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Negative Health Effects of BPA-Free Plastic?
I just got a BPA free bottle, and no matter how much I wash it, it always gives off this "plastic" taste when I drink from it, and I had headaches/light-headedness/nausea for the past week since I first started drinking out of it. Once I figured out it might be from the water bottle, I stopped using it and all the symptoms are going away.
Has this happened to anyone else? Are there any reports out about BPA-free plastic and possible negative health effects?? What is BPA-free plastic made out of anyways?
Re: Negative Health Effects of BPA-Free Plastic?
Hasn't happened to me, but what about a stainless steel or BPA-free aluminum bottle instead?
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I don't really think any plastic is particularly superior to BPA plastic.
I think BPA has been studied, while other plasticizers may not have been scrutinized as closely yet.
If it worries you, stick to metal and glass as much as you can.
This. BPA is just the current hot topic with plastics, I don't think removing BPA somehow magically fixes the problem of eating and drinking out of something that is essentially petroleum and chemicals that have been heated and shaped into a container. I think some other component of plastics will become a problem after everything is BPA-free. Switch to a SS water bottle and glass food containers, like Pyrex. They're non-reactive, so they can't affect your food at all.
These are really good points. I don't have much plastic and my water bottles are metal, so I hadn't really thought about what they might be replacing BPA with!
After reading In Defense of Food, I'm been thinking more and more about Michael Pollan's point about food being more than the sum of its nutrient parts, and I think that concept can be applied to pretty much everything that's wrong with human health. A nutrient part, say antioxidants, aren't what's good for you, it's the whole food, like blueberries. Nutritional scientists don't know that antioxidants themselves improve human health, they've studied how blueberries (or whatever food) reduces cancer rates or whatever illness. Blueberries contain antioxidants and a whole host of other vitamins, minerals, and compounds we probably haven't discovered yet which together are healthy. Human evolved to eat the whole fruit. Sticking antioxidants into every freakin' thing won't somehow make yogurt that's full of sugar healthy. I don't think BPA is the sole reason plastics are harmful, it's the whole manufacturing process of combining petroleum and chemicals which haven't been tested to see how they interact with one another, then heating the whole concoction to boot. I think something else will be wrong with whatever plastic liner replaces BPA, because having that type of substance in/on food is just a bad idea in general IMHO. SS and glass are non-reactive, they can't get absorbed into food.
Thanks everyone - my coffee mug is stainless and I use pyrex for food, but got the BPA-free water bottle thinking "oh it's bpa-free it must be great, it's even got this pretty eco-friendly sticker on it"...that will teach me...
I wonder how many other people fall into this line of thinking like I did? I'm curious about any health reports because I would consider my experience to be a pretty strong reaction....maybe I'm just really sensitive to whatever it is that replaced the BPA, I dunno.
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I just bought a Nalgene bpa-free water bottle for the gym. I was a little scared after reading your post that it would taste wrong. Did you have a Nalgene or another kind?
I went with plastic as I just wouldn't go through the trouble of unscrewing the metal ones while on the treadmill. We have metal ones for when we're out hiking.