MICROWAVE COOKING is Killing You!

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MICROWAVE COOKING is Killing You!

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By Stephanie Relfe B.Sc. (Syd.)

 

 

Microwave cooking is one of the most important causes of ill health. It is

certainly one of the most ignored.

 

There was a lawsuit in 1991 in Oklahoma. A woman named Norma Levitt had hip

surgery, but was killed by a simple blood transfusion when a nurse " warmed the

blood for the transfusion in a microwave oven! "

 

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

doesn't matter how something is heated. Blood for transfusions is routinely

warmed, but not in microwave ovens. Does it not therefore follow that

microwaving cooking does something quite different?

 

A little evidence of the harm caused by microwaving cooking was given by the

University of Minnesota in a radio announcement:

 

" Microwaves ... 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... 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 " .

 

There have been very few scientific studies done on the effect of eating food

microwaved food. This is rather surprising when you think about the fact that

microwaves have been with us for only a few decades - and that in that time

the incidence of many diseases has continued to increase.

 

Two researchers, Blanc and Hertel, confirmed that microwave cooking

significantly changes food nutrients. Hertel previously worked as a food

scientist for

several years with one of the major Swiss food companies. He was fired from

his job for questioning procedures in processing food because they denatured it.

He got together with Blanc of the Swiss Federal Institute of Biochemistry and

the University Institute for Biochemistry.

 

They studied the effect that microwaved food had on eight individuals, by

taking blood samples immediately after eating. They found that after eating

microwaved food, haemoglobin levels decreased. " These results show anaemic

tendencies. The situation became even more pronounced during the second month of

the

study " .

 

Who knows what results they would have found if they had studied people who

ate microwaved food for a year or more?

 

The violent change that microwaving causes to the food molecules forms new

life forms called radiolytic compounds. These are mutations that are unknown in

the natural world. Ordinary cooking also causes the formation of some

radiolytic compounds (which is no doubt one reason why it is better to eat

plenty of

raw food), but microwaving cooking causes a much greater number. This then

causes deterioration in your blood and immune system.

 

In addition, they found that the number of leucocytes increases after eating

microwaved food - something which haematologists take very seriously, because

this is often a sign of highly harmful effects, such as poisoning.

 

Also, after eating microwaved food, cholesterol levels increased. Hertel said

" Common scientific belief states that cholesterol values usually alter slowly

over longer periods of time. In this study, the markers increased rapidly

after the consumption of the microwaved vegetables. " He believes his study tends

to confirm new scientific data that suggest cholesterol may rapidly increase

in the blood secondary to acute stress. " Also, " he added, " blood cholesterol

levels are less influenced by cholesterol content of food than by stress

factors. Such stress-causing factors can apparently consist of foods which

contain

virtually no cholesterol - the microwaved vegetables. "

 

The results were published in " Search for Health " in the Spring of 1992. How

was this research greeted? A powerful trade organisation, the Swiss

Association of Dealers for Electroapparatuses for Households and Industry

somehow made

the President of the Court of Seftigen issue a `gag order'. Hertel and Blanc

were told that if they published their findings they would face hefty fines or

up to one year in prison. In response to this, Blanc recanted his findings.

Hertel, on the other hand, went on a lecture tour and demanded a jury trial.

 

FINALLY, in 1998 the Court `Gag Order' was removed. In a judgment delivered

at Strasbourg on 25 August 1998 in the case of Hertel v. Switzerland, the

European Court of Human Rights held that there had been a violation of Hertel's

rights in the 1993 decision. The Court decided that the `gag order' prohibiting

him form declaring that microwaved food is dangerous to health was contrary

to the right to freedom of expression. In addition, Switzerland was sentenced

to pay compensation of F40,000.

 

In Summary:

Blanc and Hertel found that eating microwaved food:

 

- Increases cholesterol

- Increases white blood cell numbers

- Decreases red blood cell numbers

- Causes production of radiolytic compounds (compounds unknown in nature)

 

 

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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 systems capacity

to protect itself against cancerous growth;

 

7. The unstable catabolism of micro-waved foods altered their elemental food

substances, leading to disorders in the digestive system;

 

8. Those ingesting micro-waved 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.

 

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Standing in front of a microwave is also highly damaging to your health.

Perhaps you have already felt this intuitively? We know that cells explode in

the

microwave - just fry an egg in your microwave. We are made up of trillions of

cells. So work out how many are getting damaged if you stand in front of your

microwave for 5-10 minutes.

 

In the past I had been told that it was important for people to stop eating

microwaved food, but I did not pay too much attention to this because I had

been microwave cooking for years. I never thought much about it but I suppose

that I figured that if something was so bad for us, then there wouldn't be so

many people using it. Little did I know.

 

When I first began seeing clients for sessions of kinesiology, I did not

worry too much about telling them to give up eating microwaved food. However, I

kept a record of all of the corrections that were needed for each client when

they came in. Now, once a correction is made, it is to be hoped that the

correction will stay in place for a long time to come, hopefully months if not

years.

People often ask me " How long will it last? " May answer to them is " That

depends on your lifestyle " .

 

Most of my clients came back to see me after about two weeks. In the early

days I found that many who came back were not much better. I found that they

were again `out of balance'. That is, their electrical circuits were not working

correctly (which is common for many people). It was therefore not surprising

that they were not much better, because the body does not begin to fully fix

itself until the electrical circuits are in balance.

 

The question was, why did their electrical circuits go out of balance? The

answer had to be something that was highly stressful, to effect the body in such

a short space of time. Once that answer was remedied, the client would begin

to get better. Using muscle testing, I went through the process of testing if

the cause was electrical, chemical/nutritional, emotional or structural. Again

and again the same answer would come up - electrical. When I then went

through a range of possible electrical causes, the same answer again came up

again

and again - the person had eaten microwaved food! Incidentally, this answer

never came up when a person had NOT eaten microwaved food.

 

I began to tell all of my clients on the first visit that under NO

circumstances were they ever to do microwaved cooking again. I gave this a

higher

priority than any of the things that are normally considered as health risks,

such

as cigarettes or alcohol. Immediately I began to get a marked improvement in

the results I was getting. Long term problems such as headaches, back aches and

emotional instability went away within a few weeks.

 

Other kinesiologists can confirm these results. David Bridgman, who has years

of experience as a kinesiologist, said " Of all the people I test for

allergies, 99.9% so far show severe sensitivity to any microwaved food " .

 

I experienced the effect of eating microwaved food for myself one time. I had

been doing quite a lot of kinesiology and feeling on top of the world when

for no apparent reason I began to feel rather `grey' and rather low. I realised

that I needed a balance from a kinesiologist. Sure enough, I was out of

balance. When the kinesiologist used muscle testing to see why my body had gone

out

of balance, the answer came up ... microwaved food! The trouble was, I

couldn't remember eating any. Until I remembered a particular vegetarian

restaurant I

had been to. When I went back to the restaurant and asked them if they

microwaved their food, they told me that they did.

 

So be warned! Many restaurants use microwaved cooking, even `health'

restaurants. Ask if the " steamed vegetables " are in fact steamed - or are they

microwaved? I have sent meals back when they have not been what they were

described

on the menu, much to the surprise of the restaurant owners.

 

 

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MICROWAVED PLASTIC WRAP HAS 10,000,000 TIMES FDA LIMITS OF CARCINOGENS!

 

Sent to me by a reader: Hello Folks. Hopefully all of you are already well

enough informed so as to avoid the use of a microwave oven due to the many

detrimental effects consuming microwaved food has upon our health, but " just in

case " , here is some interesting info sent to me by Ron Scanlon -- many thanks,

Ron! Cheers, Doug

 

University of California, Davis Medical Center 2315 Stockton Boulevard,

Sacramento, California 95817

 

As a seventh grade student, Claire Nelson learned that di(ethylhexyl)adepate

(DEHA), considered a carcinogen, is found in plastic wrap. She also learned

that the FDA had never studied the effect of microwave cooking on

plastic-wrapped food. Three years later, with encouragement from her high school

science

teacher, Claire set out to test what the FDA had not.

 

Although she had an idea for studying the effect of microwave radiation on

plastic wrapped food, she did not have the equipment. Eventually, Dr. Jon Wilkes

at the National Center for Toxicological Research agreed to help her. The

research center, which is affiliated with the FDA, let her use its facilities to

perform her experiments, which involved microwaving plastic wrap in virgin

olive oil.

 

Claire tested four different plastic wraps and " found not just the

carcinogens but also xenoestrogen was migrating [into the oil].... "

Xenoestrogens are

linked to low sperm counts in men and to breast cancer in women. Throughout her

junior and senior years, Claire made a couple of trips each week to the

research center, which was 25 miles from her home, to work on her experiment. An

article in Options reported " her analysis found that DEHA was migrating into the

oil at between 200 parts and 500 parts per million. The FDA standard is 0.05

parts per billion. "

 

Her summarized results have been published in science journals. Claire Nelson

received the American Chemical Society's top science prize for students

during her junior year and fourth place at the International Science and

Engineering Fair (Fort Worth,Texas) as a senior. " Carcinogens --At 10,000,000

Times FDA

Limits " Options, May 2000. Published by People Against Cancer, 515-972-4444

 

 

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Some of the above information on microwaved food was published in an Eight

Volume Lawyers Cyclopedia which is used by lawyers who sue in medical cases. Who

knows? One day there may be a class action lawsuit against microwaves.

Here are copies from the Cyclopedia:

go to the webpage to see these pictures of several pages -

the text can be read.

 

Irradiation of Food:

(Note: Irradiation is not the same as microwaving, but they are similar in

that both use unnatural frequencies to alter food).

 

The Cornell University in 1977 irradiated some sugar and fed it to rats. The

type of cell damage shown on post mortem was the same as if the rats

themselves had been irradiated!

 

Irradiation of Food:

Public Citizen has released the English translation of a recent German study

revealing that a chemical formed in irradiated food can damage DNA.

 

The study confirms what safe-food advocates have known for more than thirty

years: that exposing food to ionising radiation can lead to the formation of

bizarre new chemicals called " unique radiolytic products " that can cause serious

health problems.

 

One such chemical, known as 2-DCB, caused " significant DNA damage " in the

colons of rats that ate the substance. The chemical - which, ironically is a

well-known " marker " for determining whether food has been irradiated " - has

never

been found naturally in any food on earth.

 

The study was conducted in 1998 under the auspices of two prominent

pro-irradiation organizations. It was performed at one of the most prestigious

food

irradiation labs in the world: the Federal Research Centre for Nutrition in

Karlsruhe, Germany.

 

Public Citizen released an English translation of the study at a meeting on

13 February at the US Food and Drug Administration in Washington DC.

 

So, it's up to you. One point to bear in mind is that our society runs pretty

much on money. The multinational companies who make microwave ovens make a

lot from the sale of them. There is no money in telling people to stop microwave

cooking. There is, however, the satisfaction of knowing that you are saving

people's lives and future happiness by spreading the word to stop eating

microwaved food.

 

You can heat food quickly in a convection oven. You can also easily heat up

food by using a saucepan. If someone is coming home late, and you want to give

them warm food when they arrive, put a saucepan lid over the food while it is

on a plate. Put the plate of food on a simmering saucepan of water. It will

stay warm without drying up. If you want to cook food, do it the old fashioned

ways - it tastes much better that way!

 

Much of this information is from an article in the 1994 edition of Acres

Magazine, USA, by Tom Valentine.

 

PO Box 8800, Metairie, Louisiana 70011, USA

 

Tel: (504) 889 2100 Fax: (504) 889 2777

 

INFORMATION ON IRRADIATED FOOD and LABELLING LAWS at:

Public Citizen www.citizen.org

 

 

Email from Readers

 

Hi Stephanie Relfe;

 

Last night, I stopped by a healthy food store, and picked up a publication

called Indigo Sun Magazine. When I browsed through this publication, a title of

your article " The Dangers of Eating Microwaved Food " caught my attention.

When I read your article, it really relieved me and I was so glad to know that

there is an actual article that finally published about the dangers of eating

microwaved food. Thank you for sharing it with us by choosing to publish your

article on this publication.

 

Let me share my experience of eating microwaved foods with you. Before I

start it, some years ago, when I heard about the dangers of eating microwaved

foods through some spiritual writings that came from channeling, I began to

believe it, but I did not move this knowledge into action.

 

Until sometime last year when I became more intuitive and sensitive to listen

to my body, I began noticing some uncomfortable feelings inside my body and

my moods immediately turned into bad ones for no reason every time I ate

microwaved foods. I internally knew that my body was trying to tell me stop

using a

microwave so I took it. But I was little frustrated because I could not

convince my partner or others why I don't want to use a microwave anymore. They

would think I am insane or making it up about the dangers of eating the

microwaved foods or drinks. Now, I am so relieved that I have your article that

I

can share with others. Again, thank you.

 

That also made me wonder now if eating microwaved foods could have caused my

mother's breast cancer, which she luckily survived 18 years ago, since she was

a first woman who had breast cancer in both of my family generations. We

used our microwave for years before a discovery of my mother's breast cancer.

 

May the blessings be.

Brian Determan

Houston, Texas

 

Additional Links

 

Microwaved Water - See What It Does To Plants

http://www.rense.com/general70/microwaved.htm

 

Microwaves:Microwaving — Dangers to Your Food and You?

http://www.jrussellshealth.com/microwaves.html

 

Microwave Ovens: The Proven Dangers

http://www.detoxifynow.com/microwave_dangers.html

 

Chapter 3 - on the dangers of microwaving food and water

http://www.nenahsylver.com/default.asp?contentID=716 & toplevel=618

 

The Alarming Effects of Microwave Apparatus on Food and Humans

http://www.mindfully.org/Food/Irradiate-Microwave-Effects-FoodMay96.htm