Sunday, September 9, 2012

Common synthetic chemical tied to higher heart disease - Chicago Tribune

Common synthetic "non-stick" chemical tied to higher heart disease - Chicago Tribune:
"Unlike a lot of other environment contaminants, these chemicals were considered to be inert," Shankar said.
 Mukherjee, who wrote a commentary on the new study. . . s said people can check labels to make sure household products don't contain PFOA or toxic fluorocarbons in general.
. . .all Americans have some level of PFOA in their blood.
I no longer cook in non-stick pans.  Will this research change your consumption or use of non-stick products?

SOURCE: http://bit.ly/Uprco6 Archives of Internal Medicine, online September 3, 2012.

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