| Dangerous Cookware - How It Can Affect
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| | types of cookware are to health and
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| Your Baby's Food
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| | research has yet to come up with any
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| 06th March 2007
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| | conclusive evidence. Some experts think
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| Author: Christine Albury
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| | that the risk is very low, or that only
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| When preparing homemade baby food, we
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| | people who are sensitive to certain
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| parents are always careful to ensure that
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| | materials will react unfavourably.
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| the foods we choose are healthy and
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| | But what would be considered a small risk
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| appropriate for our babies. Something
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| | to an adult may be significantly greater
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| that many of us overlook, however, is the
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| | to a baby, so it's probably a good idea
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| suitability of the pots we're cooking in
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| | to look to safer cookware alternatives
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| -- yet the fact is that cookware made
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| | when cooking for your little one.
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| from certain materials may not be ideal
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| | - Cooking with iron cookware is actually
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| for the preparation of baby food.
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| | beneficial to health. When you cook
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| - Unlined or uninsulated copper pots
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| | acidic foods (like tomatoes) in iron
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| should not be used to cook your baby's
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| | pots, the foods actually "pull" the iron
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| food. This is because copper destroys
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| | from the pot. This boosts the important
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| both vitamins C and E and also the folic
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| | dietary iron in your baby's food.
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| acid in the food. In addition, acidic
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| | - The FDA's Center for Food Safety and
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| foods cooked in copper pots can contain
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| | Applied Nutrition consider ceramic, glass
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| toxic levels of copper.
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| | and enameled cookware to be safe. You
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| - Aluminum pots are also believed to be
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| | should avoid using older enameled
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| unsafe for cooking your baby's food.
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| | cookware, though, because it may contain
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| Acidic foods cooked in aluminum pots can
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| | cadmium. Cadmium is a toxic substance
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| dissolve very small quantities of
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| | which is no longer used in the
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| aluminum, which may then be absorbed into
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| | manufacture of cookware in the US. You
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| the food. Anodized aluminum cookware is a
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| | should also be careful of glazed ceramic
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| safer alternative, because the the
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| | cookware from overseas, where the
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| anodizing process "locks" the aluminum
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| | regulations for the inclusion of cadmium
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| into the cookware.
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| | and lead in cookware may not be as
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| - Stainless steel cookware is made up of
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| | stringent.
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| a mixture of different metals. It is
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| | For the sake of your baby's health AND
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| generally considered to be very safe --
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| | your own, always make sure that your
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| but you shouldn't use it to cook your
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| | cookware is kept in very good condition -
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| baby's food if it is particularly pitted
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| | and don't use pots that are cracked,
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| or dented. You should also avoid
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| | peeling, chipped or pitted.
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| scrubbing your stainless steel cookware
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| | Christine Albury is a mother of four and
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| with an abrasive substance, because this
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| | the author of Homemade Baby Food Recipes
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| can cause small quantities of nickel and
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| | - your complete guide to solid feeding
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| chromium to be released into food.
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| | during baby's first year. Christine
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| - You should avoid cooking your baby's
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| | writes for many other parenting sites and
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| food in non-stick pans because the
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| | a regional UK magazine. Homemade Baby
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| non-stick coating may chip off and end up
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| | Food Recipes, which was recently featured
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| in the food. It is also believed that
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| | by the BBC, includes a very active blog -
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| toxic fumes can be released by heating a
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| | keeping parents up to date with all
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| non-stick pan to a very high temperature.
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