{"id":4049,"date":"2011-11-14T06:00:57","date_gmt":"2011-11-14T11:00:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blueheronhealthnews.com\/site\/?p=4049"},"modified":"2011-11-13T23:12:54","modified_gmt":"2011-11-14T04:12:54","slug":"controversial-chemical-tied-to-type-2-diabetes-risk-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blueheronhealthnews.com\/site\/2011\/11\/14\/controversial-chemical-tied-to-type-2-diabetes-risk-again\/","title":{"rendered":"Controversial Chemical Tied to Type 2 Diabetes Risk (Again)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blueheronhealthnews.com\/site\/2011\/11\/14\/controversial-chemical-tied-to-type-2-diabetes-risk-again\/bpadiabetes\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-3989\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-3989\" title=\"BPADiabetes\" src=\"http:\/\/blueheronhealthnews.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/BPADiabetes-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blueheronhealthnews.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/BPADiabetes-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/blueheronhealthnews.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/BPADiabetes-60x60.jpg 60w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a>High levels of bisphenol A\u00a0 \u2013also known as BPA\u2014in your urine significantly increases your risk of developing type 2 diabetes, a study published in the Journal of Clinical Endocrinology &amp; Metabolism reports.<\/p>\n<p>BPA is a chemical commonly used in hard plastic containers, particularly water bottles. In this study of 4,000 adults, those with high BPA levels had a 13% risk of type 2 diabetes \u2013compared with only 8% in those with low levels of BPA.<\/p>\n<p>The researchers note that BPA resembles the hormone estrogen and that high levels may promote weight gain and interfere with insulin metabolism.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blueheronhealthnews.com\/site\/?p=584\">A 21-day plan to eliminate type 2 diabetes&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n<p>All the Best,<\/p>\n<p>Jodi Knapp<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>High levels of bisphenol A\u00a0 \u2013also known as BPA\u2014in your urine significantly increases your risk of developing type 2 diabetes, a study published in the Journal of Clinical Endocrinology &amp; Metabolism reports. BPA is a chemical commonly used in hard plastic containers, particularly water bottles. In this study of 4,000 adults, those with high BPA [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[36,18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4049","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-diabetes"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blueheronhealthnews.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4049","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blueheronhealthnews.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blueheronhealthnews.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blueheronhealthnews.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blueheronhealthnews.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4049"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blueheronhealthnews.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4049\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blueheronhealthnews.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4049"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blueheronhealthnews.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4049"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blueheronhealthnews.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4049"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}