Daria Casinelli
Sep 3, 2018 · 3 min read

A Life Less Plastic: Diabetes and Bisphenol A

Ever wonder why European tomato products don’t come in cans? It’s not a fashion statement. It’s a container without Bisphenol A (BPA).

The scientific evidence that BPA is hellish false hormone has piled up to the point that, like the European Union, Massachusetts has instituted a ban on BPA in baby bottles. Many European manufacturers have gone one step further and stopped packaging some food in cans. Acid foods like tomatoes stored in BPA lined cans as well as many other plastics — like the ones in coffeemakers — deposit high amounts of BPA into the bodies of unsuspecting consumers. The most convincing and recent scientific evidence on BPA concerns its effect on the pancreas.

The Mind-Control Connection | Diabetes Forecast Magazine

The pancreatic beta-cell as a target of estrogens … [Mol Cell Endocrinol. 2009] — PubMed result

Bisphenol A — Diabetes and the Environment

BPA levels highest in the U.S., study finds

FDA Issues Warning About BPA Exposure — CBS News

Role of estrogen receptors alpha, beta and GPER1/G… [Front Biosci. 2011] — PubMed result

Collaborative on Health and the Environment :: Welcome

But is BPA the snake bite? Does it cause metabolic disorders like diabetes? Or is the cause really a combination of bad genes, poor self-control and sofa symbiosis?

I agree with Dr. Andrew Weil when he writes that “scientists believe….changes in eating and exercise patterns over two decades can’t fully account for the obesity epidemic…..genetic factors, which definitely contribute to obesity, don’t change in such short periods of time.

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Is Plastic Really Making You Fat?

If BPA is not a tipping point factor but rather the primary cause of insulin secretory dysfunction, it could explain why extreme diets (high or low carb) and exercise address the problem but don’t cure it. Any extreme diet will affect the set point of the way a given person metabolizes glucose. Moreover, most will decrease the amount of BPA a person consumes by increasing the number of meals eaten at home. Restaurant and fast food meals are big sources of BPA, as are plastic food containers and packaging. Think for a minute about all the edible-food-like-substances (EFLS) you could (or could not) eat that have been extruded into a hot bit of plastic, sealed up, nuked for good measure and bundled with their ilk for a long trip to the Handy Dandy Food Trough on the other coast. Being able to just stop in and grab something brings some flex into a jammed packed schedule. So why not?

A study reported on in the March 30, 2011 issue of Environmental Health Perspectives attempted to wash BPA and other toxins from the bodies of five families in San Francisco. They were largely successful with BPA in the urine of the families declining by 60 percent after three days of toxin-free living.

http://docs.google.com/viewer?a=v&q=cache:POs-zAvFYGgJ:www.silentspring.org/pdf/our_research/FoodStudyFactsheet.pdf+%22hormone-disrupting+chemicals+BPA+and+phthalates+in+Food+Packaging%22+and+breast+cancer+fund&hl=en&gl=us&pid=bl&srcid=ADGEESh-7HRQ3Wz9Z0W9k3tkwgdMufRkP4X1rdxf1r-PlklWG_7EuPsCnK75av5HJyM4BeI5AqhkeoOSjiZNp1bAoOrM44-6OOhU6G8GDjumj7wgi0yYExymRIBEBF9VbbklZi-7cEud&sig=AHIEtbT8Od69q-qrTbhpkjecv9ZUaMru5w&pli=1

Since this study was undertaken by the Breast Cancer Fund they weren’t checking the immediate effects of eliminating strange estrogens on glucose metabolism. But what if they did? Could a similar trial of diabetics immediately change the metabolism of glucose by eliminating the effects of xenoestrogens? There are studies going on now looking at BPA in cash register receipts

http://www.sciencenews.org/view/generic/id/64972/title/Skin_is_no_barrier_to_BPA,_study_shows

and dental adhesives. Normally there are many steps between cause and cure, but if three days could wash out the cause, maybe the cure is as simple as being a little more vigilant about what clings to your peaches. The plastics industry is on alert and its cheery anonymous website is near the top of any google on the topic.

http://www.bisphenol-a.org/

Nonetheless the topic is old news in Europe and among earthy crunchy health conscious consumers in the US who have known for years that

ALL PLASTIC IS EVIL.

So, why is news of this very likely ‘snake bite’ cause for diabetes taking so long to filter up to the mainstream?

It could be that this is the kind of undirected conspiracy that happens when the interests of two giant honking pools of money and power (like the chemical and medical communities) bump up against each other. It could simply be the inertia of large institutions; or the tunnel vision that affects healers of a scientific bent whereby only questions amenable to their kind of answer (pharmaceutical or surgical) are valid research questions. Or maybe it’s the other kind of inertia whereby no matter how awful and awfully big something like the diabetes and obesity epidemics are, it’s still impossible to imagine that the cure could be as easy and enormous as say, a life less plastic.