Why You Should Ditch Your Microwave – Part 1
Do you know microwave is harmful?
Do you believe in the catchword, “You are what you eat.” Ideally, you would like to eat most of your food raw. But most of us won’t be able to accomplish that. When you need to sterilize your cloth hand towel, you can use your microwave oven but not in preparing your food. Here’s why.
Due to soil depletion, the quality of your fresh food has declined. This can also be attributed to unsustainable farming practices, overproduction of crops, and the use of pesticides and herbicides. You can no longer believe you’re getting all the vitamins, minerals, enzymes, and phytonutrients you need by eating a multitude of fresh products, even if you are eating organically. Research shows that your microwave oven will NOT help you in these efforts – in fact it will threaten your health by violently ripping the molecules in your food apart, rendering some nutrients inert, at best, and carcinogenic at its worst.
Microwave ovens heat food by causing water molecules in it to resonate at very high frequencies and eventually turn to steam which heats your food. While this can rapidly heat your food, what most people fail to realize is that it also causes a change in your food’s chemical structure.
Notice that when you microwave food, there are some spots in your food that still feels cold while there are some areas that are too hot? These hot spots in microwaved food can be hot enough to cause burns. This is also the reasons why mothers are advised against using the microwave to heat baby bottles. Babies have been burned by super-heated formula that went unnoticed.
Another problem with microwave ovens is that carcinogenic toxins can leach out of your plastic and paper containers/covers, and into your food. The January/February 1990 issue of Nutrition Action Newsletter reported the leakage of numerous toxic chemicals from the packaging of common microwavable foods, including pizzas, chips and popcorn. Microwaving fatty foods in plastic containers leads to the release of dioxins which are known carcinogens and other toxins into your food.
The use of microwave contorts molecules of whatever food or other substance you subject to it.
One non-food product that can be distorted are blood products. Blood is normally warmed before being transfused into a person. When you use microwave to heat blood products, it damages the blood components. In 1991, a woman died after receiving a transfusion of microwaved blood which resulted in a well-publicized lawsuit.
Let’s say the microwave you bought is “top of the line” microwave oven. You would think, with all the quality assurance tests and regulations that oven went through, you would be safe. However, Powerwatch, a non-profit independent organization with a central role in the microwave radiation debates: “Even when the microwave oven is working correctly, the microwave levels within the kitchen are likely to be significantly higher than those from any nearby cellular phone base-stations. Remember also that microwaves will travel through walls if the microwave oven is against an inside wall.” We don’t really know if the current regulations about leakage are truly safe and recommends ovens be checked at least annually, since microwave emissions can change with normal use.
The eyes are known to be particularly susceptible to microwave radiation because high microwave exposures are known to cause cataracts. Thus, it is highly recommended that you step away from your microwave while it is in use.
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