{"id":8147,"date":"2013-12-18T21:21:34","date_gmt":"2013-12-18T11:21:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/?p=8147"},"modified":"2013-12-18T21:21:34","modified_gmt":"2013-12-18T11:21:34","slug":"bottled-water-containing-di2-ethylhexyl-fumarate-and-24000-other-chemicals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/?p=8147","title":{"rendered":"Bottled Water Containing Di(2-Ethylhexyl) Fumarate and 24,000+ Other Chemicals"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Several companies have stopped using BPA in plastic production due to consumer outrage, but just because a plastic container says it is \u201cBPA Free\u201d doesn\u2019t mean it\u2019s free of potentially harmful chemicals. As a matter of fact, recent research out of Germany indicates there are more than 24,000 of such chemicals in any given bottle of water\u2014with some of them causing serious hormone-disrupting effects.<br \/>\nAccording to the story from Goethe University Frankfort, the researchers tested 18 different bottled water products in an effort to look for endocrine disrupting chemicals, or EDCs. They found far more than expected, identifying 24,520 different chemicals in their testing. After isolating the chemicals and determining their impact on the body, the researchers narrowed down those with anti-estrogenic properties to one: DEHF or di(2-ethylhexyl) fumarate. This finding was of major concern.<br \/>\nOut of the 18 different bottled water products, 13 had \u201csignificant\u201d anti-estrogenic activity, and 16 out of 18 inhibited the body\u2019s androgen receptors by 90%. In other words, the bottled water was largely wrecking havoc on the human body.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.cryptogon.com\/?p=42418\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">http:\/\/www.cryptogon.com\/?p=42418<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Several companies have stopped using BPA in plastic production due to consumer outrage, but just because a plastic container says it is \u201cBPA Free\u201d doesn\u2019t mean it\u2019s free of potentially harmful chemicals. As a matter of fact, recent research out of Germany indicates there are more than 24,000 of such chemicals in any given bottle &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/?p=8147\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Bottled Water Containing Di(2-Ethylhexyl) Fumarate and 24,000+ Other Chemicals&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8147","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general-interest","category-health-tips"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8147","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8147"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8147\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8147"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8147"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8147"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}