Oxygen is a two-edged sword. It is both vital and detrimental to life itself. In the body, oxygen can change into what are called free radicals. These free radicals attack and destroy healthy cells in a process called oxidation. The rusting of your car is another example of oxidation. Oxidation plays a significant role in both heart disease and cancer. Free radicals speed the progression of Multiple Sclerosis (MS). Free radicals also cause diabetes and are known to play a role in both arthritis and asthma.

The body makes free radicals. They also come from avoidable sources like smoking cigarettes or breathing in second-hand smoke. Air pollutants, pesticides, and exhaust fumes also cause free radical damage to cells. Another avoidable source of free radicals is eating food that has been prepared in a microwave oven.

--Microwaves--

The Nazis invented microwave ovens for mobile meal preparation and to assist with the invasion of Russia. After the war, the Russians did thorough research on the biological effects of microwaves. Their studies showed that all food heated in the microwave changed molecularly and becomes a carcinogen (cancer causing). Naturally occurring amino acids in foods are changed to a toxic form. As a result, microwaves were outlawed in the Soviet Union. The Soviets also issued an international warning on the health hazards of microwave technology.

In 1991, Dr. Hans Ulrich Hertel, a food scientist, and Dr. Blanc, a Lausanne University professor, published a research paper on the dangers of cooking in microwave ovens. Their well-controlled study showed that microwave cooking changed the nutrients in the food, which caused degenerative changes in the participants’ blood, reduced immune function, and increased cancer cells in the blood. Studies done at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, the University Institute for Biochemistry, and others had similar findings. Eating microwaved food also causes an interruption in the production of hormones and has a negative effect on the electrical impulses in the brain.

~~ "If you tell a lie big enough and keep repeating it, people will eventually come to believe it. The lie can be maintained only for such time as the State can shield the people from the political, economic and/or military consequences of the lie. It thus becomes vitally important for the State to use all of its powers to repress dissent, for the truth is the mortal enemy of the lie, and thus by extension, the truth is the greatest enemy of the State." -Joseph Goebbel ~~

As soon as Doctors Hertel and Blanc published their results, the authorities reacted because of industry pressures. In March 1993, Dr. Hertel was convicted of "interfering with commerce" and prohibited from further publishing his results. However, Dr. Hertel stood his ground and fought this decision over the years. Eventually, 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 previously been a violation of Hertel's rights.

~~ “We occasionally stumble over the truth but most of us pick ourselves up and hurry off as if nothing had happened.” -Winston Churchill ~~

I know the thought of living without a microwave puts people in a panic. However, microwave technology is dangerous. I personally no longer use a microwave. My husband and son came home from Boy Scout Camp one day to find that ours had mysteriously disappeared. After significant research, I couldn’t feed my family or myself anything that had been radiated in a microwave oven. Yes, it has been an adjustment. But my family’s health makes it an adjustment worth making.

--Antioxidants--

Besides avoiding microwaved food and cigarette smoke, oxidation can be slowed or halted by nutrients called antioxidants, which have been shown to help arthritis and asthma. Antioxidants can be found in a variety of vegetables, fruits, and nuts. You want to choose produce in a variety of colors. The color of the individual fruit or vegetable is indicative of the type of antioxidant it contains. Antioxidants are also found in vitamin supplement formulas.