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Can of Soup a Day Linked to High BPA Levels in Urine

Can of Soup a Day Linked to High BPA Levels in Urine:

"Eating just one 12-ounce serving of canned soup a day for five days straight may lead to more than a 1,000% increase in the amount of the controversial chemical bisphenol A (BPA) in your urine, a new study shows.

BPA is a chemical used in the manufacturing of many metal food and beverage cans, among other uses.

The canned soup study did not look at how -- or even if -- the BPA spike in urine affects health. This is a major sticking point for many critics of the study who caution against overinterpreting the findings."

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• Eating Canned Soup Makes BPA Levels Soar (npr.org)
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Sugary drinks hurt even skinny women's hearts - TODAY Health - TODAY.com

Sugary drinks hurt even skinny women's hearts - TODAY Health - TODAY.com:

"Whatever the form — sweet tea, soda, or coffee drinks that look like desserts — women who drank two or more sweet beverages a day were at an increased risk for heart disease, even if they did not gain weight over the five-year study, according to the findings presented Sunday at the American Heart Association's meeting in Orlando, Fla"

Fatty Foods Addictive as Cocaine in Growing Body of Science - Bloomberg

Fatty Foods Addictive as Cocaine in Growing Body of Science - Bloomberg:

A growing body of medical research at leading universities and government laboratories suggests that processed foods and sugary drinks made by the likes of PepsiCo Inc. and Kraft Foods Inc. (KFT) aren’t simply unhealthy. They can hijack the brain in ways that resemble addictions to cocaine, nicotine and other drugs.

“The data is so overwhelming the field has to accept it,” said Nora Volkow, director of the National Institute on Drug Abuse. “We are finding tremendous overlap between drugs in the brain and food in the brain.”