Take a sledge hammer to your microwave!

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The Hidden Hazards of Microwave Cooking  

 

My patients have often asked me whether cooking with microwave ovens is

healthy or not. I did not really have an objective, scientific answer to

give, as I had not really researched the matter. Well, recently I decided to

do some useful research into the question of microwave cooking. I had a

hunch that it was NOT healthy, and this was confirmed by my research! I will

share with you in summary some of the interesting facts that I dug up from

my research.

 

      In 1991, word leaked out about a lawsuit in Oklahoma. A woman named

Norma Levitt had hip surgery, only to be killed by a simple blood

transfusion when a nurse " warmed the blood for the transfusion in a

microwave oven " ! (J. Nat. Sci, 1998; 1:2-7).

 

      Logic suggests that if heating or cooking is all there is to it, then

it doesn't matter what mode of heating technology one uses. However, it is

quite apparent that there is 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.

 

HANS HERTEL

In the tiny town of Wattenwil, near Basel in Switzerland, there lives a

scientist who is alarmed at the lack of purity and naturalness in the many

pursuits of modern mankind. He worked as a food scientist for several years

with one of the many major Swiss food companies that do business on a global

scale. A few years ago, he was fired from his job for questioning procedures

in processing food because they denatured it.

 

      In an experiment that he set up with colleagues, they found

significant changes in the blood of the volunteers who consumed foods cooked

in the microwave oven. These changes included a decrease in all hemoglobin

values and cholesterol values, especially the HDL (good cholesterol) and LDL

(bad cholesterol) values and ratio. Lymphocytes (white blood cells) showed a

more distinct short-term decrease following the intake of micro-waved food

than after the intake of all the other variants. Each of these indicators

point in a direction away from robust health and toward degeneration.

Additionally, there was a highly significant association between the amount

of microwave energy in the test foods and the luminous power of luminescent

bacteria exposed to serum from test persons who ate that food. This led

Hertel to the conclusion that such technically derived energies may, indeed,

be passed along to man inductively via consumption of micro-waved food.

 

      HEATING FOOD

" This is contrary to conventional heating of food, in which 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. "

 

       RUSSIANS BAN MICROWAVE OVENS

After the World War II, the Russians also experimented with microwave ovens.

From 1957 up to recently, their research has been carried out mainly at the

Institute of Radio Technology at Klinsk, Byelorussia. According to US

researcher William Kopp, who gathered much of the results of Russian and

German research - and was apparently prosecuted for doing so (J. Nat. Sci,

1998; 1:42-3) - the following effects were observed by Russian forensic

teams:

 

1. Heating prepared meats in a microwave sufficiently for human consumption

created:

 

* d-Nitrosodiethanolamine (a well-known cancer-causing agent)

 

* Destabilization of active protein biomolecular compounds

 

* Creation of a binding effect to radioactivity in the atmosphere

 

* Creation of cancer-causing agents within protein-hydrosylate compounds in

milk and cereal grains;

 

2. Microwave emissions also caused alteration in the catabolic (breakdown)

behavior of glucoside - and galactoside - elements within frozen fruits when

thawed in this way;

 

3. Microwaves altered catabolic behavior of plant-alkaloids when raw, cooked

or frozen vegetables were exposed for even very short periods;

 

4. Cancer-causing free radicals were formed within certain trace-mineral

molecular formations in plant substances, especially in raw root vegetables;

 

5. Ingestion of micro-waved foods caused a higher percentage of cancerous

cells in blood;

 

6. Due to chemical alterations within food substances, malfunctions occurred

in the lymphatic system, causing degeneration of the immune system=s

capacity to protect itself against cancerous growth; 

 

7. The unstable catabolism of microwaved foods altered their elemental food

substances, leading to disorders in the digestive system;

 

8. Those ingesting microwaved foods showed a statistically higher incidence

of stomach and intestinal cancers, plus a general degeneration of peripheral

cellular tissues with a gradual breakdown of digestive and excretory system

function;

 

9. Microwave exposure caused significant decreases in the nutritional value

of all foods studied, particularly:

 

* A decrease in the bioavailability of B-complex vitamins, vitamin C,

vitamin E, essential minerals and lipotrophics

 

* Destruction of the nutritional value of nucleoproteins in meats

 

* Lowering of the metabolic activity of alkaloids, glucosides, galactosides

and nitrilosides (all basic plant substances in fruits and vegetables)

 

* Marked acceleration of structural disintegration in all foods.

 

      As a result microwave ovens were banned in Russia in 1976; the ban was

lifted after Perestroika.

 

INFANT DANGER

In the journal Pediatrics (vol. 89, no. 4, April 1992), there appeared an

article titled, " Effects of Microwave Radiation on Anti-infective Factors in

Human Milk " . Richard Quan, M.D. from Dallas, Texas, was the lead name of the

study team. John A. Kerner, M.D., from Stanford University, was also on the

research team, and he was quoted in a summary article on the research that

appeared in the 25 April 1992 issue of Science News. To get the full flavour

of what may lie ahead for micro-waving, here is that summary article:

 

" Women who work outside the home can express and store breast milk for

feedings when they are away. But parents and caregivers should be careful

how they warm this milk. A new study shows that micro-waving human milk-even

at a low setting-can destroy some of its important disease-fighting

capabilities.

 

      " Breast milk can be refrigerated safely for a few days or frozen for

up to a month; however, studies have shown that heating the milk well above

body temperature - 37 degree centigrade - can break down not only its

antibodies to infectious agents, but also its lysozymes or

bacteria-digesting enzymes. So, when paediatrician John A. Kerner, Jr,

witnessed neonatal nurses routinely thawing or reheating breast milk with

the microwave oven in their lounge, he became concerned.

 

      " In the April 1992 issue of Paediatrics (Part I), he and his Stanford

University co-workers reported finding that unheated breast milk that was

micro waved lost lysozyme activity, antibodies and fostered the growth of

more potentially pathogenic bacteria. Milk heated at a high setting (72

degrees Celsius to 98 degrees C) lost 96 per cent of its immunoglobulin-A

antibodies, agents that fend off invading microbes.

 

      " What really surprised him, Kerner said, was finding some loss of

anti-infective properties in the milk micro-waved at a low setting-and to a

mean of just 33.5 degrees C. Adverse changes at such low temperatures

suggest 'micro-waving itself may in fact cause some injury to the milk above

and beyond the heating'.

 

      There are many more disadvantages in using microwave ovens - Listeria

and other potentially fatal bacteria can survive in a microwave oven, toxic

chemicals released by the packaging used for microwave use, and more.

 

The message seems clear. Don't cook food in a microwave oven.

 

God bless!

 

Dr. George J Georgiou, Ph.D. ,N.D.,D.Sc (A.M).,BSc.,MSc.

Biologist-Naturopath-Clinical Nutritionist-Master

Herbalist-Homeopath-Iridologist-Su Jok Acupuncturist-

Clinical Psychologist-Clinical Sexologist

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