Know These Diseases That All Are Caused by Microwave Ovens, and You’ve Probably Ignored Them

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The microwave is adored for its rapidity and ease of use.

But what you might not know about your indispensable kitchen appliance is that it was invented unreservedly by accident one fateful day 70 years ago, when a Raytheon engineer named Percy Spencer was testing a military-grademagnetron and suddenly realized his snack had melted.

The dull halogen light. The spinning glass plate. The humming that terminates in a "BEEP." Today the sights, sounds, and smells of the microwave oven are immediately familiar to most Americans.

There's a microwave in 90 percent of American homes heating everything from popcorn to pork rinds in a hurry.

However, there is a very thought-provoking question regarding microwaves. We have to disappoint you if in case you have doubted whether microwaves are healthy and safe way of cooking.

In fact, microwaves are not as healthy because they don’t keep the nutrients in the food as other ways of cooking do.

Explanation on how do microwave ovens heat/cook out food

Simply put, microwave is sort of non-iodizing radiation, unlike the gamma radiation, nuclear medicine (barium swallows, CT scans and mammograms), and X-rays, which are all forms of ionizing radiation.

This type of radiation changes ionizes the electromagnetic nature of atoms, which in turn changes the way they interact with the surrounding atoms and molecules.

When cooking in microwave, the food is literally destroyed by the extremely high heat. Some people believe that this radiation negatively affects our health.

How are microwave ovens hazardous?

Did you know inside of your microwave there are 2.45 billion hertz? But it is actually fine, until the seal on your microwave door ages and begins to leak. The frequency amount shown to harm the human body is 10 hertz. You should be cautious and never stand near an operating microwave. Because you won’t know your body is being harmed by the leak until the damage is already done.

Even if your microwave oven is perfectly sealed, you are still exposed to harmful levels of electromagnetic fields. EMF can penetrate human bodies (which is why they are used for x-ray machines) but can causing serious health problems.

The EPA recommends limited exposure to EMF of .5mG – 2.5mG. If you stand 4 inches from your food cooking in the microwave, you will be exposed to 100 – 500mG. Standing 3 feet away from the operating microwave will expose you to 1 – 25mG.

What are the diseases causes by microwave oven?

Cataracts- due to our eyes lack of blood vessels to dissipate the cellular stress and heat from the microwave
Causes birth defects
Weakened immune system
Lowered resistance to viral and bacterial infections
Cancer
More serious illnesses

Studies about microwave oven do to our food as follows:

1. In 1992, a study from the Search for Health, researched the effects of participants that consumed microwaved vegetables

They experienced:

-Rapidly increasing cholesterol levels
-Decrease in hemoglobin causing an anemic-like conditions
-Decrease in white blood cells
-Increase in leukocyte (indicating poisoning and cell damage)

2. Swiss scientist, Hans Hertel’s study suggests microwaving food degrades and depletes food of its nutrients

3. Microwaved breast milk looses 96% of its antibodies. In addition, microwaved Infant formulas’ structure is altered, changing the components in amino acids, creating immunological abnormalities.

It is indeed that microwave can help us to cook fast and convenient. But we should consider the negative effect on using it. Be alert. Be cautions. Be healthy.