MICROWAVE OVENS
Notes from The Ecologist, Nov 2003: Russian research into microwaves has
shown
that people
who ate microwaved foods had a statistically higher incidence of stomach and
intestinal
cancers, a general degeneration of peripheral cellular tissues, and a
gradual
breakdown of
the digestive and excretory systems. Due to chemical alterations within the
food,
they had
lymphatic malfunctions, causing a degeneration of the bodyms immune system.
Microwaved food
loses its nutritional value, especially for vitamins B, C, E, essential
minerals,
and lipotropics (that prevent the abnormal accumulation of fat).

The use of microwave ovens was banned in Russia in 1976. In 1989, the Swiss
food
scientist Dr Dans Ulrich Hertel fed eight individuals on a range of raw,
conventionally cooked, and microwaved food. Blood samples,taken from each
volunteer after eating, showed serious irregularities in the structure of
the food
microwaved, and in the blood of those eating the microwaved samples. The
microwave
manufacturers used the Swiss courts to silence Dr Hertel, and made him fear
for
his familyms safety, so that he publicly disassociated himself from the
research.

TEN REASONS TO THROW OUT YOUR MICROWAVE OVEN
From: www.curezone.com/foods/microwave_oven_risk.asp. From the conclusions
of
Swiss, Russian and German scientific clinical studies, we can no longer
ignore the
danger of the microwave oven sitting in our kitchens.
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.

Of course, if microwave ovens were really harmful, our government would
never
allow them on the market, would they? Would they?
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

i agree 100% lucy! thanks for spreading the info.

This is scary...I will think twice about how to heat up and cook meals for my family-skipping the microwave and doing it the "old-fashioned" way. Thanks so much for the info, Jane

Oh no---- not my microwave!!!! Maybe I will get my memory back now that I am throwing it away.

owl

Thanks Lucy.

We got our 1st microwave two years ago. I don't trust it. They are solutions without a problem. Heating something on the stove or toaster oven doesn't take much longer than the wave.

Ohiorganic,
Would you please print the text of the article or your sources. I have searched The Ecologist Archives and foud nothing published about Russians banning microwave ovens.
There are enough things to be paranoid about today without inventing dangers or quoting "urban legends".
David Chisholm

Seems like a hoax report to me.
Especially the part about the irregular structures of microwaved food found in blood samples. LOL,LOL
I mean,think of it, 'structures' of food floating around in your veins....
I'll do some Googling around the www

This stuff is hoakum. Cooking foods in any way changes it and frying has been shown to be the least desireable means of preparing anything.
Don't believe everything you find on the internet.

I am cross posting from another list. could be an urban legend but in Acres USA Jan 2004 issue that cites an article in the November 2003 issue of the Jounal of the Science of Food and Agriculture that mocrowaving fruits and vegetables pretty much eliminates antioxidants. the found broccoli lost 97% of flavinoids, 74% sinapics and 875 of caffeoyl-quinic derivztives while broccoli that was steamed lost 11%, 0% and 8% respectively.

If someone is 'waving processed frozen foods which have already been so processed that they are denuded of nutrtrients than I would not think using a microwave would matter. Over the years there has been quite a bit of disturbing research that is discredited by the establishment about microwaves and irradiation. It all could be BS but than so could all the reasearch that paints a very disturbing picture of GMO's. When you have a gov't that puts the health and welfarte of the corporate powers ahead of ther populous one has to wonder about the safety of microwave ovens.

We looked into infrared ovens before buying the microwave. Only one company made one and it was expensive. The prices have come down - less than $100. I think we'll be replacing the wave with infrared.

It appears that the gag order issued by Switzerland was lifted in 1998:

http://www.naturalscience.org/en/press/pr_1998.08.27.html

But despite the fact that the information was first published by Dr. Hans-Ulrich Hertel in 1991 I cannot find a evidence of any corroborating research. All of the articles I found were simply rehashing the same sensationalized story and conspiracy theories behind the gag order.

Please keep us informed about the information any of you find reguarding this issue. I want to get to the truth of this matter.

Thanks gbanse,
You have done a good thing, particularly your search for corroborating evidence or papers. I am always a little dubious about some of the information that passes for truths these days.
At the risk of bringing the wrath of either God or his/her self appointed guardians down on my head, here is one example of the type of crap done in the name of science by ignorant people who are all too often influential and the source of some of the worst examples of 'truth' being peddled today.
David Chisholm

http://objective.jesussave.us/creationsciencefair.html

By the way these people are completely serious, if you can believe it!
DC

I looked at this link and I'm stunned!!! I don't understand this at all...what happened to recognizing that religion and science are different? In religion there is the matter of faith, something not found in science, and leave it at that. Instead these folks are trying to turn religious beliefs into a science?! To what purpose? I just don't get it...

>> what happened to recognizing that religion and science are different?

LOL - Stephen Hawking - the well known and amazing British physicist - has spent nearly his entire life theorizing what happened to create the stars, planets, black holes, quasars and the like. In one of his books he explained that science will only get to within a fraction of a second after the Big Bang and that we cannot ever scientifically prove what caused the Big Bang itself. Not one given to fanciful explanations he went on to hypothesize what might have caused the Big Bang - 'God', he wrote.