I came to know that micro wave cooking is injurious to health.is it true?if true expert openion is requested.?

Answer 1

Microwave cooking is one of the most important causes of ill health. It is certainly one of the most ignored.

There was a lawsuit in 1991 in Oklahoma. A woman named Norma Levitt had hip surgery, but was killed by a simple blood transfusion when a nurse "warmed the blood for the transfusion in a microwave oven!"

Logic suggests that if heating is all there is to microwave cooking, then it doesn't matter how something is heated. Blood for transfusions is routinely warmed, but not in microwave ovens. Does it not therefore follow that microwaving cooking does something quite different?

A little evidence of the harm caused by microwaving cooking was given by the University of Minnesota in a radio announcement:

"Microwaves ... are not recommended for heating a baby's bottle. The bottle may seem cool to the touch, but the liquid inside may become extremely hot and could burn the baby's mouth and throat... Heating the bottle in a microwave can cause slight changes in the milk. In infant formulas, there may be a loss of some vitamins. In expressed breast milk, some protective properties may be destroyed.... Warming a bottle by holding it under tap water or by setting it in a bowl of warm water, then testing it on your wrist before feeding, may take a few minutes longer, but it is much safer".
There have been very few scientific studies done on the effect of eating food microwaved food. This is rather surprising when you think about the fact that microwaves have been with us for only a few decades - and that in that time the incidence of many diseases has continued to increase.

Two researchers, Blanc and Hertel, confirmed that microwave cooking significantly changes food nutrients. Hertel previously worked as a food scientist for several years with one of the major Swiss food companies. He was fired from his job for questioning procedures in processing food because they denatured it. He got together with Blanc of the Swiss Federal Institute of Biochemistry and the University Institute for Biochemistry.

They studied the effect that microwaved food had on eight individuals, by taking blood samples immediately after eating. They found that after eating microwaved food, haemoglobin levels decreased. "These results show anaemic tendencies. The situation became even more pronounced during the second month of the study".

Who knows what results they would have found if they had studied people who ate microwaved food for a year or more?

The violent change that microwaving causes to the food molecules forms new life forms called radiolytic compounds. These are mutations that are unknown in the natural world. Ordinary cooking also causes the formation of some radiolytic compounds (which is no doubt one reason why it is better to eat plenty of raw food), but microwaving cooking causes a much greater number. This then causes deterioration in your blood and immune system.

In addition, they found that the number of leucocytes increases after eating microwaved food - something which haematologists take very seriously, because this is often a sign of highly harmful effects, such as poisoning.

Also, after eating microwaved food, cholesterol levels increased. Hertel said "Common scientific belief states that cholesterol values usually alter slowly over longer periods of time. In this study, the markers increased rapidly after the consumption of the microwaved vegetables." He believes his study tends to confirm new scientific data that suggest cholesterol may rapidly increase in the blood secondary to acute stress. "Also," he added, "blood cholesterol levels are less influenced by cholesterol content of food than by stress factors. Such stress-causing factors can apparently consist of foods which contain virtually no cholesterol - the microwaved vegetables."

The results were published in "Search for Health" in the Spring of 1992. How was this research greeted? A powerful trade organisation, the Swiss Association of Dealers for Electroapparatuses for Households and Industry somehow made the President of the Court of Seftigen issue a `gag order'. Hertel and Blanc were told that if they published their findings they would face hefty fines or up to one year in prison. In response to this, Blanc recanted his findings. Hertel, on the other hand, went on a lecture tour and demanded a jury trial.

Answer 2

Microwave cooked food is perfectly safe. Microwaves cause the water molecules in the food to oscillate very fast and generate the heat. So, the container of the food does not get hot, though the food does and gets cooked. This is why baby bottles should not be microwaved, as you will not know how hot the milk is. Studies have shown that some carcinogens(cancer causing compounds) are formed in microwaved food, but they only last for 40 milli seconds. So, unless you are really fast at eating!!!!, that does not matter at all.

Answer 3

After nearly 30 years in food quality and toxicology, I have never come across any information or had any experience with microwaved food being harmful. All cooking raises the temperature of food. All cooking creates new chemical compounds. All cooking destroys some nutrients. Microwaving can actually damage fewer nutrients if used correctly.

The only thing to watch out for.... Microwaving is spotty heating so you have to make sure you let foods that might have bad bacteria come to equilibrium at over 175F or so. Cooking raw chicken in a microwave (especially if not completely thawed) may not kill off Salmonella.

Answer 4

No! For the most part cooking with a microwave is not dangerous! The carcinogen/cancer/plastic myth only occurs in rare circumstances (I have pasted two links to more information):

Check out this website called "Cooking Safely in the Microwave Oven" it has some really good info -
http://www.foodsafety.gov/~fsg/fs-mwave.html

And this website confronts the issues of cooking with plastics in the microwave and the dioxins (carcinogens) cancer causing agents -
http://www.bms.jhmi.edu/JHI/English/Media/Find_an_Expert/FE_RolfHaldenJuly05.asp

Answer 5

yes it is very true. the reason why is because microwaves give alot of radiatiion to the food, and to you(if standing in front of it). but yeah it is very hazardous to peoples health and well-being.

Answer 6

NO IT IS NOT ... IF YOU PUT YOUR HEAD IN IT AND TURN IT ON IT WILL BE .....