One in two people living in the UK people will develop cancer in their lifetime – a startling prediction. However, the good news is that 38 percent of cancer cases are preventable. Ditching a certain practice when reheating your meals may also lower your risk.
The charity explains that if you heat plastic, it can leach chemicals.
The main concern is that these chemicals can get into your food and drink.
One harmful chemical causing concern in particular is called bisphenol A (BPA).
Breastcancer.org states: “Research also strongly suggests that at certain exposure levels, some of the chemicals in these products, such as bisphenol A (BPA), may cause cancer in people.”
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BPA can be found in various plastic products, ranging from food storage containers to the shiny side of your paper receipts.
BPA is an environmental oestrogen and its oestrogen-like activity makes it a hormone disruptor, the charity explains.
They add: ”Hormone disruptors can affect how oestrogen and other hormones act in the body, by blocking them or mimicking them, which throws off the body’s hormonal balance.
“Because oestrogen can make hormone receptor-positive breast cancer develop and grow, many women choose to limit their exposure to these chemicals that can act like oestrogen.”
Cancer Research UK states that using plastics doesn’t increase the risk of cancer.
They stress that even reheating food in plastics for hours at a time won’t pose a risk and the food is “safe to eat”.
In the UK, the Food Standard Agency is supposed to ensure that all plastics used for food and drink are safe.
However, BPA has been also associated with obesity, diabetes and reproductive issues apart from cancer, according to the National Library of Medicine.
The United States Food and Drug Administration recommends to use plastic containers in a microwave only when they are labelled as safe for such use.
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