Cancer News (some to consider ! )

[kbc68]

My wife sent this to me from a good source!

This was received from a nursing supervisor at Greenville Memorial
Hospital. It was sent to their staff. Cancer News from Johns Hopkins:

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

Also, he pointed out that Saran wrap 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.

Johns Hopkins has recently sent this out in its newsletters.
This information is being circulated at Walter Reed Army Medical Center.
Dioxin chemicals cause 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 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, Corning Ware 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.

[Gord]

Hey Kev - sorry to tell you, but that is the stuff of urban legends. Check it out here -> http://www.snopes.com/toxins/plastic.htm

[kbc68]

Thanks Gord !

[Shaman]

Unless 'the reliable source' is a published journal article....
well, I am always suspect.

Thanks for trying.

[DJ Downunder]

One of my co workers the other day saw me heating my lunch in the microwave in a plastic container and said..."don't you know that'll give you cancer"... ....geees I'm a goner now..I've been doing it for years.

I guess you never really know...just standing near the microwave while it's running could be just as bad..

DJ

[Boxerboy]

DJ, with your low cholesterol and undoubtedly pristine coronary arteries you need to have something available to avoid the nursing home!

[yjleesvrr]

Well, I'm told by people at least once a month "Motorcycling will kill you, you know." I imagine nuking my food in a plastic container isn't nearly as dangerous even in the long term as riding regularly from New York to D.C.