Re: microwave cooking !!!! oh no! no!

January 13, 2004

It's on the internet... it must be true. :-)

JR

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THE HIDDEN HAZARDS OF MICROWAVE COOKING

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huge profits to be made often at the expense of the patients well

being even sometimes misery.

The following information is copied from a recent article.

Is it possible that millions of people are ignorantly sacrificing

their health in exchange for the convenience of microwave ovens? Why

did the Soviet Union ban the use of microwave ovens in 1976? Who

invented microwave ovens, and why? The answers to these questions may

shock you into throwing your microwave oven in the trash.

Over 90% of American homes have microwave ovens used for meal

preparation. Because microwave ovens are so convenient and energy

efficient, as compared to conventional ovens, very few homes or

restaurants are without them. In general, people believe that

whatever a microwave oven does to foods cooked in it doesn't have any

negative effect on either the food or them. Of course, if microwave

ovens were really harmful, our government would never allow them on

the market, would they? Would they? Regardless of what has

been " officially " released concerning microwave ovens, we have

personally stopped using ours based on the research facts outlined in

this article.

The purpose of this report is to show proof - evidence - that

microwave cooking is not natural, nor healthy, and is far more

dangerous to the human body than anyone could imagine. However, the

microwave oven manufacturers, Washington City politics, and plain old

human nature are suppressing the facts and evidence. Because of this,

people are continuing to microwave their food - in blissful

ignorance - without knowing the effects and danger of doing so.

How do microwave ovens work?

Microwaves are a form of electromagnetic energy, like light waves or

radio waves, and occupy a part of the electromagnetic spectrum of

power, or energy. Microwaves are very short waves of electromagnetic

energy that travel at the speed of light (186,282 miles per second).

In our modern technological age, microwaves are used to relay long

distance telephone signals, television programs, and computer

information across the earth or to a satellite in space. But the

microwave is most familiar to us as an energy source for cooking

food.

This microwave radiation interacts with the molecules in food. All

wave energy changes polarity from positive to negative with each

cycle of the wave. In microwaves, these polarity changes happen

millions of times every second. Food molecules - especially the

molecules of water - have a positive and negative end in the same way

a magnet has a north and a south polarity.

In commercial models, the oven has a power input of about 1000 watts

of alternating current. As these microwaves generated from the

magnetron bombard the food, they cause the polar molecules to rotate

at the same frequency millions of times a second. All this agitation

creates molecular friction, which heats up the food. The friction

also causes substantial damage to the surrounding molecules, often

tearing them apart or forcefully deforming them. The scientific name

for this deformation is " structural isomerism " .

By comparison, microwaves from the sun are based on principles of

pulsed direct current (DC) that don't create frictional heat;

microwave ovens use alternating current (AC) creating frictional

heat. A microwave oven produces a spiked wavelength of energy with

all the power going into only one narrow frequency of the energy

spectrum. Energy from the sun operates in a wide frequency spectrum.

Radiation, as defined by physics terminology, is " the electromagnetic

waves emitted by the atoms In simpler terms, a microwave oven decays

and changes the molecular structure of the food by the process of

radiation. Had the manufacturers accurately called them " radiation

ovens " , it's doubtful they would have ever sold one, but that's

exactly what a microwave oven is.

We've all been told that microwaving food is not the same as

irradiating it (radiation " treatment " ). The two processes are

supposed to use completely different waves of energy and at different

intensities. No FDA or officially released government studies have

proven current microwaving usage to be harmful, but we all know that

the validity of studies can be - and are sometimes deliberately -

limiting. Many of these studies are later proven to be inaccurate.

Many of us come from a generation where mothers and grandmothers have

distrusted the modern " inside out " cooking they claimed was " not

suitable " for most foods. My mother refused to even try baking

anything in a microwave. She also didn't like the way a cup of coffee

tasted when heated in a microwave oven. I have to

Microwaves unsafe for baby's milk

A number of warnings have been made public, but have been barely

noticed. For example, Young Families, the Minnesota Extension Service

of the University of Minnesota, published the following in 1989:

" Although microwaves heat food quickly, they 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. Also, the buildup of steam in a closed container,

such as a baby bottle, could cause it to explode. 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. "

Dr. Lee of Hawaii reported in the December 9, 1989 Lancet:

" Microwaving baby formulas converted certain trans-amino acids into

their synthetic cis-isomers. Synthetic isomers, whether cis-amino

acids or trans-fatty acids, are not biologically active. Further, one

of the amino acids, L-proline, was converted to its d-isomer, which

is known to be neurotoxic (poisonous to the nervous system) and

nephrotoxic (poisonous to the kidneys). It's bad enough that many

babies are not nursed, but now they are given fake milk (baby

formula) made even more toxic via microwaving. "

Microwaved blood kills patient

In 1991, there was a lawsuit in Oklahoma concerning the hospital use

of a microwave oven to warm blood needed in a transfusion. The case

involved a hip surgery patient, Norma Levitt, who died from a simple

blood transfusion. It seems the nurse had warmed the blood in a

microwave oven. This tragedy makes it very apparent that there's much

more to " heating " with microwaves than we've been led to believe.

Blood for transfusions is routinely warmed, but not in microwave

ovens. In the case of Mrs. Levitt, the microwaving altered the blood

and it killed her.

It's very obvious that this form of microwave radiation " heating "

does something to the substances it heats. It's also becoming quite

apparent that people who process food in a microwave oven are also

ingesting these " unknowns " .

Scientific evidence and facts

Production of unnatural molecules is inevitable. Naturally occurring

amino acids have been observed to undergo isomeric changes (changes

in shape morphing) as well as transformation into toxic forms, under

the impact of microwaves produced in ovens.

One short-term study found significant and disturbing changes in the

blood of individuals consuming microwaved milk and vegetables. Eight

volunteers ate various combinations of the same foods cooked

different ways. All foods that were processed through the microwave

ovens caused changes in the blood of the volunteers. Hemoglobin

levels decreased and over all white cell levels and cholesterol

levels increased. Lymphocytes decreased.

Luminescent (light-emitting) bacteria were employed to detect

energetic changes in the blood. Significant increases were found in

the luminescence of these bacteria when exposed to blood serum

obtained after the consumption of microwaved food. "

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.

In 1991, he and a Lausanne University professor published a research

paper indicating that food cooked in microwave ovens could pose a

greater risk to health than food cooked by conventional means. An

article also appeared in issue 19 of the Journal Franz Weber in which

it was stated that the consumption of food cooked in microwave ovens

had cancerous effects on the blood. The research paper itself

followed the article. On the cover of the magazine there was a

picture of the Grim Reaper holding a microwave oven in one of his

hands.

Dr. Hertel was the first scientist to conceive and carry out a

quality clinical study on the effects microwaved nutrients have on

the blood and physiology of the human body. His small but well

controlled study showed the degenerative force produced in microwave

ovens and the food processed in them. The scientific conclusion

showed that microwave cooking changed the nutrients in the food; and,

changes took place in the participants' blood that could cause

deterioration in the human system. 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.

" Leukocytosis, which cannot be accounted for by normal daily

deviations, is taken very seriously by hemotologists. Leukocytes are

often signs of pathogenic effects on the living system, such as

poisoning and cell damage. The increase of leukocytes with the

microwaved foods were more pronounced than with all the other

variants. It appears that these marked increases were caused entirely

by ingesting the microwaved substances.

This process is based on physical principles and has already been

confirmed in the literature. The apparent additional energy exhibited

by the luminescent bacteria was merely an extra confirmation. There

is extensive scientific literature concerning the hazardous effects

of direct microwave radiation on living systems. It is astonishing,

therefore, to realize how little effort has been taken to replace

this detrimental technique of microwaves with technology more in

accordance with nature. Technically produced microwaves are based on

the principle of alternating current. Atoms, molecules, and cells hit

by this hard electromagnetic radiation are forced to reverse polarity

1-100 billion times a second. There are no atoms, molecules or cells

of any organic system able to withstand such a violent, destructive

power for any extended period of time, not even in the low energy

range of milliwatts.

Of all the natural substances - which are polar - the oxygen of water

molecules reacts most sensitively. This is how microwave cooking heat

is generated - friction from this violence in water molecules.

Structures of molecules are torn apart, molecules are forcefully

deformed, called structural isomerism, and thus become impaired in

quality. This is contrary to conventional heating of food where heat

transfers convectionally from without to within. Cooking by

microwaves begins within the cells and molecules where water is

present and where the energy is transformed into frictional heat.

As soon as 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,

prohibiting him from declaring that microwave ovens are dangerous to

human health, was contrary to the right to freedom of expression. In

addition, Switzerland was ordered to pay Dr. Hertel compensation.

Who invented microwave ovens?

Carcinogens in microwaved food

In Dr. Lee's book, Health Effects of Microwave Radiation -

Microwave Ovens, and in the March and September 1991 issues of

Earthletter, she stated that every microwave oven leaks electro-

magnetic radiation, harms food, and converts substances cooked in it

to dangerous organ-toxic and carcinogenic products. Further research

summarized in this article reveal that microwave ovens are far more

harmful than previously imagined.

>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?

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January 14, 2004

Yeah right!!!

on 1/13/2004 6:38 PM, john roberts at johnhrob@... wrote:

> It's on the internet... it must be true. :-)

>

> JR

January 14, 2004

Though this article may make some valid points, some of it's inaccuracies

make it seem kookie...

pjb12345uk typed:

> THE HIDDEN HAZARDS OF MICROWAVE COOKING

[Deletia]

> This microwave radiation interacts with the molecules in food. All wave

> energy changes polarity from positive to negative with each

> cycle of the wave. In microwaves, these polarity changes happen

> millions of times every second. Food molecules - especially the

> molecules of water - have a positive and negative end in the same way a

> magnet has a north and a south polarity.

It's an over-simplification, but not worth arguing about in this case.

> In commercial models, the oven has a power input of about 1000 watts of

> alternating current. As these microwaves generated from the

> magnetron bombard the food, they cause the polar molecules to rotate at

> the same frequency millions of times a second.

vibrate the chemical bonds perhaps, but rotate??? Perhaps the molecules

of water vapor do, but this is not likely the case with larger molecules

like proteins or DNA..

> All this agitation

> creates molecular friction, which heats up the food.

True.

> The friction also

> causes substantial damage to the surrounding molecules, often tearing

> them apart or forcefully deforming them. The scientific name for this

> deformation is " structural isomerism " .

But this can just as easily be cause by other forms of heating -- if you

get the substance hot enough.

> By comparison, microwaves from the sun are based on principles of

> pulsed direct current (DC) that don't create frictional heat;

This is utter nonsense. Electromagnetic energy is all vibrating -- in

effect, alternating.

> microwave ovens use alternating current (AC) creating frictional

> heat. A microwave oven produces a spiked wavelength of energy with all

> the power going into only one narrow frequency of the energy

> spectrum.

This is true. The frequency was chosen because it is a resonant frequency

of the hydrogen-oxygen bonds in water.

> Energy from the sun operates in a wide frequency spectrum.

> Radiation, as defined by physics terminology, is " the electromagnetic

> waves emitted by the atoms In simpler terms, a microwave oven decays

> and changes the molecular structure of the food by the process of

> radiation. Had the manufacturers accurately called them " radiation

> ovens " , it's doubtful they would have ever sold one, but that's

> exactly what a microwave oven is.

I don't have time today to critique the rest of the article. We know that

excessively heating organic material can change it's chemical and

biological properties. Usually, we call it " cooking " . Enough heat can

sufficiently break-down the chemical structure enough that it no longer

provides nutrients. We usually call that, " burnt to a crisp " .

Is it possible that a microwave oven can do that kind of damage invisibly?

I wouldn't be surprised. Is it a bigger danger than turning your burgers

into charcoal on your grill? I think that remains to be proved.

January 14, 2004

I tend to think there is something to this, and i choose not to use these

machines except to heat water for my tea. But, i consider this a religious

propaganda piece. The studies are too few. To call microwave radiation

from the sun " pulsed dc " is such plain ignorance that it makes me highly

suspicious of the rest of the claims. I looked in vain for the answer to,

" Why did the Soviet Union ban the use of microwave ovens in 1976? "

Without that information, and being something familiar with the Soviet

electronic industry, i would suggest that the answer to the above

question is, #1 with Soviet-manufactured televisions already a notorious

fire hazard, another product using an even higher voltage and wattage

power transformer was considered impractical to safely put into Soviet

homes (apartments), and #2 production of magnetrons, a very specialized

component, was reserved for the more important application of military

radar. That's my best guess, plus, remember that in 1976 the Soviet Union

was way behind the west in application of electronics to home uses. Could

they even have produced for the mass consumer market such a product?

My opinion is no!

Okay, sorry i got carried away about microwave. But, truthfully, it really

disappoints me to see a report about something i think is worthwhile or

has a foundation of truth, but the report is so poorly presented that it

actually damages the cause.

-Hue

January 23, 2004

And a lot off kilter. Usually when I read an article with a section titled

" Scientific Evidence and Facts " I expect to find scientifc evidence and

facts. Its a pretty big leap to go from " could cause deterioration in the

human system " to definitively stating, " causes long term - permanent - brain

damage. " Speaking of brain damage.....

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Subject: rheumatic microwave cooking !!!! oh no! no!

Date: Fri, 23 Jan 2004 19:37:41 -0000

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