Re: microwaving/freezing plastic

[Guest guest]

For what it's worth...Snopes lists the status of this email as undetermined.

http://www.snopes.com/toxins/plastic.htm

Michele & the Fur Kids

Conneaut, Ohio

----- Original Message -----

From: " Francesca Skelton " <fskelton@...>

" support group " < >

Sent: Friday, October 24, 2003 8:47 AM

Subject: [ ] microwaving/freezing plastic

> The following was sent to me by a friend. Although I don't know how true

it

> is, I have heard it before:

>

[Guest guest]

--- In , " Michele Pitonyak " <map1@s...>

wrote:

> For what it's worth...Snopes lists the status of this email as

undetermined.

>

> http://www.snopes.com/toxins/plastic.htm

>

> Michele & the Fur Kids

> Conneaut, Ohio

*****Thanks, Michele, for this informative website. It puts the

alarmist news (no fault of Francesca's!) in perspective.

I first learned of the plastic/microwave " danger " when the email

about the student (mentioned in the link above) reached my Inbox. I

immediately started using a ceramic bowl and covering it with a paper

towel (I'd also heard this advice from Dr. Hoffman - a NYC MD,

internist, with his own practice in integrative medicine, The Hoffman

Center and a nightly call-in medical talk show in NYC).

From my experience, the paper towel (or two) doesn't seal in the heat

very well and I found that I had to double or triple my microwave

times. Eventually I gave up, returned to using microwavable-safe

saran wrap, and just made certain that it was never in direct contact

with my veggies (that's the main reason I use a microwave: heating

many bags of mixed frozen veggies). Still, I had a minimal concern

about the the water which drips from the saran wrap down onto the

veggies, but the article at snopes.com points out that there is no

substance to that concern.

(And anyway, I 'beat' cancer once, so...I figure with a CRON diet, I

can beat it again! Hahaha!!!)

Seriously, however, I'd like to point out that one can get so wrapped

up in protecting one's self from EVERY imaginable danger that one

misses the joy of living. In saying this I'm not advocating doing

foolish or risky things, but there are people " out there " (in cyber

land) who see threats to their well-being around every corner, under

every bed and inside of every closet. I'm not suggesting there is

anything (or something) " wrong " with these people: this is the

(threatening) world they see and create. For them, such dangers

appear very real. I'm simply pointing out that one need not accept

their version of " reality. " After all, we each create our own

reality out of our own perceptions, memories, biochemistry,

and " wiring. "