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firethief  ·  3821 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Microwave Test – an eye opener | USAHM Conspiracy News  ·  

This is a joke

    It has been known for some years that the problem with microwaved anything is not the radiation people used to worry about, it’s how it corrupts the DNA in the food

Microwave radiation is non-ionizing; it doesn't have high-enough energy to break chemical bonds to affect DNA.

    so the body can not recognize it.

The body needs to "recognize" the DNA in food...?? How? Why? If something so bizarre were determined to be true, we'd all have heard about it.

    Microwaves don’t work different ways on different substances. Whatever you put into the microwave suffers the same destructive process. Microwaves agitate the molecules to move faster and faster.

This is false; the wavelength of microwave energy is well-suited to heating water molecules. Molecules with substantially different resonant frequencies are not heated much; this is why microwaved food doesn't "brown" like it would in the oven. (Incidentally, products of browning tend to be mild carcinogens.)

    This movement causes friction which denatures the original make-up of the substance.

Friction doesn't play into it. The movement itself is heat.

    It results in destroyed vitamins, minerals, proteins

Some vitamins are degraded by heating, and some proteins will denature in the microwave (e.g. eggs will be "destroyed" by becoming solid, cheese will be "destroyed" by becoming gooey). However, these are effects of heat, regardless of how it is produced.

    and generates the new stuff called radiolytic compounds, things that are not found in nature.

This does occur in nature, but not in a microwave. Again, non-ionizing radiation; it doesn't have enough energy to do that.

    So the body wraps it in fat cells to protect itself from the dead food
I am speechless.

    1). Continually eating food processed from a microwave oven causes long term – permanent – brain damage by ‘shorting out’ electrical impulses in the brain [de-polarizing or de-magnetizing the brain tissue].
That makes no sense on multiple levels.

    2). The human body cannot metabolize [break down] the unknown by-products created in microwaved food.
- microwaves to produce any unique by-products - once again, there's no way in hell the body needs to recognize the DNA in food to break it down chemically

    3). Male and female hormone production is shut down and/or altered by continually eating microwaved foods.
They didn't even bother to fantasize a mechanism for this one. Are they running out of big words they don't even understand?

    4). The effects of microwaved food by-products are residual [long term, permanent] within the human body.
That's not what residual means.

    5). Minerals, vitamins, and nutrients of all microwaved food is reduced or altered so that the human body gets little or no benefit, or the human body absorbs altered compounds that cannot be broken down.
Just reiterating their previous nonsense.

    6). The minerals in vegetables are altered into cancerous free radicals when cooked in microwave ovens.
Free radicals are ionized molecules. You know what doesn't ionize molecules? Non-ionizing radiation.




pseydtonne  ·  3821 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Thanks, that's an excellent tear-down! I just subscribed to you.

thenewgreen  ·  3820 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Thank you for the clarification. Looks like you received a well deserved badge. Glad I posted this link, I've learned a lot from the comments. I shall continue to microwave without cause for concern