It’s been known for some time that many non-stick cooking surfaces contain materials that have a proven record for causing serious illness and death in laboratory animals and human beings. For example, DuPont has been sued for damages done to the environment as well as people with damages estimated in the hundreds of millions of dollars. Some say Teflon is more harmful to the environment than the well-known pesticide DDT. Who knew Teflon could be so expensive? Other non-stick materials, like those used in Calphalon and other “resilient” non-stick surfaces have been linked to breast cancer, tumors, nausea, vomiting and more.
The New England Journal of Medicine published an alert to the dangers of cooking with aluminum citing growing evidence that aluminum is directly linked to the occurence of Alzhemier’s diease. Aluminum is found in almost all cookware, especially non-stick, with the exceptions of cast iron pots and pans or stainless steel. The worst part is, these non-stick surfaces don’t need to be old, scratched or flaking to leech poisonous metals into food. They do it from day one.
