The Dangers of Eating Microwaved Food By Stephanie Relfe B

The Dangers of Eating Microwaved Food
By Stephanie Relfe B.Sc. (Syd.)

Eating microwaved food is a very important cause of ill health and it is certainly one of the most ignored. An article in ‘Acres’ April, 1994 reported that word had leaked out about 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 it, 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 does something quite different?

Normal heating of food occurs when heat goes from the outside to the inside. Microwaves work just the opposite. The waves go to the inside and then move outward. This can be shown by baking a potato in a microwave for a long time, say an hour. The potato will continue to look uncooked. But when you open it up, there will be nothing but charcoal inside.

The food molecules are hit by electromagnetic radiation. They are forced to start spinning, instead of just moving from side to side as with normal heating. This spinning tears them apart and sometimes rearranges them into toxic substances that cause many allergic responses.

It is this friction which produces the heat which ‘cooks’ the food. Unfortunately, this violent force also rips apart and deforms the molecular structure of the food. It is no longer ‘food’, something which nourishes the body. It just looks as though it is.

A little evidence of the harm caused by microwaving 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”.

Microwave ovens were introduced to the public in the mid 1950’s. There have been very few scientific studies done of the effect of eating microwaved food. This is surprising when you think about the fact that microwaves have been with us for only a few decades and that, in that short time the incidence of many diseases has continued to increase.

Today we hear of incredible instances of poor health, like teenagers getting heart attacks, and people in their 20’s and 30’s dying of cancer. This was virtually unheard of at the beginning of the century.

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 changes to the food molecules also form 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 causes a much greater number. This then causes deterioration in your blood and immune system.

In addition, they found that the number of leucocytes (white blood cells) 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 organization, the Swiss Association of Dealers for Electroapparatuses for Households and Industry, influenced the President of the Court of Seftigen to 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.

The ‘gag order’ was only just recently lifted, in 1998. 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 the ‘gag order’ prohibiting Hertel from declaring that microwave ovens are dangerous to health was contrary to the right to freedom of expression and sentenced Switzerland to pay him compensation of F40,000.

In addition to the harm caused by eating microwaved food, standing in front of a microwave is 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 a microwave oven 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 used a microwave 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?” My 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 affect the body in such a short space of time. Once that answer was found and the problem corrected, 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 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 eat microwaved food 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, backaches, and emotional instability went away within a few weeks.

Other kinesiologists can confirm these results. David 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”. Anyone who knows how to muscle test can verify this for themselves.

By the way, many restaurants microwave their food these days, even ‘health’ restaurants. Ask if the “steamed vegetables” are in fact steamed, or are they microwaved?

There are still easy ways to heat up food, which don’t injure your health. You can use a convection oven. You can 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. In any case, it tastes much better that way!