3-Avoid
Using Nonstick Pans: There are many hidden and unknown
health dangers lurking in your kitchen, which you might not be aware of and which
could be one of the cause for your health going downhill or one of the cause of
your auto immune disease or even cancer, it is the toxic cookware in your
cabinet. Certain kinds of kitchenware
could discharge toxic fumes and chemicals into your food which includes nonstick
pans in your kitchen. Over time the toxic
fumes and chemicals thus released can build up in your body potentially
damaging your health.
Nonstick pans are one of the favorite
cooking tools used all over the world as they are easy to use and most
important very easy to clean and they don’t require a lot of oil to grease the
surface but along with this plus points in nonstick pans comes a very dangerous
health risks because these nonstick pans use a special type of coating called
the Teflon, also known as PTFE. What happens
is that when the pans are heated or left on the stove for too long, the PTFE
releases toxic fumes which have been shown to be dangerous to humans and to the
environments too. It can also leach
another toxic element directly into your food which is called
perfluoroooctanoic acid (PFOA), which is used in the making of PTFE and has
been denounced by many experts all over the world for its carcinogenic
properties and if you use it such nonstick cookware for a long time on a daily
basis, this could be one of the cause of your health issues or auto immune
disease or even cancer. Research has
also shown that the chemical reaction resulting in the harmful carcinogenic in
the nonstick cookware is one of the cause of high cholesterol levels, thyroid
disease and infertility amongst many other non-curable disease, though some
experts and even FDA argue that the amount of harmful chemical reactions and
fumes from nonstick pans are not enough to make you seriously ill, remember
that you are using in continuously day in and day out.
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