DH and plastic water bottles... something new to worry about?

[Hobbermittens]

DH has been drinking out of crappy plastic bottles (reusing a 1/2 gallon juice jug) all summer. What do all the chemicals in the plastic (which may have gotten hot on occasion) do to the swimmers? Today I got him a stainless bottle, but that doesn't help the swimmers from before that may have been effected by the plastic. :worry: Wish I had thought of this 3 months ago!

P.S. I know I am a crazy freak worry wort. Feel free to roll your eyes at this post!

[Hobbermittens]

bump?

[atomic sagebrush]

DH has been drinking out of crappy plastic bottles (reusing a 1/2 gallon juice jug) all summer. What do all the chemicals in the plastic (which may have gotten hot on occasion) do to the swimmers? Today I got him a stainless bottle, but that doesn't help the swimmers from before that may have been effected by the plastic. :worry: Wish I had thought of this 3 months ago!

P.S. I know I am a crazy freak worry wort. Feel free to roll your eyes at this post!

I saw this post yesterday and I swear to Gosh it was NOT HERE this morning. ?!? I am losing it.

It is better for him not to do that obviously. There are estrogen-like chemicals in the plastic that can be released when they're used over and over again.

That having been said, my husband has always done exactly that, so I am not certain it is a make or break thing.

According to what I've read, there are a lot worse and more potent sources of estrogen-like chemicals, even things like credit card receipts are crawling with them. Much more so than are in the water bottles.

I also believe that three months prob. wouldn't have mattered either way, because they accumulate over the course of a lifetime and are stored in the fat.

Great question!!! Thanks.

[Hobbermittens]

Thanks for answering Atomic! I didn't realize it was something that stored in the fat.... Yikes. I guess the good news is, he's been doing it his whole life, and he's made one boy already. I am glad I got him a stainless bottle now, so at least he is healthier in the long term. And it helps to know your husband does it too, and you have a whole batch of boys! :)

[atomic sagebrush]

And he is the WORST too. Like he would keep water in the car in case the car overheated (like for WEEKS at a time) and he'd get thirsty at work and drink it randomly. This was before bottled water was invented (seriously, for reals, it didn't use to exist) and I would save up small plastic milk containers and send them to work full of water him, and we used them for months at a time because we had no money..

[Flava]

I cook green tea for DH and he take it to work in 2 bottle every day.
You know what? IDC! We can't just look at every little thing like this or we would not even sway for sure.

[atomic sagebrush]

Whoohoo flava!!!

[Hobbermittens]

Flava, I know! I am just a chronic worrier (like you guys couldn't already guess that). I need to just relax, right? We can only do so much!

[gizmo77]

i wanted to do organic fruits/vegies/meats (grassfed)....that went out teh window, no more moeny left after the huge grocery bills im causing. it costs more than diapers!!!

[Hobbermittens]

We are lucky and get good local grass fed organic beef from a friend (we buy 1/2 a cow a year), but other organic stuff is hard to come by around here. The stuff I can find is super expensive! I know what you mean--it IS more than diapers!!

[gizmo77]

half a cow a year? im probably eating that a week.

[Hobbermittens]

half a cow a year? im probably eating that a week.

Feels like it, doesn't it?? I ate 3 HUGE tacos last night, and I mean HUGE, stuffed with ground beef. Out of the pound of meat we cooked, I probably ate 2/3 of it!

[atomic sagebrush]

Feels like it, doesn't it?? I ate 3 HUGE tacos last night, and I mean HUGE, stuffed with ground beef. Out of the pound of meat we cooked, I probably ate 2/3 of it!

:agree: That's the way you do it! MOO.

[atomic sagebrush]

half a cow a year? im probably eating that a week.

:rofl:

[atomic sagebrush]

We are lucky and get good local grass fed organic beef from a friend (we buy 1/2 a cow a year), but other organic stuff is hard to come by around here. The stuff I can find is super expensive! I know what you mean--it IS more than diapers!!

Ya know, one of the people I know who is the most adamant about organic produce has all boys.

Round here they spray it all around the town out of airplanes, so it can't sway THAT much.

[Hobbermittens]

I grew up in a hippy town in California, and I ate organic. But once I moved out here, it really hasn't been an option. I mean, some things at Costco we can get organic, but not all things, and we just can't afford it most of the time at our local grocery store (and they rarely carry it anyway). :( I am glad our meat is organic, at least!

[atomic sagebrush]

From what I've read, organic meat really is better because there's some kinda rank stuff in the regular (I eat it all the time though.) With produce, you can always just wash it off.

I was talking to the pharmacist at the grocery store and she said that she was allergic to some medicine and she cooked a ham for Easter and there was so much residue in the ham that she went into anaphylactic shock!!

[Hobbermittens]

From what I've read, organic meat really is better because there's some kinda rank stuff in the regular (I eat it all the time though.) With produce, you can always just wash it off.

I was talking to the pharmacist at the grocery store and she said that she was allergic to some medicine and she cooked a ham for Easter and there was so much residue in the ham that she went into anaphylactic shock!!

WHAAAAAAT? That's nasty! I eat ham all the time, too! Yikes!:suprise:

[atomic sagebrush]

The animal is supposed to be off meds for a certain amount of time before slaughter but obviously that isn't a guarantee!

But ya know how that goes!! Paperwork gets screwed up or somebody fudges something for some reason...either accidentally or on purpose! :/