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I often worry about microwaves with me its another quick fix as well as other have mentioned dangerous in the heating processes of food but I often find it makes me on occasion and family lazy especially with my boys there older but the quick preparation for them means they don't try to prepare meal they just buy for microwave

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not only microwave ,even cooking in non stick pans and vessels is not good for health .

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The coating on nonstick cookware contains a chemical called polytetrafluoroethylene (PTFE). DuPont’s Teflon is the most well-known brand. When heated to very high temperatures, this coating creates hazardous fumes.

The synthetic chemical perfluorooctanoic acid (PFOA) is used to make this nonstick coating and has various other industrial applications. PFOA can cause cancer and birth defects in animals and may pose a risk to humans, according to Consumer Reports. The Society of the Plastics Industry, a major trade group, acknowledges that PFOA is found in the blood of 95 percent of the U.S. population “and is persistent in the environment, even in remote locations.”

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what about fancy lunch boxes and water bottles kept in fridges and used again and again instead of being thrown out after initial use .

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