Nonstick Cookware Reviews
Current research shows that eating foods cooked with nonstick cookware cause many health issues. Perfluorinated chemicals (PFCs) is used to make the nonstick material used in nonstick cookware. A common nonstick coating material is called Teflon and is made by Dupont. However there are other non-Teflon products that contain PFCs that are used to make nonstick cookware. Buyer Beware!

Among the health issues caused by PFCs are infertility, liver toxicity and a suppressed immune system. Women with high levels of PFCs in their blood were up to one and a half times more likely to have taken more than a year to conceive or required fertility treatment than those with low levels. The chemicals reduce fertility by affecting levels of female sex hormones. Earlier studies showed that PFCs also impaired fetal growth.

Despite a study published in the journal Human Reproduction, warning that the levels of exposure to the nonstick cookware material – Teflon, reduces fertility, DuPont the said that they evaluated findings from research and concluded that there was no health risk to the general public.

Investigations on the internet about alternative cookware products that offer non-stick cooking without the worries of Teflon brought up a line of cookware from a company called Swiss Diamond which claimed that their pans were made of diamonds and contained no Teflon. Further investigations revealed that even though their product did not containTeflon that it did contain a Teflon like substance that does indeed contain PFCs.

The Swiss Diamond advertising machine goes to great length to convince consumers that the nonstick coating on their pans will stay on and not slough off in your food and that their nonstick coating is safe. However don’t be fooled. No nonstick cookware is safe.

If you are concerned about your health or are pregnant or trying to conceive, you would be wise to avoid nonstick cookware and instead choose a safer bet such as stainless steel cookware that does not leech into your food.

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