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FinanceShould you avoid canned foods?
It’s a heated controversy, even before you heat the food. Are canned foods fine or are they bad for our health? You are on one side or the other. Glamour.com has an interesting article on the subject. And no matter where you stand on the issue, it never hurts to take a closer look. Here’s what one expert says:
“The resin linings of tin cans contain bisphenol-A, a synthetic estrogen that has been linked to ailments ranging from reproductive problems to heart disease, diabetes, and obesity. Unfortunately, acidity (a prominent characteristic of tomatoes) causes BPA to leach into your food. Studies show that the BPA in most people’s body exceeds the amount that suppresses sperm production or causes chromosomal damage to the eggs of animals. ‘You can get 50 mcg of BPA per liter out of a tomato can, and that’s a level that is going to impact people, particularly the young,’ says vom Saal. ‘I won’t go near canned tomatoes.’
That’s one take on it. But how concerned should we really be? Here’s another opinion:
“The data on bisphenol A and levels that are toxic in adult humans is not conclusive so until it is, I think the much bigger problem is the 66 percent of Americans who are overweight or obese, and the fact that the majority of them are not eating fruits and especially vegetables everyday so I would hate to discourage people from eating an inexpensive and readily available year-round source of vegetables like canned tomatoes,” she says. “Because of the bisphenol A potential, I would not feed them daily to a baby or pregnant of nursing women but using them in a homemade turkey chili or health vegetable soup once a week should really not be a problem in my opinion.”
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