{"id":300,"date":"2015-01-23T22:20:42","date_gmt":"2015-01-24T05:20:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fetzers.org\/?p=300"},"modified":"2015-01-23T22:24:15","modified_gmt":"2015-01-24T05:24:15","slug":"what-is-bpa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fetzers.org\/?p=300","title":{"rendered":"What is BPA?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>What is BPA?<\/p>\n<p>BPA stands for Bisphenol A. BPA is carbon-based synthetic compound that is used to make certain plastics and epoxy resins.<\/p>\n<p>BPA exhibits hormone-like properties and contributes to\u00a0a broad range of health effects. \u00a0BPA can contribute to:<br \/>\nNeurological effects (interferes with dopamine pathways)<br \/>\nObesity<br \/>\nThyroid function<br \/>\nBreast cancer<br \/>\nProstate cancer<br \/>\nBrain tumors<br \/>\nAsthma<br \/>\nReproductive and sexual behavior<\/p>\n<p>BPA can leach out of plastics, especially over 20 cycles through a dishwasher. \u00a0There are no 100% microwave safe plastics. \u00a0BPA is found in many baby bottles, sippy cups, plastic utensils and water bottles.<\/p>\n<p>What to do?<br \/>\nPurchase BPA free water bottles<br \/>\nUse glass, Pyrex, instead of plastic food containers<br \/>\nNever microwave in plastics<br \/>\nWash plastics by hand<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What is BPA? BPA stands for Bisphenol A. BPA is carbon-based synthetic compound that is used to make certain plastics and epoxy resins. BPA exhibits hormone-like properties and contributes to\u00a0a broad range of health effects. \u00a0BPA can contribute to: Neurological effects (interferes with dopamine pathways) Obesity Thyroid function Breast cancer Prostate cancer Brain tumors Asthma [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-300","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fetzers.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/300","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fetzers.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fetzers.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fetzers.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fetzers.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=300"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.fetzers.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/300\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":303,"href":"https:\/\/www.fetzers.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/300\/revisions\/303"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fetzers.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=300"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fetzers.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=300"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fetzers.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=300"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}