microwave cooking revisited

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MICROWAVE COOKING is Killing You!

By 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)

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. 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.

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.

Irradiation of Food: (Note: Irradiation is not the same as microwaving,

but they are similar in that both use unnatural frequencies to alter

food).

The Cornell University in 1977 irradiated some sugar and fed it to rats.

The type of cell damage shown on post mortem was the same as if the rats

themselves had been irradiated!

Irradiation of Food: Public Citizen has released the English translation

of a recent German study revealing that a chemical formed in irradiated

food can damage DNA.

The study confirms what safe-food advocates have known for more than

thirty years: that exposing food to ionising radiation can lead to the

formation of bizarre new chemicals called " unique radiolytic products "

that can cause serious health problems.

One such chemical, known as 2-DCB, caused " significant DNA damage " in the

colons of rats that ate the substance. The chemical - which, ironically is

a well-known " marker " for determining whether food has been irradiated " -

has never been found naturally in any food on earth.

The study was conducted in 1998 under the auspices of two prominent

pro-irradiation organizations. IT was performed at one of the most

prestigious food irradiation labs in the world: the Federal Research

Centre for Nutrition in Karlsruhe, Germany.

Public Citizen released an English translation of the study at a meeting

on 13 February at the US Food and Drug Administration in Washington DC.

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.

You can heat food quickly in a convection oven. You can also easily heat

up food by using a wok. 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 this 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

INFORMATION ON IRRADIATED FOOD and LABELLING LAWS at: Public Citizen

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