The Future of Food Film

It's a sad commentary on our society when even foods that we should be free to assume are healthy, aren't. By now I think most people have heard of GMOs-- or Genetically Modified Organisms, but I wonder how many of us realize what they really are and how they affect us. I know I learned quite a few things I didn't already know when I watched the film, "The Future of Food." If you are reading this, I would request that you would watch the first six minutes of this documentary. In it's full-length it's about an hour and a half. I'm just asking that you watch until the 5:55 time appears on the bottom of the viewer. If you eat food everyday, these issues affect you.



From Hulu:
"The Future Of Food offers an in-depth investigation into the disturbing truth behind engineered foods that have quietly filled U.S. grocery store shelves for the past decade."

Teflon, Aluminum, Silicone and Non-stick Cookware

I found this article online called Safe, Healthy and Non-Leaching Cookware. There are any number of articles written on the web that address this topic, but I felt like this one was fairly concise.

Kitchen plastics

The Mount Sinai School of Medicine suggests that people avoid using plastics in the kitchen--particularly plastics labeled 3, 6, and 7, unless they are marked as BPA-free. They recommend that consumers do not use any plastics (whatever the number) in the dishwasher or microwave. The reason? Several kitchen plastics contain endocrine disrupters, which can cause or contribute to disease and certain types of cancer.
If you use plastic spoons or utensils to cook with, don't leave them in the pot while you're cooking (the heated plastic can leech BPA into the food), instead use a spoon rest--better yet, switch out your plastics to glass, wood, stainless steel or other natural materials.

Information reported in Reader's Digest Feb. 2010, pg. 21.