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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)
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.
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.
MICROWAVED PLASTIC WRAP HAS 10,000,000 TIMES FDA LIMITS OF CARCINOGENS!
From: doug@d-w-m.com
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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