I’m speaking at the Aspen Ideas Festival: Health. I’ll be interviewed by Helena Bottemiller Evich of FoodFix from 9:00 to 9:50 a.m.. Topic: “Making sense of nutrition science.”
A new study links bisphenol A, the chemical that leaches from #7 plastic bottles, with heart disease and diabetes. People with higher levels of bisphenol A in their urine had a greater chance of having heart disease and diabetes. Does this mean bisphenol A causes these conditions? It could, but it also could mean that some other factor is responsible for both or this is just a coincidence. While waiting for the inevitable further research, it seems reasonable to use something other than #7 plastic bottles (unless you know that the ones in the #7 category do not contain bisphenol A). The study is published in the Journal of the American Medical Association along with a cautionary editorial.