Plastics making boys feminine, give them genital abnormalities
nooze
Plastic chemicals 'feminise boys'
Chemicals in plastics alter the brains of baby boys, making them "more
feminine", say US researchers.
Males exposed to high doses in the womb went on to be less likely to play
with boys' toys like cars or to join in rough and tumble games, they found.
The University of Rochester team's latest work adds to concerns about the
safety of phthalates, found in vinyl flooring and PVC shower curtains.
The findings are reported in the International Journal of Andrology.
Plastic furniture
Phthalates have the ability to disrupt hormones, and have been banned in
toys in the EU for some years.
However, they are still widely used in many different household items,
including plastic furniture and packaging.
There are many different types and some mimic the female hormone oestrogen.
" This feminising capacity of phthalates makes them true 'gender benders' "
Elizabeth Salter-Green, director of CHEM Trust
The same researchers have already shown that this can mean boys are born
with genital abnormalities.
Now they say certain phthalates also impact on the developing brain, by
knocking out the action of the male hormone testosterone.
Dr Shanna Swan and her team tested urine samples from mothers over midway
through pregnancy for traces of phthalates.
The women, who gave birth to 74 boys and 71 girls, were followed up when
their children were aged four to seven and asked about the toys the
youngsters played with and the games they enjoyed.
Girls' play
They found that two phthalates DEHP and DBP can affect play behaviour.
Boys exposed to high levels of these in the womb were less likely than
other boys to play with cars, trains and guns or engage in "rougher" games
like playfighting.
PHTHALATES
There are many different types and the most commonly used are deemed
entirely safe by regulators
DEHP - used to make PVC soft and pliable and used in products like flooring
DBP - used as a plasticiser in glues, dyes and textiles
Elizabeth Salter-Green, director of the chemicals campaign group CHEM
Trust, said the results were worrying.
"We now know that phthalates, to which we are all constantly exposed, are
extremely worrying from a health perspective, leading to disruption of male
reproduction health and, it appears, male behaviour too.
"This feminising capacity of phthalates makes them true 'gender benders'."
She acknowledged that the boys who have been studied were still young, but
she said reduced masculine play at this age might lead to other feminised
developments in later life.
But Tim Edgar, of the European Council for Plasticisers and Intermediates,
said: "We need to get some scientific experts to look at this study in more
detail before we can make a proper judgement."
He said there were many different phthalates in use and the study concerned
two of the less commonly used types that were on the EU candidate list as
potentially hazardous and needing authorisation for use.
DBP has been banned from use in cosmetics, such as nail varnish, since 2005
in the EU.
The British Plastics Federation said: "Chemical safety is of paramount
importance to the plastics industry which has invested heavily in
researching the substances it uses.
"Moreover, the new European Chemical Regulation, REACH, will ensure further
rigorous evaluation and testing or chemical substances and their uses."
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"nooze" <no...@ucanyooze.yea> wrote in message
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Those chemicals don't seem to 'feminise girls,' do they?
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and surveys indicate more and more
women say they love gay men.
What should this tell us about women?
What kind of message does it convey to men?
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>> Plastic chemicals 'feminise boys'
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>Those chemicals don't seem to 'feminise girls,' do they?
no, they just make them mature eariler. Sit the fuck down neocon.
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/1999/10/991021075812.htm
ScienceDaily (Oct. 21, 1999) � COLUMBIA, Mo. - Over the past decades,
researchers have reported a dramatic increase in the number of overweight
Americans, reproductive deformities and the number of youth reaching puberty at
early ages. In the past, these findings have been attributed to nutrition,
lifestyle and genetics. However, in an article to be published in Nature this
week, a team of researchers from the University of Missouri-Columbia and North
Carolina State University report that a chemical estrogen that is used to make
plastics could be a contributing factor.
The researchers, Kembra Howdeshell, an MU doctoral candidate; and Frederick vom
Saal, MU professor of biological sciences; exposed mice to bisphenol A (BPA),
similar to levels at which humans are routinely exposed. BPA is a compound that
was originally made as a chemical estrogen, but that is now used as a "building
block" for the production of polycarbonate plastic products such as baby
bottles, tin can linings, certain toys and certain types of food storage
containers. What resulted were findings that included an earlier onset of
puberty and an increase in body weight after birth. Howdeshell and vom Saal also
found that mice with more natural estrogen in them were much more sensitive to
the chemical than those with low levels of natural estrogen.
"People sometimes get confused if 100 percent of the population doesn't exhibit
the exact same symptoms to a chemical, but there are varying effects in the
animal as well as human population," Howdeshell said. "That's to be expected,
but there is no way to predict natural levels of estrogens in humans without
doing several series of invasive tests. The whole idea of government regulation
is to protect the most sensitive subpopulation, which our findings identify as
having the highest levels of natural estrogen."
The study was conducted by exposing mice to BPA while still in the womb.
Exposure was done just during pregnancy, not after birth. However, the study
concluded that exposure to the chemical while still in the womb programs
post-natal growth. On average, Howdeshell and vom Saal found that mice exposed
to BPA weighed 20 percent more than normal when examined at puberty. The
research was conducted over a period of one year and was funded by a $500,000
grant from the National Institutes of Health.
"We found that the largest effects happened to the babies of the pregnant
mother," Howdeshell said. "The chemical did not affect the mother, but instead
it altered the babies' growth patterns and accelerated timing of sexual
maturity. Our study shows that this chemical may be a factor for contributing to
trends seen in human populations over the past several decades."
The researchers' findings indicated that more work is needed to discover the
exact effects of BPA on humans. However, in previous research, when both humans
and mice were exposed to the same relative dose of chemical estrogens, the
effects were nearly identical. Both experienced similar types of abnormalities
of the reproductive system. This points to the need for research on humans.
"We're not offering an answer concerning effects in humans with these findings;
instead, the findings pose a question regarding human health," vom Saal said.
"This study should serve as a guide for human research. We believe that the
medical community should take a long look at this study and consider looking at
BPA as a possible cause for the changes in growth, sexual maturation and
reproductive abnormalities that have been reported in the humans in the past
decades."
Vom Saal also has pointed out that food containers are not the only source of
exposure to this chemical. BPA also is used to make computers, toys and other
household items. Products made with BPA have been claimed to be nondegradable.
However, at the Estrogens in the Environment conference in New Orleans Oct.
18-21, Howdeshell and vom Saal are presenting evidence from another study
showing that BPA leaches out into the environment from plastic products with
repeated use.
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Rev. Panik EVlynn Bedlam
I've been using Rubber Falsies, Cloth padding and Makeup to Make
myself more Feminine to relitively mixed results.
If only i had known i would have chewed on more plastic bottles when i
was a mouse in the womb.
purple
Suppurating Tool
anonymous
Well, being femine is only part of the homosexual picture.
What kind of homosexual do you want you son to marry, a feminine one or
a masculine one.
I would say most fathers and mothers would be bothers by a 6 foot 20
year old male who plays football and slaps your dad on the back and
says, hey, pops, how is it going. Chuck says you say it is okay if I
sleep over tonight? as opposed to to his boyfriend who says Hi dad,
your wife and I are going to redecorate the rec room downstairs for our
wedding and I thought it would be a good first start if we painted the
walls a rose colour. Oh, and chuck, we had better go to bed now as you
have to drive me to the hairdressers tomorrow as my car is in the
garage.
No dad ever wants to think it is his son that is taking it in the ass.
Rev. Panik EVlynn Bedlam
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only because the Conspiracy has stigmatized it. if your dad realized
how good taking it in the butt feels and didn't think he would go to
hell or jail for it it might change his mind.
DC
> Plastic chemicals 'feminise boys'
Made by the same nutjobs who said soy feminizes guys
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>> Plastic chemicals 'feminise boys'
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> Those chemicals don't seem to 'feminise girls,' do they?
Nope. They were meant to work on liberal men only.