Subject: Fw: Microwave Warning

  Subject: Microwave

  As a seventh grade student, Claire Nelson learned that

  di(ethylhexyl adepate (DEHA), considered a carcinogen, is found in

plastic

  wrap.

  She also learned that the FDA had never studied the effect of microwave

  cooking on plastic-wrapped food. Claire began to wonder: "Can

  cancer-causing

  particles seep into food covered with household plastic wrap while it is

  being

  Three years later, with encouragement from her high school science

  teacher, Claire set out to test what the FDA had not. Although she had an

  idea for studying the effect of microwave radiation on plastic-wrapped

  food,

  She did not have the equipment. Eventually, Jon Wilkes at the

  National Center for Toxicological Research in Jefferson, Arkansas, agreed

to

  help her. The research center, which is affiliated with the FDA, let

her

  use its facilities to perform her experiments, which involved

  microwaving

  plastic wrap in virgin olive oil. Claire tested four different

  plastic

  wraps and "found not just the carcinogens but also xenoestrogen was

  migrating into the oil...." Xenoestrogens are linked to low sperm

  counts

  in men and to breast cancer in women. Throughout her junior and senior

  years, Claire made a couple of trips each week to the research center,

  which was 25 miles from her home, to work on her experiment. An article

  in

  Options reported that "her analysis found that DEHA was migrating into

the

  oil at between 200 parts and 500 parts per million.

  The FDA standard is 0.05 parts per billion." Her summarized results

  have been published in science journals. Claire Nelson received the

  American Chemical Society's top science prize for students during her

  junior

  year and fourth place at the International Science and Engineering Fair

  Fort Worth, Texas) as a senior. "Carcinogens -- At 10,000,000 Times FDA

  Limits" Options May 2000. Published by People Against Cancer, 5-972-4444.

  On Channel 2 (Huntsville, AL) this morning they had a Dr. Edward

  Fujimoto from Castle Hospital on the program. 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

  saimin 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

  paper.

  Just safer to use tempered glass, Corning Ware, etc. He said we might

  remember when some of the fast food restaurants moved away from the foam

  containers to paper. The dioxin problem is one of the reasons.

  BE SURE TO PASS THIS ON TO AS MANY FRIENDS AS YOU CAN

  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

  towel instead.