7-Never
Use Plastics: Safety of some of the ubiquitous
cookware and storage materials is taken for granted since it is in the market
it must be healthy option, that’s the impression nowadays. For instance, every plastic bottle has an
identification which means a particular level of toxicity is involved but
suggestion is never to use plastic bottles to store water or for that matter
anything because it might contain polyvinyle chloride, dioxins, polystyrene,
and polycarbonates which contains Bisphenol A(BPA) which can mimic estrogen and
thereby affect hormone levels and hence keep plastic containers away from
kitchen in your home. Long period of use
of exposure to sunlight can cause these plastic PET bottles to leach antimony,
which is a heavy metal used in production of PET and is carcinogen. Also, never store anything in empty soft
drink and juice bottles which are not really meant to store water also.
8-Ceramic
and Melamine dangers:
Nobody pays attention to these cookware but it contains lead in the
attractive glazing applied on ceramic ware, it is banned in some countries but
many countries there is no control and most sad part is people are not aware of
the risks. When the glazes are correctly
formulated and fired at high temperature the lead is sealed, however period of
use, it may cause lead to leach into food stored in ceramic wares and cause
lead poisoning that too a slow poisoning.
Also, acidic food when put under exaggerated conditions in melamine ware
could cause leaching of chemicals like formaldehyde. Ingestion of the toxic chemicals in large
amount it the cause of kidney stones, renal failure, abdominal vomiting and
vomiting.
9-Food
containers: Nowadays, many people have a habit of
hoarding food in the take out containers or keep left over food in plastic
containers without knowing the real dangers pertaining to plastics. Plastics contain chemicals like Bisphenol A
(BPA), Polyvinyle Chloride (PVC) and Phthalates that can get into your food
under the right conditions and can be very harmful to your health. Not many of you might know that plastics with
BPA have been linked to cancer, poor brain health, poor heart health so you
would want to be very careful and get everything with BPA out of your kitchen
immediately. Many people even use the
micro wave ready plastics for heating food which is very very dangerous to your
health even though it clearly mentions microwave ready, high heat increases the
release of those chemicals in the plastics irrespective of whether it is
microwave ready or not and as already informed microwave itself is a health
hazard. Leaching can also escalate from
plastics when it comes in contact with acidic, fatty or salty food so you need
to take care if you want your health back from the incurable auto immune
disease or even cancer.
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