Everyone Read - Microwave Cancer Risk

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As a seventh grade student, Claire Nelson learned that

di(ethylhexyl)adepate (DEHA), considered a carcinogen, is found in plastic

wrap. She also learned that the FDA had never studied the effect of

microwave cooking on plastic-wrapped food.

Claire began to wonder: "Can cancer-causing particles seep into food

covered with household plastic wrap while it is being

microwaved?"

Three years later, with encouragement from her high school science teacher,

Claire set out to test what the FDA had not.

Although she had an idea for studying the effect of microwave radiation on

plastic-wrapped food, she did not have the equipment.

Eventually, Jon Wilkes at the National Center for Toxicological

Research in Jefferson, Arkansas, agreed to help her. The research center,

which is affiliated with the FDA, let her use its facilities to perform her

experiments, which involved microwaving plastic wrap in virgin olive oil.

Claire tested four different plastic wraps and "found not just the

carcinogens but also xenoestrogen was migrating [into the oil]...."

Xenoestrogens are linked to low sperm counts in men and to breast cancer in

women.

Throughout her junior and senior years, Claire made a couple of trips each

week to the research center, which was 25 miles from her home, to work on

her experiment.

An article in Options reported that "her analysis found that DEHA was

migrating into the oil at between 200 parts and 500 parts per million.

The FDA standard is 0.05 parts per billion." Her summarized results have

been published in science journals. Claire

Nelson received the American Chemical Society's top science prize for

students during her junior year and fourth place at the International

Science and Engineering Fair (Fort Worth, Texas) as a senior.

"Carcinogens-At 10,000,000 Times FDA Limits" Options May 2000.

Published by People Against Cancer, 515-972-4444

On Channel 2 (Huntsville, AL) this morning they had a Dr.Edward

Fujimoto from Castle Hospital on the program. 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, instant saimin 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 towel instead.

Pass this on to your friends....

Damn, I always use plastic containers and plastic wrap.

This Email sounds pretty believable, not like those "Forward this and get $400 because my friend the lawyer said so so it's got to be true" BS ones that I get all the time. No more plastic containers for me. Something about the microwave has always made me feel like it's bad for you. It's so un-natural. Cooking with radiation, suuuuuuure it's GREAT FOR YOU!!!

Oh well, we all gotta die sometime.

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