More than a year after the FDA urged companies to ban the use of PFOA, the chemical used in making Teflon, reports of new toxic side effects keep on coming.

Of course, DuPont experts defended their toxic product, noting that many chemicals were detected in the blood samples of infants, but they were small and well within normal ranges. If the study results prove to be true, what does that say about the normal ranges of PFOA exposure that make the birth weights of babies fall?

Just a warning that the containers of many of the useless, health-harming processed foods you see in the grocery store, ranging from candy bars to French fry boxes to microwave popcorn, are lined with Teflon.

I urge you to take matters into your own hands by enacting a personal ban on cookware and paper products tainted with PFOA. The first step is to toss out every pan in your house that has Teflon on it.

The moment you heat the pan is starts to vaporize and this toxic chemical will go into your bloodstream. I know it is hard to believe, but it is true. It took me a few years to become convinced, but once you are you have no logical choice but to throw those pans out and never buy another one.

Many have asked me about alternatives to Teflon. Some have pointed out a non-stick, ceramic-coated titanium that is clearly not Teflon. For the last two years I have been working on an inexpensive alternative to Le Creuset enameled cast iron cookware, which is one of the best non-Teflon cookware brands on the market. If you haven't yet seen the video I did on this please watch it now.

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