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A Few More Reasons To Bin The Canned Soup
Date: 02/02/12
I never trusted food in cans. Not sure why. Maybe it was
the smell, the shape, or that it just seemed fake to me.
So I made the decision years ago to stop eating canned food and it actually was pretty easy to live without the 'convenience'. Turns out, I had a very good reason to feel about canned food the way I did...
As I've mentioned before, Bisphenol A (BPA) is a compound that's found in a wide variety of plastic products (eating utensils, plates, bowls, baby bottles, pacifiers, etc.) and... the lining of many food and beverage cans.
The scoop on soup
Much as the toxic dangers of Bisphenol A (BPA) are well-known, we're still a long way from the day that it will be completely banned from every supermarket shelf... but I hope that day comes sooner rather than later.
Two years ago, a study in the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) found that high urinary BPA concentrations appear to be linked to an increased risk of heart disease, type 2 diabetes, and abnormal concentrations of liver enzymes.
More recently, JAMA published another study in which US researchers at the Harvard School of Public Health recruited healthy subjects for the first randomized intervention study of BPA.
Participants who ate freshly made soup every day for five days had an average BPA level of 1.1 micrograms per litre in their urine. Average BPA in subjects who ate soup from cans was an astounding 20.8 micrograms per litre!
That level is common for people exposed to BPA as an occupational hazard, but these subjects were mostly Harvard students and instructors. Even the researchers described the results as "quite surprising."
Quite distressing!
Another recent study from the Breast Cancer Fund tested six canned foods marketed to children and all six tested positive for BPA. The highest levels were found in two Campbell's products...
Of course, Campbell's is a worldwide giant in food production, with annual sales that reached nearly $8 billion in 2008. That's a lot of soup going out into the world. And with many Campbell's products being very cheap, there may be millions of consumers pushing BPA levels that are closer to 20.8 than 1.1.
Of course, I'm not singling out Campbell's. Their BPA use is apparently no different than scores of other major food and beverage producers that sell canned products... The best is to go BPA-free.
You can easily shop for BPA-free containers and feeding bottles for infants. Just google "BPA-free" and you'll find plenty of products that won't increase your diabetes and heart disease risk. Sources:
"Association of Urinary Bisphenol A Concentration With Medical Disorders and Laboratory Abnormalities in Adults" Journal of the American Medical Association, Early release article posted 9/16/08, jama.ama-assn.org
"Canned Soup Consumption and Urinary Bisphenol A: A Randomized Crossover Trial" Journal of the American Medical Association, Vol. 306, No. 20, November 23 /30, 2011, jama.ama-assn.org
"BPA levels soar after lunching on canned soup" Karen Rowan, MSNBC, 11/22/11, vitals.msnbc.msn.com
Back to topSo I made the decision years ago to stop eating canned food and it actually was pretty easy to live without the 'convenience'. Turns out, I had a very good reason to feel about canned food the way I did...
As I've mentioned before, Bisphenol A (BPA) is a compound that's found in a wide variety of plastic products (eating utensils, plates, bowls, baby bottles, pacifiers, etc.) and... the lining of many food and beverage cans.
The scoop on soup
Much as the toxic dangers of Bisphenol A (BPA) are well-known, we're still a long way from the day that it will be completely banned from every supermarket shelf... but I hope that day comes sooner rather than later.
Two years ago, a study in the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) found that high urinary BPA concentrations appear to be linked to an increased risk of heart disease, type 2 diabetes, and abnormal concentrations of liver enzymes.
More recently, JAMA published another study in which US researchers at the Harvard School of Public Health recruited healthy subjects for the first randomized intervention study of BPA.
Participants who ate freshly made soup every day for five days had an average BPA level of 1.1 micrograms per litre in their urine. Average BPA in subjects who ate soup from cans was an astounding 20.8 micrograms per litre!
That level is common for people exposed to BPA as an occupational hazard, but these subjects were mostly Harvard students and instructors. Even the researchers described the results as "quite surprising."
Quite distressing!
Another recent study from the Breast Cancer Fund tested six canned foods marketed to children and all six tested positive for BPA. The highest levels were found in two Campbell's products...
Of course, Campbell's is a worldwide giant in food production, with annual sales that reached nearly $8 billion in 2008. That's a lot of soup going out into the world. And with many Campbell's products being very cheap, there may be millions of consumers pushing BPA levels that are closer to 20.8 than 1.1.
Of course, I'm not singling out Campbell's. Their BPA use is apparently no different than scores of other major food and beverage producers that sell canned products... The best is to go BPA-free.
You can easily shop for BPA-free containers and feeding bottles for infants. Just google "BPA-free" and you'll find plenty of products that won't increase your diabetes and heart disease risk. Sources:
"Association of Urinary Bisphenol A Concentration With Medical Disorders and Laboratory Abnormalities in Adults" Journal of the American Medical Association, Early release article posted 9/16/08, jama.ama-assn.org
"Canned Soup Consumption and Urinary Bisphenol A: A Randomized Crossover Trial" Journal of the American Medical Association, Vol. 306, No. 20, November 23 /30, 2011, jama.ama-assn.org
"BPA levels soar after lunching on canned soup" Karen Rowan, MSNBC, 11/22/11, vitals.msnbc.msn.com
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