Effects of Microwave Apparatus on Food and Humans

No wonder I'm so fucked up.

join the majority of our civilization. We have been needlessly assaulted with so chemicals, radiations and harmful technology which is so alien to our organisms....it's a wonder so many continue to function "normally"....

Yep, I was going to post it before,....it is true, and I have a $500 one and I don't intend to use it anymore!

I trashed my really good one about four years ago. A friend wanted it but I convinced him to go back to just heating up his food on the stove...

I thought microwaves were created by a NASA engineer who, while walking by a high frequency device, found that his chocolate bar melted.

Thought this was on the history channel?


I would think the cancer rate would be sky high if what you posted is true - since all the fast food restaurants use them.

I use them mostly for heating already cooked meals, and once in a while a TV dinner.

I personally think the blue tooth cell phone headsets are more dangerous.

When they started to be popular many years ago, I always felt skeptic about them but at the time no real information was available.
Using the stove it is always best.

it is sky high. I know so many people sick with it that and have lost more friends than I can count from cancer...
BTW History Channel is total kaka.

Whoever wrote this piece of warm, wet, runny, steaming bullshit should master high school physics before showing how ignorant they are in public.

i told you once I told you a million times....get a bra. o

Yep

So how do you get from defending a piece of warm, wet, runny, steaming bullshit to bras?

I guess you can't defend the bullshit you post, but then again no one with two brain cells to rub together expected you to.

could you be more specific about the material.....exactly what parts do you find not accurate.
or don't you know what the word "specific" means...?
BTW...I was just kidding you about your avatar...it's silly.
That man looks like he has breasts and they are blue.

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Try defending these:

"Merely Entering the Energy Fields of the Food causes such harmful side-effects that the Soviets outlawed all much microwave apparatus in 1976. Here are the effects observed in humans having ‘direct’ exposure to microwaves, that is, without their having consumed the Irradiated [microwaved] food substances."

Define this "energy field. Show that it exists. Provide at least one citation to a reputable, peer reviewed scientific journal that shows these "energy fields" even exist.

There is more, but I will give you the easiest first, if you gag that you sure as hell won't be able to explain how microwaves intereact with the strong and weak fields to generate beta particles.

So why should I believe anything this site says? Do you just accept it because you read it and it uses words you don't understand?

MICROWAVE COOKING
is Killing People!

By Stephanie Relfe B.Sc. (Sydney)


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?

Microwave cooking is obviously different from normal heaing, because it 'heats from the inside out. Microwave a potato for 30-60 minutes, and it will become as black as charcoal inside, but on the outside look untouched.

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.

Lymphocytes (white blood cells) also showed a more distinct short-term decrease following the intake of microwaved food than after the intake of all the other variants.

Another change was a decrease in the ratio of HDL (good cholesterol) and LDL (bad cholesterol) values.

Each of these indicators pointed to degeneration

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.

My friend, you had no time to read and reflect upon it.

No citation to a peer reviewed, reputable scientific journal.

Didn't think you could rise to the challenge.

As for law suits, you can sue anyone for anything. The problem is winning a judgement. Of course you don't cite the case number, what Court this alleged suit was filed in, what judge heard the case or its disposition.

I didn't expect anything from you, and you did not disappoint.

Thanks for playing the game, kid, when you master high school physics and chemistry you will know how absurd your claims are.

All you have done is post unsupported claims. If the claims were true they would be obvious to any researcher, and you only find the claims made by crackpots, moonbats and conmen. And they are believed only by the ignorant.

ok mr. titties. I'll let ya know...when I do...
In the mean time keep snorting up all the nuked up food.
You will look great in a box. Just kidding.
I don't think anyone should eat this shit.
Even you.

Is your microwave oven making you and your family sick?
Because microwave ovens are so convenient in thawing, cooking, and reheating food and are energy efficient in comparison to conventional ovens most homes or restaurants use them. If you are like most people who use a microwave oven, you have probably never questioned if a microwave not only negatively affects the nutritional quality of the foods cooked in it but does it also have any negative effect on the health of you and your family?

Af: Alun Biggart - 23-04-2007


But is it possible that millions of people all over the world are unknowingly sacrificing their health in exchange for the convenience of microwave ovens? Why did the Soviet Union ban the use of microwave ovens in 1976? Has your microwave oven been shown to be safe or even tested for safety? The answers to these questions may scare you into throwing your microwave oven in the bin.

When I started researching the facts about microwave ovens, I was shocked with what I found and my microwave got thrown out immediately. In this article I will share with you what I found so that you can make an informed decision as to whether the convenience of microwave ovens is worth the potential risk to your family’s health.

History of microwave ovens
Like many of today's inventions, the microwave oven was a by-product of another technology. Cooking food with microwaves was discovered accidentally by Percy Spencer while building magnetrons for radar sets at Raytheon. He was working on a radar set when he noticed a strange sensation, and saw that a peanut chocolate bar he had in his pocket started to melt. Although he was not the first to notice this phenomenon, as the holder of many patents, Spencer was no stranger to discovery and experiment, and realized what was happening. The radar had melted his chocolate bar with microwaves. On October 8, 1945 Raytheon filed a patent for Spencer's microwave cooking process and in 1947, the company built the first microwave oven, the Radarange. It was 1.8 m tall and weighed 340 kg. It was water-cooled and consumed 3000 watts of power, about three times as much as today's microwave ovens.

Today the Chinese firm Galanz is the largest manufacturer of microwaves in the world. Annually the firm produces over 15 million appliances accounting for 40% of the global market.

How do microwave ovens work?
Microwaves are a form of electromagnetic energy, like light waves or radio waves. 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 that is most familiar to us is the energy source for cooking food.

Microwave ovens are based on the principle of alternating current. Every microwave oven contains a magnetron, a tube in which electrons are affected by magnetic and electric fields in such a way as to produce micro wavelength radiation. This microwave radiation interacts with the molecules in food but unlike the conventional heating of food, in which heat transfers conventionally from without to within, microwaves ovens heat the food from the inside out.

All wave energy changes polarity from positive to negative with each cycle of the wave. In microwaves ovens, these polarity changes happen billions of times every second. Atoms, molecules and cells hit by this unnatural electromagnetic radiation are forced to reverse polarity 1 to 100 billion times a second. There are no atoms, molecules or cells of any food which is able to withstand such a violent, destructive power for any extended period of time.

Food molecules have a positive and negative end in the same way a magnet has a north and a south polarity. Of all the natural substances-which are polar, the oxygen of water molecules reacts most sensitively. As these microwaves generated from the magnetron bombard the food, they cause the polar molecules to rotate as they try to align themselves with the alternating electric field produced by the microwaves. All this agitation creates molecular "friction" in the water molecules, which in turn rapidly heats up the food.

This unnatural type of heating also causes substantial damage to the surrounding molecules and damages the cell wall of foods to the extent, that the end result is a Frankenstein food unknown to man or nature. Your gut receptors are unlikely to recognise a microwave food particle as a food but as a foreign body trying to invade you. This results in an immune response which suppresses your immune system.

Proof that Microwave ovens negatively affect your immune system and health.
Doctor Hans Hertel was the first scientist in the early 1990’s to devise and carry out a quality study on the effects of microwaved foods on the blood and health of human beings. This small but well-controlled study conducted in Switzerland produced some shocking results. The conclusion was clear: microwave cooking changed the foods structure so that changes took place in the participants' blood; these were not healthy changes but were changes that could potentially cause disease.

Eight participants were selected and all housed in the same hotel environment for eight weeks. There was no smoking, no alcohol and no sex, to control as many variables as possible. In intervals of two to five days, the volunteers in the study received one of the food variants on an empty stomach. The food variants were:

• raw milk from a biofarm
• the same milk conventionally cooked
• pasteurized milk
• the same raw milk cooked in a microwave oven
• raw vegetables from an organic farm
• the same vegetables cooked conventionally
• the same vegetables frozen and defrosted in the microwave oven
• and the same vegetables cooked in the microwave oven

Once the volunteers were isolated at the resort hotel, the test began. 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 negative health changes were discovered in the blood of the volunteers who consumed foods cooked in the microwave oven. These changes included a decrease in all hemoglobin values and increase in cholesterol levels.
In addition 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. Thus the microwave food suppressed the immune system of the participants.

Industry's action to hide the truth
As soon as Hertel published his results, a powerful trade organization, the Swiss Association of Dealers for Electro-apparatuses, struck swiftly. They went to court to issue a 'gag order' against Hertel. 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 his case over many years all the way to The European Court of Human Rights.

The European Court of Human Rights 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 and had been a violation of Hertel's rights. In addition, Switzerland was ordered to pay Dr. Hertel compensation.

It’s important to ask the question why would the industry try to stop this information from coming out to the public domain? A much more powerful argument would have been to provide evidence that microwave ovens are safe to use. Unfortunately no such evidence has been forthcoming.
The microwave-oven industry has also failed to provide evidence that the dangerous microwaves are contained within the oven and microwaves don’t escape into the surrounding area where the radiation could potentially damage people’s health. In addition many ready to eat microwave foods come in plastic packaging that’s designed to be put directly into the oven, but does the microwave cooking of food in plastic containers cause some toxins to be transferred from the plastic container into the food and ultimately into you? Probably but nobody knows for sure!

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. The following effects were observed by Russian forensic teams:

1. Ingestion of micro-waved foods caused a higher percentage of cancerous cells in blood.

2. The unstable catabolism of micro-waved foods altered their elemental food substances, leading to disorders in the digestive system.

3. 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

4. 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.

Conclusion
A theme we emphasise throughout this website is you become what you eat. Microwaves distort the molecular structure of the foods creating unnatural Frankenstein foods that nature never meant you or your family to eat. Microwaving creates a foreign food that not only has little nutritional value, suppresses your immune system but can potentially cause serious illnesses in people eating food heated by them. Some experts also believe eating microwaved food may cause loss of memory, concentration, emotional instability, and a decrease of intelligence. So if the health of your family, then use the extra couple of minutes to heat the food up the natural way using a conventional oven. The food will not only be healthier it will also taste much better as well. Microwaved food may be convenient but have your ever said whow that tasted great after you have eaten some? So isn’t it time you put your microwave own in its rightful place namely the bin?

More unsupported claims.

Can't find a citation to a reputable, peer reviewed scientific journal to support you claims, can you?

Still working on that "energy field" question?

Dream faster, kid.

oohhh i is workin so hard to keep up with you and do your research....not
Ya know what? I'm not even gonna try, cause i don't care if you "believe" me or not.
If you can't even heat up a babies milk in there without damaging the nutrients, I don't know about you, but I ain't gonna go and actually bring something up to "hot" with this device, not to mention cook something...
Stoves are good enough and plenty fast. But if you like cancer and other diseases...
Nuke away bro.
And further more you better get busy and find all those studies proving that it is SAFE!!!!
You'll look a long time because there are NONE.
Given their track record now, I will no longer trust the FDA to tell warn me of dangers.
They don't.

No point of using them for food since gets all soggy. I like the toaster oven

I have personally noticed when you put a 2 sugar coffee in the cage it needs another sugar when it comes out.

I was trained to repair them years ago, they radiate RF energy at 2.450 GHz at about 1000 watts within an RF cage so the signal does not get out, they tend to leak a bit if knocked around.

Generally the RF energy shakes the water molecules causing friction and heat.
Different frequencies affect different molecules , recently they found they could break down rubber and plastics into liquids with microwaves for reprocessing, a field worth investigating further.

Incidentally we are bombarded with microwave transmissions from satellite transponders and microwave links all around us so I suppose we are doomed even if we don't own or use one.

Tinfoil hats anyone ?

The only thing we need to worry about is if these things do enough damage to cause a significant reduction in the lifespan of a significant portion of the population....

If microwaved food will cause one cancer out of 1,000,000 people over a 90 year period; well who gives a fuck...

You may as well not try, you are unfamiliar with reputable journals, and would not understand the words in them in any case.

Glad to see you concede defeat.

Oh, I don't have to prove it is safe, YOU made the claim it was not, the responsibility for proof rests on you and you alone.

But you are not, as you say, even going to try.

You are an example of epic fail, enjoy your failure.

One i totally finally agree w/u on here lol

I'm sorry, you lost me on reputable journals.

b17 banned
aspartame approved
fluoride approved
almond tree banned

They are absurd and corrupted!