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The American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) is currently having their conference in San Francisco. According to an article in the Sueddeutsche Zeitung today, they said that lab experiments with bisphenol-A, a chemical that mimics estrogen, made the lab animals fat and its appearance in “nature” also coincides timing-wise with the increase of overweight and obese people.

Bisphenol-A is a plasticizer in practically all plastics that come in contact with our food and many more. It is used as can liner, plastic wrap, plastic containers, plastic bags, etc.

It is also part of the plastics in computers. Most computer motherboards contain about an ounce of Tetrabromobisphenol-A (TBBPA) as a flame retardant. These flame retardants gas out slowly and then at the end of life there is a risk that they end up in the ground water, etc.

There are still many studies that claim that Tetrabromobisphenol-A is “no danger” to the environment and humans, as it is “not bio-accumulative”. However, recently it has also been linked to prostate cancer.

In our Free E-Class “Secrets to Healthier Computing” you can find out how you can avoid 97% of the bisphenol that normally used in computers.

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