Microwave

MICROWAVE OVENS
Giving us food for thought

Jill Fraser Halkett is no admirer of microwave cooking and tells us short and sweet why we should change our ways!

Many people will say that microwaving food is not harmful to the body, but let’s look at a couple of reasons to think differently:

Minerals, nutrients and vitamins of all microwaved foods are altered or reduced so that our bodies receive little or no benefit at all.
Our bodies absorb the altered cocktail of residue but cannot metabolize these unknown by-products, which are then stored in the tissues.
The effects of microwaved food by-products on the body are permanent and long term.

Repeated consumption of food from a microwave oven will cause permanent brain-damage by ‘shorting out’ electrical impulses in the brain. This is known as de-polarizing or de-magnetizing brain tissue. These permanent effects of brain-damage are illustrated in emotional instability, loss of concentration and memory and decreased intelligence.

If you frequently eat microwaved food, hormone production can be shut down.

Immune system deficiencies through lymph gland and blood serum alterations are caused by continual ingestion of microwaved food.
Extended eating of microwaved food will cause cells to increase in human blood.
Minerals in vegetables are altered into carcinogenic free radicals when cooked in a microwave oven.
Stomach and intestinal cancerous tumours are caused by microwaved foods.
These are two cancers which are on the rise in North America and elsewhere.

Warming a baby’s bottle in a microwave oven is inviting not only all of the above, but can lead to death if the temperature if not very carefully monitored, as any food heated this way will go on either increasing in temperature, or maintaining it for a far longer time than regular heating. Think how the heated muffin you had the other day nearly burnt the roof off your mouth?

If you are health conscious and keen to get the best out of your food, the very last thing you want to do is put it anywhere near a microwave oven. Should you feel the jury is still out on this one, why take the risk? By the time everyone else opens their eyes to the damage they could be causing, it may just be too late!

About Jill Fraser Halkett

Ever since discovered she’d been gypped into assuming someone else could take responsibility for her health by revealing only part of the information available, Jill has been driven by a passion to find the truth about the food we eat and what it does to our bodies.

She has grown organic vegetables ever since she can remember and has realized she is incapable of going through a summer without growing her own food, especially tomatoes.

Jill practices Clinical Nutrition and consults in Stanford in the Western Cape, where she and her husband have recently moved into a brand new home. Needless to say, the vegetable garden was delivering delicious organic food before the house was complete! Her Nutrition Center is open Monday – Wednesdays. She also does e-consulting around the country and overseas, and is available for talks and presentations on all aspects of her passions.

Jill has co-published a recipe book (called Nutritious) with Sally-Ann Creed, which focuses on sugar-free, dairy-free and wheat-free dishes.

Because of her passion for nutrition, eating and growing good food, Jill oversees a Blog www.cabbagesandcream.com which journals regular updates of the vegetable garden and the latest in scientific findings on Nutrition, Health and Lifestyle.

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