Listers,
I only submit this because it alarmed me so much:

Radiation Ovens - The Proven Dangers Of Microwave
Ovens

By Anthony Wayne and Lawrence Newell 6-14-00
http://numismaticrareuscoin.com/nbn/microwave.html

Over 90% of American homes have microwave ovens used
for meal preparation. Because microwave ovens are so
convenient and energy efficient, as compared to
conventional ovens, very few homes or restaurants are
without them. In general, people believe that
microwave ovens are not harmful to either the food
they cook nor the people who eat those foods. Of
course, if microwave ovens were really harmful, our
government would never allow them on the market, would
they? 
                        
The purpose of this report is to present evidence that
microwave cooking is not natural, nor healthy, and is
far more dangerous to the human body than we have been
told. However, the microwave oven manufacturers,
politics, and plain old human nature are hiding the
facts and evidence. Because of this, people are
continuing to microwave their food without knowing the
effects and danger of doing so. 

SCIENTIFIC EVIDENCE AND FACTS 
                        
In "Comparative Study of Food Prepared Convention-ally
and in the Microwave Oven", published by Raum & Zelt
in 1992, at 3(2): 43, it states :

"One short-term study found significant and disturbing
changes in the blood of individuals consuming
microwaved milk and vegetables. Eight volunteers ate
various combinations of the same foods cooked
different ways. All foods that were processed through
the microwave ovens caused changes in the blood of the
volunteers. Hemoglobin levels decreased and over-all
white cell levels and cholesterol levels increased.
Lymphocytes decreased." 

THE SWISS CLINICAL STUDY 
                        
Dr. Hans Ulrich Hertel, who is now retired, worked as
a food scientist for many years with one of the major
Swiss food companies that do business on a global
scale. A few years ago, he was fired from his job for
questioning certain processing procedures that
denatured the food. 
                        
In 1991, he and a Lausanne University professor
published a research paper indicating that food cooked
in microwave ovens could pose a greater risk to health
than food cooked by conventional means. An article
also appeared in issue 19 of the Journal Franz Weber
in which it was stated that the consumption of food
cooked in microwave ovens had cancerous effects on the
blood. The research paper itself followed the article.
On the cover of the magazine there was a picture of
the Grim Reaper holding a microwave oven in one of his
hands. 
                        
Dr. Hertel was the first scientist to conceive and
carry out a quality clinical study on the effects
microwaved nutrients have on the blood and physiology
of the human body. His small but well controlled study
showed the degenerative force produced in microwave
ovens and the food processed in them. The scientific
conclusion showed that microwave cooking changed the
nutrients in the food; and, changes took place in the
participants' blood that could cause deterioration in
the human system. Hertel's scientific study was done
along with Dr. Bernard H. Blanc of the Swiss Federal
Institute of Technology and the University Institute
for Biochemistry. 
                        
In intervals of two to five days, the volunteers in
the study received one of the following food variants
on an empty stomach: (1) raw milk; (2) the same milk
conventionally cooked; (3) pasteurized milk; (4) the
same raw milks cooked in a microwave oven; (5) raw
vegetables from an organic farm; (6) the same
vegetables cooked conventionally; (7) the same
vegetables frozen and defrosted in a microwave oven;
and (8) the same vegetables cooked in the microwave
oven. Once the volunteers were isolated, blood samples
were taken from every volunteer immediately before
eating. Then, blood samples were taken at defined
intervals after eating from the above milk or
vegetable preparations.  Significant changes were
discovered in the blood samples from the intervals
following the foods cooked in the microwave oven.
These changes included a decrease in all hemoglobin
and cholesterol values, especially the ratio of HDL
(good cholesterol) and LDL (bad cholesterol) values.
Lymphocytes (white blood cells) showed a more distinct
short-term decrease following the intake of microwaved
food than after the intake of all the other variants.
Each of these indicators pointed to degeneration.
Additionally, there was a highly significant
association between the amount of microwave energy in
the test foods and the luminous power of luminescent
bacteria exposed to serum from test persons who ate
that food. This led Dr. Hertel to the conclusion that
such technically derived energies may, indeed, be
passed along to man inductively via eating microwaved
food. 

According to Dr. Hertel, "Leukocytosis, which cannot
be accounted for by normal daily deviations, is taken
very seriously by hemotologists. Leukocytes are often
signs of pathogenic effects on the living system, such
as poisoning and cell damage. The increase of
leukocytes with the microwaved foods were more
pronounced than with all the other variants. It
appears that these marked increases were caused
entirely by ingesting the microwaved substances. 
                        
"This process is based on physical principles and has
already been confirmed in the literature. The apparent
additional energy exhibited by the luminescent
bacteria was merely an extra confirmation. There is
extensive scientific literature concerning the
hazardous effects of direct microwave radiation on
living systems. It is astonishing, therefore, to
realize how little effort has been taken to replace
this detrimental technique of microwaves with
technology more in accordance with nature. Technically
produced microwaves are based on the principle of
alternating current. Atoms, molecules, and cells hit
by this hard electromagnetic radiation are forced to
reverse polarity 1-100 billion times a second. There
are no atoms, molecules or cells of any organic system
able to withstand such a violent, destructive power
for any extended period of time, not even in the low
energy range of milliwatts. 
                        
"Of all the natural substances -- which are polar --
the oxygen of water molecules reacts most sensitively.
This is how microwave cooking heat is generated --
friction from this violence in water molecules.
Structures of molecules are torn apart, molecules are
forcefully deformed, called structural isomerism, and
thus become impaired in quality. This is contrary to
conventional heating of food where heat transfers
convectionally from without to within. Cooking by
microwaves begins within the cells and molecules where
water is present and where the energy is transformed
into frictional heat. 
                        
"In addition to the violent frictional heat effects,
called thermic effects, there are also athermic
effects which have hardly ever been taken into
account. These athermic effects are not presently
measurable, but they can also deform the structures of
molecules and have qualitative consequences. For
example the weakening of cell membranes by microwaves
is used in the field of gene altering technology.
Because of the force involved, the cells are actually
broken, thereby neutralizing the electrical
potentials, the very life of the cells, between the
outer and inner side of the cell membranes. Impaired
cells become easy prey for viruses, fungi and other
microorganisms. The natural repair mechanisms are
suppressed and cells are forced to adapt to a state of
energy emergency -- they switch from aerobic to
anaerobic respiration. Instead of water and carbon
dioxide, the cell poisons hydrogen peroxide and carbon
monoxide are produced.
                        
"The same violent deformations that occur in our
bodies, when we are directly exposed to radar or
microwaves, also occur in the molecules of foods
cooked in a microwave oven. This radiation results in
the destruction and deformation of food molecules.
Microwaving also creates new compounds, called
radiolytic compounds, which are unknown fusions not
found in nature. Radiolytic compounds are created by
molecular decomposition -- decay -- as a direct result
of radiation." 
                        
Microwave oven manufacturers insist that microwaved
and irradiated foods do not have any significantly
higher radiolytic compounds than do broiled, baked or
other conventionally cooked foods. The scientific
clinical evidence presented here has shown that this
is simply a lie. In America, neither universities nor
the federal government have conducted any tests
concerning the effects on our bodies from eating
microwaved foods. Isn't that a bit odd? They're more
concerned with studies on what happens if the door on
a microwave oven doesn't close properly. Once again,
common sense tells us that their attention should be
centered on what happens to food cooked inside a
microwave oven. Since people ingest this altered food,
shouldn't there be concern for how the same decayed
molecules will affect our own human biological cell
structure? 

INDUSTRY'S ACTION TO HIDE THE TRUTH 
                        
As soon as Doctors Hertel and Blanc published their
results, the authorities reacted. A powerful trade
organization, the Swiss Association of Dealers for
Electro-apparatuses for Households and Industry, known
as FEA, struck swiftly in 1992. They forced the
President of the Court of Seftigen, Canton of Bern, to
issue a "gag order" against Drs. Hertel and Blanc. In
March 1993, Dr. Hertel was convicted for "interfering
with commerce" and prohibited from further publishing
his results. However, Dr. Hertel stood his ground and
fought this decision over the years. 
                        
Not long ago, this decision was reversed in a judgment
delivered in Strasbourg, Austria, on August 25, 1998. 
The European Court of Human Rights held that there had
been a violation of Hertel's rights in the 1993
decision. The European Court of Human Rights also
ruled that the "gag order" issued by the Swiss court
in 1992 against Dr. Hertel, prohibiting him from
declaring that microwave ovens are dangerous to human
health, was contrary to the right to freedom of
expression. In addition, Switzerland was ordered to
pay Dr. Hertel compensation. 
                       
WHO INVENTED MICROWAVE OVENS? 
                        
The Nazis, for use in their mobile support operations,
originally developed microwave "radiomissor" cooking
ovens to be used for the invasion of Russia. By being
able to utilize electronic equipment for preparation
of meals on a mass scale, the logistical problem of
cooking fuels would have been eliminated, as well as
the convenience of producing edible products in a
greatly reduced time-factor. 
                        
After the war, the Allies discovered medical research
done by the Germans on microwave ovens. These
documents, along with some working microwave ovens,
were transferred to the United States War Department
and classified for reference and "further scientific
investigation." The Russians had also retrieved some
microwave ovens and now have thorough research on
their biological effects. As a result, their use was
outlawed in the Soviet Union. The Soviets issued an
international warning on the health hazards, both
biological and environmental, of microwave ovens and
similar frequency electronic devices. 
                        
Other Eastern European scientists also reported the
harmful effects of microwave radiation and set up
strict environmental limits for their usage. The
United States has not accepted the European reports of
harmful effects, even though the EPA estimates that
radio frequency and microwave radiation sources in
America are increasing at 15% per year. 

CARCINOGENS IN MICROWAVED FOOD 
                        
In Dr. Lita Lee's book, "Health Effects of Microwave
Radiation -- Microwave Ovens", and in the March and
September 1991 issues of Earthletter, she stated that
every microwave oven leaks electro-magnetic radiation,
harms food, and converts substances cooked in it to
dangerous organ-toxic and carcinogenic products.
Further research summarized in this article reveal
that microwave ovens are far more harmful than
previously imagined. 
                        
The following is a summary of the Russian
investigations published by the Atlantis Raising
Educational Center in Portland, Oregon. Carcinogens
were formed in virtually all foods tested. No test
food was subjected to more microwaving than necessary
to accomplish the purpose, i.e., cooking, thawing, or
heating to insure sanitary ingestion. Here's a summary
of some of the results: 
                        
+ Microwaving prepared meats sufficiently to insure
sanitary ingestion caused formation of
d-Nitrosodienthanolamines, a well-known carcinogen. 
+ Microwaving milk and cereal grains converted some of
their amino acids into carcinogens. 
+ Thawing frozen fruits converted their glucoside and
galactoside containing fractions into carcinogenic
substances. 
+ Extremely short exposure of raw, cooked or frozen
vegetables converted their plant alkaloids into
carcinogens. 
+ Carcinogenic free radicals were formed in microwaved
plants, especially root vegetables. 
                        
DECREASE IN NUTRITIONAL VALUE 
                        
Russian researchers also reported a marked
acceleration of structural degradation leading to a
decreased food value of 60 to 90% in all foods tested.
Among the changes observed were: 
                        
+ Deceased bio-availability of vitamin B complex,
vitamin C, vitamin E, essential minerals and
lipotropics factors in all food tested. 
+ Various kinds of damaged to many plant substances,
such as alkaloids, glucosides, galactosides and
nitrilosides.
+ The degradation of nucleo-proteins in meats.        
                
                        
MICROWAVE SICKNESS IS DISCOVERED 
                        
The Russians did research on thousands of workers who
had been exposed to microwaves during the development
of radar in the 1950's. Their research showed health
problems so serious that the Russians set strict
limits of 10 microwatts exposure for workers and one
microwatt for civilians. 
                        
In Robert O. Becker's book, The Body Electric, he
described Russian research on the health effects of
microwave radiation, which they called "microwave
sickness." On page 314, Becker states: 
                        
"It's [Microwave sickness] first signs are low blood
pressure and slow pulse. The later and most common
manifestations are chronic excitation of the
sympathetic nervous system [stress syndrome] and high
blood pressure. This phase also often includes
headache, dizziness, eye pain, sleeplessness,
irritability, anxiety, stomach pain, nervous tension,
inability to concentrate, hair loss, plus an increased
incidence of appendicitis, cataracts, reproductive
problems, and cancer. The chronic symptoms are
eventually succeeded by crisis of adrenal exhaustion
and ischemic heart disease [the blockage of coronary
arteries and heart attacks]." 
                        
According to Dr. Lee, changes are observed in the
blood chemistries and the rates of certain diseases
among consumers of microwaved foods. The symptoms
above can easily be caused by the observations shown
below. The following is a sample of these changes: 
                        
+ Lymphatic disorders were observed, leading to
decreased ability to prevent certain types of cancers.

+ An increased rate of cancer cell formation was
observed in the blood. 
+ Increased rates of stomach and intestinal cancers
were observed. 
+ Higher rates of digestive disorders and a gradual
breakdown of the systems of elimination were observed.

                        
BIOLOGICAL EFFECTS OF EXPOSURE 
                        
Exposure to microwave emissions also had an
unpredictably negative effect upon the general
biological welfare of humans. This was not discovered
until the Russians experimented with highly
sophisticated equipment and discovered that a human
did not even need to ingest the material substance of
the microwaved food substances: that even exposure to
the energy-field itself was sufficient to cause such
adverse side effects that the use of any such
microwave apparatus was forbidden in 1976 by Soviet
law. 
                        
TEN REASONS TO THROW OUT YOUR MICROWAVE OVEN 
                        
>From the conclusions of the Swiss, Russian and German
scientific clinical studies, we can no longer ignore
the microwave oven sitting in our kitchens. Based on
this research, we will conclude this article with the
following: 
                        
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]. 
2). The human body cannot metabolize [break down] the
unknown by-products created in microwaved food. 
3). Male and female hormone production is shut down
and/or altered by continually eating microwaved foods.

4). The effects of microwaved food by-products are
residual [long term, permanent] within the human body.

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. 
6). The minerals in vegetables are altered into
cancerous free radicals when cooked in microwave
ovens. 
7). Microwaved foods cause stomach and intestinal
cancerous growths [tumors]. This may explain the
rapidly increased rate of colon cancer in North
America. 
8). The prolonged eating of microwaved foods causes
cancerous cells to increase in human blood. 
9). Continual ingestion of microwaved food causes
immune system deficiencies through lymph gland and
blood serum alterations. 
10). Eating microwaved food causes loss of memory,
concentration, emotional instability, and a decrease
of intelligence. 
                        
Written by Anthony Wayne and Lawrence Newell   
Updated on Tuesday, April 04, 2000 International
Common Law Copyright 2000 by The Christian Law
Institute & Fellowship Assembly Reprinted with
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