By Vandita | We Are Anonymous
Heating/Cooking on a stove is different from heating/cooking in a microwave. Absolutely right. While conventional ways of heating/cooking your food HEAT/COOK your food, microwaves heat/cook YOU. If this sounds frightening, or very much like an over-the-top statement, read what the US Food and Drug Administration has to say:
It is known that microwave radiation can heat body tissue the same way it heats food. Exposure to high levels of microwaves can cause a painful burn.
Why Nuke Your Food? The Very Real Dangers of Microwave Oven Cooking https://t.co/Yng4Y3Ir6i
— ecosalon (@ecosalon) May 22, 2013
While in an earlier article, we shared some of the harmful effects (such as cancer, swollen lymph nodes and a weakened immune system) of using microwave ovens for cooking or re-heating food—and gave you ample reasons why you should stop using microwaves—in this article we will share the work of five scientific studies from across the world, to illustrate what effects microwave cooking or re-heating has on your food…
Related Article: 5 Medical Reasons Microwaves Are Bad For You
1. Way back in 1992, Department of Pediatrics, Stanford University School of Medicine, conducted a study which observed that microwaving breast milk caused a decrease in lysozyme activity and antibodies, and aided the growth of more pathogenic bacteria.
2. In 1998, to clarify the effects of microwave heating on the loss of vitamin B12 in foods, Japanese researchers treated raw beef, pork, and milk with microwave heating and then determined their vitamin B12 contents. Appreciable loss (approximately 30-40%) of vitamin B12 occurred in the foods during microwave heating.
3. Research conducted by the Pennsylvania State University in 2001, concluded that 60 seconds of microwave heating or 45 minutes of oven heating can block the anti-carcinogenic activity of garlic.
Do not use the microwave. Use other methods to heat your food. #healthyeating pic.twitter.com/breSO13Nua
— Anthony DiClementi (@TheHealthBP) January 25, 2016
4. A Spanish study, which was published in The Journal of the Science of Food and Agriculture in 2003, detected high losses of flavonoids (97%), sinapic acid derivatives (74%) and caffeoylquinic acid derivatives (87%) when broccoli was microwaved. Conventional boiling led to a significant loss of flavonoids (66%) from fresh raw broccoli; high-pressure boiling caused considerable leaching (47%) of caffeoylquinic acid derivatives into the cooking water; while steaming had minimal effects, in terms of loss, on both flavonoid and hydroxycinnamoyl derivative contents.
5. An Australian study, which was published in The Journal of Nutrition in 2008, found thatmicrowaves cause a significantly higher degree of unfolding than conventional thermal stress for protein solutions heated to the same maximum temperature. Several neurodegenerative and other diseases are believed to result from the accumulation of amyloid fibrils formed by misfolded proteins.
To microwave or not to microwave?
Microwaves work by causing water molecules to resonate at very high frequencies, converting them into steam and thereby heating your food. While this might be a convenient way to prepare your food, using microwave radiation in this way actually changes the chemical structure of that food.Microwaving in plastic is dangerous too, because it can cause toxic chemicals (like phthalates and dioxins) to leak into your food.
Been over a month since I've stopped using the microwave. Not sure if it was actually having a neg effect on me but my food tastes better
— BROOKE ¯_(ツ)_/¯ (@BrookeSligs) November 13, 2015
Though the industry projects that microwave cooking/heating protects the nutrient content of foods, there is plenty of evidence to prove that the sensitive compounds in food, such as amino acids, fatty acids, vitamins and phytonutrients change as a result of microwave cooking/heating – the health benefits of microwaved food remain questionable.
Related Article: 12 Facts About Microwave Ovens That Should Forever Terminate Their Use
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— Trending News (@trends_news) April 29, 2014
And even though some “experts” still use the “fact” that “radiation doesn’t mean radioactive” to “givethe final word on whether microwaves are dangerous,” the USFDA recommends taking “common sense precautions,” like not standing directly next to the microwave while it’s on.
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Stephanie Maine
Kressa Brindley believe me now?
Got rid of the microwave…?
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I have used a microwave all my very long life and have not suffered any ill effects. The hype against them is b.s.
Yea, and my mom used to say “I’ve had fluoride all my life and……..what were we talking about?”
We’re all going to die….of something….eventually. I don’t drink, smoke, do drugs and am a vegan. I’m not worried about flouride or using a microwave.
Not worth the gamble
Greg Clark, hilarious.
Go ahead Carol. Keep telling people you’re a vegan. Somebody’s bound to kill you. ?
Otis N. Pete Wilton, enjoying my daily cup of soup (which I warmed up in my microwave) and salad. Haven’t eaten meat in MANY years. I’m old, and I’m healhy. I learned long ago that it’s none of my business what others think of me.
More power to ya Carol! ?
I’ma stop using them just in case. I know what radiation is, and I don’t want cancer, so glhf all.
I did not know these things, don’t foresee me getting rid of a microwave, but Ill try to use it wiser.
Aye
Ughhhhh.
? EVERYTHING GOING FOR IT,
even if microwave doesn’t exist, people still get cancer, some poeple do everything to prevent it thru healthy diet, excercise etc but still get it. there no absolute way to prevent it just because you factor out microwave in your life. I know because I have been around people that have passed away from cancer, and they are the most healthest people I know. you can’t say one thing is the cause of a decease, it could be based on so many factors and sometimes even unpreventable.
Tanya Otis
this was one of the biggest arguements when microwave ovens first came out!!! despite the arguement microwaves are still here and still being used. long term studies always let us know how we could die from something we use every day, but duh, i’m still here!
Also the microwave heats your food in plastic containers. As your cooking your food your melting plastic particles into your food so your then eating plastic and unbalanced food. Our body tissues are now testing positive for plastic particles as Yale & Harvard research has documented recently. Sounds like an early invitation to the casket in my opinion.No thank you.
Agree. I refuse to have a microwave in my house.
no plastics in my microwave; even if they say they are microwave safe! no bowls/plates/cups that get hot faster than the food/drink. no styrofoam.
Blah, Blah, Blah. Don’t breathe the air. Don’t drink the water. Fear of pesticides. Why are people living longer now than any other time? Maybe it’s the microwave, lol.
Yeah and don’t fly in an airplane or live in Denver or even in a brick house all put out radiation.
Carol Jean Welk are you suggesting the composition of brick is radioactive?
Fact. We are polluting the atmosphere with our industries, technology, exploitation of the planets energy, minerals etc. There are contaminants getting into piped water all over the world and some countries medicate with fluoride which does more harm than good to the body. We should be knowledgeable about pesticides. Monsanto have legal actions now being taken against them for spaying crops with poisons which then end up in our food. All they care about is profit. People are only living longer because of better health care. Our scientists tend to be funded by parties with a vested interest in a particular outcome that does not damage their capacity to make profits. It has been known for some time that microwaves give out unshielded harmful energy which is why people with heart conditions have been advised not to stand too close to them when they are in use. Wake up people to the damage that our materialistic society is doing to the environment and all life on this planet.
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They’re keeping you alive to consume more drugs.
Why is there more cancer, heart disease, athsma, liver and kidney disease etc.
Your doing more harm to yourself by worrrying about things that are totally out of your control. Unless your a Senator, or in Congress, your just driving up your blood pressure and stress levels with no change in sight.
Ryan Russell is right stop worrying so much. I don’t use a microwave except for baked potatoes cause they take too long and rarely anything else. Not because I’m worried so much but because I am a good cook and no good cook would dare use a microwave to ruin their taste of their food
Haven’t used one in months – and don’t intend to go back to them.
You can make microwaveable food in an oven,takes longer but tastes better anyway
Will stopping to use microwave oven stop people from dying? or will it reduce death rate?
Matheus Wienen
What the hell. Earth is a shitty place anyway so I don’t mind
I DONT KNOW ABOUT IT
Ruby Tui
Michelle Sorrentino
Mary Borne
Sara Dawn
Good thing we don’t use a microwave
Ditched mine and found I was pleasantly surprised at how quickly things actually heat on the hob. I only miss it for my porridge.
Microwaves are an essential way to communicate with the alien android clones.
Katie Winslow
This isn’t true. Microwaves heat the water in the food…. which in turn heats the food…. It doesn’t leave radioactive anything in the food. It’s fine.
Brill. Thanks. Took the words right out of my mouth.
Ya keep telling yourself that.
How dangerous using something tools is
Deirdre McCarthy
I just got rid of mine! It’s really not much of a hassle:)
Liam Perkins
If you don’t want to use your microwave that’s cool …..move on
It’s a fucking microwave people…it heats your food…that’s it.
Vaishnavi Subramanian
Omg! 😮
Justin O’Kane?!
Thankyou Ryan Russell so tired of this crap Ive been using a microwave for many many years im still here so I will continue to use it I dont believe everything I see.
Hopefully next year.
Just dont put your body tissue in the microwave. Unless you want it heated, then you should put your body tissue in the microwave. Where do you get a microwave big enough for a person?
Dum statement!
This article is absolute nuts and scientifically incoherent. What it fails to point out is that, to a degree, ALL forms of cooking will degrade some nutritional components of food (such as Vitamins). Microwaves are not special or uniquely bad in this respect.
As for the strap-line “we should terminate the use of microwaves before they kill us”, is just plain wrong and shocking content writing by Conscious Life News. There is absolutely nothing in the article to suggest a microwave oven could do anything fatal.
Felipe Pileggi why we don’t have one !
there was a study done years ago from a scandanavian country that told of terrible things coming out of the vessals used in microwaving ,microwave safe only means the dish will not melt or blow up
James Malaney Elizabeth Keith
Dangerous science, yes microwaves heat body tissue, but so do Bon fires; don’t get to close to Bon fires or you could get burned!
Not one in our house, kids used to run out to the camper/trailer and use the one in there for popcorn once in a while. Oh ya, than one day the microwave would start on its own, no one within 10′ of it. At the dump now.
Michelle Millerd
man, this is so annoying, people are collectively dumb. Its a dumb mob, very dangerous and against itself.