yeah,
you need to hurry up and stop doing that, people.
MICROWAVE COOKING
is Killing People Times, serif"">!
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?
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.
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. That includes
heating up food or even water in a microwave oven. (Microwaves
work on the water in the food). sans-serif"">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.
The alternative to heating up or defrosting food is to place it in a saucepan with a little water and lid. Or use a convection oven.
MICROWAVED
PLASTIC WRAP HAS 10,000 TIMES FDA LIMITS OF CARCINOGENS!
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 Times FDA Limits"
Options, May 2000. Published by People Against Cancer,
515-972-4444
So, it's up to you. One point to bear in mind is that our society
runs pretty
much on money. The multinational companies who make microwave
ovens make a
lot from the sale of them. There is no money in telling people
to stop microwave
cooking. There is, however, the satisfaction of knowing that
you are
saving people's lives and future happiness by spreading the word
to stop eating
microwaved food.
ALTERNATIVES
You can heat food quickly in a convection oven.
It's just an ordinary oven with a fan.
You can also easily and quickly heat up food, even
frozen pasta,
by using a saucepan with a lid and a little water, to moisten it
from the steam.
If someone is coming home late, and you want to give them warm food when they arrive, put a saucepan lid over the
food while it
is on a plate. Put the plate of food on a simmering saucepan of
water. It
will stay warm without drying up.
If you want to cook food, do it the old fashioned ways - it tastes much better that way!
Much of the above information is from an article in the 1994 edition
of Acres Magazine,
USA, by Tom Valentine.
PO Box 8800, Metairie, Louisiana 70011, USA
Tel: (504) 889 2100
Fax: (504) 889 2777
Some of the above information on microwaved food was published in an Eight Volume Lawyers Cyclopedia which
is used by lawyers who sue in medical cases. Who knows? One day
there may
be a class action lawsuit against microwaves. Here are copies
from the Cyclopedia:
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