Is any food safe to eat?

Good fats. Bad fats. Good cholesterol. Bad cholesterol. If trying to figure out what is healthy and what is not wasn’t confusing enough, recent headlines have put even more fear about food in our mouths. E. coli, mad cow disease, mercury-laden seafood. With warnings all around us, we spend a good deal of our time these days worrying about what’s in our food. It turns out that what’s not in our food is becoming just as important.

Eating out in restaurants and grabbing fast food adds lots of unnecessary fat and calories to your diet. It also makes it more difficult to manage your weight. But cooking at home has its problems, too. When you cook using conventional pots and pans, many essential vitamins and minerals are lost in the process. How? As food is being cooked, the process causes oxidation and food molecules are transformed into free radicals. In the human body, free radicals cause cell damage, which can lead to premature aging.