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Healthy life16 Feb 2010 10:55 am

What Your Microwave is Really Doing to Your Health

Submitted by Adam Curren (view website)

Did you know the Soviet Union banned microwaves in 1976? Yet, over 90% of American homes have one. For the most part, people aren%u2019t aware of the detrimental effects that microwave ovens have on the food being prepared and on your body once ingested. In fact, most casually believe that microwaves were simply invented for convenience and ease of life. I really do wish this were true, but things aren%u2019t always what they seem. How many times have you heard the phrase %u201Cjust nuke it for a few minutes?%u201D That alone screams radioactive (!) to me and I certainly don%u2019t want my food being heated by a radio-wave. What ever happened to good old fire anyway?

%u201CWell, if Microwaves weren%u2019t safe, then the government would%u2019ve never allowed them on the market%u201D you might be mumbling. I understand how you feel; I%u2019ve actually felt the same way before. Here%u2019s what I%u2019ve discovered. As with all controversial issues, there exists two camps, and depending on which scientific report you read will determine which side of the story you%u2019re exposed to. This is why it%u2019s absolutely necessary to educate yourself by objectively studying both sides in order to make a wise choice. One thing is certain; your body won%u2019t lie and in fact knows what%u2019s best for you.

The FDA proudly affirms its safety, while independent studies distinctly show that it isn%u2019t. I challenge you consider the FDA%u2019s track record when it comes to keeping the public safe. On average, 106,000 Americans die each year from FDA approved medications.  The former FDA Commissioner Dr. Herbert Ley had this to say: %u201CThe thing that bugs me is that people think the FDA is protecting them. It isn`t. What the FDA is doing and what the public thinks it`s doing are as different as night and day.%u201D

Inside the Microwave

Microwaves are a form of electromagnetic energy and are commonly used to relay long distance telephone signals, television programs, and computer information. However, most of us are familiar with the Microwave that cooks are delicious %u201CHungry Man%u201D TV dinners. Here%u2019s a run down of how they work: electric and magnetic pulses are created inside the microwave, which then emit a micro-wavelength radiation at about 2.45 GHz.  The micro-waves bombard the food, creating polarity reversals at a rate of over a billion changes per second. It%u2019s the friction and heat caused by this process that can destroy the fragile structure of vitamins and enzymes in the food. Once the structure of a particular food is altered, it becomes incapable of performing the proper and desired function within the body. Microwaves from the sun are direct current (DC) and operate in a wide frequency spectrum which doesn%u2019t create frictional heat. While Microwave ovens use alternating current (AC) creating frictional heat and produces a spiked wavelength of energy with all of the power going into one narrow frequency. Through a process called induction, the food itself often becomes a carrier and secondary source of technically generated radiation.

What%u2019s So Bad About The Microwave Anyway?

In 1991, Norma Levitt was admitted into an Oklahoma hospital for hip surgery. During the procedure, a blood transfusion became necessary. Now, it%u2019s common for physicians to warm the blood prior to a transfusion, but in this case the nurse unknowingly used a microwave oven to do so. Norma Levitt died shortly after the procedure. An investigation shortly thereafter determined that the microwave altered the blood and killed Norma. How would the nurse have known the microwave was dangerous, when all she%u2019d ever been told is that it%u2019s an easy and convenient way to heat things up?

Covering an Inconvenient Truth

Micro-wave Radiation creates molecules and energies that weren%u2019t present in the food prior to being cooked. That being said, one of the basic principals of medicine today states that anytime we ingest something containing energies and molecules foreign to the body, the odds are that it will create more harm than good. Are you willing to trade safety and food quality for a little energy efficiency and conviencance?

Dr. Hans Hertel of the University Institute for Biochemistry in Switzerland conducted a study in which serious changes within the blood were found in those participants who consumed microwaved milk and vegetables. Hemoglobin levels decreased while white blood cells and bad cholesterol levels increased. These changes have been linked to anemia, thyroid deficiency, and rheumatism. The study also revealed that microwaving increased free radical production which is shown to interact with enzymes and disrupt biological processes.

Dr. Hertel was a food scientist employed by a major Swiss company and was fired not long ago for questioning certain procedures that denatured the food being processed.  Immediately following the publication of his study, he was placed under a gag order. In March-1993, he was convicted for %u201Cinterfering with commerce%u201D and prohibited from further publishing his results. He went on to fight the order and in 1998 won in an Austrian court where the European Court of Human Rights ordered the gag removed and that Switzerland pay Dr. Hertel accordingly.

Microwave Sickness

One Russian study found that 60-90% of food value was lost when cooked in a Microwave. They determined that the bio-availability of vitamin B, C, E, essential minerals and lipotropics all significantly decreased. They also found that meats heated in a Microwave caused the formation of a well-known carcinogen-d-Nitrosodienthanolamines. The Russians also studied thousands of workers who were exposed to microwaves during the development of radar in the 1950%u2019s. Their research showed health problems so serious that a strict limit of 10 microwatts of exposure was set for workers and 1 microwatt for civilians.

Dubbed, Microwave Sickness by the Russians, the first signs are low blood pressure and a slow pulse. The later and more common signs are chronic excitation of the sympathetic nervous system (stress syndrome) and high blood pressure. This stage can also include anxiety, dizziness, eye pain, hair loss, headache, irritability, nervous tension, reproductive problems, sleeplessness, stomach pain, and cancer and can be followed by adrenal exhaustion and the development of Coronary Heart Disease.

The Dilemma and an American Tragedy

Most of our daily schedules don%u2019t seem to allow anything less than the conviencance of a Microwave Oven. But it really doesn%u2019t take that much longer to heat something in an oven or to boil a pot of water.  Besides not taking much longer, you%u2019re sparing yourself plenty of unneeded radioactive exposure in the process. Our ancestors survived thousands of years without the Microwave Oven; and though it%u2019s true they may not have been as busy as we are today, that still isn%u2019t an excuse to compromise your health for a little convenience. Toaster ovens are a great alternative to Microwaves and work nearly as quickly. Slow and low is generally a good rule of thumb to go by when cooking. Regardless of the mountain of unshakeable science in this area, those in power, in combination with Microwave manufacturers, and good old human nature have submerged the facts and evidence for quite some time. It%u2019s simply astonishing what little has been done to protect the public from this radio active rectangle and regardless of the solid evidence pointing to the dangers, the Microwave remains a staple in most American homes.
Sources

http://www.healingdaily.com/microwave-ovens.htm

http://www.marksdailyapple.com/microwave-safety/

http://www.mercola.com/article/microwave/hazards.htm

http://www.all-natural.com/microwa1.html

http://www.bodyecology.com/07/08/02/microwave_dangers.php

http://www.thedailygreen.com/environmental-news/latest/microwave-radiation-ovens-460709

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