Before you buy your next H2O bottle...

I never got rid of my old bottles and still use them. All the newer ones are BPA free nowadays. Not much to do other then drink up
 
I never gave the hype much credence of BPA being a health risk. So news one way or the other does not cause a blip on my radar screen. Likewise I still like food cooked on a grille. And eat butter and drink whole milk. In the scheme of things, something else will kill me first. I do hate to see junk science of any flavor affecting market availability of products.
 
Codger_64 said:
I never gave the hype much credence of BPA being a health risk. So news one way or the other does not cause a blip on my radar screen. Likewise I still like food cooked on a grille. And eat butter and drink whole milk. In the scheme of things, something else will kill me first. I do hate to see junk science of any flavor affecting market availability of products.
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Every summer I cook food on the charcoal grill. I also like cooking with whole milk and butter. My corn bread recipe doesn't work with anything less then Whole milk and butter. The consistency is wrong with out them. Goats milk or Half and Half is even better. ;)
 
I've read about flouride for twenty years. I avoid it when possible, but it isn't always possible. Even bottled and canned soft drinks are made with municipal water containing flouride. And no major brand of toothpaste is marketed without it, though you can find it in some health food stores.
 
wildmanh said:
Every summer I cook food on the charcoal grill. I also like cooking with whole milk and butter. My corn bread recipe doesn't work with anything less then Whole milk and butter. The consistency is wrong with out them. Goats milk or Half and Half is even better. ;)
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Let the milk curdle for best cornbread. You can add a touch of rennit or vinegar if you don't want to wait for it to curdle naturally.
 
you do realize that this is more of a dig against the "liberal media and the left wing" than it is about BPA. BPA is just segue for their attack on the left. The fact of the matter remains there are so many chemicals and hormones in the stuff we put into our bodies that your smallest concern is going to be BPA. you should worry about aspartame or hormones first. I can understand not wanting it in baby bottles because the burden of proof has always been on the MFR to prove its safe in that situation. The reason being - no one experiments on babies. I eat red meat and butter all the time, drink milk, half and half etc. I also use BPA free bottles in some form. Why not, they are commonly available and not more expensive, so what is the harm in avoiding a chemical?
 
As far as I can tell, the leading cause of death is birth.

If it's not this, it's all the reported side-effects of using aluminum cookwear, or something else.

If I worried about all this stuff, I'd likely never do anything.
 
Codger_64 said:
I've read about flouride for twenty years. I avoid it when possible, but it isn't always possible. Even bottled and canned soft drinks are made with municipal water containing flouride. And no major brand of toothpaste is marketed without it, though you can find it in some health food stores.
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I use Spry tooth paste with Xylitol and get it at the local health food store. Doesn't have Flouride, it's even made locally. 2 years ago my dentist recommended it to me and gave me a full tube to try out. I liked it so much, that I started looking for it locally and a friend who has a Herb shop carries it. No sugar or Flouride, tastes good too.

Codger_64 said:
Let the milk curdle for best cornbread. You can add a touch of rennit or vinegar if you don't want to wait for it to curdle naturally.
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Interesting. How does it affect the corn bread? My corn bread is pan fried. I place the cast iron pan in the oven as it pre-heats. Make the corn bread, let sit for a few minutes to rise, then grease the pan with butter, drop the batter in, listen to it sizzle and stick it in the oven. The edges are brown and taste of caramelized honey and butter. Oh so good!


By the way, I carry plastic water bottles because they are lighter then metal ones. Mostly I use old Sports drink and Soda bottles in the 1l and 2l sizes. Never worried about BPA and the other stuff. As long as my bottles are clean and nothings growing in them, I'm okay.
 
Things like this will always generate very emotional arguments on both sides. Generally speaking, I am overly concerned only when I see peer-reviewed LARGE studies that show a health affect. It is so easy to manipulate the scientifically-ignorant public with half truths. Just take a look here:

http://www.dhmo.org/

Every statement they make in their FAQ is completely true. After reading that, virtually everyone I know has been very vocal in demanding that DHMO be banned. And then they are very sheepish when they discover that they have been led to a false assumption of danger based on leading statements that are actually true.

Another thing to consider is that in most animal studies, the exposure concentration is orders of magnitude higher than what the average person encounters, and it requires a significant leap of faith to correlate short term high level dosage effects to expected effects due to long term low level exposures in humans.

After the Fukushima reactor emitted a lot of radioactive material into the environment, I had people calling me (I work in a lab) to have their water checked for radioactive Cs and I. I had to break the news to them that their exposure to Fukushima fallout (6000 miles away in California) was miniscule compared to the local environmental background. Mother nature may have made the Sierras beautiful, but she also left a lot of uranium behind in the process. Not to mention all the naturally occurring arsenic in the groundwater here in the San Joaquin valley. And I would bet that some of the same people who were all worked up about Fukushima are heavy smokers, or drive fast while texting, or engage in other risky behavior. It's all about relative risk.

Don't get me wrong, I avoid exposure whenever I can. But I'm not going to rid my life of all man-made risks. I'm not keen on going back to the stone age.
 
I'm no scientist or chemist but I know one or six. I asked them about the whole BPA thing and they said it is only a risk if a bottle is left in a hot car in Florida full of water in the hottest part of summer and drank from x number of times. (Many more times than once) and even at that an adult would have to do this a lot. For Joe 'n Jane Average it isn't even a concern or health risk.
 
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