Can Cooking With Gas Increase Cancer Risk
Investigators in Norway suggest that cooking with a gas stove may increase your risk of getting cancer. Is this a spurious association or is there a basis of credibility to this claim? The researchers found that cooking with a gas stove produces fumes of groups of chemicals that are considered to have a higher potential for causing cancer (carcinogens or mutagens) than those fumes produced by an electric stove. A report in the February 2010 online issue of Occupational…
