Microwaves are a feature in nearly every American home. Yet their dangers are well documented. You can do your own home experiment to understand the hazards of microwaving. Plant seeds in two pots. Water one pot with microwaved water and the other pot with regular tap water. The seeds that received microwaved water won't sprout. If microwaved water can stop plants from growing, then imagine what microwaved food is doing to your body.
A Swiss study led by biologist and food scientist Dr. Hans Hertel identified the effects of microwaved food. For eight weeks, eight people lived in a controlled environment and intermittently ate raw foods, conventionally cooked foods and microwaved foods. Blood samples were tested after each meal. The microwaved food caused significant changes in blood chemistry.
In Russia, microwave ovens were banned in 1976 because of their negative effect on health and wellbeing.
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Friday, April 25, 2008
Dangers of Microwave Ovens
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2 comments:
This is bogus:
http://www.snopes.com/science/microwave/plants.asp
Also microwave ovens were illegal in the 1970s, but now are widely available. Not may people can pay for them though.
I would have hoped for some research from you before posting these things. I'm not sure the radiation is all that safe, but exaggerating claims does not help.
Thanks for your interest and stand on truth. I'm on the same platform with you there.
I use Snopes.com regularly, but the site that I referenced with the article is one that I thought did their homework well, so considering Snopes.com never crossed my mind.
Actually I wasn't too surprised at the possible results since I had been told similar information, presented in the post / article. in the early 80's when we were considering a microwave. It was enough to make us avoid them, which we have continued to do for the last 20 years. We've lived in homes with them, but use the space for storage. In this home, it's our "herbal tea cabinet."
I found the site that was done on the original science project. From the photos it's what Snopes is presenting:
www.execonn.com/sf/
I also found a You Tube video made by a woman who didn't believe this could be true, so she did her own experiment with similar results - obviously it can also be hype:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=_rlJL-2R7TA&NR=1
There are a bunch of comments on this video and much discussion on any information to do with microwaves since it is hard for people to allow themselves to believe information like this when lifestyles depend so heavily on it.
Dr. Mercola's website has an article with a lot of information. This is one small segment related to plants and food:
No test food was subjected to more microwaving than necessary to accomplish the purpose, i.e., cooking, thawing, or heating to insure sanitary ingestion. Here's a summary of some of the results:
Microwaving prepared meats sufficiently to insure sanitary ingestion caused formation of d-Nitrosodienthanolamines, a well-known carcinogen.
Microwaving milk and cereal grains converted some of their amino acids into carcinogens.
Thawing frozen fruits converted their glucoside and galactoside containing fractions into carcinogenic substances.
Extremely short exposure of raw, cooked or frozen vegetables converted their plant alkaloids into carcinogens.
Carcinogenic free radicals were formed in microwaved plants, especially root vegetables.
Decrease in nutritional value
Russian researchers also reported a marked acceleration of structural degradation leading to a decreased food value of 60 to 90% in all foods tested. Among the changes observed were:
Deceased bio-availability of vitamin B complex, vitamin C, vitamin E, essential minerals and lipotropics factors in all food tested.
Various kinds of damaged to many plant substances, such as alkaloids, glucosides, galactosides and nitrilosides.
The degradation of nucleo-proteins in meats.
View the entire article here:
www.mercola.com/article/microwave/hazards.htm
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