One of my older colleague left me staring at her with amusement when she told me that her microwave oven in their house was seldom used. And to tickle my humor further she accounted how the microwave radiations leaks into the food and contaminate it. According to her, this will lead to cancer.
Is it true that microwave oven causes cancer?
I pored over my books on cooking and found one that specifically discusses microwave. According to the book, microwave oven is a broadcast network with shorter range. If you are familiar with the radio waves on broadcasting networks, this one is pretty the same. Their difference is that microwave's range is less than 2 inches while radio waves can go for miles. And instead of transmitting voice, it converts the energy to heat.
Surprisingly, it it used also to transmit phone calls and even data. And weather forecast are transmitted through microwave on Doppler radars.
I told her that heating or cooking your food on microwave do not increase your risk on having cancer. And it does not increase your electric bill as well. Microwave oven compared to other oven (i.e., toaster and conventional) does not require heating of its other parts. The food is the only thing that should be heated in the microwave oven, so there is no warm up/heat up -what so ever that are usual on cooking appliances.
And if someone understands how microwave works, they can maximize the benefit of this science.
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There are myriad articles on the dangers of microwaves from several things:
1) creation of carcinogens in your food;
2) residual radiation effect on your body; and
3) desctruction of the nutrients in your food.
Microwaves do not only travel "less than 2 inches", or they would be useless for their use in cell phone towers, but the amount of power applied is a factor. Microwaves do not "convert energy to heat", they cause frictional state changes that result in heat, but it is the electrical and frictional changes that distort and change healthy foods into foods that create numerous bad side effects in the human body.
Mercola.com has an article at http://www.mercola.com/article/microwave/hazards.aspx that explains much of this, but is just one of many that are easily found.
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