Microwave: Health Hazards And Why It Has No Place

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1 Microwave oven and a bit of history 2 How does a microwave oven heat food?3 Why is a microwave oven harmful to health?4 The Microwave Oven and Its Replacement

Microwave oven why it has no place in Your home. Microwave oven and the principle of its operation and why You cause irreparable harm to your health by cooking or reheating food in it.

The first microwave oven in our family appeared when I was about 8 years old. Big and white, with lots of little buttons and that beeping sound letting you know the food was ready. I still remember how we made sandwiches with processed cheese in it and how delicious they seemed to us.

But already in my teenage years our family’s interest in the microwave oven was lost and the only thing we sometimes used it for was defrosting meat.

During my student years I didn’t have a microwave. Just as I don’t have one now. I never liked how food changed its taste after being reheated in a microwave.

Nowadays though, there are few families left who don’t have a microwave oven at home. As for work, I say nothing at all, because there it is the only option for reheating food. Convenience, speed and ease decide a lot in our time.

About the kind of damage to health a microwave oven, can cause, I learned relatively long ago and didn’t pay much attention to it, since I didn’t have one anyway.

What prompted this post was that I heard my man advising his sister to use the microwave oven more often, assuring her that food cooked in it would retain all the necessary nutrients. After that I, of course, had to have an explanatory talk, after which the sister followed with a call asking to get rid of the microwave.

So I thought that most people may also believe and think that a microwave oven is absolutely safe and even necessary for preparing wholesome food.

But the reality is exactly the opposite: a microwave oven is dangerous to health and it has no place in Your kitchen.

Microwave oven and a bit of history

The microwave oven was invented by the American Percy Spencer in 1946. The idea came to him when, being in close proximity to an active radar installation, the chocolate bar in his pocket began to melt.

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According to other sources, the microwave was invented by the Nazis during World War II for mobile food support for soldiers and was called Radiomisor.

After the end of the war, Soviet scientists studied MW for a long time, after which microwaves in the Soviet Union were banned, since it was proven that they cause irreparable harm to human health, as well as the environment. Still, Russian people have brains:-)

But everything changed after perestroika. And now rarely does anyone not have this very microwave.

How does a microwave oven heat food?

Microwaves or Ultra-high-frequency waves are a form of electromagnetic radiation, waves of electric and magnetic energy moving together through space. They are generated by a magnetron.

A magnetron is a tube in which electrons are subjected to both magnetic and electric fields, as a result of which an electromagnetic field arises. High-frequency waves cause dielectric heating. Dielectric heating is the absorption of high-frequency waves by water, fat and other substances found in food. This is the principle by which a microwave oven works.

Why is a microwave oven harmful to health?

A microwave oven significantly reduces the nutritional properties of food. The antioxidants contained in broccoli cooked in a microwave are destroyed almost completely. For comparison: if you steam broccoli, only about 10% of the antioxidants are lost.

The amount of vitamins and minerals is reduced in cooked or reheated food. When heating milk in a microwave, even for 10 seconds, all vitamin B12 is destroyed.

The molecular chemical composition of food changes, and distortion and deformation of food molecules occurs. All of this can contribute to the development of malignant tumors of the digestive system.

Our body is unable to metabolize the unknown breakdown products that appear in food when using a microwave.

Free radicals are formed, which damage the cells of our body.

With constant consumption of food from a microwave, the natural hormonal balance is disrupted.

Every time you use a microwave oven, small doses of radiation reach you. Studies have proven that radiation from a microwave oven (2.4 GHz) affects the functioning of the heart at a non-thermal level.

Frequent and even short-term exposure to high-frequency waves reduces the body’s protective function, suppressing the immune system.

Most plastic dishes (you can read more about it here), especially special dishes intended for use in a microwave oven, contain carcinogenic toxins. The most dangerous and widespread is Bisphenol-A, a substance that mimics the female hormone estrogen in our body. Here is what Wikipedia says about this:

«In 2010, the FDA officially recognized the harm of bisphenol A to human health. The presence of Bisphenol A in all composite dental filling materials was separately noted, which, under the influence of saliva, enters the human bloodstream especially quickly.

Even trace amounts are destructive. In particular, bisphenol A, due to its structural similarity to the female sex hormone estrogen, has a negative effect on the brain and reproductive system, and also causes a number of oncological diseases (and in both women and men) — in particular, prostate, testicular, and breast cancer, as well as autism, DNA deformation in spermatozoa, suppression of reproductive function and the endocrine system, delayed brain development, development of diabetes mellitus, obesity, and cardiovascular diseases[11],[12]. It is dangerous because when heated or during prolonged storage of food products in containers, bisphenol A migrates from the plastic into the food. It is dangerous even in very small quantities.»

The Microwave Oven and Its Replacement

Also, how you replaced it when you didn’t have one.

Reheat on the stovetop with a small amount of water under a lid or in the oven at low temperatures. Sandwiches with the same processed cheese can also be made in a toaster.

The microwave oven is, of course, a convenient thing, and it’s hard to argue with that. In the rhythm of our lives, it occupies an important niche. But whether this convenience is worth the risks associated with it is for you alone to decide.

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