The factors that determine obesity are usually related to poor eating habits, a sedentary lifestyle and personal physique. However, a further element emerged from a US research that it would be good to take into consideration in evaluating the causes of the excessive exceeding of one's ideal weight by an increasingly large segment of the population belonging to industrialized countries. This is the daily exposure to substances considered capable of undermining the proper functioning of our metabolism, such as bisphenol A.
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The factors that determine obesity are usually related to bad eating habits, Sedentary life e personal physical constitution. However, a further element emerged from a US research that it would be good to take into consideration in the evaluation of the causes of the excessive exceeding of one's ideal weight by an increasingly large segment of the population belonging to industrialized countries. This is the daily exposure to substances considered capable of undermining the proper functioning of our metabolism, such as bisphenol A.
Il bisphenol A is among the components most used worldwide in the production of plastic materials which, as we well know, are used for the manufacture of most of the objects with which we are in daily contact, including, for example, food containers. This substance has also been present for a long time in the plastics used for the production of bottle, whose marketing in Europe was banned last June.
The use of bisphenol A also in products studied for children is unfortunately still widely permitted in the United States, despite several authoritative studies have highlighted how this substance can be considered responsible for behavioral disturbances in children. Further scientific investigations have also shown how the exposure, even to minimal quantities, of bisphenol A can be correlated to the development of diseases such asobesity and diabetes.
In recent months, bisphenol A had already been listed among the substances believed to be able to affect fertility. It has now again been subjected to special studies which have revealed its action of endocrine disruptor not only on the male and female reproductive system, but also on the release of the hormone by our organism insulin. This action by bisphenol A was highlighted through some research led by the expert on the subject from the Miguel Hernandez University Angel Nadal. The results of the study have been reported on the pages of PlosOne.
From laboratory experiments also carried out on human cells it emerged that bisphenol A, once entered into the bloodstream, is able to fool the hormone receptors, who would trade that substance for a natural estrogen deputy to regulate the levels of insulin. Due to this, the organism would be pushed to release twice as much insulin actually necessary for the action of the metabolism. Following a sensitization of the organism towards this deceptive process, it could generate a daily release of quantities of insulin so higher than the norm that it can trigger disorders in some subjects such as 2 type diabetes and encourage a constant weight gain.
The introduction of bisphenol A into our body can occur through the contact of drinks and food with plastic materials in which this substance is included, considered capable of transmigrate from the container it is part of to the foods placed inside it. For this reason, we refer you to our advice on recognizing plastic materials that should never be used in contact with food and we remind you that common plastic containers, in case of doubt about their composition, can be replaced, for example, with containers in glass.
Marta Albè
