Just Say No to Microwave Popcorn
This really depressed me. One of my favorite foods is one of the three you should never eat, according to a new study . It's microwave popcorn. Apparently, there's some chemical in it that causes respiratory problems, along with other distressing illnesses. " Perfluorooctanoic acid (PFOA) lines the popcorn bag and is part of a class of compounds that may be linked to infertility in humans, according to a UCLA study . In animal testing, the chemicals caused liver, testicular and pancreatic cancer – and once the popcorn is microwaved, the chemicals can get into the popcorn," yahoo.com reports. But it's the fumes from the bag that are most toxic. A man who loved to inhale the steam rising from the bag after popping the stuff developed a rare but serious lung condition -- after doing it twice a day for 20 years! He even earned a new disease name -- " popcorn lung ," according to the Huffington Post. Supposedly, if you don't inhale ...