Is microwave cooking safe?

Question

Ten Reasons to Throw out your Microwave Oven

From the conclusions of the Swiss, Russian and German scientific clinical studies, we can no longer ignore the microwave oven sitting in our kitchens. Based on this research, we will conclude this article with the following:

1). 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].

2). The human body cannot metabolize [break down] the unknown by-products created in microwaved food.

3). Male and female hormone production is shut down and/or altered by continually eating microwaved foods.

4). The effects of microwaved food by-products are residual [long term, permanent] within the human body.

5). Minerals, vitamins, and nutrients of all microwaved 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.

6). The minerals in vegetables are altered into cancerous free radicals when cooked in microwave ovens.

7). Microwaved foods cause stomach and intestinal cancerous growths [tumors]. This may explain the rapidly increased rate of colon cancer in America.

8). The prolonged eating of microwaved foods causes cancerous cells to increase in human blood.

9). Continual ingestion of microwaved food causes immune system deficiencies through lymph gland and blood serum alterations.

10). Eating microwaved food causes loss of memory, concentration, emotional instability, and a decrease of intelligence.

Have you tossed out your microwave oven yet?

After you throw out your microwave you can use a toaster oven as a replacement. It works well for most and is nearly as quick.

http://www.mercola.com/article/microwave/hazards.htm

http://darrendixon.supanet.com/microwaveovens.htm

http://www.campaignfortruth.com/Eclub/210703/CTM%20-%20microwave.htm

The Swiss clinical study

Dr. Hans Ulrich Hertel, who is now retired, worked as a food scientist for many years with one of the major Swiss food companies that do business on a global scale. A few years ago, he was fired from his job for questioning certain processing procedures that denatured the food.

Hertel's scientific study was done along with Dr. Bernard H. Blanc of the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology and the University Institute for Biochemistry.

In intervals of two to five days, the volunteers in the study received one of the following food variants on an empty stomach: (1) raw milk; (2) the same milk conventionally cooked; (3) pasteurized milk; (4) the same raw milks cooked in a microwave oven; (5) raw vegetables from an organic farm; (6) the same vegetables cooked conventionally; (7) the same vegetables frozen and defrosted in a microwave oven; and (8) the same vegetables cooked in the microwave oven.

Doctors Hertel and Blanc published their results, the authorities reacted. A powerful trade organization, the Swiss Association of Dealers for Electro-apparatuses for Households and Industry, known as FEA, struck swiftly in 1992.

They forced the President of the Court of Seftigen, Canton of Bern, to issue a "gag order" against Drs. Hertel and Blanc. In March 1993, Dr. Hertel was convicted for "interfering with commerce" and prohibited from further publishing his results. However, Dr. Hertel stood his ground and fought this decision over the years.

Not long ago, this decision was reversed in a judgment delivered in Strasbourg, Austria, on August 25, 1998. The European Court of Human Rights held that there had been a violation of Hertel's rights in the 1993 decision.

The European Court of Human Rights also ruled that the "gag order" issued by the Swiss court in 1992 against Dr. Hertel, was contrary to the right to freedom of expression.

SMOKING WAS VERY POPULAR ONCE. PUBLISHING OF RESULTS OF RESEARCH ON THE HARMFUL EFFECTS WAS 'GAGED' BY THE INDUSTRY. THIS HAS BEEN REVEALED NOW.

Answer 1

I have heard that dihydrogen monoxide is dangerous too.

You should warn people about that also.

Answer 2

All a microwave does is throw high intensity radiation which heats water molecules, and in turn heats food. So, this act in itself is not bad for you. What is bad is the junk you can buy at the grocery store that's made for heating in the microwave. More often than not these are horrible for you. Simply heating leftovers isn't bad for you at all, and depending on the food you are heating, it may be good for you. Also, microwaves are pretty good at sterilizing food. Just be sure to take the spoon out before nuking...

Answer 3

Well I don't know about the scientific evidence - but I know that I'm too lazy to take my leftovers and heat them up on the stove. And I also know that Tupperware makes some really great reheating and even cooking products designed to go into the microwave - that don't release toxins like plastic does. :-) We're all damned anyway... if microwaving my food doesn't kill me then something else I do on a daily basis will.... like breathe the air outside....

Answer 4

GREAT QUESTION! I can't stand microwaves & what they are doing to our world & to the people who live in the world surrounded by these deadly waves & the billions who think a world without the microwave is unthinkable. I have noticed that the large grocery stores are now stocking toaster ovens above the frozen food isles. I hope this is a sign of what's to come in our future. Microwaves have ruined many things for many people. We don't really need them! They also cause problems for viewing a television without a cable hook-up. Seeing the waves bleedover onto your television screen should be all the proof anyone needs to actually SEE what goes through our bodies! Most people who think no harm comes from microwaves also believe that diet soda is good for diabetics!

Answer 5

I heard that you´re not supposed to heat food in plastic containers in the microwave due to the carcinogens found in certain plastics that become more harmful at higher temperatures and that you should use glass instead. I never heard of the rest of the allegations.

Answer 6

I threw my microwave away years ago, never very happy using it because of health issues, I always thought that one day someone would find it was linked to the increased rate of cancer although I didn't realise that someone had already done the study. What happened to using an oven? In my opinion microwave cooking is dire anyway. Glad that my daughter hasn' been "contaminated" and definitely wouldn't have sterilised her bottles in it!!

Answer 7

Microwave ovens are safe, they are in a metal case and the glass is screened with a mesh to prevent the escape of microwave energy - just like mobile phones aren't.
Your information is not factual, have you been spending too much time on a mobile phone?

Answer 8

lol, eating microwave food causes loss of memory! where did i go wrong then, i hardly ever use mine now and i can't remember much from one day to the next.
if we all do things that are good fro us, we will live a very boring life.
ok so list the things that are good for you...erm...
bad for you...smoking, drinking, fatty foods, mobile phones,chocolate...the list goes on, id sooner enjoy today

Answer 9

i have always said that microwaves are only for heating things up and not fully cooking food, ie how do u expect to cook a chicken in a microwave, it would be uncooked fully thus very highly likely that samonella food poisoning may occur.

Answer 10

Well I won't have one in my house, but I do keep one in the garage and using it for defrosting, though very rarely.

Perhaps I ought to sling it in case it fries my car's electrical innards.