Dioxin Alert - Please Read

[HurricaneGirl]

This was just e-mailed to me so I thought I would share this information with all of you

John Hopkins has recently send this out in their newsletters. Worth noting.
Also, this information is being circulated at Walter Reed Army Medical Center.

Dioxin Carcinogens cause cancer. Especially breast cancer. Don't freeze
your plastic bottles with water as this also releases dioxin in the plastic.

Dr Edwards 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 food that contains 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. 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 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? 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.

Saran wrap placed over foods as they are nuked, with the high heat,
actually drips poisonous toxins into the food, use paper towels.

[alicia-w]

It appears that this may fall in the category of urban legend fodder. Please see the link below:

http://www.breakthechain.org/exclusives/dioxins.html

[GalvestonDuck]

There is some hint of truth to it -- you should only use microwave-safe plastic containers, although I don't believe dioxins are the actual danger released into foods when/if you use non-microwave safe ones.

As for fast-food companies switching from foam to paper -- I believe that was more of an environmental move than anything else.

If you really want to be concerned, study up on how traces of aluminum could possibly (note: I said "possibly") get into soft drinks because of the citric acid deteriorating the can. There are medical journal articles (oh, jeez...golter's gonna ask me to link this) that suggest higher concentrations of aluminum in the brains of Alzheimer's patients.

So...soft drink containers -- plastic or aluminum?

[alicia-w]

I just quit drinking carbonated stuff period.