Wish you could just flush all the BPA right out of your body?

Too bad -- this hormone-like chemical is in you, right now, and there's not much you can do about it: A new study finds you can completely cut out all foods from BPA-laced containers and STILL have plenty of this junk left over days later.

Thank your local chemicals industry lobbyist for that.

Researchers recruited five families from the San Francisco Bay Area that regularly ate and drank processed and canned foods, frozen dinners, and meals microwaved in plastic containers -- all top sources of BPA exposure.

Each family had two adults and two children between the ages of 3 and 11.

Then, researchers took urine samples for two days as the families went about their normal business... and for three more days as the families switched to prepared organic meals made from fresh ingredients and stored in glass and BPA-free stainless steel.

By the end of those three days, BPA levels in urine fell by an average of 60 percent, according to the study in Environmental Health Perspectives.

Now, the researchers say this shows how "easy" it is to get rid of BPA -- just switch to fresh food, and your levels will plummet.

But I'm not going to celebrate the fact that 40 percent of this stuff was still floating around in the body days later -- not to mention however much of this stuff remains locked in the body's fat and isn't released in urine anyway.

And once that BPA is inside you, it's free to go to town on your endocrine system, where it tricks your body into thinking you've been given an estrogen boost.

BPA exposure has been linked to diabetes, heart disease, and sex problems -- including sperm so slow and lazy that it's a wonder we manage to make babies anymore.

As the new study shows, getting this stuff out of your body isn't easy -- but if you care about your health even a little bit, get started on your own fresh-food diet now.

Just plan on sticking to it for good instead of three days... or don't even bother at all.

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