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Phthlates, GMOs, antibiotics, and other chemicals in cosmetics, air fresheners, food, cleaners, parfumes, deodorants, shower curtains, water and beverage bottles, are making us fat!

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Leah Zerbe is an online editor for Rodale.com, but is also a wife and farmer that understands both sides of farm issues.

Leah Zerbe writes for Rodale.com and knows her stuff.  Hear our 45 min. interview with Leah and you'll learn at least 10 new things about what's making us fat!

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New research just released on August 27th in the FASEB Journal has found enough evidence to suggest there is another pathway phthalates can promote cancer that does not involve hormone receptors.  In other words there are even more ways phthalate exposure can give us cancer.

This new information is cause for concern since Americans are ingesting and applying chemical additives on our bodies in even higher concentrations.  

Just look at a food or shampoo label to find a long lists of man made chemicals as ingredients.  Same with air fresheners.  What’s even more unsettling is what is missing from the label, but is really there in the product.  Phthalate ingredients are not required to be listed on product labels even when they are present in the formula. 

Women using multiple beauty products are especially vulnerable.  After lotion, shampoo, crèmes, make up, and hair spray one estimate reported by Reuters in a November 2009 poll of 2,016 women by personal care products manufacturer Bionsen was that the average woman wears around 500 chemicals each day.  That is just on the outside of their bodies.

The President’s Cancer Panel tried to warn us when they came out with a list of food and environmental toxins that we could be increasing our cancer risk.  You don’t hear much about the report because most of the products containing those ingredients are made by 10 companies that control most what is found on supermarket and drugstore shelves and they don’t want to advertise their use and the risks associated with them.  Doesn’t make for happy customers when they find out what they have been unknowingly exposed to in products they trusted.

How does antibiotic laced meat sound for dinner?  With 80% of antibiotics produced each year going to animal production, it’s not a matter of if, but when we will have to pay the price for this obvious abuse of the drug.  

Reports of people getting sick and dying from bacteria that can survive even our strongest antibiotics increase each year.  According to a report published in the July issue of Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology, the journal of the Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America, cases of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (CA-MRSA), a potentially deadly bacterial infection that is resistant to antibiotic treatment, more than tripled between 1997 and 2006.
Urvashi Rangan, director of Consumer Safety at Consumer Reports, an independent product-testing organization, called the misuse of antibiotics a "public health crisis."

Farmers add antibiotics to animal feed daily because it allows them to fatten up livestock quicker even though they keep them in stressful, crowded and inhumane living conditions that make animals sick.  Farmers cannot allow a sick animal into the food system so if they do get sick, they need special treatment, and cannot be slaughtered until they recover.  Sick animals increase work and expense for the farmer.  This is especially true for large industrial operations.  Crowded factory farms also provide the perfect conditions for the spread of salmonella, a potentially deadly public health risk.

Could we also be fattening up humans with antibiotics and obesogens in foods and personal care products?  

Leah Zerbe, Online Editor for Rodale.com believes regular use of antibiotics to treat conditions that don’t even involve bacteria, together with ingestion of meats from animals that have been fed antibiotics their entire lives is making children and adults fat.  She also sites the widespread practice of allowing chemicals that have undergone limited safety testing in products for adults and children.

After reviewing the research, Leah wrote several articles explaining how obesogens coming from antibiotics and other chemical sources are messing with our hormone and insulin levels.  Not only are we getting fat, but ingesting these obesogens puts our body in a constant state of defense and is causing unpredictable cross chemical reactions.

Tune in to Smart Health Talk this Thursday, August 30th from 4-5:00 pm PST as Leah Zerbe joins us to explain what obesogens are doing to our health and how to avoid them.

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Research Links Phthalates to Type 2 Diabetes
This article is basically saying that we are depositing chemicals into our bodies 
by the thousands and in all different kinds of combinations.  They get there when 
we ingest them (eating, drinking), and absorb through our skin.  Each chemical is 
made up of metabolites which are particles that can interfere with normal blood glucose metabolism and balance.  These metabolites could bind and block, interact, destroy outright, disrupt key hormones that allow glucose to come into the cell, or a combination or more of the above.  Best to avoid them completely.

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Epidemiology/Health Services Research
P. Monica Lind, Björn Zethelius, and Lars Lind
Diabetes Care July 2012 35:1519-1524; published ahead of print April 12, 2012

Abstract
OBJECTIVE Phthalates are ubiquitous industrial high-volume chemicals known as ligands to peroxisome proliferator–activated receptors (PPARs). Because PPAR-γ agonists modulate insulin sensitivity and are used to treat type 2 diabetes, we investigated whether circulating levels of phthalate metabolites are related to prevalent type 2 diabetes.

RESEARCH DESIGN AND METHODS A total of 1,016 subjects, aged 70 years, were investigated in the Prospective Investigation of the Vasculature in Uppsala Seniors Study. Four phthalate metabolites were detected in almost all participant sera by an API 4000 liquid chromatograph/tandem mass spectrometer. Type 2 diabetes was defined as the use of pharmacological hypoglycemic agents or a fasting plasma glucose >7.0 mmol/L.

RESULTS A total of 114 subjects were shown to have diabetes. Following adjustment for sex, BMI, serum cholesterol and triglycerides, educational level, and smoking and exercise habits, high levels of the phthalate metabolites monomethyl phthalate (MMP) (P < 0.01), monoisobutyl phthalate (MiBP) (P < 0.05), and monoethyl phthalate (MEP) (P < 0.05), but not mono(2-ethylhexyl) phthalate, were associated with an increased prevalence of diabetes. Using the fasting proinsulin–to–insulin ratio as a marker of insulin secretion and the homeostasis model assessment-insulin resistance index as a marker of insulin resistance, MiBP was mainly related to poor insulin secretion, whereas MEP and MMP mainly were related to insulin resistance.

CONCLUSIONS The findings in this cross-sectional study showed that several phthalate metabolites are related to diabetes prevalence, as well as to markers of insulin secretion and resistance. These findings support the view that these commonly used chemicals might influence major factors that are regulating glucose metabolism in humans at the level of exposure of phthalate metabolites seen in the general elderly population.

Readers may use this article as long as the work is properly cited, the use is educational and not for profit, and the work is not altered. See http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/ for details.


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Avoid plastics that do not have the recycle #1. The products with #1 are safer for your family.

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aka “Fragrance,” “The Softener”

Go to Safer Chemicals, Healthy Families website for more information on how to protect your family from toxic chemicals.

Phthalates like to make hard plastics more flexible, and to act as an adhesive, dye, and solvent in other products. Phthalates don’t care about fame — they prefer to stay hidden on product labels with simple pseudonyms like “fragrance.” Phthalates may be publicity shy, but given the right setting, they can off-gas and volatize with the best of them.
Air fresheners contain phthlates.
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How to avoid
1. There’s no sure-fire way to completely avoid phthalates until Congress passes the Safe Chemicals Act, legislation that will require chemical manufacturers to demonstrate that their products are safe before they end up in our lotions, dashboards, and bodies.

Until then...

2. Skip the fragrance when choosing cosmetics, personal care products, cleaning products, detergents, and air fresheners. Manufacturers aren’t required to list phthalates on the label, but any item listed as “fragrance” is often a chemical mixture that can contain phthalates.

3. When buying cosmetics, purchase from companies that have pledged not to use phthalates.

4. Check the Healthy Toys database for toys bought before 2009 - they may contain phthalates.

5. Avoid buying plastics that may be treated with phthalates, including vinyl toys, shower curtains, and gloves. Look out for "PVC," "V" or the "3" recycling code on the item or its packaging.
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6. If you have vinyl flooring in your home, damp mop regularly since phthalates bind to dust on the floor. Direct sunlight on vinyl tiles causes them to release phthalates more quickly, so put lower blinds on windows that shine directly on flooring.

Frequent hangouts
Cosmetics and personal care products; fragrances used in products ranging from cleaning products to perfumes and air fresheners; pharmaceuticals, medical devices, toys, food packaging, sealants, printing inks, vinyl shower curtains, and building materials such as vinyl flooring, house dust.

Why they're dangerous
Phthalates are linked to lower testosterone levels, decreased sperm counts and poor sperm quality. Exposure to phthalates during development has been linked to malformations of the male reproductive tract and testicular cancer. 

Young children and developing fetuses are most at risk. 
Phthalates also have been associated with obesity, reduced female fertility, preterm birth and low birthweight, a worsening of allergy and asthma symptoms, and behavior changes.

Fun fact
Enjoy that new car smell? Thank phthalates! Because phthalates are not chemically bound to products, they easily migrate or off-gas, making them easy to inhale.
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Plastic bottles can contain phthlates. Only choose bottles with the #1 recycle code. Avoid all bottles with the #7.
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