Is Your Child Eating This Toxic Chemical?

We all want the best for our kids, but unfortunately, we may be unwittingly feeding them toxic chemicals, this shocking report finds.

Are you accidentally serving your kids a helping of dangerous chemicals for dinner? If you’re feeding your kids any of the popular canned meals targeted at children, you may be doing just that.

An eye-opening report from the Breast Cancer Fund found the endocrine-disrupting chemical bisphenol-A (BPA) in all of the canned foods they tested. The popular Campbell’s Toy Story and Disney Princess soups led the pack with the highest levels of the toxic chemical.

If you aren’t already aware of the many health problems that have been potentially linked to BPA, you may want to do some reading on this topic. BPA is known as an “estrogen mimic,” causing many problems relating to your endocrine system, as well as other health issues.

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(BPA) has been linked with breast and prostate cancers, an increased risk of heart disease and type-2 diabetes, infertility, obesity, thyroid problems, neurological issues, attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, and even with triggering early puberty in girls….

In other words, this stuff is the LAST thing we want to be exposing our kids to.

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Researchers at an independent testing laboratory were sent six different children’s canned meal products…two cans of each kind…to be tested for the presence of BPA. The results of that testing were, frankly, disturbing.

One can of Disney Princess Cool Shaped Pasta bought in California measured a staggering 148 parts per billion (PPB) of BPA. That was followed not too distantly by the California-purchased can of Toy Story Fun Shapes Pasta, which when tested was found to have a whopping 90 PPB.

BPA found in organic canned kid’s meals too

And perhaps most shocking of all…simply because of the perceived health value of the products… were the BPA numbers for the two organic products that were tested.

Earth’s Best Organic Elmo Noodlemania Soup and Annie’s Homegrown Cheesy Ravioli had an average BPA level of 38 PPB and 30.5 PPB respectively….

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The problem, of course, is that BPA is being used in the epoxy-resin linings of the cans the food is packed in and until food manufacturers remove it from their packaging and replace it with safer alternatives we’re going to continue to be exposed. And, as usual, it looks like it’s up to us to force the needed change by hitting them where it hurts, in their wallets.

I urge you to make a commitment to not buy any canned foods…especially those that are marketed to kids…that are not BPA-free. Instead make your own kid-friendly meals, serve more fresh foods, or at the very least, switch to boxed kid-friendly foods instead of cans….

For more information on the study, including the full list of products tested, visit HealthierTalk.com.