In the New York Times Nov. 8, Nicholas D. Kristof explores bisphenol A, or BPA, and how it gets into our bodies. Here's an excerpt:

"Your body is probably home to a chemical called bisphenol A, or BPA. It’s a synthetic estrogen that United States factories now use in everything from plastics to epoxies — to the tune of six pounds per American per year. That’s a lot of estrogen.

"More than 92 percent of Americans have BPA in their urine, and scientists have linked it — though not conclusively — to everything from breast cancer to obesity, from attention deficit disorder to genital abnormalities in boys and girls alike."

Here's the full article.