Archive for May 29th, 2008

    - Terrible, tragic news today.  Canucks defenceman, Luc Bourdon, has died in a motorcyle accident in New Brunswick.  Let's roll back to good times with the rookie.

    - Sex and the City officially premiers tomorrow, you can buy tickets online now if you want to see it tonight.  BTW, guys, if you're looking for a woman - go see it.  The audiences are ALL FEMALE.

    - Erin Davis had freaky news this morning.  You know all the stuff about BPA in baby bottles?  Well, it's in our cans too.

    - Clay Aiken is going to be a daddy.  Not adoption.  He got a woman pregnant.  Wait, it gets stranger. Her name is Jaymes. She's David Foster's sister. She's nearly 50.  She's his best friend.  If you guessed artificial insemination, you win.

    - It makes sour taste sweet.  It's called the Miracle Fruit and it's freakier than any drug you've ever tried.

    - Coffee is the new wine.

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Jen and I subscribed to the newsletters from BabyCenter.com when she found out she was pregnant. They’re great. They give you updates as you move through your pregnancy about what’s happening to your body and how your baby is growing.

Yes, they also send you links to buying baby items, but since they’re all American, we’re not tempted since we don’t qualify - so it’s purely an information source for us.

I didnt know the emails would continue after Z was born, but they have. Your Baby This Week arrived every Thursday detailing growth and behaviour and diet changes in our son to watch for. I just got the latest email and realized everything has changed. Z will turn 1 on Saturday.

This latest email is titled: My Toddler This Week: Your 1 Year Old. No more baby, he’s a toddler.

Now I admit the toddling is limited to pulling himself up on boxes and chairs, but he’s pretty adept and sliding down the step from our kitchen to living room and he can haul ass up the stairs to the bedrooms pretty quickly. And, come to think of it, he’s also mastering the slide (forward AND backwards) at daycare. Wait .. he IS a toddler.

A toddler.

My baby is a toddler.

It’s all true. They grow up so fast.

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This isn’t new. When I was freaking out about BPA in baby bottles and drink bottles, all the info I was reading listed BPA as a common ingredient in the lining of canned food.

CTV and the Globe and Mail did tests on canned goods and discovered that not only is the BPA there, it’s in higher concentrations than was found in plastics.

While baby bottles leach about 6 parts per billion of bisphenol A (BPA), the exclusive tests of food cans show:
* A can of children’s ravioli leached 6 parts per billion.
* A can of peas and carrots leached 7 parts per billion.
* A can of tomato juice leached 14 parts per billion.

Studies have shown when cans are heated in the manufacturing process, BPA leaches out of the linings. Foods are first sealed in cans and heated to kill bacteria in the food. Cans are heated to temperatures between 116 C and 121 C, and the length of time varies according to the type of food.

Because these findings show that BPA leached out of the cans and into water, it can be assumed that the chemical is leaching into the food itself when the cans are heated during the pasteurization process. [source]

I quickly removed ALL plastic with a bad plastics number from my house, what will I do about the cans?

London Drugs removed all the BPA plastic products from their shelves, will they be so quick with the cans?

The Federal Government is taking steps to have BPA declared a dangerous substance. There are alternatives to make plastics without it, what about cans? Can we can tomatoes, corn, peas and beans WITHOUT BPA?

Yes. Eden Foods made the switch almost a decade ago - but it’s costly.

Eden Organic Beans are packed in lead free tin covered steel cans coated with a baked on oleoresinous c-enamel lining that does not contain bisphenol-A (BPA). (Oleoresin is a natural mixture of an oil and a resin extracted from various plants, such as pine or balsam fir). These cans cost 14 percent more than the industry standard cans that do contain BPA. This costs Eden $300,000 more a year. To our knowledge Eden is the only U.S. company that uses this custom made BPA-free can. [source]

Eden Foods are available locally at Whole Foods, Nesters, BuyLow and other more organically inclined grocers, check the store locator on their site for a full list.

I prefer frozen vegetables to canned, as there isnt as much sodium in a bag of corn kernels, vs a can. But I buy canned tomatoes and beans to make sauces. What about canned tuna?

Oh, don’t worry about canned beer (for now) - the temperatures aren’t high enough during the canning process to leach out the BPA - but it’s there.

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Z turns 1 on Saturday. I’m going through the photo archives and checking out the final “date nights” that Jen and I went on before he was born.

On May 28, 2007 we went for a walk around Kits Point and took some photos.

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