Fight Against Breast Cancer With Plastic Free Living

Breast cancer is the most common cancer among American women and it is the second leading cause of cancer death among women. Research shows that at certain exposure level, some of the harmful chemicals in the plastics products may leach into the food or water contained, for example BPA, not only causes developmental disruption among children, also acting as one of the factors that lead to cancer.

BPA is a weak synthetic estrogen found in many rigid plastic products, food and formula can linings, dental sealants, and on the shiny side of paper cashier receipts (to stabilize the ink). Its estrogen-like activity makes it a hormone disruptor, like many other chemicals in plastics. Hormone disruptors can affect how estrogen and other hormones act in the body, by blocking them or mimicking them, which throws off the body's hormonal balance which can also make hormone-receptor-positive breast cancer develop and grow. Furthermore, some believe that the BPA also affect the fetus’ brain development in the womb. Study also found that women with high level BPA contain in their urine are more likely to have daughter with hyperactivity, anxiety and depression.

Try to use as little plastic products as possible, especially if you are pregnant. Love your body, love our mother earth. These are the steps that you could take to reduce the exposure to harmful chemicals in the plastics:

1.    Don’t cook or heat any food with plastic containers. You will never notice if the chemicals leach into your food.

2.    Use ceramic, glass or stainless steel containers to store your food and beverages. Especially choose a better ceramic water bottle if you like to spare some water in your car.

3.    Reduce canned food/drink you take and canned formula for your baby.

4.    Avoid plastic containers with recycled code of #3 and #7, they usually contain BPA.

It cannot be denied that plastic-products have bought us many conveniences in our life especially it is lower in cost as compared with glass and ceramic products. However, the harmful effects that have bought to human health are tremendous. Be a wise consumer, spend your hard-earning money wisely on a better and healthier product.

Information retrieved from:

(      http://www.breastcancer.org/risk/factors/plastic

http://www.cancer.org/cancer/breastcancer/detailedguide/breast-cancer-key-statistics