plastics & dioxin, Microwave use

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> Subject : Alert from Johns Hopkins - plastics &

> dioxin

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> This information is being circulated at Walter Reed

> Army Medical Center.

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> Dioxin Carcinogens causes cancer. Especially breast

> cancer.

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> Don't freeze your plastic water bottles with water

> as this releases

> dioxin in the

> plastic.

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> Dr. Edward Fujimoto from Castle hospital was on a TV

> program explaining this health hazard. (He is the

> manager of the

> Wellness Program at the hospital.) He was talking

> about dioxin and how

> bad they are for us.

>

> He said that we should not be heating our food in

> the microwave using

> plastic containers. (I am sure this applies to the

> plastic baby

> bottles.) This 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.

> Dioxin are carcinogens

> and highly toxic to the cells of our bodies.

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> Instead, he recommends using glass, Corning Ware, or

> ceramic containers

> for heating food. You get the same results 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 may not be as bad but you don't know what is

> in the paper.

> (Dioxins are produced when paper pulp is bleached.)

> Just safer to use

> tempered glass, Corning Ware, etc. He said we might

> remember when some

> of the fast food restaurants moved away from the

> foam containers to

> paper. The dioxin problem is one of the reasons.

>

> To add to this: Saran wrap placed over foods as

> they are nuked, with

> the high heat, actually drips poisonous toxins into

> the food. (NOTE

> that often restaurants do this to heat up food.)

> Use paper towels.

> (Better yet, don't use the microwave at all!)

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> Pass this on to your family & friends & those that

> are important in

> your life.

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