Why its good to your friends and family away from Microwave cooking ....pass on

[Guest guest]

*MICROWAVE COOKING

is Killing You!*

 

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 system=s

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 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!*

 

doug

 

*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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