The Wellness of YOU! - # 79 - Urban Myth
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Lately I’ve been getting a lot of emails (or some have been forwarded to me) alleging that Johns Hopkins School of Medicine and Walter Reed Army Medical Center have released reports warning consumers not to heat food in plastic containers in microwave ovens and not to freeze drinks in plastic bottles. These “reports” ostensibly state that cancer causing chemicals are released into the food/drink from the plastic when it is microwaved or frozen.
Okay, I know this is way off topic for nutrition and weight loss, but it definitely pertains to your good health. I hope you’ll excuse this little side-trip.
According to the experts at Johns Hopkins School of Public Health, these messages are completely untrue and are what have come to be known as “urban myths” or “urban legends.” No connection has been made between plastic containers and food safety, and no reports alleging such a connection have been issued by any medical or research institution.
The purpose in getting this blog posting to my readers is to ask you to be extremely skeptical when you receive email messages purporting to reveal jaw-dropping cancer-related “information.” If it is genuine news, you can bet it will be the lead story on the evening network news shows and the front-page story with a banner headline in the newspaper.
The best way to determine whether one of these messages is true or false is to go straight to the source. I was able to find out everything I needed to know about the plastic food container story by typing some keywords from the messages (”cancer,” “plastic food containers,” “microwave,” and “Johns Hopkins”) into my internet browser and clicking on “Search.”
Do be careful, however, and read the product labels when microwaving with plastic wrap and plastic containers.
The real reason?
You could end up with a melted mess in your marinara sauce because some plastics just can’t stand the heat!
By the way, here’s a link where you, too, can learn some truth …
Get the Truth From John Hopkins School of Public Health
That will be it for today — I’ll be back soon with some more information to help you with your nutrition and weight loss program. I’m not promising that I’ll be writing every day. We are in the throes of moving and that is taking an exorbitant amount of time — time that is away from the computer. We’re hoping to be back to a more normal routine by early June. So, I hope you’ll bear with me.
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Have a great day. I’ll be back tomorrow with some more nutrition and weight loss thoughts for you.
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Shanti,
Ron
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