Canned Soups Have Dangerous Chemicals
Written By: William Campbell Douglass II, M.D. Newsletter
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Published - Sep 5, 2011
You'd have to have a death wish to eat anything that comes in a can -- and not just because of the factory-floor refuse they scrape into those things.
The cans themselves are lined and sealed with BPA, a dangerous endocrine-disrupting chemical that mimics estrogen so well that it essentially acts like the hormone once it gets inside your body.
And if you're eating canned foods, there's TONS of this stuff in your body right now -- because a new study finds that just one can of soup a day for five days causes BPA levels to surge by more than 1,200 percent.
That number's so outrageous Harvard researchers repeated the experiment twice -- giving fresh soup to one group of volunteers and canned soup to another, then having them switch places.
It didn't matter who got what or when -- five days of canned soup led to that 1,200 percent boost in BPA, while fresh soup didn't, according to the details in the Journal of the American Medical Association.
That's one boost you don't want. BPA has been linked to positively everything under the sun, from sexual dysfunction to obesity, diabetes and heart disease -- and it's hardly the only thing in those cans that'll do a number on you.
Canned soups are also overflowing with soy protein, which is yet another form of estrogen -- giving you double the surge in unnecessary hormones. Many soups also contain MSG, a dangerous additive linked to everything from headaches to mental illness.
And let's not forget the rest of the ingredients, which include words no one outside the food chemistry business can even pronounce.