Dioxin Warning

Recently Dr Edward Fujimoto, manager of the Wellness Program at Castle Hospital was forward a TV program explaining the health hazards of Dioxin. Dioxins are carcinogens and highly toxic to the small rooms of our bodies. Carcinogens cause cancer, particularly breast cancer. He attract favor tos that we not heat our feed in the microwave using plastic containers, if it be not that instead use glass, corning ware, or ceramic containers. Heating provisions in plastic containers that contain fat release dioxins into the meat when applied to high heat. This ultimately conclusions up in the cells of the dead body By heating with glass or ceramic containers, you achieve the same outcome without the dioxin contamination.

According to Dr Fujimoto, like things as TV dinners, weight watchers, lean cuisine and cup-o-noodle sign foods should be removed from their containers and heated in a glass or ceramic dish. He said we might remember when about of the fast food restaurants mov away from the foam containers to paper. The dioxin question is one of the reasons. He also stated that plastic wrap placed across foods as they are microwaved and freezing your water using plastic water bottle will also release dangerous dioxins into your diet and water.

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