Teflon
Pans
ARE YOU BEING POISONED
BY YOUR TEFLON PAN?
Natural News – David Gutierrez
Did you know that nonstick cookware is made with highly reactive and
toxic fluoride chemicals that can turn to toxic gas at everyday cooking
temperatures?
Although numerous chemicals are used to produce
nonstick coatings, all of them are in the family known as perfluorinated chemicals (PFCs).
These toxins
have been linked to a wide array of health problems, including thyroid
dysfunction, lowered infant birth weight, liver inflammation, high cholesterol
and weakened immune function.
They build up in
the body and are nearly impossible to flush out or destroy. They have been
found in the bodies of nearly every U.S. resident tested.
According to the
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), PFC’s – including those released by
your Teflon cookware – exhibit “persistence, bioaccumulation, and toxicity
properties to an extraordinary degree.”
Canary in a coal mine
The problem is that at high temperatures, PTFE and other “Teflon chemicals” begin to break down into more toxic byproducts.
These chemicals
then aerosolize and can be inhaled.
It is well
established that toxic chemicals produced from heating nonstick pans can kill
pet birds (which, like the famed “canary in the coal mine,” have more sensitive
lungs than human beings).
Inhaling these
chemicals can also produce acute poisoning in humans, leading to a cluster of
flu-like symptoms known as “Teflon
flu.”
Although cookware manufacturers regularly claim
that pans need to be heated to extraordinary temperatures to release toxic
fumes, tests by the Environmental Working Group showed that it took just two to
five minutes for a pan on a regular stove-top to reach these temperatures.
For example, birds have been shown
to die when pans are heated to as low as 325 degrees.
At 680 degrees, nonstick pans
release chemicals shown to cause cancer, kidney damage and even fatal
poisoning.
A
nonstick pan can reach 750 degrees after being heated for just eight minutes.
Notably,
there has been almost no research conducted on the health effects of long-term
exposure to Teflon fumes.
Nor has
there been any follow up to look for long-term effects from Teflon flu.
What is known,
however, is that PFC breakdown
products, including those of Teflon,
accumulate in the human body, causing lifelong health effects.
PFC’s have been
shown to be so resistant to being broken down or flushed from the body that a
single exposure can cause the chemicals to remain in the body for decades.
Higher body
burden of PFC’s has been linked to elevated risk of heart disease, cancer and
stroke.
Use cast iron for your health
Perhaps the worst part of the fact that so many
people are poisoning themselves for the supposed convenience of nonstick pans,
is that it is completely unnecessary.
You can get the
same convenience from a cast-iron pan, and it will actually improve your health
rather than worsening it.
Although they
have a reputation of being hard to care for, cast-iron cookware is actually
very low maintenance.
It simply needs
to be scrubbed clean with just water (no soap) after each use, then dried
completely and given a very light coating of oil.
A well seasoned
cast-iron is nonstick, and becomes more so over time; the oil used in cooking
forms a tight seal.
Cast-iron is incredibly durable, and can be
expected to last for your entire lifetime.
This makes it a
much better value for its cost than any other type of cookware, given that a
pre-seasoned cast-iron skillet retails for less than $20!
Due to its thickness, cast-iron cookware
distributes heat more evenly, and can be used to give food much more appealing
flavor and textures than other cookware. It can even be used in the oven.
And to top it off, cooking with cast-iron actually
increases the amount of iron in your diet.
So, why would anyone keep using toxic Teflon?
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