Microwave Ovens - should we be afraid?
Despite owning one for 20 odd years, I've always had my doubts about microwave ovens. This was based purely on the frankly naive notion of mine that radiation could escape and the whole family would end up like Hiroshima victims.
However, over the past week or so, I've picked up on a few things that have started to cause more worry in my ever paranoid mind. Mainly this:
There was a recent science project where two indentical plants were fed with boiled and then cooled water. One set of water was boiled in a microwave, the other in a standard kettle. Within 7 days the plant fed with the microwaved water was dead. Apparently this was down to the microwaves changing the molecular structure of the water and the plant then not being able to absorb it as it normally would.
The following was sent to me in an email recently:
The problem with microwaving anything is not the radiation people used to worry about; It's how it corrupts the DNA in the food so the body can not recognize it. So the body wraps it in fat cells to protect itself from the dead food or it eliminates it fast. Think of all the Mothers heating up milk in these 'Safe' appliances. What about the nurse in Canada that warmed up blood for a transfusion patient and accidentally killed him because the blood cells were dead.
Ten Reasons to Not Use Your Microwave Oven
From the conclusions of the Swiss, Russian and German scientific clinical studies, we can no longer ignore the microwave oven sitting in our kitchens. Based on this research, we will conclude this article with the following:
1). Continually eating food processed from a microwave oven causes long term - permanent - brain damage by 'shorting out' electrical impulses in the brain [de-polarizing or de-magnetizing the brain tissue].
2). The human body cannot metabolize [break down] the unknown by-products created in microwaved food.
3).. Male and female hormone production is shut down and/or altered by continually eating microwaved foods.
4). The effects of microwaved food by-products are residual [long term, permanent] within the human body.
5). 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.
6). The minerals in vegetables are altered into cancerous free radicals when cooked in microwave ovens.
7). Microwaved foods cause stomach and intestinal cancerous growths [tumors]. This may explain the rapidly increased rate of colon cancer in America .
8). The prolonged eating of microwaved foods causes cancerous cells to increase in human blood.
9). Continual ingestion of microwaved food causes immune system deficiencies through lymph gland and blood serum alterations.
10). Eating microwaved food causes loss of memory, concentration, emotional instability, and a decrease of intelligence.
So, bearing in mind number 10 - am I being paranoid or stupid or what? Any sciencey types care to comment?
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http://www.snopes.com/science/microwave/plants.asp
maybe worth asking mythbusters to test this one?
So this is the news this week. Then next week it will be..... Microwaved food enhances you and your immune system. Gives you special powers and makes you sexually attractive to the opposite sex.
Believe what you want. But I've had enough of news telling me what I can and can't do.
It's your cock up, my arse.
It's bollocks.
Microwave radiation is non-ionising.
The human digestive system doesn't "recognise DNA" fer starters.
It reminds me of when my not-too-bright uncle tried to convince us to get rif of our microwave because "it denatures proteins". Lady BMcH laughed and laughed and asked him if he ever boiled, steamed, baked, roasted, grilled, griddled, fried or otherwise heated his food.
You're with stupid. ▲
Bah! You and your science can't prove things to a satifactory level simply with logic, experimentation and scientific method! I have superstition and asumption!Originally Posted by Sporky_McGuffin
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Actually I'm rather fond of the handiness of a microwave if you use it for the right things... REALLY liked the panasonic combi-oven thing we had before that was a 1000w microwave as well as a grill and an oven - the grill was so good I stopped using the gas grill completely, and the oven part was really handy when baking all sorts of things as you can be baking at one temp in the gas oven, and another in the combi-oven... and re-heating stuff in the microwave is a heaven sent thing for people who get easily distracted by...
ooh... shiney
仁慈的上帝，请带我走我将关闭自己的耳朵，我的心，我将一块石头
I do a lot of cooking, and have no problem with using a microwave.
It's just another tool
Apparently microwaving's one of the most environmentally-friendly way of steaming vegetables and suchlike as well.
If you changed the molecular structure of water then it would no longer be water...
Is this real?
You can measure the speed of light using a microwave and chocolate, I know that much.
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