Cause of illness and autoimmune disease and cancer – Use Glass Containers, Use Bamboo and Wooden Cutting Board and never use Plastic Cutting Boards:

10-Use Glass Containers: For storing pulses, sugar and other daily use items in the kitchen it is best to use good quality glass food container.  Though many households may not prefer since if it falls on the floor, it breaks, moreover it is heavy and prone to slippage while handling but this is the best storage purpose material in modern day and is very free from harmful interaction with the stored items in it, like plastics it does not chemically combine to create toxic substances which is harmful to your health.  So go for it since Glass containers are considered the safest options.

11-Never use Plastic Cutting Boards: Although there is some debate on which types of cutting and there is debates on which type of cutting boards are better and more hygienic, you need to remember that plastic cutting boards are not the safest since after the slicing and dicing work is done on a plastic board you will inevitable see little cuts and nicks across the surface.  These plastic cracks and crevices just happen to be perfect home for dangerous bacteria.  Those ridges your knife leaves collects with bacteria and with plastics one would think that you can just wipe out the plastic board and the bacteria would also be wiped out but bacteria like E. coli and salmonella are going to stick to the plastic more so than wood or bamboo.  Another factor about plastic is as mentioned in earlier episode, it contains BPA.  You must be knowing that bits of plastic comes out when the knife scratches on the board while cutting, that bits of plastics has to go somewhere and it is in your food that those bits of plastic goes and so if you are using plastic board, you are consuming bits of plastics also.

12-Always use Bamboo and Wood Cutting Board: The best wooden cutting boards are made from bamboo, but any wood board is still better than plastic and have natural anti-bacterial properties.  Although the knife cuts on these boards still provide a place for bacteria to hide, once the bacteria goes down into the crevice they die of slowly.  See to it that a high premium quality bamboo and non-toxic formaldehyde free food grade glue to ensure that the utmost safety.

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Cause of illness and autoimmune disease and cancer - Never use Plastics, Ceramic and Melamine:

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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