PHOTO: HORSE HUGGING A HUMAN//canned food has BPA//organic only root vegetables
"The red veggie is known as the best source of lycopene, an essential nutrient, but beware of the canned variety.
All canned food contains the harmful chemical BPA, but it's especially concerning in tomatoes, whose acidity causes the BPA to cling on.
"It's not the tomatoes that are bad," says Koch. "It's the way they're stored." If fresh isn't an option, look for tomatoes in glass jars or BPA-free cardboard containers."
"All ROOT VEGETABLES should be bought organic because root vegetables absorb all poisons while lying there in the dirt. totally toxic."
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love this photo! there was one like this of a lion seeing its rescuer, have to find it to post it. AMAZING!
never knew this stuff about canned foods. so back to eating frozen or fresh again, all of which i used to do in the 80\'s and then stopped, because canned is easier. had it right the first time. oh well. wonder what kind of damage i did.
the root vegetable thing i never knew at all, though it makes sense, if its lying there under the dirt that it would absorb every poison out there. interestingly, root vegetables used to be considered bad food and only peasants ate it. so they must have known something might be wrong with it a few hundred years ago. personally, i always liked potatoes.
BPA is a chemical, that is in the lining of cans and in almost all plastic containers, danger when plastic is scratched.
... neurological effects on the developing fetus, such as changes in the brain and behavior.
Now the NTP\'s own scientists have found \"some concern\" not only for neurobehavioral effects, but for potential effects such as
PRECANCEROUS BREAST AND PROSTATE LESIONS, and delayed puberty in females, caused by BPA.
The way I understand it, food is best fresh, then frozen, then canned, then dried out and processed in a box. As long as you\'re not eating every single meal out of a can, I don\'t think it\'s too bad. The worst thing for BPA is plastic containers, though. If you microwave a plastic container not marked as BPA-free, then the BPA leaks into your food in bigger amounts. I avoid nuking all plastic, now. Catching up *HUGS*
wow michelle, i never knew that at all. omg! i think i do all of this, a LOT of microwaveable food comes in plastic containers, though i did notice a lot of the frozen microwave stuff is now in cardboard (i thought the companies were being cheap. lol. never occurred to me that its safer).