BPA exposure linked to quick rise in blood pressure

New study finds that BPA may have a direct and immediate impact on your cardiovascular health.

I am not surprised that there is more medical evidence compounding the already clear dangers of BPA exposure in humans. And don’t forget: Every time you drink from a can or plastic bottle, you’re exposing your heart. When you drink a can of beer, you’re already upping your blood pressure. Add BPA to the mix and you’ve just created a cocktail of confusion for your body to attempt to digest.. Not a good circumstance at all.

Mother Nature Network goes on to write in the report, 

For the study, which was published in the journal Hypertension, researchers recruited 60 older participants, most of whom had never had issues with high blood pressure (although some did.) They asked the participants to drink soy milk from either a can or a glass bottle on three separate occasions, spaced apart by several weeks. The researchers chose soy milk because it does not have any effect on blood pressure and it is also fairly neutral in terms of leaching BPA from can or bottle liners, according to The New York Times.

The research team from Seoul National University’s department of preventive medicine in Korea found that when the participants drank soy milk from a can, their urine levels of BPA rose almost instantly — and so did their blood pressure. But when the same people drank the same beverage from glass bottles, which don’t use BPA linings, their BPA levels and blood pressure remained unchanged. 

The research did not look at how long BPA levels remained elevated, but the authors did raise the concern that even a short increase in blood pressure — repeated several times a day through BPA exposure in drinks and food containers — could have lasting effects on cardiovascular health. 

That does make sense to me. Even short-duration elevations have dangers..

Besides cans of beer and plastic soda bottles, can goods are also lined with the chemical..

And for me, I am having an eye opening experience. My latest addiction has became cans of seltzer water.. Perhaps I need to rethink my options…

HOWEVER»There are two sides to every table of food. The Center for Accountability in Science is raising some alarms on the alarm bell raised in the alarming report on BPA. 

They say the group studied—mostly women—was too small to conduct an accurate accounting to garner a conclusion.. even more, they said that there are gross overstatements in the report.

Should should I crack opened a third seltzer water today?

Or just drink down some bottled beer and chase it with coffee? Questions..questions..

BPA exposure linked to quick rise in blood pressure

It's rather sickening to think about the percentage of the day I am sitting for

I have been inspired by my nephew, a little over a decade younger than me, coming back from several weeks of his training to become a Marine and seeing a healthy, altogether different looking young man.. It made me realize the roly poly little bout-faced boy I am becoming needs to stop.

I think it’s time to become thinking about healthy. I am heading quickly into the 30s.. and then the early midlife. And God forbid some type of strange crisis. Luckily for my family we don’t have the money to spend on a Corvette—but whatever stopped a man from making rash decisions without fundage  before, right?

Nonetheless.. I have decided on a new healthy lifestyle decision. First off, eliminate as much sitting as possible. We all know lots of studies and research exists to show just how much we sit, and how it could actually be deadly for our health… And yes, it will be tougher playing ANGRY BIRDS while standing.. but these are the pitfalls of a healthy choice.

The other factor into healthy life 101: Eliminate as many GMO foods as possible *sometimes that’s impossible* .. but to make it even simpler, I am going with the ‘one ingredient diet.’ 

While I don’t know and did not research whether anyone coined the term ‘one ingredient diet’ yet, I am going to attempt to claim credit in my ignorance. 

My simple notion of this diet: Don’t eat anything with more than one ingredient.

For example: If you want lemon peppered salmon, you would purchase; Non-GMO fresh caught salmon (good luck, I know), a lemon, pepper, and butter. You would NOT purchase the seasoning already made or margarine, as they have more than one ingredient. If you want applesauce, buy an apple, sugar, and mash it together. Avoid the applesauce with added ingredients, splenda, and especially ASPARTAME (cue the dread music.)

So it’s not that you’re only eating one thing, you can actually combine your one ingredients together to make a meal.

This will get rough.. indeed. 

But for generations, no, CENTURIES, we’ve done this. We’ve cooked, and made our own food.. And now, today, even this day, people are dying off quickly from the last generation that knew how to cook. Like, really cook. Like cook their butts off to the point where you never had anything that tasted that good. THAT is the purpose of the one ingredient diet. You cook your own food, slower, and longer, and you appreciate what you’re eating more. And you can also get to know what you’ve been eating. 

There were be some exceptions. For example, if I cannot find sunflower seeds without salt, I can cheat and get ones with  the salt.. I don’t care to make my own bread so I will buy from local bakers who only add the basic ingredients instead of the 500 that big makers put in..

And wine and beer?

Well.. not sure yet on the wine aspect.. Needs to research what ingredients go into FUNKY LLAMA, my favorite brand. But I have the beer thing covered: Straub from Pennsylvania. Good beer, no salt or sugar added..

So wish my luck .. hopefully this mission won’t become an ordeal. Maybe if it works I can market it.. Unless someone else did that already. And if you did, don’t sue me.. Pay me to help you!

And drink up, healthy beer style.