Microwaving food: Is this a dangerous practice?

[Guest guest]

My next door neighbor worries about his microwave. Not enough to stop

using it. But he told em that he isstarting to believe that microwaved

food over time negatively impacts the body because it alters the water

that is in the food, which over time alters our bodies.

 

I had never heard this theory before but do find it interesting.

 

Anyone have an opinion on this?

[Guest guest]

I've read that microwaving food adversely changes the molecular structure of the

food.

A good book that refers to this is Paul Pitchfords " East Meets West: Healing

With WHole Foods. "

With warm regards

 

 

 

gmpassociates <gmpassociates

 

Friday, June 27, 2008 9:38:43 AM

Microwaving food: Is this a dangerous practice?

 

 

My next door neighbor worries about his microwave. Not enough to stop

using it. But he told em that he isstarting to believe that microwaved

food over time negatively impacts the body because it alters the water

that is in the food, which over time alters our bodies.

 

I had never heard this theory before but do find it interesting.

 

Anyone have an opinion on this?

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[Guest guest]

Hi,

I'm in the feedingfeathers , (a great group if you have

pet birds, by the way) which gives advise on how to feed birds in a

healthy way. The moderators soundly disapprove of using the

microwave for any kind of cooking for birds and gave their reasons,

although right off hand I can't remember everything they said about

it. I would assume that the same risks would be true for us humans

and I for one, have tried to limit using it.

Diana

 

 

 

> My next door neighbor worries about his microwave. Not enough to

stop

> using it. But he told em that he isstarting to believe that

microwaved

> food over time negatively impacts the body because it alters the

water

> that is in the food, which over time alters our bodies.

>

> I had never heard this theory before but do find it interesting.

>

> Anyone have an opinion on this?

>

[Guest guest]

We try to limit our microwave use whereas one of my friends who has 3 kids

refuses to have one in her house. I'm hoping to move in that direction. There

is evidence that microwaved food does not have the same molecular structure that

food would have if cooked conventionally. Of course, you'll never hear anything

bad about it from the FDA or in the U.S. I've tried to go raw or cook on the

stove much more. Next, I'd like to buy a convection oven as it is quick but

doesn't produce the same harm as microwaves. More info below.

 

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.

 

In intervals of two to five days, the volunteers in the study received one of

the following food variants on an empty stomach: (1) raw milk; (2) the same milk

conventionally cooked; (3) pasteurized milk; (4) the same raw milks cooked in a

microwave oven; (5) raw vegetables from an organic farm; (6) the same vegetables

cooked conventionally; (7) the same vegetables frozen and defrosted in a

microwave oven; and (8) the same vegetables cooked in the microwave oven. Once

the volunteers were isolated, blood samples were taken from every volunteer

immediately before eating. Then, blood samples were taken at defined intervals

after eating from the above milk or vegetable preparations.

 

Significant changes were discovered in the blood samples from the intervals

following the foods cooked in the microwave oven. These changes included a

decrease in all hemoglobin and cholesterol values, especially the ratio of HDL

(good cholesterol) and LDL (bad cholesterol) values. Lymphocytes (white blood

cells) showed a more distinct short-term decrease following the intake of

microwaved food than after the intake of all the other variants. Each of these

indicators pointed to 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 Dr. Hertel to the conclusion that such technically derived energies

may, indeed, be passed along to man inductively via eating microwaved food.

According to Dr. Hertel, " 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.

 

 

 

[Guest guest]

Regarding microwave use, I have stopped using them after reading a LOT of

negative articles on them. It's not worth the potential risk to me.

 

I had this information saved- I cannot state the original source as I only saved

the relevant parts:

 

Ten Reasons to Throw out your Microwave Oven

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?

After you throw out your microwave you can use a toaster oven as a replacement.

It works well for most and is nearly as quick.

The use of artificial microwave transmissions for subliminal psychological

control, a.k.a. " brainwashing " , has also been proven. We're attempting to obtain

copies of the 1970's Russian research documents and results written by Drs.

Luria and Perov specifying their clinical experiments in this area.

 

 

 

 

 

[Guest guest]

Thanks for the article.

 

--- On Sat, 6/28/08, Donna Anne Masi <FantasyDollsByD wrote:

 

Donna Anne Masi <FantasyDollsByD

Re:Microwaving food: Is this a dangerous practice?

 

Saturday, June 28, 2008, 8:16 PM

 

 

 

 

 

 

Regarding microwave use, I have stopped using them after reading a LOT of

negative articles on them. It's not worth the potential risk to me.

 

I had this information saved- I cannot state the original source as I only saved

the relevant parts:

 

Ten Reasons to Throw out your Microwave Oven

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?

After you throw out your microwave you can use a toaster oven as a replacement.

It works well for most and is nearly as quick.

The use of artificial microwave transmissions for subliminal psychological

control, a.k.a. " brainwashing " , has also been proven. We're attempting to

obtain copies of the 1970's Russian research documents and results written by

Drs. Luria and Perov specifying their clinical experiments in this area.

 

 

[Guest guest]

I have read a story and saw the photos of a school science project where

someone took two identical plants, put them in separate glass containers.

One was watered with microwaved water after cooling the water down; the

other was watered with boiling the water then cooling it down. Over a few

days and weeks the results were vivid and telling with the microwave watered

plant shriveling and completely dying while the boiled water plant grew and

thrived. Given that this was a secondary school science experiment the

deeper scientific reasons were not pursued but the apparent ramifications

seem broad and dangerous to me.

 

 

 

Up until this time I had already (mostly) stopped heating any food with the

'mic' but did boil water for tea with it. I did a time test for heating the

water to boiling and found it was about the same as microwaving it anyway,

so I now simply boil it.

 

 

 

Blessings.

 

 

 

Stan Crane

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[Guest guest]

Have your neighbor look at this:

 

http://www.execonn.com/sf/

 

Cheers, Tymothy

 

>

>

> My next door neighbor worries about his microwave. Not enough to stop

> using it. But he told em that he isstarting to believe that microwaved

> food over time negatively impacts the body because it alters the water

> that is in the food, which over time alters our bodies.

>

> I had never heard this theory before but do find it interesting.

>

> Anyone have an opinion on this?

 

[Guest guest]

---THE HIDDEN HAZARDS OF MICROWAVE COOKING

For research purposes only from the Orion project which is set up in a

very unique way in that the Orion project is an information sharing

resource funded privately, which sells nothing and is there for the

sharing of information which is of huge value. This is a totally

different set up from being prescribed just drugs where there are

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. Lita 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. Lita 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?

Further information on other therapies and other ailments will be

found at my web site. Go to http://myweb.tiscali.co.uk/seventhmoon/orion/

 

Prepared By: William P. Kopp A. R. E. C. Research Operations

TO61-7R10/10-77F05

RELEASE PRIORITY: CLASS I ROO1a Ten Reasons to Throw out your

Microwave Oven

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? After you throw out your microwave you can use a toaster

oven as a

replacement. It works well for most and is nearly as quick. The use of

artificial microwave transmissions for subliminal psychological

control, a.k.a.

" brainwashing " , has also been proven. We're attempting to obtain

copies of the

1970's Russian research documents and results written by Drs. Luria

and Perov

specifying their clinical experiments in this area.

 

 

 

In , " gmpassociates "

<gmpassociates wrote:

>

> My next door neighbor worries about his microwave. Not enough to stop

> using it. But he told em that he isstarting to believe that microwaved

> food over time negatively impacts the body because it alters the water

> that is in the food, which over time alters our bodies.

>

> I had never heard this theory before but do find it interesting.

>

> Anyone have an opinion on this?

>