Are you using a microwave oven to cook your diner? You better start worrying, according to this article by osteopathic physician and health activist Dr. Joseph Mercola, whose dietary recommendations often put him at odds with mainstream dietary advice.Is it possible that millions of people are ignorantly sacrificing their health in exchange for the convenience of microwave ovens? Why did the Soviet Union ban the use of microwave ovens in 1976? Of course, if microwave ovens were really harmful, the government would never allow them on the market, would they? Would they?
The purpose of this report is to show proof - evidence - that microwave cooking is not natural, nor healthy, and is far more dangerous to the human body than anyone could imagine.
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6 comment(s):
I guess its a good thing I still dont have a microwave yet.
I have a hunch that the fats, nitrates, sugar and preservatives in the processed food I nuke will do me in long before the microwave-mutant molecules get a chance.
Riiiight.... because the Soviet Union was renowned for its concern for the health of its citizens.
"All this agitation creates molecular "friction", which heats up the food. This unusual type of heating also causes substantial damage to the surrounding molecules, often tearing them apart or forcefully deforming them."
I call shenanigans! Temperature *IS* molecular kinetic energy. Whenever you heat something up, you're going to be to be chemically altering the molecules due to the increased movement.
"By comparison, microwaves from the sun are based on principles of pulsed direct current (DC) that don't create frictional heat; microwave ovens use alternating current (AC) creating frictional heat."
This is utter nonsense. It doesn't even make sense. High frequency EM radiation is high frequency EM radiation, it doesn't matter the current used to create it. It's like saying that music from computer speakers are unhealthier than sound from voice. Either way, they're just soundwaves. (Not to mention, the AC wall electricity is rectified to power the magnetron.)
The author's descriptions of wavelength, cycle, and frequency clearly demonstrate his/her ignorance of EM radiation. Frequency determines "type" of radiation. The wavelength is a function of the radiation's speed (which is constant in a vacuum).
The further cases against microwave ovens are pretty bizarre, if not entirely irrelevant to the aspect of their daily use in heating foods.
Furthermore, the author is purposefully twisting the facts. "Microwave sickness"? Microwave sickness has nothing to do with eating microwaved food, it has to do with BEING MICROWAVED.
Needless to say, I am not convinced.
This is why we have so much trouble with science in the US...people like this get an audience and seem creditable.
Question authority!
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