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Think how many times a day you drink out of a plastic soda or water bottle?we even feed babies with plastic bottles. Now researchers have found disturbing new evidence that exposure to a substance found in plastic food and drink containers may cause an unborn child to develop abnormal chromosomes. Down syndrome is one example of a birth defect caused by an extra chromosome.

The substance, called Bisphenol A (BPA), interferes with cell division in female mice and may affect humans as well. The disruption of cell division can result in an abnormal number of chromosomes in the eggs, which is the leading cause of mental retardation and birth defects in humans.
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Chimpanzees are so closely related to humans that they should be considered part of the human family. Genetic researchers examined key genes in humans and several ape species and found our “life code” to be 99.4% the same as chimps. They think we should move chimps and their close cousins the bonobos into the genus Homo, along with us.So far only humans (and extinct Neanderthals) are classified in that group.
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Imagine your entire life, including all your travels and experiences, every e-mail you’ve ever sent, every relationship you’ve ever had, book or magazine you?ve read, every phone call you’ve made or received and TV show you’ve watched, every purchase you’ve made?all of it accessible by computer! A GPS implant would allow anyone to locate you and sensors would record everything you saw or said. Biomedical monitors would keep constant tabs on your health (and set off alarms when you smoked that illicit cigarette). Sounds like a Schwarzenegger sci-fi flick? Nope, it’s your life?care of the U.S. government!
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Hostile, angry children are three times more likely to grow up to have heart disease than calmer, happier kids. Researchers found that children with high scores on tests for hostility were more likely to have developed “metabolic syndrome” when they were re-tested three years later. Metabolic syndrome includes obesity, insulin resistance and high blood pressure, which can lead to heart disease or diabetes–but the anger comes first. “The hostility seemed to precede metabolic syndrome,” says psychologist Kristen Salomon, who says this disease process starts very early in life.
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