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Cancer update -- Johns Hopkins -- Cancer News from Johns Hopkins:

1. No plastic containers in microwave.

2. No water bottles in freezer.

3. No plastic wrap in microwave.

Johns Hopkins has recently sent this out in its newsletters. This
information is being circulated at Walter Reed Army Medical Center as
well.


Dioxin chemicals causes cancer, especially breast cancer.

Dioxins are highly poisonous to the cells of our bodies. Don't freeze
your plastic bottles with water in them as this releases dioxins from the
plastic.
Recently, Dr. Edward Fujimoto, Wellness Program Manager at Castle
Hospital, was on a TV program to explain this health hazard. He talked
about dioxins and how bad they are for us.
He said that we should not be heating our food in the microwave using
plastic containers. This especially applies to foods that contain fat. He
said that the combination of fat, high heat, and plastics releases dioxin
into the food and ultimately into the cells of the body.

Instead, he recommends using glass, such as Corning Ware, Pyrex or
ceramic containers for heating food. You get the same results, only
without the dioxin. So such things as TV dinners, instant ramen and soups,

etc., should be removed from the container and heated in something else.
Paper isn't bad but you don't know what is in the paper. It's just safer
to use tempered glass, Corning Ware, etc.

He reminded us that a while ago some of the fast food restaurants moved
away from the foam containers to paper. The dioxin problem is one of the
reasons.


Also, he pointed out that plastic wrap, such as Saran, is just as
dangerous when placed over foods to be cooked in the microwave. As the
food is nuked, the high heat causes poisonous toxins to actually melt out
of the plastic wrap and drip into the food.


Cover food with a paper towel instead.
This is an article that should be sent to anyone important in your
life!
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I believe its real, and always using microwave with Pyrex and Corning Ware, as I don't trust GladWrap in microwave myself.
 
Yes I aware it.

I use micorwave dishes from Tupperware for use microwave to warm up.
 
no way? gawd! i better not put my bottle in freezer no more.. dang thats too bad! :(

i always use tupperware too.. but what about tv dinner?? cant cook it in microwave?? i wonder?? :(
 
I use tupperware unless it's mircowave!
TV Dinner (tends for my hubby's work) oh ouch.. I gonna take TV dinner out of plastic and put into the Tupperware..
Oh gee.. I have to explain him more details why!
I wish He could join this AD member!
suit him read it here!
 
REALLY!! I didn't know... I have put my water bottle in the refridgerator.

I uses tupperware for microwave to warm up. I don't cover up with plastic wraps..

Glad you post this and give us a warning..
 
:jawdrop:

OMG...I better get on the horn immediately and throw away all of my plastic bottles, tv dinners, plastic wraps and all things plastic!!!

Oh please....

*RME*

This is actually from John Hopkins School of Medicine.

Researcher dispels Myth of Dioxins and Plastic Water Bottles

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

Researcher Dispels Myth of Dioxins and Plastic Water Bottles
Rolf Halden, PhD, PE

The Internet has been flooded with email warnings to avoid freezing water in plastic bottles so as not to get exposed to carcinogenic dioxins. One hoax email has been erroneously attributed to Johns Hopkins University since the spring of 2004. The Office of Communications and Public Affairs discussed the issue with Rolf Halden, PhD, PE, assistant professor in the Department of Environmental Health Sciences and the Center for Water and Health at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. Dr. Halden received his masters and doctoral degrees researching dioxin contamination in the environment. We sat down with him to set the record straight on dioxins in the food supply and the risks associated with drinking water from plastic bottles and cooking with plastics.

Office of Communications and Public Affairs: What are dioxins?

Rolf Halden: Dioxins are organic environmental pollutants sometimes referred to as the most toxic compounds made by mankind. They are a group of chemicals, which include 75 different chlorinated molecules of dibenzo-p-dioxin and 135 chlorinated dibenzofurans. Some polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) also are referred to as dioxin-like compounds. Exposure to dioxins can cause chloracne, a severe form of skin disease, as well as reproductive and developmental effects, and more importantly, liver damage and cancer.

OC&PA: Where do dioxins come from?

RH: We always thought dioxins were man-made compounds produced inadvertently during the bleaching of pulp and manufacturing of pesticides like Agent Orange and other chlorinated aromatics. But dioxins in sediments from lakes and oceans predate these human activities. It is now generally accepted that a principal source of dioxins are various combustion processes, including natural events such as wild fires and even volcanic eruptions.

Today, the critical issue is the incineration of waste, particularly the incineration of hospital waste, which contains a great deal of polyvinyl chloride plastics and aromatic compounds that can serve as dioxin precursors. One study examined the burning of household trash in drums in the backyard. It turns out that these small burnings of debris can put out as much or more dioxins as a full-sized incinerator burning hundreds of tons of refuse per day. The incinerators are equipped with state-of-the-art emission controls that limit dioxin formation and their release into the environment, but the backyard trash burning does not. You set it ablaze and chemistry takes over. What happens next is that the dioxins are sent into the atmosphere where they become attached to particles and fall back to earth. Then they bind to, or are taken up, by fish and other animals, where they get concentrated and stored in fat before eventually ending up on our lunch and dinner plates. People are exposed to them mostly from eating meat and fish rich in fat.

OC&PA: What do you make of this recent email warning that claims dioxins can be released by freezing water in plastic bottles?

RH: No. This is an urban legend. There are no dioxins in plastics. In addition, freezing actually works against the release of chemicals. Chemicals do not diffuse as readily in cold temperatures, which would limit chemical release if there were dioxins in plastic, and we don’t think there are.

OC&PA: So it’s okay for people to drink out of plastic water bottles?

RH: First, people should be more concerned about the quality of the water they are drinking rather than the container it’s coming from. Many people do not feel comfortable drinking tap water, so they buy bottled water instead. The truth is that city water is much more highly regulated and monitored for quality. Bottled water is not. It can legally contain many things we would not tolerate in municipal drinking water.

Having said this, there is another group of chemicals, called phthalates that are sometimes added to plastics to make them flexible and less brittle. Phthalates are environmental contaminants that can exhibit hormone-like behavior by acting as endocrine disruptors in humans and animals. If you heat up plastics, you could increase the leaching of phthalates from the containers into water and food.

OC&PA: What about cooking with plastics?

RH: In general, whenever you heat something you increase the likelihood of pulling chemicals out. Chemicals can be released from plastic packaging materials like the kinds used in some microwave meals. Some drinking straws say on the label “not for hot beverages.” Most people think the warning is because someone might be burned. If you put that straw into a boiling cup of hot coffee, you basically have a hot water extraction going on, where the chemicals in the straw are being extracted into your nice cup of coffee. We use the same process in the lab to extract chemicals from materials we want to analyze.

If you are cooking with plastics or using plastic utensils, the best thing to do is to follow the directions and only use plastics that are specifically meant for cooking. Inert containers are best, for example heat-resistant glass, ceramics and good old stainless steel.

OC&PA: Is there anything else you want to add?

RH: Don’t be afraid of drinking water. It is very important to drink adequate amounts of water and, by the way that’s in addition to all the coffee, beer and other diuretics we love to consume. Unless you are drinking really bad water, you are more likely to suffer from the adverse effects of dehydration than from the minuscule amounts of chemical contaminants present in your water supply. Relatively speaking, the risk from exposure to microbial contaminants is much greater than that from chemicals.

And here’s one more uncomfortable fact. Each of us already carries a certain body burden of dioxins regardless of how and what we eat. If you look hard enough, you’ll find traces of dioxins in pretty much every place on earth. Paracelsus the famous medieval alchemist, used to put it straight and simple: it’s the dose that makes the poison.--Tim Parsons

Public Affairs media contacts for the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health: Tim Parsons or Kenna Lowe at 410-955-6878 or paffairs@jhsph.edu.
 
DreamDeaf said:
:jawdrop:

OMG...I better get on the horn immediately and throw away all of my plastic bottles, tv dinners, plastic wraps and all things plastic!!!

Oh please....

*RME*

This is actually from John Hopkins School of Medicine.

Researcher dispels Myth of Dioxins and Plastic Water Bottles

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

Researcher Dispels Myth of Dioxins and Plastic Water Bottles
Rolf Halden, PhD, PE

The Internet has been flooded with email warnings to avoid freezing water in plastic bottles so as not to get exposed to carcinogenic dioxins. One hoax email has been erroneously attributed to Johns Hopkins University since the spring of 2004. The Office of Communications and Public Affairs discussed the issue with Rolf Halden, PhD, PE, assistant professor in the Department of Environmental Health Sciences and the Center for Water and Health at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. Dr. Halden received his masters and doctoral degrees researching dioxin contamination in the environment. We sat down with him to set the record straight on dioxins in the food supply and the risks associated with drinking water from plastic bottles and cooking with plastics.

Office of Communications and Public Affairs: What are dioxins?

Rolf Halden: Dioxins are organic environmental pollutants sometimes referred to as the most toxic compounds made by mankind. They are a group of chemicals, which include 75 different chlorinated molecules of dibenzo-p-dioxin and 135 chlorinated dibenzofurans. Some polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) also are referred to as dioxin-like compounds. Exposure to dioxins can cause chloracne, a severe form of skin disease, as well as reproductive and developmental effects, and more importantly, liver damage and cancer.

OC&PA: Where do dioxins come from?

RH: We always thought dioxins were man-made compounds produced inadvertently during the bleaching of pulp and manufacturing of pesticides like Agent Orange and other chlorinated aromatics. But dioxins in sediments from lakes and oceans predate these human activities. It is now generally accepted that a principal source of dioxins are various combustion processes, including natural events such as wild fires and even volcanic eruptions.

Today, the critical issue is the incineration of waste, particularly the incineration of hospital waste, which contains a great deal of polyvinyl chloride plastics and aromatic compounds that can serve as dioxin precursors. One study examined the burning of household trash in drums in the backyard. It turns out that these small burnings of debris can put out as much or more dioxins as a full-sized incinerator burning hundreds of tons of refuse per day. The incinerators are equipped with state-of-the-art emission controls that limit dioxin formation and their release into the environment, but the backyard trash burning does not. You set it ablaze and chemistry takes over. What happens next is that the dioxins are sent into the atmosphere where they become attached to particles and fall back to earth. Then they bind to, or are taken up, by fish and other animals, where they get concentrated and stored in fat before eventually ending up on our lunch and dinner plates. People are exposed to them mostly from eating meat and fish rich in fat.

OC&PA: What do you make of this recent email warning that claims dioxins can be released by freezing water in plastic bottles?

RH: No. This is an urban legend. There are no dioxins in plastics. In addition, freezing actually works against the release of chemicals. Chemicals do not diffuse as readily in cold temperatures, which would limit chemical release if there were dioxins in plastic, and we don’t think there are.

OC&PA: So it’s okay for people to drink out of plastic water bottles?

RH: First, people should be more concerned about the quality of the water they are drinking rather than the container it’s coming from. Many people do not feel comfortable drinking tap water, so they buy bottled water instead. The truth is that city water is much more highly regulated and monitored for quality. Bottled water is not. It can legally contain many things we would not tolerate in municipal drinking water.

Having said this, there is another group of chemicals, called phthalates that are sometimes added to plastics to make them flexible and less brittle. Phthalates are environmental contaminants that can exhibit hormone-like behavior by acting as endocrine disruptors in humans and animals. If you heat up plastics, you could increase the leaching of phthalates from the containers into water and food.

OC&PA: What about cooking with plastics?

RH: In general, whenever you heat something you increase the likelihood of pulling chemicals out. Chemicals can be released from plastic packaging materials like the kinds used in some microwave meals. Some drinking straws say on the label “not for hot beverages.” Most people think the warning is because someone might be burned. If you put that straw into a boiling cup of hot coffee, you basically have a hot water extraction going on, where the chemicals in the straw are being extracted into your nice cup of coffee. We use the same process in the lab to extract chemicals from materials we want to analyze.

If you are cooking with plastics or using plastic utensils, the best thing to do is to follow the directions and only use plastics that are specifically meant for cooking. Inert containers are best, for example heat-resistant glass, ceramics and good old stainless steel.

OC&PA: Is there anything else you want to add?

RH: Don’t be afraid of drinking water. It is very important to drink adequate amounts of water and, by the way that’s in addition to all the coffee, beer and other diuretics we love to consume. Unless you are drinking really bad water, you are more likely to suffer from the adverse effects of dehydration than from the minuscule amounts of chemical contaminants present in your water supply. Relatively speaking, the risk from exposure to microbial contaminants is much greater than that from chemicals.

And here’s one more uncomfortable fact. Each of us already carries a certain body burden of dioxins regardless of how and what we eat. If you look hard enough, you’ll find traces of dioxins in pretty much every place on earth. Paracelsus the famous medieval alchemist, used to put it straight and simple: it’s the dose that makes the poison.--Tim Parsons

Public Affairs media contacts for the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health: Tim Parsons or Kenna Lowe at 410-955-6878 or paffairs@jhsph.edu.
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:lol: Deaf Dream

I RMEs at this, too. "Everything" is going to give us cancer nowadays. I think it's being a bit paranoid.

Personally, I think the "Food Police" has way too much influence and should be muzzled.

Whatever happened to "Crap happens"?
 
I have heard this before, it was year ago. Always use glass safe for microwave safe container. Sometime I use tupperware.
 
Thank you Dream Deaf for your valuable facts about plastic bottles, I wasn't too sure, until I read yours. I still firm believe in glad wrap cooking microwave for foods is bad for your health.
 
Opal said:
Thank you Dream Deaf for your valuable facts about plastic bottles, I wasn't too sure, until I read yours. I still firm believe in glad wrap cooking microwave for foods is bad for your health.
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I did cooked with Glad wrap and its fine for me to eat.

I don't like to put TV dinner in microwave because food will get messed up and not completely heat, some become hard. I prefer to put TV dinner in conventional oven and its heat so great.

In before 80's, there's no microwave but only put TV dinner in conventional oven.
 
Oceanbreeze said:
:lol: Deaf Dream

I RMEs at this, too. "Everything" is going to give us cancer nowadays. I think it's being a bit paranoid.

Personally, I think the "Food Police" has way too much influence and should be muzzled.

Whatever happened to "Crap happens"?
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I was about to say that, haha. I'm glad I'm not the only person left on the planet with a shred of sanity. I used to be into the whole paranoid-activist anti-government "THEYRE TRYING TO KILL US!" sort of thing then realized people are just being nuts and I'm falling for their BS although I still keep a few ideals such as that modern medicine is the devil :| Notice how many side effects they can cause just for a 'temporary cure'? Some of them are lethal, not to mention I see lawsuits pop up on TV alot- one most recent being that hormone patch thing. Forgot if it was birth control or anti-smoking, regardless it had alot of bad side effects that actually almost killed people and such.
 
I do not allow microwave in my home!!! Only there microwave at my travel trailer but never used it so I HATE it!!!!

I love to cook old fashion way !!!!

Peace
 
ugh sheesh hoax ppl believe RME

but i don't cook in pastic in mirowave only heat up in a mirowavable plates that all
 
I agreed with you. I have read this before, and it's good to let us know about it. I stopped using my microwave since two years - unless I use a heat pad for my sore back or leg. (It is hard to find a red rubber water bag - the old fashion.) I put my microwave in the basement on the shelf.

For the plastic bottles, I forgot which code number is considered to be safe. I think the hard plastic bottles, for the refrigerator, is a least safe.

I always use my water glass bottle in the refrigerator. I take it out and put it in a cooler bag to go out.
 
Before I just start blahing real bad right now, I want to say sorry if this pisses anyone off, but get real. Think about it too.

That is the biggest thing now. If you want too, you can find out that everything can cause cancer. Smoking, drinking, cell phones, sun, tap water in some towns, etc can cause cancer. Honestly, I believe people need to stop worrying what causes cancer and start living again. I know cancer is a serious thing and can make people very sick and everything, but why should people have their lives controled by fear? If you let that control u, then think what you can miss out of.

Sun can give you skin cancer, so, does that mean you can't go out to go to work or go to the beach? Your kids can't play outside or play football or baseball? Drinking can cause liver cancer, soo does that mean that everyone needs to stop drinking their beer? What would you serve at your b-day party or your kids 21st b-day? Smoking can cause lung cancer, so everyone needs to stop smoking! Some towns tap water can cause cancer too, soo does that mean you have to stop drinking water? I would love to see how long someone will go without drinking water, I say maybe a day or two. Tanning bed can cause cancer too, so people going to stop getting tans? I also hear that drinking coffee can cause cancer too?

Cell phones can cause cancer too. It produces radio waves and everything, wait, this is a deaf chat, most people here don't have to worry abt that, cause they don't use the phone part on their sidekick or what ever their mobile phone is. Wait, it still sends waves that can cause cancer too??? so, does that mean that people going to stop using their cell phones as well???

Come on now guys!!! Stop worring about every little thing that can give you a higher chance to get cancer and start living life.

Wait, I need to stop using the computer, cause I heard that typing on a computer and looking at the screen too long can give you cancer too.:mad: :blah:
 
Radiation Ovens
The Proven Dangers of Microwaves
Is it possible that millions of people are ignorantly sacrificing their health in exchange for the convenience of microwave ovens? Why did the Soviet Union ban the use of microwave ovens in 1976? Who invented microwave ovens, and why? The answers to these questions may shock you into throwing your microwave oven in the trash.

Over 90% of American homes have microwave ovens used for meal preparation. Because microwave ovens are so convenient and energy efficient, as compared to conventional ovens, very few homes or restaurants are without them. In general, people believe that whatever a microwave oven does to foods cooked in it doesn't have any negative effect on either the food or them. Of course, if microwave ovens were really harmful, our government would never allow them on the market, would they? Would they? Regardless of what has been "officially" released concerning microwave ovens, we have personally stopped using ours based on the research facts outlined in this article.

The purpose of this report is to show proof - evidence - that microwave cooking is not natural, nor healthy, and is far more dangerous to the human body than anyone could imagine. However, the microwave oven manufacturers, Washington City politics, and plain old human nature are suppressing the facts and evidence. Because of this, people are continuing to microwave their food - in blissful ignorance - without knowing the effects and danger of doing so.
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The rest of the article is here: Microwave oven health risk - cancer risk

This is why I got rid of my microwave. Everything I used to eat in the past was either fried, microwaved, or both. Last year I decided to get rid of my microwave and also my deep fat frier. I replaced them with a steamer instead.
 
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