Nuked In Your Kitchen

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mrmom2

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Heres some good reasons to throw your microwave out .Mines been gone for about a year :wink:
by William Thomas

Our culture of convenience is killing us. If the stress of buying and replacing an endless array of gadgets isn’t harsh enough, our addiction to appliances unheard of only a few decades ago is propelling us toward mass misery, death and health care cost calamity on a scale not seen since cars and cigarettes became as personally essential as all the consumer crazes that followed.

But the electrochemical exchanges that enable cells to function and communicate in human brains and bodies are so subtle, and so delicately attuned to Earth’s own quietly humming electromagnetics, the inaudible “noise” from so many clever devices threatens to drown the very signals on which all life depends. And there is nothing convenient about cancer.

Already we are seeing unfolding epidemics of cancers, brain damage and immune dysfunction that threaten the “best and the brightest” students and executives among technologically advanced and emerging nations. Particularly hard hit will be the next generation on which so much depends. For this is our “Last Chance Century” to stop abusing ourselves and the planet on which we depend - and it is the young who are most vulnerable to the most pervasive human-made pollution ever unleashed: electromagnetic smog.

Whether portable phone or microwave wonder, exposing your three million year-old hominid self to energy levels never before encountered in primate evolution is a spectacularly bad idea. It turns out that the microwaves messing up your cells from your aptly named “cell phone”, neighborhood cell phone tower, or newly acquired long-range cordless phone are radiating at the same 2.45 Gigahertz frequency emitted by your microwave oven.

Studies of plant, animal and human susceptibility to electromagnetic fields show that the higher the frequency the more damage results. Instead of talking on your cell phone while eating a microwaved meal, you might as well go live next to Chernobyl’s leaky containment dome.

The Russians call the symptoms of this new radiation hazard, “Microwave Sickness”. After capturing the first karmically-compromised microwave ovens from their Nazi inventors, the Soviets expanded on the Reich’s initial two-year research in Berlin by looking hard at microwave maladies from 1957 until nearly the end of the Cold War - when the Kremlin banned these infernal machines.
As Anthony Wayne and Lawrence Newell point out in “The Hidden Hazards Of Microwave Cooking”, Russian researchers also found decreased nutritional value - or significant dimming of their “vital energy field” - in up to 90% in all microwaved foods.

In addition, the B complex, C and E vitamins linked with stress-reduction and the prevention of cancer and heart disease - as well as the essential trace minerals needed for optimum brain and body functioning - were rendered useless by microwaves, even at short cooking durations.

Not only is microwaved food reduced to the nutritional equivalent of cardboard, lymphatic disorders leading to an inability to prevent certain cancers were also observed, along with increased rates of cancer cell formation in the blood of people eating microwaved meals. The Russians reported increased rates of stomach and intestinal cancers, as well as digestive and excretive disorders - plus a higher percentage of cell tumors, including sarcoma - in people exposed to food molecularly ripped apart by these dangerous devices.

It turns out that eating over-energized food “zapped” in a microwave imparts that energy to the human nervous system. The resulting stress causes a high blood pressure response, with such characteristic symptoms as migraines, dizziness, stomach pain and anxiety.

Higher incidences of hair loss, appendicitis, cataracts and reproductive problems have also been found among constant consumers of microwaved food - with women’s more complex hormones and plumbing proving particularly vulnerable. Regardless of gender, adrenal exhaustion and heart disease caused by microwave food stress, the Russian researchers stressed, can be fatal.

They also found that regularly consuming food “nuked” in a microwave also leads to memory loss and attention disorders - as well as increased crankiness, depression, disconnected thoughts and sleep interruption.

Recent research confirms that the spikes of violently oscillating energy pulsed into microwaved meals and transferred to the blood stream by eating these foods can cause permanent brain damage by “shorting out” intercellular signals and “de-polarizing” brain tissue which depends on natural +/- electrical polarities to function.

in 1976, the same corporate-controlled US media that later failed to flag Americans on glaring 911 anomalies and the manufactured “threat” from a shattered Iraq, also neglected to report the Soviet government’s ban on “microwaves” - which were by then taking over cooking chores in nine out of ten American homes.

Unlike the direct radiant heat from regular ovens and toaster ovens - which cook food like a Paleolithic campfire from the outside in - space age microwave ovens hurl high-frequency microwaves that boil the moisture within food and its packaging by whipsawing water molecules dizzyingly back-and-forth at more than a billion reversals per second..
This frenetic friction fractures food molecules, rearranging their chemical composition into weird new configurations unrecognizable as food by human bodies - which tend to react as if confronted by terrorists wearing grotesque masks.

Eating molecularly-molested foods alters your blood chemistry, too.

How’s this for microwave magic: Eat your organic veggies zapped by microwaves and send your cholesterol soaring! As noted in my previous article, “Cooked”, Swiss scientist Hertel harrumphs: “Blood cholesterol levels are less influenced by cholesterol content of the food than by stress factors” in non-fat microwaved foods.

Reporting for the Forensic Research Document of AREC Research, William P. Kopp now states: “The effects of microwaved food by-products are long term, permanent within the human body. 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.”

Dr. Mercola concurs: "Recent research shows that microwave oven-cooked food suffers severe molecular damage. When eaten, it causes abnormal changes in human blood and immune systems. Not surprisingly the public has been denied details on these significant health dangers " [www.mercola.com]

Here's a fun experiment you can do at home: Plant seeds in two pots. Water one pot with water nuked in a microwave; the other with “normal” filtered tap water. Surprise! The seeds soaking up microwaved water won't sprout
 

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8O I have a microwave, and it is convenient when I forget to take the meat out of the freezer. Fortunatly, it is a rare occurance. I prefer to use the stove, you can monitor boiling pots a lot better. Glad I don't let the kids nuke stuff. But where do you draw the line? everyone has heard the electric whine of the T.v, fridge, etc, etc, do we go back to bonfires with spits :?
 

mrmom2

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That bugs ya Manda go read the cell phone thread 8O Do what I did get rid of the micro would be a good start :wink:
 

Canucklehead

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Excellent article, Mom, thanks :)

It's nice to know I can confidently chuckle at all my friends who have had endless fun at my expense over the years for not owning one.

Not sure how long a nuker takes to defrost food but a pot of warm-ish water will do the trick in under an hour unless it's a leg of lamb, med+ roast or lg. whole chicken.

mom, I don't have a link but there was a study where people were placed in a shielded room where even the Earth's natural magnetic fields could not interfere and the subjects, without exception, over a few hours started to lose control of themselves; unable to pick up objects, stand properly without swaying, speech problems, visual & spatial perception degraded etc. Scary stuff.
 

Canucklehead

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mrmom2 said:
I'd sure like to read that Canucklehead sounds enlightening :wink:

I'll see if I can find the article again but if it helps, and you have spare time, I found it while searching for information on Pole Shifts and the Mayan 2012 prophecy.

manda said:
And to think about all the time we sit in front of computers...Yikes! :wink:

It's not half as bad as it used to be. Those nasty little green or amber CGA/VGA monitors from back in the 70's/80's threw off loads of radiation. I'd be interested to know how the LCD/Plasma screens fare; I'd imagine much better than a CRT.
 

Reverend Blair

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I use the microwave for thawing meat. I never actually turn it on, I just use it as a cabinet so when meat is thawing the cats don't hop up on the counter and help themselves.
 

Canucklehead

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Mom,

Ok, so it took a whole lot longer than planned but here it is, sorta...

Infinite Mind: Science of Human Vibrations of Consciousness by Valerie V. Hunt

There is reference to the study in this book but since the copy at the local library is out there's no telling if the footnotes include the author of the original study. It's a start if you're really interested though.
 

#juan

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Microwaves are great for popcorn and bacon and frozen veggies. There is no danger eating microwaved foods other than burning your tongue. If the food is not over cooked, it does not lose anymore nutritional value than cooking on top of your stove.

http://www.hc-sc.gc.ca/iyh-vsv/prod/micro_e.html
 

#juan

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I meant to add this above:

Microwaves are a form of radiofrequency electromagnetic energy. When they penetrate food, they cause water molecules in the food to rotate. The rotation causes friction between the molecules, resulting in a rapid rise in temperature. This is why the cooking time with a microwave oven is much shorter than with a conventional oven.

Microwaves should not be confused with X-rays or other intense forms of energy. The microwaves generated by a microwave oven do not cause food or the oven itself to become radioactive. When you shut the oven off, the microwaves disappear. They do not remain in either the food or the oven.
 

Canucklehead

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The Health Can article speaks primarily to the fact that a microwave oven is shielded and few microwaves escape during it's use and as you quoted above, that the food does not become radioactive. Reread the article in the first post. It speaks to what happens to the food's molecular composition and what those changes do to the nutritional value of your food along with how your body repsonds to the altered food.
 

Canucklehead

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While tempted to go Yahoo! up a few links for you it seems we are polar opposites on this issue so being a stereotypical Canuck I promise to say "I told ya so" when that third arm sprouts from yer forehead if you promise not get on my case for wasting all those hours naturally defrosting/cooking mah food, K? :lol: :p :lol:
 

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#juan said:

hmmm ... interesting site. Here's an exerpt of interest...

Microwave ovens and uneven heating

Food cooked in a microwave oven does not heat uniformly and unwanted microorganisms may survive in portions of poorly heated food.

Manufacturers use stirrer fans and turntables and recommend standing times to help alleviate the problem of uneven heating. Many microwaveable meal packs carry the instruction to stir the food part way through the cooking process. Items such as lasagne that can't be stirred should be allowed standing time to allow the whole product to reach a uniform temperature.

How far microwaves are able to penetrate into the food will also depend on the thickness of portions and on the composition and moisture content of the food. When heating large quantities of food it is more effective to divide it into smaller portions for reheating than it is to heat a large amount for longer.

Care should be taken that frozen food has been completely thawed. Water absorbs microwaves far more easily than ice does; incomplete thawing will result in uneven cooking and the potential survival of undesirable microorganisms in those parts of the food which have been insufficiently heated.

A positive feature of microwave ovens with regard to food safety is that food can be taken from the freezer, thawed quickly, cooked and served without it spending long periods of time in the danger temperature zone between 4°C and 60°C, which provides favourable conditions for the growth of dangerous microorganisms.
 

#juan

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Canucklehead, James,

We didn't buy a microwave till at least 6 or 7 years after every one else we knew did. I was worried about the same things you seem to be worried about and I did a lot of research.

There are no recognized studies to suggest that microwaving destroys the nutritional value of the food. In fact the opposite is likely true. There is no lingering physical effect on food that would or could be harmful other than burning your tongue as I said.

We don't do a lot of "cooking" with our microwave because It is easier and simpler to cook with a conventional stove. We do popcorn, bacon, frozen veggies, and very little else in our microwave.
 

Haggis McBagpipe

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We got rid of our microwave a few years back for essentially the reasons mentioned in the article. Also, my sister told me something that disturbed me no end: she always heats her cat's milk, but she heats it on the stove... one day, she heated it in the microwave, and the cat would not touch it. That struck me as pretty significant.

It is interesting to note that many sources suggest that pregnant women stay away from microwave ovens.
 

Dexter Sinister

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Sounds like bullshit to me. There's one statement in the original article I can deny immediately without research: "the essential trace minerals needed for optimum brain and body functioning - were rendered useless by microwaves, even at short cooking durations." Can't possibly be true. The minerals involved are things like sodium, potassium, phosphorus, calcium, iron... in other words, elements, single atoms, not molecules. Microwaves can't change them, no way no how; that'd take nuclear reactions of some sort, which microwaves can't cause. At most, microwaves might briefly ionize them (the photoelectric effect, if anyone cares to look it up), but as soon as you remove the microwaves they'll revert back to their ground state. And if you don't know what that sentence means, you don't know enough about real science to form a legitimate opinion of that article.

If the rest of it's based on the same kind of ignorance that claim is, I'll call bullshit on all of it. All microwave heating does is boil water. And the article's full of inflammatory stuff like claiming the microwaves rip molecules back and forth at billions of times per second. Meaningless information in this context. They oscillate like that even without microwaves, unless the molecules are at absolute zero, about -273 degrees celsius. Visible light has a much higher frequency than microwaves, and it routinely rips molecules back and forth inside your eye. You think that's doing you any damage? Better keep your eyes shut all the time then.

Learn some real science folks, and learn to think critically, instead of all this crackpot conspiracy stuff. It's mostly inflammatory nonsense. One instance of a cat refusing to touch microwaved milk, for instance, is completely insignificant by itself. You need to demonstrate in a long series of trials that the cat deals with microwaved milk and milk heated on the stove significantly differently, and you've got to control for things like temperature. Maybe the microwaved stuff was just too hot; anyone who's used a microwave knows it's easy to overheat stuff, or heat it unevenly, or burn yourself because the inside of the food can be much hotter than the outside. One event means nothing, it's not enough information to justify a conclusion.

I vote with #jaun and real science.
 
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