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Thu 25 May, 2006 04:30 pm
I just received this in an e-mail today. Thought it should be shared.
----- Original Message -Sent: 05/01/2006 9:17 AM
Subject: FW: Cancer News from Johns Hopkins:
Erin E.Farrell
Victim/Witness Advocate
Sexual Assault Unit
Norfolk County District Attorney's Office
781-830-4800 ext. 257
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Subject: FW: Cancer News from Johns Hopkins:
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> Cancer News from Johns Hopkins:
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> 1. No plastic containers in micro.
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> 2. No water bottles in freezer.
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> 3. No plastic wrap in microwave.
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> Johns Hopkins has recently sent this out in its newsletters. This
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> information is being circulated at Walter Reed Army Medical Center.
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> Dioxin chemicals causes cancer, especially breast cancer.
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> Dioxins are highly poisonous to the cells of our bodies. Don't
> freeze your plastic bottles with water in them as this releases dioxins
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> the plastic.
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> Recently, Dr.. Edward Fujimoto, Wellness Program Manager at Castle
> Hospital, was on a TV program to explain this health hazard. He talked
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> dioxins and how bad they are for us.
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> 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.
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> Instead, he recommends using glass, Corning Ware or ceramic
> containers
> for heating food. You get the same results, only without the
> dioxin.
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> 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.
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> 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.
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> 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
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> drip into the food.
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> Cover food with a paper towel instead.
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> This is an article I believe you should forward to your family and
> friends-- anyone who is
> important in your life!
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Theres a whole family of dioxin congeners and the ones that show mutagenic properties are those with a 7 in the congener Cl place , like 2,3,5,7 TCDD. All the others are benign. The ones with 7's in a Cl location are produced by rapid oxidation of organochlorine chemicals.
Damn! Is there anything that DOESN'T cause cancer???
My thanks for the elucidation. It seems bizarre to me that through lack of information we continually place ourselves in harm's path.
I would rather they issue a full frontal warning that goes something like
WARNING--If you have anything made or concocted with chlorine in the mix, dont even think about burning it where you can smell the vapors or put the material near food while it cooks. This is just plane dumb, and can cause a whole shitpot of medical problems from asthma, to immune surpression syndromes , all the way to Cancers .
YOU HAVE NOW BEEN WARNED.
Most everything that can kill you (except for benzene ring compounds) has chlorine or flourine in it.
This has been passed around for years, but there is not much science behind it:
http://www.snopes.com/medical/toxins/cookplastic.asp
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