can microwaves produce cancer?

Question

my husband insists that using a microwave oven can cause cancer and he refuses to buy one...we have always had one in our family...who's right?

Answer 1

NO... Microwaves Do Not Produce Cancer
People need to learn how things work.....

(((THANKS FOR ASKING FOR ProoF))) Update...
I had to learn about Cooking and MicroWaves because the Doctors said I had to help cook for her and keep her eating during her Chemo treatments.... Quote off Site

"Stating a Microwave Oven causes Cancer is simply wrong". The people that have emailed me on this apparently oblivious to the differences between types of "radiation," to the short- and long-term effects of those radiations, and to the importance of intensity in radiation.

"Let's start with the differences in types of radiation. Basically, anything that moves is radiation, from visible light, to ultraviolet, to X-rays, to microwaves, to alpha particles, and neutrons.. These different radiations do different things when they hit you. While "ionizing radiations" such as X-rays, ultraviolet, alpha particles, and neutrons usually have enough localized energy to do chemical damage to the molecules they hit, "non-ionizing radiation" such as microwaves do not damage molecules. When you and your organic friend worry about toxic changes in food or precancerous changes in your tissue, what really worry you are molecular changes. Microwaves don't cause those sorts of changes. Microwaves effectively heat food or tissue thermally...

Wearing a lead apron while working around ionizing radiation makes sense, although a simple layer of fabric or sunscreen is enough to protect you from most ultraviolet. To protect yourself in a crash wear a helmet. And to protect yourself against microwaves, use metal. The cooking chamber of the microwave oven is a metal box (including the screened front window). So little microwave "radiation" escapes from this metal box that it's usually hard to detect, let alone cause a safety problem. There just isn't much microwave intensity coming from the oven and intensity matters. A little microwaves do nothing at all to you; in fact you emit them yourself same as or more than!"

There are even more quotes from real experts...
Thanks for the bad Rating mark shows I'm not perfect, But people need to learn more about the things they live with every day... Remember every fast food resturtant uses a MicroWave to cook and warm up what they serve you...

Check out these helpful sites http://www.aces.edu/

There are over 20 sites just on MicroWave Ovens and how they work...

Side notes: " frying is the only form of cooking that has ever been associated with the production of TRACE amounts of dioxins in food. The problem stems from the fact that oils and fats typically used in frying contain triglycerides. These dioxins can cause different kinds of Cancer but do not affect 1% of 1 person ?"...(I don't understand that part)

It is highly recommended that you do NOT warm up or cook your food in simple Plastic containers example butter bowls, glad ware unless microwave safe, sandwich bags... All should be Microwave safe...

Answer 2

If you look at the window of a microwave oven you will tiny holes on the inside of the window. There is a physical size to microwaves even though you can't see them and the microwaves are to big to fit through the holes to get out of the oven and get to you

Answer 3

Well they can if they're not used properly. It is recommended that you stand at least 1 metre away when it is switched on. Also you should have it inspected on a regular basis to make sure that the door seals are good.

If you do all this then there is no evidence to suggest they cause cancer.

Answer 4

It depends who you ask. Naturalists say it's dangerous and alters the food chemicals during cooking.
Guess it's about as unsafe as teflon pans. Now, that does cause cancer in mice!

Answer 5

yes, microwaves produce cancer

Answer 6

It has been proven that they might give u cancer but if ur having a baby make sure ur not near it