Re: OT - Microwaves and more-

[Guest guest]

Even just microwaving water does strange things. Find two very similar

plants. Water one of them with microwaved water, and the other with

non-microwaved

water. Guess which one does poorly? This was a neat science experiment for my

homeschooled son. Guess what - we threw out our microwave.

Debbie

[Guest guest]

Microwaves do strange things to food. Thus the warning not to

microwave baby formula or bottles. They tell you it is because it

will not heat it evenly, but the studies revel that the milk/formula

nutrient content is destroyed in the microwave. It actually changes

the properties of the cells and the nutritional content is not the

same.

They did blood studies on people before eating microwaved food, and

after. They found actual blood chemistry changes following ingestion

of the foods. Russia does not use microwaves. They actually banned

them years ago. We stopped using ours about 8 months ago. I can tell

you..the food tastes better when cooked the old way. I can tell

nuker food, and will no longer eat it. It taste funny to me now.

How a microwave works: the force it creates actually agitates the

electrons in the cells of the food. It causes them to agitate so

fast that they smash into each other or rupture the cells, thus

creating heat. However, destroying the cells in the process. No one

can tell us exactly what this does to the chemistry of the food.

Only that they test the food and the nutrient quality is some 80%

reduced from traditionally cooked food.

So in most of our cases, we are trying to reach optimum nutrition

for our kids...so cooking it on the stove or in the oven is best.

I found that the oven heats food up in about 5 minutes..often the

same time the microwave did.

It takes some getting use to..but after about a week, I did not miss

the microwave. I still don't. I find it just as easy to heat up

frozen vegetables on the stove top. They boil and are ready in 5

minutes. Same time or longer in the microwave. Bonus is they don't

turn to rubber if not eaten in 10 minutes!!!

While I may not have the explanation of how it works correct, it is

the best I could do to translate it to layman's terms. You can read

it more officially on Dr.Mercola.com.

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> I just this was interesting FYI stuff - the information on the

microwaves

> was fascinating which is located in the second post, part II.

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[Guest guest]

> It takes some getting use to..but after about a week, I did not miss

> the microwave. I still don't.

When we moved three years ago we left the microwave behind. Haven't missed it at

all even

though I used to use it all the time.

Nell