Do you really want to get healthy remove these unhealthy causes – Using Copper Cookware

5-Using Copper Cookware: Copper is an ancient metals.  Copper vessels are commonly used for storing food and water also but a word of caution, use copper cookware only after knowledge of its many benefits and disadvantages to health.  They are good conductors of heat and distribute heat evenly.  However, they are easily tarnished and are reactive to acid and salt.  Copper cookware is prone to coating wears off rapidly but this can be overcome by cleaning as per given below instructions.

Care to be taken while using Copper: Eating food prepared from copper cookware is one of the best provided you do not have any health issues but food should not be stored continuously in copper cookware since organic acids from food can interact with it and lead to excessive copper in the food, which may have adverse effects on health in some cases like those who are having gastritis and others also.  If at all using Copper cookware, care should be taken to see that if any adverse effect is noted after eating from foods prepared from copper vessel like mentioned below, immediately stop preparing and using food cooked in copper vessel so you need to be aware if symptoms appear after eating food prepared in copper cookware to immediately guess that you made food in copper vessel and take remedial measures. Copper reacts with certain food because it is slightly acidic and could lead to health related issues or even cause poisoning of food.  Therefore, copper vessels should never be used to store or cook pickles or acidic food.  Also, milk and milk products such as butter, ice creams and curds react very quickly with copper so never store these in such vessels.  Also, never keep honey, citrus juices, citrus fruits in copper vessels.  Such food after reacting with copper leads to many health problems related to digestive system such as gastrointestinal infections.  One may feel nauseous or experience a stomach ache after this.  Also, some people complaints of acidic and metallic feeling on the tongue, dizziness and feeling of frequent thirst.  Having excess of copper may lead to short or long term health issues and you may need a doctor to overcome these.

Now the question that you will be asking is if so many health issues can be created with copper why suggest it as an alternative.  There are many reasons, unlike non-stick cookware, copper is very good for cooking, storing water, only provided you know how to use it, so only if you know how to use it, you will derive the benefits out of copper vessel cooking and not harm yourself.

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Do you really want to get healthy remove these unhealthy causes – Cast-iron or Stainless Cookware

4-Using Cast-iron or Stainless Cookware: Good cookware is an integral part of cooking and can have a far reaching impact on your health.  Therefore, it is important to know the pros and cons of different cooking materials so you can make safe choices for yourself, your children, your relatives and your friends whom you care so much, it is not at the time of coming to know that such and such is down with incurable auto immune disease or cancer that you show care, care should be show well in advance by ensuring that you chose what is best for the health of your close ones whom you care so much.  So now you know the health dangers of your nonstick pans.  Safe alternatives are cast-iron cookware which is an old-fashioned favorite and one of the safest cooking options available, though it is heavy, it is inexpensive and doesn’t rust easily.  Food cooked in iron vessels enhances the iron content of the food substantially if it is a good quality cast iron cookware.  It has also been seen that the iron content of pasta sauce cooked in an iron vessel increases by about 300%.  Cooking in cast iron pots may also benefit those suffering from anemia.  It is PTFE and PFOA-free, cast-iron cookware have no added chemicals.  In cast-iron, even if you scrape it at the bottom a bit, it is a little bit of iron that will rub off and unlike nonstick pans, cast-iron pots and pans have not heat limitations and can go from the stop right into any temperature in oven or grill. 

Another alternative to this is stainless steel also, it is considered to be another safe choice.  This cookware gets its name because of its ability to resist corrosion. The surface of the stainless steel does not flake and hence pieces of the material also do not break off and contaminate your food like the non-stick cookware. Stainless steel is a combination of metals including chromium, carbon, nickel and/or manganese and since stainless contains a mix of these metals, care to be taken is to ensure that the quality of stainless steel cookware be of the highest standards so that discharge of small amount of nickel into your food is reduced drastically.  High quality stainless steel is designed to make products resistant to leaching or reactivity, hence go for high quality stainless steel for cooking purpose.  Stainless steel is not a good conductor of heat and thus its uneven distribution may cause food to burn.  To overcome this disadvantage copper bottom stainless steel are also available

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