The ecology of cuisine: how to make kitchen safer

The kitchen is the most visited and the most harmful place in the apartment. Just imagine: the products of combustion of gas, high humidity, radiation from the microwave, the harm household chemicals, odors and infections in the bins.

How to minimize the damage from staying in the kitchen?

The damage from the gas stove and cooking process

If the kitchen is a gas stove, do not avoid harmful substances generated during combustion: oxides of carbon, sulfur dioxide, carcinogens, and more. And when cooking, especially when frying meat, formed of substances with toxic properties: formaldehyde, ammonia, acrolein, etc.

We breathe in all these hazard while spinning around the pots of steaming food. Part of the substances deposited on the plate, and the part hangs in the air. All this adversely affects the health of our body and leads to headaches, fatigue, palpitations.

How to reduce the risks?— As often as possible to ventilate, and if possible, keep the window always ajar. Keep the kitchen door closed while cooking.
— Install the hood, which will involve not only the combustion, but also toxic substances released during cooking.
To replace a gas stove to electric, thereby eliminating the excess carbon dioxide.

High humidity

Preparing food in the kitchen, have you noticed how fogged up the Windows? And after some time can start to move away Wallpaper on the ceiling. This affects humidity.
Pots steam with pillar tap for a long time splashing water several times a day, and already the air in the kitchen contains excess moisture. Besides, it is rare when the kitchen is cold: a continuously running gas and electric stoves make the air temperature in the kitchen increased, plus high humidity, and you begin to notice frequent headaches, fatigue, dizziness and possibly even diseases of the upper respiratory tract.
Humidity and air temperature in the kitchen can lead to the disruption of the balance of heat exchange and metabolism, as a condition to "keep the head cold and the feet warm" is not respected.

How to reduce the risks?

The solution may be installation of a hood and the frequent airing of the room, especially while cooking.

Trash

The bin is fraught not only with the unpleasant smells and attracts insects, is a favorable environment for breeding of flies the kitchen, and contains a variety of microorganisms and spores of moldy fungi.
Repeatedly throwing garbage into the bucket, we lifted into the air these tiny microorganisms and inhaled in ourselves, and it can cause allergies, asthma and skin problems.

How to reduce the risks?

To protect yourself from various infections, it is recommended to carry a bucket every two days, and try to hold your breath, emptying a bucket or throwing it in the garbage. It is also desirable to use special trash bags as often as possible to wash the bucket.

The harm of microwave ovens

Microwave is now virtually indispensable, but it can cause harm to our body.In operation, the microwave radiates electric and magnetic waves of the microwave range, which is similar to the radiation of the mobile phone, but many times stronger.
Frequent use of the microwave, several hours a day and standing near a working microwave oven can have a negative impact on our health: microwaves affect the thyroid gland, visual organs and the nervous system.

How to reduce the risks?

Of course, special glass on the microwave door and frequent metal mesh inside to protect us from the lion's share of this radiation is, however, preferable to be from a working microwave oven at a distance of 1 meter. Also it is not recommended to install a microwave on the dining room table and be in close proximity to it during cooking.

Harm from household chemicals

Already for anybody not a secret that practically all household chemicals are harmful. Consider this for example, liquid for washing dishes.

This detergent contains caustic alkali that effectively fight fat, but not fully washed with water. As a result, all this "chemistry" is in our stomach that leads to ulcers, gastritis and allergies.
Some cleaning products contain chlorine, formaldehyde and other harmful substances that can irritate the skin, inflammation of mucous membranes of the eyes, difficulty breathing, not to mention the harm caused to internal organs: stomach, kidneys, liver, lungs.

How to reduce the risks?

To reduce the harm of the liquid for washing dishes, listen to the following recommendations:
-It is advisable never to use detergent or do it as little as possible.
-After use, rinse the dishes thoroughly.
-Follow the instructions and do not spray cleaner liberally onto the sponge.
-Use household gloves.
-Try folk methods, such as mustard

Dangerous furniture

Most of the furniture made of particleboard, fiberboard, made of polymers, synthetic materials, paints and varnishes, emit chemicals that are harmful to health: formaldehyde, phenol, ammonia, benzene and many others. Linoleum, carpets made from synthetic, plastic — so little natural left in our apartments, and, in particular, in the kitchen!
In an effort to make the renovation with the use of plastic materials, we think little about our health. Meanwhile, artificial materials lead to problems with sleep, headaches, fatigue and other unpleasant consequences.

How to reduce the risks?

Try to buy furniture made of natural material, no clutter furniture in the apartment and ventilate the room frequently. published

P. S. And remember, only by changing their consumption — together we change the world! ©

 

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