Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
Microplastics, PFAS and mold: Common kitchen items may be impacting your health and safety. Here's how to reduce your risk. From plastic cutting boards to nonstick pans, these 5 kitchen staples ...
You should at least entertain the idea of abandoning nonstick pans entirely. Thanks in no small part to Bilott's extensive legal efforts, PFOA is no longer used in the production of nonstick cookware.
Non-stick frying pans, Dutch ovens and saucepans have been popular for years, but the cookware that is convenient and easy to clean has also been linked to some health problems – and there are ...
Research shows that an elevated blood levels of DDEs (also of other toxic molecule from nonstick cookware, and fire retardants) have been tied to an increased risk for celiac disease in young people. [9] DDE has also been shown to be present in increased concentrations in the tumors of patients with primary hyperparathyroidism. [10]
Most of us love nonstick cookware because you don't have to slather on butter and oil to keep food from sticking—saving you some calories—and it requires no scrubbing whatsoever so you're out ...
[100] PFHxS and PFHxS-related salts and compounds are a "group of industrial chemicals used widely in a number of consumer goods as a surfactant and sealant including in carpets, leather, clothing, textiles, fire-fighting foams, papermaking, printing inks and non-stick cookware. They are known to be harmful to human health including the nervous ...
Polymer fume fever or fluoropolymer fever, also informally called Teflon flu, is an inhalation fever caused by the fumes released when polytetrafluoroethylene (PTFE, known under the trade name Teflon) reaches temperatures of 300 °C (572 °F) to 450 °C (842 °F).
Avoid plastic cookware, nonstick pans, and animal products when you can Birnbaum says this is one of the easiest changes you can make: “Never cook in plastic.”