| json_metadata | "{"app":"musing/1.1","appTags":["health"],"appCategory":"health","appTitle":"How harmful is drinking plastic bottled water that has been sitting in the sun?","appBody":"<p>In most plastic bottles, as in cans, a common component is bisphenol A (or BPA). As a new study reveals, even a single exposure to BPA can have a direct impact on health.</p>\n<p><strong>Hypertension</strong></p>\n<p>Scientists have long proven that bisphenol A is able to penetrate the contents of packaging. It turns out that within two hours after drinking from a container containing BPA, the level of this substance in the urine rises about 16 times.</p>\n<p>The mere ingestion of two containers containing some liquid with BPA causes an acute increase in systolic blood pressure by 4.5 mm Hg. This effect is due to the fact that the substance blocks part of the estrogen receptors responsible for the repair of blood vessels and interrupts thyroid hormone.</p>\n<p><strong>Cardiovascular Disorders</strong></p>\n<p>Each 20 millimeter increase in systolic blood pressure doubles the risk of cardiovascular disease. Based on this, daily consumption of water in plastic bottles can serve as a trigger.</p>\n<p><strong>Risk to Baby During Pregnancy</strong></p>\n<p>It poses a risk to the mammary glands of the unborn child.</p>\n<p><strong>Obesity and diabetes</strong></p>\n<p>chronic exposure to bisphenol-A also causes cancer, diabetes, disorders of the reproductive system, central nervous system and thyroid, as well as obesity. Or at least, it does it in animals. At the moment, the scientific community does not take such conclusions as proven, but 'anti-plastic' activists invite consumers not to experiment with their own health.</p>\n<p><strong>Poisoning</strong></p>\n<p>Leaving out the BPA issue, there are still other risks. Twenty-five percent of the bottled water sold in the U.S. reaches the container directly from the tap, according to ecologists. It can contain phthalates, mold, benzene, trihalomethanes and even arsenic. There are no reliable data available for other countries, but it is very unlikely that anywhere in the world the situation will be better.</p>\n<p>However, antimony has been used for more than 30 years as a catalyst (a process by which the speed of a chemical reaction is increased) in the production of polyethylene terephthalate, the material with which plastic food containers are made. </p>\n<p>First of all, there is no risk to people because the antimony residues that can be released from PET bottles are far from the limits set by various international health-related bodies. If the amounts of antimony that are released do not exceed 18 ppb (part per billion). </p>\n<p><br></p>\n<p><br></p>\n<p><br></p>","appDepth":2,"appParentPermlink":"p33fjrvzw","appParentAuthor":"cryptoandcoffee","musingAppId":"aU2p3C3a8N","musingAppVersion":"1.1","musingPostType":"answer"}" |
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