Environmental contaminants, such as bisphenol-A (BPA), endocrine disrupting compounds (EDCs), other plastic-originating compounds, and persistent organic pollutants in general, are widespread in our environment and also in the foods that we eat on a daily basis. There
Photo By Bretwood Higman, Ground Truth Trekking. [CC BY 3.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0)], via Wikimedia Commonsis some debate that BPA and other EDCs are harmful to human health, but in general the lines of those debates are a result of political and financially-motivated agendas.
For more on the harm BPA and other EDCs cause on the environment and on your health, please visit stealthepidemic.com, a website founded by Lewis Perdue and Becca Yeamans-Irwin (the co-editors of the French Paradox site).
Other sources of environmental contaminants are known to come from the food chain, like mercury in fish and pesticides in various fruits and vegetables.
A new study looked at the associations, if any, between environmental contaminants circulating in the human body and diet type. Could eating a certain type of diet reduce the levels of harmful environmental contaminants in the body? Or does diet not affect these levels in the blood?
No matter what you celebrate this holiday season, The French Paradox Team, Lew and Becca, wish you the merriest of merry!
We hope you get plenty of quality time with friends and loved ones, and hope the festive holiday wines keep flowing!
An important editorial note: We will be on vacation until January
Becca sipping on some Donnafugata Ben Rye at a Christmas party in 2013
5th, 2015!
Lew will be out recovering from his rotator cuff surgery and then spending quality time with his loving family. Becca will be in Fayetteville, Arkansas, spending holidays with her loving husband and in-laws.
The French Paradox will return ALL NEW on January 5th, 2015!
To you and yours, HAPPY HOLIDAYS and a VERY MERRY NEW YEAR!
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