A friend of mine just told me that too much warming of your food with microwave can cause cancer.

Experts in the house how true if this? Let me hear from you,

Personally I don't like heating my food in the microwave.

Hmmnn, that's a new one on me!

NOT TRUE
WARMING UR FOOD WITH A PLASTIC CONTAINER
YES DAT CAN CAUSE CANCER

lease circulate to all you know; Cancer update
Johns Hopkins - Cancer News from Johns Hopkins

No plastic containers in micro
No water bottles in freezer.
No plastic wrap in microwave,

A dioxin ! chemical 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, 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 heat! ing 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.

Thanks Ruky, that's detailed one you got here. Fellow nairalanders, now that we know,

uhm sorry to break it to ya'll but it is NOT true.

see the FDA website for their take on this
http://www.fda.gov/fdac/features/2002/602_plastic.html

The story by ruky above is simply an urban legend. See the links below:

http://www.plasticsmythbuster.org/dioxins.asp
http://www.truthorfiction.com/rumors/d/dioxins.htm
http://urbanlegends.about.com/library/bl-microwave-dioxin.htm

Microwave Madness: The Dish on Dioxins

Rumor
Using plastics in the microwave creates dioxins that can migrate into food.

Status
Baloney!

Origins
Versions of this e-mail hoax have been circulating for years. (The station number and call letters vary from region to region.)

Be on the look out for:
Subject: Info for the Health Conscious
Subject2: Passing on Healthy Info

I just wanted to pass some information on to you. I was watching Channel 2 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 the 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.

Pass this on to your friends."
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What You Should Know
The claim that plastic food wraps and containers can release dioxins in the microwave oven is misleading. First, the vast majority of plastics used in food wraps and packaging containers do not contain the chemical constituents that can form dioxins. Second, dioxins are a family of compounds that are produced by combustion at high temperatures. They can only be formed during combustion at temperatures typically above 700 degrees Fahrenheit. In other words, even if all of the constituents were present, you also would need to have a very hot fire in your microwave oven, in which case you probably wouldn’t eat the food anyway.

According to FDA, “With regard to dioxins, we have seen no evidence that plastic containers or films contain dioxins and know of no reason why they would.”

http://www.fda.gov/fdac/features/2002/602_plastic.html

Noted!