microwave

[Elizabeth Burgess]

Subject: microwave?

not homeopathic but does anyone have any comments on
this?

For those of us who use plastic containers...

DIOXINS Carcinogens cause cancer, especially
breast cancer. Don't freeze your plastic water bottles
with water as this also releases dioxins
in the plastic. 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 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 dioxins into
the food and ultimately into the cells of the body.

Dioxins are carcinogens and highly toxic to the cells
of our bodies. Instead, he recommends using glass,
Corning Ware, or ceramic containers for heating food.
You get the same results without the dioxins. So such
things as TV dinners, weight watchers dinners, lean
cuisine dinners, instant ramen cup of noodles, 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. 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
cooked, with the high heat, actually drips poisonous
toxins into the food, so use paper towels instead.

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[Daf Bergin]

The microwave rays kills any goodness in the food anyway, so we shouldn't
use them full stop. What about ice trays made of plastic are they a problem?
Daf
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