demonstrate a correlation with self reported claims of having been diagnosed with diabetes or heart disease and snap shots of insulin and C-reactive protein levels...
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18414515?ordinalpos=27&\
http://jama.ama-assn.org/cgi/content/full/300.11.1303#SEC5
http://jama.ama-assn.org/cgi/content/full/300.11.1353
Are we all on the same page now?
Really, and I thought it was the all the junk food the corporations put in the plastic bottles that were the cause of those diseases. I guess the evil corporations are just hell bent on killing people...and the FDA, which is "backing" BPA is just doing the bidding of it's corporate masters..
And most important a study in JAMA by David Melzer and crew that ostensibly links high levels of BPA with increased incidence of heart disease and diabetes supposedly proves that BPA causes these illnesses. The study found "that higher BPA concentrations were associated with diagnoses of cardiovascular disease and diabetes. We also found associations between higher BPA concentrations and clinically abnormal concentrations of the 3 liver enzymes examined, namely GGT, alkaline phosphatase, and lactate dehydrogenase. Importantly, we observed no associations with the other common conditions examined, suggesting specificity of the associations. A series of sensitivity analyses provided further support for the specificity of the associations found."
Which lead a BPA expert named John Peterson Myers to invoke THE PRECAUTIONARY PRINCIPLE in a side-by-side editorial in JAMA:
"It's impossible to say that BPA is safe,"
http://www.usatoday.com/news/health/2008-09-16-bpa-heart_N.htm
The problem is that the 2003-2004 National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES) which were used to estimate daily intake of BPA, shows that most Americans, regardless of age, have a median intake have approximately three orders of magnitude below health-based guidance values of 50 mug/kg-day....
So Melzer et. al stacked the deck with respect to the BPA levels to demonstrate a correlation with self reported claims of having been diagnosed with diabetes or heart disease and snap shots of insulin and C-reactive protein levels...
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18414515?ordinalpos=27&\
http://jama.ama-assn.org/cgi/content/full/300.11.1303#SEC5
http://jama.ama-assn.org/cgi/content/full/300.11.1353
Are we all on the same page now?
