Hi Friend, you may get an email from friends, family or co-workers about an alert from John Hopkins University about Dioxins and plastic containers. I went to John Hopkins and found it to be a hoax. The link below is from the John Hopkins website and below that is the text (or similar) to the one that might be emailed to you. Please inform anyone you care about.
http://www.jhsph.edu/PublicHealthNews/articles/Halden_dioxins.html
this is the email in question:
Cancer News from John 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 fast food 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 you life. Life is
not measured by the number of breaths we take, but the moments
that take our breath away. Have an amazing day!