Do Canned Food cause cancer? The truth about it

In today’s world, a normal and healthy life with naturally  cooked foods has been exchanged with convenience foods. The words “rush” and “time constraint” has become common to any man’s life dictionary. Convenience or packaged foods burn your pockets leaving a hole both in your finance and  ( as some studies has shown) also on the health front.

If you are seriously concerned about your health and today’s unhealthy lifestyle, this is an intense custom-made article just for you!

Now the questions are:  Do canned foods cause cancer? Are they truly dangerous for consumption? Is it possible one falls ill after eating canned foods. Read on about the factors and then decide if you really want to continue this “convenience lifestyle”.

Why Do People Think They Could Have Cancer By Eating Canned Foods?

Bisphenol A: BPA, the food Industries’ chemical is used in all packaged foods to keep the food away from reacting with the metal or plastic or paper it comes in. Some studies have linked Bisphenol A to reproductive abnormalities and a heightened risk of breast and prostate cancers, diabetes, and heart disease. This is why people get so scared when they are offered canned food.

The Real Truth

The plastic additive has been vilified by environmental advocacy groups. But the chemical had no effect on rats fed thousands of times the amount a typical person ingests, government scientists are reporting in the journal Toxicological Sciences.

The results "both support and extend the conclusion from the U.S Food and Drug Administration that BPA is safe as currently used by us.

Scientists agree that in large doses, BPA can act a bit like the hormone estrogen. But there's been a lot of debate about whether the tiny amounts found in people have the potential to cause problems.

In their most recent study, the researchers exposed rats to BPA starting a few days after conception and continuing through sexual maturity. Doses ranged from about 70 times the amount that Americans typically get through their diet to millions of times that amount.

And even when rats got more than 70,000 times what a typical American ingests, there was no change in body weight, reproductive organs or hormone levels, the scientists reported. "In the low-dose range, there really were no biologically significant changes observed at all.

It was only when exposures were millions of times higher than what people typically get that the scientists saw changes like those caused by the body's own sex hormones.

Conclusion

Our Canned foods may not be as dangerous as we used to think but nothing can replace the natural foods( fruits and vegetables).
Fruits and Vegs are naturally and luckily yet available next doors, people compromise on these healthy stuff with processed, cut and canned fruits and veggies sometimes just to convince ourselves that we are still eating traditional and staple food.
Take note of the dosage of your daily intakes of these canned foods so as to reduce any risk this chemical may cause.

Healthy Tips from foodng.com , npr.org and