Health: Toxic Plastic Water Bottles

Toxic Plastic Water Bottles

Written by Debra Lynn Dadd

I recently received a question from one of my readers about repparttar

safety of drinking water from clear plastic water bottles. These bottles, made from Lexan polycarbonate resin (a plastic polymer), are widely used for single-serving sales to one-gallon of water in stores and home-delivery bottles.

Theee bottles appear to be safe because they do not impart any taste or odor to repparttar 113538 water. Lexan polycarbonate is also used to make compact discs and DVDs, bulletproof windows, mobile phones, and computers.

The water delivery company sent my reader a notice saying that their Lexan polycarbonate bottles are perfectly safe to use. They suggested their customers visit a website that was designed to portray this plastic in a positive light.

But, actually, a toxic chemical is lurking in these bottles that does end up in repparttar 113539 water you drink. Lexan used to be used to make baby bottles, but these are no longer sold. Hmmmmm...

STAY AWAY FROM BPA

In 1998, Dr. Patricia Hunt of Case Western University in Ohio discovered that one of repparttar 113540 components of Lexan polycarbonate resin--bisphenol-A (BPA)--can leach into water from water bottles. BPA is a potent hormone disruptor. It can impair repparttar 113541 reproductive organs and have adverse effects on breast tissue and prostate development.

Who do we believe? The water delivery company or Dr. Hunt?

I'm inclined to go with Dr. Hunt. I went to a website maintained by repparttar 113542 authors of Our Stolen Future: How We Are Threatening Our Fertility, Intelligence and Survival, who are continuously searching repparttar 113543 scientific literature for information on endochrine disruptors. The Our Stolen Future (http://www.ourstolenfuture.org/NewScience/oncompounds/bisp page on bisphenol-a henola/bpauses.htm#recentimportant) gives a whole page of links to scientific studies that show that BPA damages repparttar 113544 endocrine system in a variety of ways.

BPA can leach from water bottles when exposed to heat and cleaning agents, but detectable levels of BPA can also leach into water from bottles just sitting at room temperature, according to a 2003 study conducted by repparttar 113545 University of Missouri published in repparttar 113546 journal Environmental Health Perspectives.

BETTER SAFE THAN SORRY

Is there is a level of BPA that may be acceptable? To answer that question we have to ask: acceptable to who? A healthy male? A woman? A child? The elderly? And how would you know how much leaching has occurred in repparttar 113547 water? It could easily vary from day to day depending on how long repparttar 113548 water had been in repparttar 113549 bottle, whether or not repparttar 113550 sun was shining on repparttar 113551 bottle in repparttar 113552 delivery truck, and a variety of other factors.

Spiritual and Sexual Healing

Written by Alma De La Cruz

Couple issues such as spirituality and sexuality rank higher than financial reasons as repparttar

most affected items of a fumbling relationship. When it comes repparttar 113537

moment to point out why a couple needs more intimate vigor, two wrongly things are sure to happen: Women are always blamed, and if both recognize that it’s a male matter, also women blame themselves. Their consequent silent follows a behavior that will never end repparttar 113538

cycle if there is no communication and willingness to solve it.

I agree on communicative practices within repparttar 113539 pair for finding a reconstructive way, if that is what both desire. But I also propose to call upon repparttar 113540 Angels of relationships to ask for help, guidance, assistance and healing in this realm.

It’s just a matter of concentrating in repparttar 113541 voice within to open your self into greater receptivity to their assistance. Practice this for a few minutes daily as you release all your thoughts and feelings. Simply place repparttar 113542 relationship in repparttar 113543 hands of your Angels and let go.

With your trust in Angels, your beau is also being helped. Spirituality within a couple is all about repparttar 113544 union of mind, body and soul. It’s repparttar 113545 inner joy that reflects repparttar 113546 pleasure of having one another.

After you have passed this first step through repparttar 113547 pathways to achieve sexual healing, both must concentrate on “the” issue, repparttar 113548 rebirth of sexuality life. Surely, answers on this matter lay on natural remedies: aphrodisiacs.

Herb properties influence people’s sexual attraction. However, few people know that herbs are stimulants. The Santoreggia, for example, is considered one of repparttar 113549 most well-known aphrodisiacal herbs that turn on imagination, and reinforce and tone many nerves and muscles, increasing sexual interest. On repparttar 113550 other hand, a person that feels unable to be sexual and spiritual at repparttar 113551 same time is in urgent need of any presentation of Basil.

Knowing this, kitchens ratify their functions as repparttar 113552 best allies of women in repparttar 113553 solving of “the situation” by transforming themselves into nests of potions which stimulate and increase repparttar 113554 art of love in those people who no longer posses enough erotic spur. Then, you may add five drops of Santoreggia essence on a sugar cube 4 or 5 times a day to stimulate relationships.

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