10 reasons microwaves are NOT good?!?!

[GreenEyedLady]

Has anyone ever read anything on this?



http://www.progesterone.com/microwave_hazards.html




Ten Reasons not to Use Your Microwave Oven

Based on Swiss, Russian and German clinical studies




Continually eating food processed from a microwave oven causes long term, permanent, brain damage by "shorting out" electrical impulses in the brain [de-polarizing or de-magnetizing the brain tissue].
The human body cannot metabolize [break down] the unknown by-products created in micro-waved food.
Male and female hormone production is shut down and/or altered by continually eating micro-waved foods.
The effects of micro-waved food by-products are residual [long term, permanent] within the human body.
Minerals, vitamins, and nutrients of all micro-waved food is reduced or altered so that the human body gets little or no benefit, or the human body absorbs altered compounds that cannot be broken down.
The minerals in vegetables are altered into cancerous free radicals when cooked in a microwave oven.
Micro-waved foods cause stomach and intestinal cancerous growths [tumors]. This has been a primary contributor to the rapidly increased rate of colon cancer in the United States.
The prolonged eating of micro-waved foods causes cancerous cells to increase in human blood.
Continual ingestion of micro-waved food causes immune system deficiencies through lymph gland and blood serum alterations.
Eating micro-waved food causes loss of memory, concentration, emotional instability, and a decrease of intelligence.

[tygerkittn]

It's been debunked on www.snopes.com. just search for microwave. All microwaves do is heat food.
Now I wouldn't stand in front of one that's been dropped, it could be "leaking" microwave radiation, but that's the only way it could hurt you.

[GreenEyedLady]

OK then!
I was a little worried there.

[No2Flesh]

Yeah me too...we practically live off the microwave.

[Larry]

Yes, microwave ovens are dangerous. Don't trust everything you find on snopes either.

Here's a whole list of sites than warn of the dangers.

In short, microwaves distort the moleclular structure of the foods. They destroy much of the nutrients and cause many other problems with the immune system ...

http://www.google.com/search?client=firefox-a&rls=org.mozilla%3Aen-US%3Aofficial&channel=s&hl=en&q=dangers+of+microwave+ovens&btnG=Google+Search

[icebear]

just reading the first one i knew it was foolish

de-magnetizing the brain?

lucky i don't find myself mysteriously stuck to the fridge!

[CHRISTinCheryl]

Well I did just hear from a nutritional doc on christian Tv that they do destroy all the enzymes in the food....

[Just A Clay Pot]

I've worked with all sorts of RF (radio frequency), including microwave, for many years. All a microwave oven does is impart an increased energy into the molecules of a substance when those molecules resonate at the frequency of the microwaves. Water molecules resonate at these frequencies, so they pick up the energy of the microwaves and convert them to heat energy.

The only time that I could see a dangerous situation taking place is where a substance (probably a food container more often than not) can have a chemical bond broken by the energy.

I would recommend microwave-safe glass containers when ever possible. Paper containers are OK occasionally, but paper does use chemicals that might, maybe, on a chance be released. Avoid plastic (even microwave safe) when possible.

Breakdown chemicals could be a hazard. Radiation (from a leaky door) would be a bigger concern to me (a cheap microwave detector from Radio Shack is a smart investment.) But, everything said and done, I'll still take a nuked hot dog any place any time.

[tygerkittn]

Yes, microwave ovens are dangerous. Don't trust everything you find on snopes either.

Here's a whole list of sites than warn of the dangers.



http://www.google.com/search?client=firefox-a&rls=org.mozilla%3Aen-US%3Aofficial&channel=s&hl=en&q=dangers+of+microwave+ovens&btnG=Google+Search

So does heating food conventionally. You want full nutrients you have to eat it raw. Microwaving doesn't alter food any more radically than baking, frying or boiling etc.
I researched this after Rense.com started warning about microwaves, they had me scared silly.
That's why you steam veggies, boiling destroys the nutrients.

[icebear]

Well I did just hear from a nutritional doc on christian Tv that they do destroy all the enzymes in the food....


i would not be surprised at that :)

i'm sure that it gets so hot in cooking that much is destroyed...