5 Easy Food Swaps for a Healthier Heart

A few simple changes to your daily diet can make a significant difference to your heart health. By now we all know to switch up junk food for whole food, including fruits and vegetables. Here are 5 food swaps for a healthier heart you may not have considered.

BPA Substitute Also Disrupts Hormone Activity: New Study

Used in everything from currency to thermal receipt paper, the BPA substitute BPS also acts as an estrogen disruptor, say researchers, changing patterns of cell growth and death, as well as hormone release — and, like BPA, also does so at extremely low levels of exposure.

BPA Exposure Effects May Last for Generations

Exposure to low doses of Bisphenol A (BPA) during gestation has immediate and long-lasting, trans-generational effects on the brain and social behaviors in mice, according to a recent study from the University of Virginia School of Medicine. The fact that it can change gene expression in mice, and that these changes are heritable, is cause for us to be concerned about what this may mean for human health, say the researchers.