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Eating microwave popcorn increases the level of PFAS in body (2022)

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Post by light_hue_1 »

hospitalJail wrote: post #313
f5ve wrote: post #292

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It removes flouride as well, for better or worse -- one of very few available filters which do. (Some think flouride is good and some think it's bad.) I have it, and purely ergonomically, it's the best filter I've ever used. It's also quite expensive with expensive filters that need replacing frequently.

If you brush your teeth with toothpaste, it shouldn't matter.

That's simply untrue. Even with brushing with toothpaste is still eliminates an extra 25% of tooth decay. That's a lot of extra teeth!

It keeps fluoride in your saliva. Which toothpaste cannot do.

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Post by mchanson »

Octokiddie wrote: post #322

> A study published in 2019 analyzed a decade of data about the eating habits of 10,000 people, which was collected by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention between 2003 and 2014. Blood samples from the study participants were also collected. The researchers found that people who ate microwave popcorn every day over the course of a year had levels of PFAS that were up to 63% higher than average. 1. Is it too…

Most people stove top pop in a 8 or 10 qt pot. These are typically for making pasta, boiling potatoes, soups, or stews. Usually bare metal or enameled cast iron. No PFAs.

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Post by ambicapter »

gumby wrote: post #192
autoexec wrote: post #139

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I guess it'd depend on what the agent was, but either way, it means some amount of the salt you're pouring over your food isn't salt. Eliminate the non-salt from your salt and you never have to worry about what might be wrong with it or how much non-salt you're paying for. That's the reason I've switched to shredding my own parmesan cheese instead of just shaking it out of a can since the cans in some cases contain ~…

Table salt is just sea salt (the stuff mined from underground just comes from an ocean that dried up a few million years ago) and is full of other compounds beyond NaCl.

I just bought salt and the ingredient list (sadly) is: sea salt, tricalcium phosphate (free-flowing agent), dextrose, potassium iodide.

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Post by oh_sigh »

zo1 wrote: post #268
op00to wrote: post #227

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My conjecture: salt grinders create more irregular shapes than provided by commercially made table salt. Irregular shapes mean more surface area, which means faster absorption into the body, which means tastier food. Totally without evidence.

I'm a big fan of tomatoes, and one of my favorite dishes is sliced tomatoes, salted, and eaten with cheese. For some reason, normal salt just sticks on the top of the tomato despite it being wet and I can "taste" the salt not just saltiness. However, with crunched salt crystals, they basically dissolve and disappear into the moisture of the tomato. This just tastes better too. Don't ask me why or how it all happens,…

Probably the anti-caking agents in the normal salt absorb some of the wetness and have it stay clumped up instead of diffusing through the tomato liquid

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Post by ceejayoz »

InvaderFizz wrote: post #142
askvictor wrote: post #89

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Out of interest, why do you prefer a salt grinder? I've never understood why these exist. Pepper grinders, absolutely - the aromatics are released on grinding. By not so with salt. Curious if I'm missing something.

I prefer course grained and no anti caking agents or iodine added. It's nothing special, some no-name Himalayan pink salt in a plastic grinder.

You're swapping caking agents and iodine for... a hefty list. (In both cases, less than really makes a difference to human health.)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Himalayan_salt

> Some salts mined in Pakistan are not suitable for food or industrial use without purification due to impurities... Although a study of pink salts commercially available in Australia showed Himalayan salt to contain higher levels of a range of elements, including calcium, iron, magnesium, manganese, potassium, aluminum, barium, silicon, and sulfur, and reduced levels of sodium, compared to table salt, the authors concluded that "exceedingly high intake" (a level in excess of the recommended daily salt intake by almost 600%) would be required for the differences to be clinically significant, levels at which any potential nutritional benefit would be outweighed by the risks of elevated sodium consumption such an intake would entail.

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Post by mrguyorama »

CaptainZapp wrote: post #211
sideproject wrote: post #186

An oncologist in my family anecdotally told me how her patients are getting younger and younger - speculates (with research) that lots of food chemicals might be contributing. Since the beginning of this year, our family has been much more conscious of the ingredients in the food labels. Lots of additives with many different numbers. We've been trying to get back to more natural things with less numbers. We bought br…

Don't eat anything your great-grandmother wouldn't recognize as food. Michael Pollan

My great grandmother was a housewife in the 50s so that would include things like a "salad" made of mayo and nuts on a banana or a jello dish full of tuna.

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Post by mrguyorama »

redox99 wrote: post #127
riffraff wrote: post #102

> people who ate microwave popcorn every day over the course of a year had levels of PFAS that were up to 63% higher than average. You're probably fine if you have microwave popcorn once a fortnight, tho as other said you can use a pan or pot just fine.

Eating microwave popcorn every single day seems kind of insane lol

I did it because I was doing stuff that caused me to get "the munchies" every night and a 440 calorie bag of popcorn was better for my health than an entire family sized bag of chips every night.

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Post by verall »

oniony wrote: post #308
hutzlibu wrote: post #273

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"spinach" nope and of almonds not too many either. But my point is, sodium ferrocyanide intake is not beneficial, (unlike ordinary sodium). Even if it might do no harm, why should I risk even little harm? And with adding up, well there is a whole libary of other toxic or potentially toxic additives in the normal food you can buy. I prefer to minimize the potential bad intake, that's all.

Also watch out for the arsenic in rice. Some people don't each rice for this reason, but I just eat around it.

It adds to the richness IMO.
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