Researchers find link between BPA and obesity in children

I think BPA is bad for other reasons, but what we have here is a confirmed correlation, not a cause and effect. Most food packaging involves plastic in some way, so if you eat a lot of food, you're going to be exposed to a lot of stuff that sheds off the plastic. Is the BPA causing you to crave more food or mucking with your metabolism? Maybe, but you would need to prove that with experimentation or investigation.

For instances, if the high BPA kids and low BPA kids were eating the same amount of calories, that would be point the finger more at BPA, but a not be a definitive cause and effect. There maybe some other chemical that correlates with BPA that is actually causing the problem. You could remove the BPA and still have the problem.

The thing to understand is they put BPA in plastic to perform a function. If you tell them to get rid of BPA, they will replace it with some other chemical that may be worse, but have less history on its long term exposure effects on humans. Plastics, in general, are an issue and we should be working toward getting them out of the food supply as much as possible. We have a long history with papers, metals and glass, so we know what to replace plastics with.

You're not going to totally get rid of it, but you can greatly reduce the contact opportunities with the food. For instance, if you use plastics only in the seals, and not the entire container, you won't have as large of a contact area with the food so you'll have less stuff shedding from the plastic into the food.

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/technology-blog/researchers-between-bpa-obesity-children-013400513.html

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