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Cutting Prepackaged Foods Lowers BPA Levels: Study

(ABC News) UPDATED 2011-04-05
The easiest way to reduce your exposure to hormone-disrupting chemicals such as BPA (bisphenol A) may be to eat fresh, unpackaged foods, a new report suggests. When researchers from the Breast Cancer Fund and Silent Spring Institute gave fresh food to 20 study participants for three days, the level of BPA in their system dropped by 66 percent, and the level of DEHP (a plasticizer) dropped 53 to 56 percent. When they returned to a heavily pre-packaged diet their levels rose immediately.
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