PHONY SCARE ON USE OF MICROWAVES – THE MEDIA IS HAPPY TO SCARE US TO SELL NEWSPAPERS

Subject: Cancer News From Johns Hopkins

 

 No plastics in micro

 No water bottles in freezer.

 No plastic wrap in micro

 

 Johns Hopkins has recently sent this out in their newsletters worth noting... This information is being circulated at Walter Reed Army Medical Center.

 

 Dioxin Carcinogens cause cancer, especially breast cancer. Don't freeze

 your plastic water bottles with water as this also releases dioxins in the plastic.

 

 Dr. Edward Fujimoto from Castle hospital was on a TV program explaining

 this health hazard. (He is the manager of the Wellness Program at the hospital.)

 

 He was talking 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 applies to foods that contain fat. He said that the combination of

 fat, high heat and plastics releases dioxins into the food and ultimately

 into the cells of the body. Dioxins are carcinogens and highly toxic to

 the cells of our bodies. Instead, he recommends using glass, Corning Ware, or

 ceramic containers for heating food. You get the same results, without the dioxins.

 

 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 said we might remember when some of the fastfood

 restaurants moved away from the foam containers to paper. The dioxin

 problem is one of the reasons.

 

 To add to this, Saran wrap placed over foods as they are nuked, with the high heat,

 actually drips poisonous toxins into the food, use paper towels.

 

 Pass this on to your family & friends & those that are important in your life

 

 

ROC REPLIES: Yikes.  I do not know.  It is scary, but it is difficult to imagine such an awful thing without generating real publicity in the legitimate scientific press.  I have read nothing of this anywhere, and it would be a big deal in Science if it was a serious issue.  In Chem127 today we are discussing Thursday's front page story in the Wisconsin State Journal that says vitamin E is dangerous and may kill you.  We will be discussing how such a story distorts the truth, effectively sells newspapers, and kills the readers with stress and distorted information.  The quantity of unbelievable horror stories is proportional to the competition in the news industry, not to any real rise in hazards.