plastic containers, plastic wrap & water bottles

jmidthun · New User Joined: 18 Sep 2006 Posts: 3

Very important!

Cancer update -- Johns Hopkins -- Cancer News from Johns Hopkins:

1. No plastic containers in micro.
2. No water bottles in freezer.
3. No plastic wrap in microwave.

Johns Hopkins has recently sent this out in its newsletters. This information is being circulated at Walter Reed Army Medical Center as well.

Dioxin chemicals causes cancer, especially breast cancer.
Dioxins are highly poisonous to the cells of our bodies. Don't freeze your plastic bottles with water in them as this releases dioxins from the plastic.
Recently, Dr. Edward Fujimoto, Wellness Program Manager at Castle Hospital, was on a TV program to explain this health hazard. He talked about dioxins and how bad they are for us.

He said that we should not be heating our food in the microwave using plastic containers. This especially applies to foods that contain fat. He said that the combination of fat, high heat, and plastics releases dioxin into the food and ultimately into the cells of the body.
Instead, he recommends using glass, such as Corning Ware, Pyrex or ceramic containers for heating food. You get the same results, only without the dioxin. So such things as TV dinners, instant ramen and soups, etc., should be removed from the container and heated in something else. Paper isn't bad but you don't know what is in the paper. It's just safer to use tempered glass, Corning Ware, etc.

He reminded us that a while ago some of the fast food restaurants moved away from the foam containers to paper. The dioxin problem is one of the reasons.

Also, he pointed out that plastic wrap, such as Saran, is just as dangerous when placed over foods to be cooked in the microwave. As the food is nuked, the high heat causes poisonous toxins to actually melt out of the plastic wrap and drip into the food.

Cover food with a paper towel instead.

mikes · Senior User Joined: 25 Jul 2005 Posts: 158

This is good advice.

Also, there is teflon and other harmful cooking utensils.

Then there is chlorine in the water. Most are not aware that more chlorine is absorbed in the bathtub than from drinking. So people buy expensive drinking water to avoid chlorine, and then go soak in it.

For those of us living in the country, there is atrazine in the water.

Then there is BGH in milk.

And this is just scratching the surface.

A person trying to eat right and stay healthy is fighting an uphill battle.

Just to show you how bad it has become, I recently discovered that some stores selling organic vegetables, spray them with chlorinated water so that they will "stay fresh"

cardoso · Guest

Sorry, Mike, but it´s an Urban Legend, and and old one. At least from 2002.

Check it out:

http://www.snopes.com/medical/toxins/cookplastic.asp

jmidthun · New User Joined: 18 Sep 2006 Posts: 3

think i will air on the safer side, just in case it is true.

mikes · Senior User Joined: 25 Jul 2005 Posts: 158

Hi Cardoso,

I checked out your link. The first thing I noticed was a pop-up ad for Chilies restaurant. Not very dignified.

History is repleat with drug call-backs. The most recent was Vioxx from Merck. This drug was approved after years of testing and a rigorous FDA approval procedure. The last people you should trust on important matters is the "experts". The problem with "experts" is that most often, they don't know what they don't know.

George Washington died from the treatment he received for a sore throat. The "experts" of his day (and for over a hundred years later) were absolutely "sure" that bloodletting was the way to treat disease.

Mike

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