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6-04-03
 Dioxin
From:
Tom/Sandra
Nukes 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 nuked, with the high heat, actually drips poisonous toxins into
the food, use paper towels.
 The following came
from HoaxBusters:
Plastic Wrap Toxins WarningJuly 2002 This one is a little more complicated. It actually consists of two separate warnings that were running around the Internet separately and were then combined into one. The second story actually appears first in the combined warning and describes the experiments of a 7th grader named Claire Nelson who was looking at leaching DEHA out of plastic wrap and into food during heating in a microwave. The story was taken from an Associated Press article by Chris Lehourites in April of 2000. A CNews article published in Canada also discusses Claire Nelson's work. According to that article, her research was done with the help of an FDA scientist. She found that if you cook plastic wrap in olive oil that a small but significant amount of DEHA leaches out into the oil. The second article was taken from a TV interview of Dr. Edward Fujimoto on KHON in Hawaii in January 2002. This article has numerous errors, including the location of the hospital and the insinuation that Dr. Fujimoto is an MD (He is actually a Ph.D.). He was expressing his concern that heating foods in inappropriate containers could expose people to Dioxin. DEHA is a plasticizer that us added to plastics to make them soft. Exposure to high levels of plasticizers is known to cause health problems including cancer so it is a good idea to limit your exposure. Dioxins are a definite health risk and they are known to build up in the body over time so it is also a good idea to limit your exposure to them as well. However the exposure to dioxins from eating food heated in plastics is very small compared to the exposure from burning plastics. So is this a huge health risk that we should warn everyone about? Probably not. If you follow the FDA advice on heating foods in the microwave you should not be at any significant risk.
A very good review of this warning is available on the urbanlegends.com website. This email was
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