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Overeating and obesity can explain many of the medical disorders that have been blamed on a plastics chemical found at low levels in the human body, scientists said today.
A number of studies have suggested a link between bisphenol A (BPA), which is widely used in the plastic packaging, and illnesses ranging from diabetes to infertility, but the association does not mean that the chemical actually causes these disorders, they said.
A more likely explanation is that obese people who overeat - and who develop chronic illnesses as a result - are also more likely to have raised levels of BPA in their bloodstream from plastic food packaging, said Professor Richard Sharpe of the Medical Research Council?s Centre for Reproductive Health in Edinburgh.
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/s...-plastics-chemical-found-in-body-8497131.html
A number of studies have suggested a link between bisphenol A (BPA), which is widely used in the plastic packaging, and illnesses ranging from diabetes to infertility, but the association does not mean that the chemical actually causes these disorders, they said.
A more likely explanation is that obese people who overeat - and who develop chronic illnesses as a result - are also more likely to have raised levels of BPA in their bloodstream from plastic food packaging, said Professor Richard Sharpe of the Medical Research Council?s Centre for Reproductive Health in Edinburgh.
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/s...-plastics-chemical-found-in-body-8497131.html