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Aug
Gas Health Risk Cooking. With proper ventilation cooking on a gas hob unlikely to increase cancer risk. Evidence from peer reviewed studies on air quality and stove emissions provides significant cause for concern about the air we breathe while cooking over a gas stove and the impact that may have on our health said Andee Krasner MPH program manager for Greater Boston Physicians for Social Responsibility and one of the report authors. Cancer risks of cooking on a gas hob overplayed. Nitrogen dioxide the primary gas stove pollutant produced both on the cooktop and oven has the potential to trigger the following health effects particularly in children.
Studies have found a robust association between NO2 from gas cooking and increased risk of respiratory illness in children such as asthma wheezing and. Gas cooking increases your risk both of getting asthma and worsening existing asthma report author Dr Kate Charlesworth told News Corp. Cancer risks of cooking on a gas hob overplayed. EHP Cooking Up Indoor Air Pollution. Despite this morning s headlines suggesting that cooking on a gas stove could lead to cancer its not exactly time to abandon your pots and pans or to trade the gas oven in for an electric one. Although cooking food on any stove produces particulate pollutants burning.
According to Dr Mark Niewenhuijsen from the Imperial College in London cooking gas fumes can have a high concentration level in the home.
Burning gas at home can harm our childrens health. Although cooking food on any stove produces particulate pollutants burning. Gas stoves are great for cooking but beware - they emit chemicals that are harming your health. For now induction cooktops are generally more expensive than gas stoves. Nitrogen dioxide the primary gas stove pollutant produced both on the cooktop and oven has the potential to trigger the following health effects particularly in children. Whether for cooking laundry or heating gas is harmful.