TORONTO - Lululemon Athletica Inc. (TSX:LLL) will stop selling plastic water bottles that contain bisphenol A, a chemical which studies have linked to infertility and cancer, becoming the second-major retailer in Canada to pull the products, an environmental advocacy group says.

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Many conventional media sources, known collectively as “Mainstream Media,” or MSM, repeat the conventional wisdom of obesity’s causes: sedentary lifestyle and poor nutrition. These factors are irrefutable contributors to the worldwide, growing obesity epidemic. Yet lifestyle and nutrition factors do not tell the whole story. There are much more nuanced and insidiously dangerous implications in the massive increase in obesity: connections to rising cancer rates, and correlations to stored body toxicity. This article illustrates the growing evidence linking this “unholy triad” of obesity, cancer, and toxicity.

Full article: http://www.naturalnews.com/022804.html

New Jersey joins states seeking to ban toxic chemicals in baby products by Peggy O’Crowley/The Star-Ledger Tuesday February 26, 2008, 5:47 PM New Jersey is joining a growing number of states seeking to ban potentially toxic chemicals found in name-brand children’s baby bottles, toys, powders and lotions. Assemblywoman Linda Greenstein (D-Middlesex) introduced a bill this week to bar the sale and manufacture of any children’s products containing two chemicals, bisphenol A and phthalates.