Wednesday, 08 July 2009
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Cancer and Plastic Bottles
We had a Healthkicker reader send us this question to ask to the audience:
I have heard that after leaving a plastic bottle of water or soda somewhere such as in a truck or outside in the sun where it turns warm, something in the plastic called a D is releases and potentially overtime, it can cause cancer.
How true is this?
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Comments (20)
i've heard the same thing. but i don't know if it's true.
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Yeah, I've heard something similar to that before. I believe it.
I don't know whether or not I believe it, but if it's hot and I'm really thirsty and all there is is a water bottle that's been sitting in the car for a few hours... I wouldn't drink it. I've been told if it's unopened it's okay, though. But I don't know.
Or sometimes i'll save the water for plants. Hah.
Ive heard this, but dont know if its true or not.
They say pretty much everything causes cancer these days, so we're all doomed anyways...
Sure. And cell phones also give you cancer. So do microwaves... Oh, and Elvis is still alive, I saw him yesterday. He was buying a hell of a lot plastic water bottles and leaving them in random trucks.
This is most definitely not true. I just finished a year of biochemistry, and we tested and researched this theory. Just as they say using a cell phone gives you cancer, the amount of BPA found in one plastic bottle does not come NEAR to close enough to cause any ill damage. I forget the number that was found, but it was close to a couple hundred thousand bottles would be needed in a relatively short amount of time to expose a person to enough BPA/chemicals to cause any effect on their health....that and they would have to be left out to "leach" for hours at a time.
Heard about it, doubt it.
I watched something on the Dr.s the other day about BPAs and water bottles. I wouldn't think it's such a big deal considering it's such a little amount, but I heard that there's been links to obesity? I don't know how true that is, but I just got a new water bottle by Camelbak and it's BPA free. I tend to use refillable water bottles like stainless steel ones. It's good for reducing having plastic bottles around the house too.
I've heard that too. Not sure if it's true, but I've also heard that several other chemicals in water bottles are just plain toxic for your body.
NOPE
i heard about it.
but I sometimes still use the water bottle, if i ever forgot my camelbak
i've heard this before. could be true. that's why i never reuse water bottles and make sure to keep them out of sun/heat if possible.
I don't know if it's true, but I hope you enjoy your xeno-estrogens.
I think just about everyone has heard about this by now. That's how Sheryl Crow got breast cancer... or so she claims. I don't know either way.
*panics* I'm fucked.
I don't have an answer though I could spend a 30 minutes on Google looking. What I do know is that any bottle of water left in a car, opened or unopened, I'm probably going to throw it away depending on how long it's been there.
i've heard about this too. i duno if it's true? so many things are already bad for us.
ive never heard of this one but lots of things cause cancer so if this is one of them i believe it
I've heard something to that effect as well. I'm not sure if its true or not, but I wouldn't chance it.