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"Toxic Cookware As if the poisonous byproducts of cooked food were not enough, there is ample evidence that cookware creates additional toxicity. Iron skillets are not recommended for people who have too much blood iron. Aluminum pots and pans may contribute to Alzheimer's disease. The news program 20/20 once did an expose on Teflon, which is so toxic that it often kills pet birds that breathe its fumes. Teflon also stimulates the body to produce flulike symptoms in people when the pan gets overheated, creating fumes." - Susan E. Schenck, The Live Food Factor: The Comprehensive Guide to the Ultimate Diet for Body, Mind, Spirit & Planet (Get the book.)

"The scrapes in Teflon?cookware just mentioned, brings to mind another concern. Under the Teflon?we will find aluminum! Then if you recall, earlier when we discussed Chronic Fatigue, the fluoride (found in Prozac?and some water systems), combined with aluminum, results in the production of Proxy Nitrite, which among other things contributes to chronic fatigue. When Teflon?cookware becomes worn, it's as though you are cooking with fluoride and aluminum. Then, acid foods such as tomatoes are the worst for leaching aluminum from the cookware. It's best to replace any Teflon?" - Dr David W Tanton, Ph.D., Antidepressants, Antipsychotics, And Stimulants - Dangerous Drugs on Trial (Get the book.)

"The only issue is did DuPont lie in a massive attempt to continue to sell their product':' This is the point: everyone knew that these products cause cancer, and the executives of DuPont lied about it because they were only interested in selling the cookware and making the hundreds of millions of dollars in profits. They didn't care that by selling this cookware virtually millions of people could potentially come down with cancer as a direct result of using this cookware. Are you outraged? I am outraged. Take your Teflon and send it back to DuPont; demand a full refund." - Kevin Trudeau, More Natural Cures Revealed: Previously Censored Brand Name Products That Cure Disease (Get the book.) "Do not use nonstick cookware. Cast Iron is an excellent option, check local stores www.castironcookware.com Le Creuset www.lecreuset.com/usa (877) 273-8738 Carbon steel cookware Atlanta Fixture and Sales Co. (search for 7915589) www.atlantafixture.com (800)282-1977 14. Eat only organic, kosher meat, and poultry. Damar Farms www.damarfarms.com (715) 563-2333 Natural Acres www.naturalacres.com (717) 692-1000 Dakota Beef Company www.dakotabeefcompany.com (800) 282-1977 Pampa's Pride Meats www.pampaspride.com (598-42) 493-940 Bison Slanker's Grass-Fed Meats www.texasgrassfedbeef." - Kevin Trudeau, More Natural Cures Revealed: Previously Censored Brand Name Products That Cure Disease (Get the book.)

"And finally, you might want to think about stainless steel cookware. It's okay to use cookware that has an aluminum core, as long as the food never touches the aluminum itself. • Fluoride. If there's any way to keep it out of your city water supply, fight to do that. If it's already there, you have to make sure you remove it at your house so that it doesn't make it into your drinking water, bath, or shower. Also, you'll probably want to avoid fluoride toothpastes, and you'll definitely want to avoid fluoride "treatments" from your dentist. • Mercury fillings." - Jon Barron, Lessons from The Miracle Doctors: A Step-by-Step Guide to Optimum Health and Relief from Catastrophic Illness (Get the book.)

"When Teflon?cookware becomes worn, it's as though you are cooking with fluoride and aluminum. Then, acid foods such as tomatoes are the worst for leaching aluminum from the cookware. It's best to replace any Teflon?cookware with cast iron, glass, or possibly stainless steel. More About Teflon? The following article was announced on ABC News (February 23, 2007): PFOA (Ferfluorooctanoic Acid), also known as C8, is a key chemical used in the manufacture of Teflon and the protective coating that prevents grease stains on boxes and wrappers [i.e. microwave popcorn, French fry boxes, candy bars]." - Dr David W Tanton, Ph.D., Antidepressants, Antipsychotics, And Stimulants - Dangerous Drugs on Trial (Get the book.)

"He says to avoid or eliminate any sources of aluminum exposure: aluminum cookware, utensils, or foil; underarm deodorants; drinking water and any juices or drinks packaged in aluminum-lined cartons. Cut out those vitamins as well as bottled water packaged in bottles with aluminum across the top. Dr. Hodes suggests a brain and body detoxification program, which should include a supervised fast. "Now don't attempt to detoxify on your own," he warns. " - Gary Null and Amy McDonald, The Food-Mood Connection: Nutrition-based and Environmental Approaches to Mental Health and Physical Wellbeing (Get the book.)

"Then, acid foods such as tomatoes are the worst for leaching aluminum from the cookware. It's best to replace any Teflon?cookware with cast iron, glass, or possibly stainless steel. More About Teflon? The following article was announced on ABC News (February 23, 2007): PFOA (Ferfluorooctanoic Acid), also known as C8, is a key chemical used in the manufacture of Teflon and the protective coating that prevents grease stains on boxes and wrappers [i.e. microwave popcorn, French fry boxes, candy bars]." - Dr David W Tanton, Ph.D., Antidepressants, Antipsychotics, And Stimulants - Dangerous Drugs on Trial (Get the book.)

"The lawsuit wants DuPont to spend $5 billion to replace all the nonstick cookware, impose a Teflon warning label, and create two funds to pay for medical monitoring and more scientific research on the people who were using Teflon pots and pans to determine just how the use of Teflon cookware has related to and caused illness, sickness, disease, and depression. DuPont has known for over twenty years that the Teflon product, and the various chemicals it uses in the manufacturing of its products, cause cancer! Everyone knows that it causes cancer." - Kevin Trudeau, More Natural Cures Revealed: Previously Censored Brand Name Products That Cure Disease (Get the book.)

"Recommendations include a healthy, well-balanced diet and lifestyle; avoidance of products that contain mercury and aluminum (which include antiperspirants, antacids, baking powder, and aluminum cookware); and increasing antioxidant levels in the body. Nutritional supplementation with high-potency vitamins, minerals, antioxidants, and particularly magnesium and potassium products are beneficial." - Tom Bohager, Everything You Need to Know About Enzymes to Treat Everything from Digestive Problems and Allergies to Migraines and Arthritis (Get the book.)

"Avoid plastic cookware and servingware, too. Limit alcoholic intake as it can cause swelling of blood vessels in the nasal passages. Don't smoke and stay out of smoke-filled rooms. Fireplaces, wood stoves and cigarettes are fuel for asthma. Ensure your heating and cooling systems, and exhaust fans in your home and car, work efficiently. Rid your garden of pests with herbs, not insecticides. Sit at least two metres away from the television." - Dr Ron Roberts, Asthma Controlled Naturally: Techniques That Work (Get the book.)

"If you have never steamed your fresh vegetables or poached fresh fish or chicken, now is the time to add some inexpensive cookware (such as a steamer basket and poaching pan) to your cooking utensils. You can dramatically reduce your intake of food-derived glycotoxins if you follow the recommended cooking methods, especially when preparing foods that contain fructose and/or 111 saturated fats and protein (such as meat, poultry, dairy, baked goods), and you reduce the amount of refined or processed foods you eat." - Steven V. Joyal, What Your Doctor May Not Tell You About Diabetes: An Innovative Program to Prevent, Treat, and Beat This Controllable Disease (Get the book.)

"In addition to cookware, it is also found in foil and utensils, antiperspirants, paints, cosmetics, and baking powders, as well as over-the-counter painkillers, antiinflammatory drugs, antacids, and douche preparations. CAUGHT OFF GUARD Last year, we saw an unprecedented number of recalls happen in the toy market. As I write this, Mattel, the world's largest toy company, is trying to scrub its tarnished image clean after several high-profile recalls on toys manufactured in China that may contain poisonous levels of lead in their paint." - Brenda Watson and Leonard Smith, The Detox Strategy: Vibrant Health in 5 Easy Steps (Get the book.)

"It has been demonstrated that chemicals from Teflon coated aluminum cookware can actually penetrate the food as it cooks.16 There is a great deal of research which shows how high levels of aluminum (along with other heavy metals like mercury) affect our health and is even suspected to play a role in the development of Alzheimer's.17 While aluminum in the body can come from many sources other than cookware, it just makes sense to switch to high-quality, stainless steel cookware that does not release any metals when heated." - Pat Sullivan, Wellness Piece by Piece: How a Successful Entrepreneur Discovered the Pieces to His Chronic Health Puzzle (Get the book.)

"It's okay to use cookware that has an aluminum core, as long as the food never touches the aluminum itself. • Fluoride. If there's any way to keep it out of your city water supply, fight to do that. If it's already there, you have to make sure you remove it at your house so that it doesn't make it into your drinking water, bath, or shower. Also, you'll probably want to avoid fluoride toothpastes, and you'll definitely want to avoid fluoride "treatments" from your dentist. • Mercury fillings." - Jon Barron, Lessons from The Miracle Doctors: A Step-by-Step Guide to Optimum Health and Relief from Catastrophic Illness (Get the book.)

"Cookware Different materials used in cookware present different health issues: • Aluminum cookware is safe. According to the FDA, the amount of aluminum consumed from the use of aluminum cookware is negligible. Using uncoated aluminum pans for all cooking and food storage every day would release less aluminum than the amount in a single antacid tablet or buffered aspirin (see Chapter 5, "The Brain and Nervous System.") • Nonstick finishes on pots and pans, such as polytetrafluoroethylene (Teflon) or Silver-stone, can be cleaned quickly and easily and require less fat for nonstick cooking." - Arthur C. Upton, M.D., Staying Healthy in a Risky Environment: The New York University Medical Center Family Guide (Get the book.)

"PREPARATION AND SERVING SUGGESTIONS: • Do not cook tomatoes with aluminum cookware because their acid will interact with the metal and may cause the aluminum to leech into the food. • Add sliced tomatoes to your sandwiches and salads. • Make salsa, soups, or add tomato juice to rice to make Spanish rice. My dad says you have to let a pasta sauce cook for at least an hour so the sauce clings to the pasta. This recipe contains seven powerhouse foods. ingredients: Noni's Marinara Sauce by Arthur Grotto Servings: 8 four-ounce servings • Prep time: 20 minutes Cooking time: At least 1 hour." - David W. Grotto, RD, LDN, 101 Foods That Could Save Your Life! (Get the book.)

"Five hundred years later, real estate agent William Pitt, specializing in Connecticut mansions, uses it as the company's logo, as does high-end cookware store Williams-Sonoma. Certain Super 8 Motel owners advertise themselves as Pineapple Kind of People because pineapples are "the pinnacle of perfection in the hospitality industry." Fruit hunting has a storied legacy. One of the earliest European flora explorers was William Dampier, a distinguished pirate who swashbuck-led through the Isthmus of Darien and down the Colombian coast." - Adam Leith Gollne, The Fruit Hunters: A Story of Nature, Adventure, Commerce and Obsession (Get the book.)

"It is also found in our water, cookware, foil wrap, and most underarm deodorants. Up until recently, mercury, in the form of thimerosal, was the most common disinfectant placed in vaccines (and is still in most flu vaccines) and contact-lens fluid. Other studies "prove" that mercury exposure from vaccines is harmless.29 Or is it? A recent CDC study in the New England Journal of Medicine appears to have been designed to show no harm. Notably: 1. They excluded all kids with autism from the study! These are the kids with the genetic susceptibilities to problems." - Mark Hyman MD, The UltraMind Solution: Fix Your Broken Brain by Healing Your Body First (Get the book.)

"Use glass, cast iron, carbon steel, titanium, and enamel cookware. PVC shower-curtains: They emit a strong smell can cause serious damage to your liver as well as to the nervous, reproductive, and respiratory systems. The smell comes from deadly chemicals, including toluene, ethylbenzene, phenol, methyl isobutyl ketone, xylene, acetophenone, and cumene, all named dangerous air pollutants by the EPA. Polyvinyl chloride (PVC) shower curtains are sold at Kmart, Bed, Bath and Beyond, WalMart, Sears, and Target. " - Andreas Moritz, Cancer Is Not A Disease - It's A Survival Mechanism (Get the book.)

"Don't use iron cookware. • Don't take more than 500 mg of vitamin C each day until your ferritin level has fallen. This otherwise wonderful vitamin can promote iron absorption. • Check your water supply, which may be high in iron. Consider using a water filter to eliminate excess iron. Hormones for Your Heart The hormone system that orchestrates the countless chemical interactions inside our bodies takes a big hit as we age. Hormone output slowly but steadily drops, including the sex hormones estrogen and testosterone." - Stephen Sinatra, M.D. and James C., M.D. Roberts, Reverse Heart Disease Now: Stop Deadly Cardiovascular Plaque Before It's Too Late (Get the book.)

"Also, kids shouldn't be exposed to aluminum cook-ware, or to nonstick cookware that may be eroding. There's no easy way to deal with these widespread sources of toxins, but seriously ill children should be spared from the further damage that these toxic chemicals can inflict. • Vaccinations with Mercury. A final element of toxification that children should not be exposed to is mercury that is in vaccinations. Most flu vaccinations still contain mercury, and those that do contain mercury should not be given to children or pregnant women." - Kenneth Bock, Healing the New Childhood Epidemics: Autism, ADHD, Asthma, and Allergies: The Groundbreaking Program for the 4-A Disorders (Get the book.)

"Teflon is manufactured with a chemical known as per-fluorooctanoic acid, or PFOA—as are other nonstick cookware, car parts, flooring, computer chips, phone cables, Stainmaster carpet guard, upholstery, clothing, grease-resistant french fry boxes, and disposable coffee cups like the ones you get at your local coffee shop. PFOA can also now be found in blood samples of 96 percent of people in the United States. It does not break down in the environment and has a half-life of 4.4 years in humans." - Donna Jackson Nakazawa, The Autoimmune Epidemic (Get the book.)

"And thanks to the significant amounts of aluminum found in food emulsifiers, antiperspirant deodorants, hair sprays, baking powder, many toothpastes, much of our drinking water, and most of our cookware, we are exposed to quite a lot of aluminum over the course of our lives. There has been much speculation, therefore, that aluminum may be one of the prime factors in the onset of Alzheimer's disease." - Jon Barron, Lessons from The Miracle Doctors: A Step-by-Step Guide to Optimum Health and Relief from Catastrophic Illness (Get the book.)

"The bottom line: if you want to be healthy, throw away all nonstick cookware. Remember, science is not better than nature. ANTIBIOTICS I want to start with the bottom line—never, ever, ever take antibiotics unless you are about to die. That's right. Unless you have days to live, never take antibiotics. Antibiotics should virtually never be taken. Why? Well, consider this—when a doctor prescribed antibiotics did he ever perform a test to determine if you had a bacterial infection?" - Kevin Trudeau, More Natural Cures Revealed: Previously Censored Brand Name Products That Cure Disease (Get the book.)

"Do not use nonstick cookware. When nonstick cookware is heated to a high temperature it emits toxic fumes that can kill a small animal such as a bird! These toxic fumes, when inhaled by humans, lead to respiratory disease, weakening of the immune system, cancer, depression, asthma, headaches, and a multitude of other health problems. 17. Eat only organic, kosher meat and poultry. This subject is incredibly complex. Oprah Winfrey had a show devoted to the meat industry, and was sued for expressing her opinions. She won. Any meat or poultry that is not organic and kosher is incredibly toxic." - Kevin Trudeau, Natural Cures They Don't Want You to Know About (Get the book.)

"Other Uses Horsetail is fibrous and has been used to polish wood, arrowheads, cookware, and metals. The powdered stems were once placed in moccasins or shoes to prevent foot cramps from traveling long distances. The Missouri Indians wove the plant into mats. Horsetail tea is used to water plants as a nourishing tonic and to strengthen those susceptible to mildew and blight such as roses and tomatoes." - Brigitte Mars, A.H.G., The Desktop Guide to Herbal Medicine: The Ultimate Multidisciplinary Reference to the Amazing Realm of Healing Plants, in a Quick-study, One-stop Guide (Get the book.) "Avoid making tea in cookware made from aluminum and copper, which are soft metals that tend to erode and may also have neurotoxic effects on the body. The best choices for kettles and other tea-making equipment are glass, cast iron, stainless steel, and enamel. Simply bring a cup of cold water to a boil, and remove it from the heat. Add about one heaping teaspoon of herb tea per cup of water, cover and allow it to steep for ten to twenty minutes. To make a more medicinal blend, use up to one ounce of herbs per pint of water. Allow the herbs to steep for twenty minutes to several hours." - Brigitte Mars, A.H.G., The Desktop Guide to Herbal Medicine: The Ultimate Multidisciplinary Reference to the Amazing Realm of Healing Plants, in a Quick-study, One-stop Guide (Get the book.)

"KITCHEN COOKWARE (See page 138.) þ cookware is glass, stainless steel, or ceramic. þ You do not use aluminum pots and pans or nonstick cookware. þ You do not use imported pottery with lead-based paint. 10 þ You do not use plastic or Styrofoam drinking glasses. þ You use a steamer to cook vegetables. þ Food is not stored in plastic containers. COUNTERTOPS (See page 138.) þ There are heat-resistant surfaces—ceramic tile or stainless steel—next to the oven/range. þ All surfaces are hard and smooth with well-sealed joints so moisture and food wastes do not get trapped in the seams." - Linda Mason Hunter, The Healthy Home: An Attic-to-Basement Guide to Toxin-Free Living (Get the book.)

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