Plastic Pack Water is harmful for brain

Health

Written by Team Josh

Saturday, 06 September 2008

If a research conducted by Canada-based University of Guelph is to be believed plastic containers & Plastic Pack Water may be deadly for your brain. Researchers have found that Bisphenol A (BPA), the chemical used in making plastic containers, might be responsible for impairing many brain functions such as learning and remembering.

It may leads to Alzheimer’s, schizophrenia and depression in future.

BPA might be leaking into the solid or liquid foods kept in the plastic containers. When these foods and liquids are consumed, the chemical might be getting into the human system, disrupting communication between brain neurons which is vital in understanding and remembering, they said. The slow doses of this chemical badly impair the formation of synapses in the areas of the human brain linked to learning.

As part of their study, the researchers fed African green monkeys with foods containing low levels of BPA for a month. After that period, they found that the chemical had slowed down the synapses in the monkey brain.MacLusky said this process was linked to the hormone oestrogen.

When monkeys had BPA in their system, he said, it seriously impaired this process, affecting their ability to remember.