Popular Athletic Clothing Brands Have High Levels of Hormone-Disrupting Chemical BPA: Watchdog Group

Popular Athletic Clothing Brands Have High Levels of Hormone-Disrupting Chemical BPA: Watchdog Group
Start of the Los Angeles Marathon at Dodger Stadium in Los Angeles on March 9, 2014. Harry How/Getty Images
Naveen Athrappully
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Sports bras and athletic shirts made by some of the major global sports brands were found to contain dangerous levels of the estrogen-mimicking chemical bisphenol A, commonly known as BPA, posing a considerable risk to people’s health, according to legal notices sent by the Center for Environmental Health (CEH).

BPA—an endocrine disrupting chemical that upsets the body’s functioning through blocking or mimicking hormones—is linked to developmental and health problems mostly for young children. For adults, studies have found that high levels of the chemical results in heart problems, while experts have connected BPA to obesity, diabetes, ADHD, and other ailments, with more research pending for definitive conclusions.

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