{"id":551,"date":"2009-09-12T09:44:54","date_gmt":"2009-09-12T15:44:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/frommeandmyhouse.com\/blog-fromme\/?p=551"},"modified":"2009-09-12T09:44:54","modified_gmt":"2009-09-12T15:44:54","slug":"plastic-not","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/frommeandmyhouse.com\/blog-fromme\/plastic-not\/","title":{"rendered":"Plastic, mmm, mmm good? Not!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span id=\"ctl00_ctl00_ctl00_bcr_bcr_bcr_lblDrComments\">We all know we shouldn&#8217;t EAT plastic (like hydrogenated oils, shortening and such, as well as straws, Walmart bags, etc.) But do we know what is leaching into our foods from plastic containers? The chemicals in the plastics don&#8217;t stay in the plastics, they taint our food and are affecting our bodies. Here&#8217;s some of the latest info.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Food and chemical lobbyists know word has gotten out about bisphenol-A (BPA), an estrogen-mimicking chemical used to make hard plastics and epoxy resins that\u2019s found in numerous products you probably use every day.<\/p>\n<p>Of 115 published animal studies, 81 percent found significant effects from even low-level exposure to BPA, so there\u2019s probably no real safe limit. Among the many health problems linked to this toxic chemical are:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\">See rest of the article at <a href=\"http:\/\/articles.mercola.com\/sites\/articles\/archive\/2009\/09\/12\/How-Moms-and-Minorities-are-Deceived-About-Dangers-of-Plastic.aspx\" target=\"_blank\">Mercola.com<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We all know we shouldn&#8217;t EAT plastic (like hydrogenated oils, shortening and such, as well as straws, Walmart bags, etc.) But do we know what is leaching into our foods from plastic containers? The chemicals in the plastics don&#8217;t stay in the plastics, they taint our food and are affecting \u2026 <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"https:\/\/frommeandmyhouse.com\/blog-fromme\/plastic-not\/\"> Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr; <\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-551","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health-helps"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/frommeandmyhouse.com\/blog-fromme\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/551","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/frommeandmyhouse.com\/blog-fromme\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/frommeandmyhouse.com\/blog-fromme\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/frommeandmyhouse.com\/blog-fromme\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/frommeandmyhouse.com\/blog-fromme\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=551"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/frommeandmyhouse.com\/blog-fromme\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/551\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":552,"href":"https:\/\/frommeandmyhouse.com\/blog-fromme\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/551\/revisions\/552"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/frommeandmyhouse.com\/blog-fromme\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=551"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/frommeandmyhouse.com\/blog-fromme\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=551"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/frommeandmyhouse.com\/blog-fromme\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=551"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}