Comments on: Estrogens in Plastic Water and Soda Bottles Affect Our Boys

By: John

John — Thu, 26 Nov 2009 04:50:57 +0000

i should clarify, i meant to say ( 95% of children taking ADHD meds are boys)

By: John

John — Thu, 26 Nov 2009 04:50:09 +0000

The point should not be about heroes. Movies are only a small part of media. On TV men are losers
and women are protrayed as smart.

More importantly, men are being exposed to massive amounts of estrogen in the water supply

And ADHD medications ( given to 95% of boys) actually do damage to the part of the brain that
focuses on motivation in the long term.

Video games stimulate the same part of the brain and have the same effect as crack/cocaine.

Everyone should read ” Boys Adrift”

By: jmizzle

jmizzle — Fri, 25 Sep 2009 17:43:55 +0000

Yeah, women have been made heroes in more movies than there were in the past…But seriously, what is the women to men ratio as heroes in movies? You know that women can taste better than men, but there are more men chefs in the world. Women can hear better than men, but there are more men musicians and singers…I’m NOT a femenist- but I DO believe that men and women are equal, and that a majority of the world is run on male-dominated culture. But men are becoming more passive. That would go back to the begining of time when Eve was being decieved by satan, and Adam just stood there and watched, most men these days have that problem- they just stand there and watch. As kids they are lazy- as teenagers they learn to mooch off of their parents.

By: Phyllis Wheeler

Phyllis Wheeler — Tue, 28 Jul 2009 13:41:10 +0000

You raise an interesting question. Here are some thoughts:
1. Not every child is drinking a lot of bottled water and soda. My kids have mostly had tap water, for example, and little soda.
2. Our genetic makeup varies, and so does our response to environmental contamination. This is true in the case of potential environmental causes of autism. We all live in the same soup of chemicals, so why are only some individuals affected? The answer is genetics.
3. When you say kids are being spoiled and have no reason to grow up, that might affect the folks in their twenties and thirties. But for boys in mid teens, spoiling would have no effect on delaying puberty. The delayed puberty is what I see the most of, but then that’s because my sons are age 16, and I see their peers.

This delay in puberty for boys is real. I see it all the time. I told one mother of one of these boys about the problem with plastic bottles. They were indeed drinking all their water from plastic bottles. She banned them from her home. This was in March,2009, or so. Now, in July 2009, the boy has grown
about four inches and is clearly entering puberty. He just finished his freshman year in high school.

I know this is one anecdote, and anecdotal evidence isn’t great evidence. However, there are studies saying that BPA, the estrogen used in plastic bottles, does enter our bodies and is excreted in urine. It’s in fact an estrogen–it was developed as a synthetic estrogen, and the plastics industry picked it up as a plasticizer later.

We all want to trust the FDA to protect us, but we need to realize that it’s affected by interest groups and may not be doing its job.

By: Janell

Janell — Tue, 28 Jul 2009 03:01:30 +0000

If this is the case, why is every child not affected?

And couldn’t all this be linked to a change in society? Perhaps a sociological study could help explain this. Maybe some kids are being spoiled and thus have no reason to grow up.

By: Peter M. Lutterbeck, M.D.

Peter M. Lutterbeck, M.D. — Sun, 21 Jun 2009 11:13:18 +0000

I’ve been aware of an insidious and infiltrating menace of feminizizing our society for many years. The entertainment world has increasingly placed women as the heroes in more movies and TV series during recent decades. I’ve written an essay entitled “The Wimp” and it is noted on my home page drlutterbeck.com which focues in gest on the subject. We are being bombarded with this problem and may will be due to the estrogens in our environment.