how bad is microwaved food to your health?

[So]

Originally posted by: Medicine Bear

Originally posted by: So

Originally posted by: Medicine Bear
I had a pet peeve once. Got out of the yard one day and was run over and killed. :brokenheart:

Well, at least you got a free meal.

Nah, they don't cook up very well in the microwave. You know, it changes them on a sub atomic level and makes them taste like Bob Denver's ass.

:laugh:

 

[Armitage]

Oh - and about Galileo being a heretic.
His theories were widely accepted by scientists at the time - just not by the church.

 

[Crazee]

"The Edge of Physics" is that a new soap opera? Are the women on it all nuclear scientists who are really hot but wear glasses like Denise Richards in that Bond flick?

The first microwave oven was invented in 1945 by Percy Spencer who discovered that radar wave melted a candy bar he had in his pocket. The first commercial microwave was introduced in 1954 by Raytheon called the 1161 Radarange and it was too large and expensive for home use. It was used in restaurants. In 1967 Amana, a division of Raytheon began making domestic use microwave ovens.

All electromagnetic energy can be characterized as waves with a specific wavelength and frequency distributed over a continuous range known as the electromagnetic spectrum. For example, some radio waves have a wavelength of 6 feet (2 meters) and a frequency of 50 million hertz (Hz-cycles per second). Visible light waves have a wavelength of 400 to 700 millimicrons, and typical X-rays have a length of 0.01 millimicrons and a frequency of 30 x 1012 millions. Microwaves (short waves or high frequency radio waves) are the shortest of radio waves, with a length of 0.1 millimeter and a frequency of 3 x 101 Hz. They are found in the non-ionizing portion of the energy spectrum, between radio waves and visible light. "Non-ionizing" means that microwaves do not detach charged particles and produce atoms with an unbalanced plus or minus charge. Microwaves can therefore safely produce heat and not cause food to become radioactive. Microwaves are reflected from most metals but they produce inductive resonance's in the atoms of many other substances. It was the discovery of their reaction to metals that led to the invention of radar. It was their ability to produce resonant coupling that led to the invention of the microwave oven.

 

[SMOGZINN]

Originally posted by: Mo0o
Heating the food wouldn't change specific amino acids, that requires biochemistry and molecular biology. But it could denature certain proteins right? But i dont think that would cause a greater effect than just heating up in in warm water over a stove as long as you keep a close eye on the temperature

Yes, and this has actually already been done to it if you drink Pasteurized, Homogenized milk, which is just about all milk sold in the US. Breast milk is better for them anyway.

 

[Gibsons]

Originally posted by: Medicine Bear

Originally posted by: So

Originally posted by: Medicine Bear

Originally posted by: So

Originally posted by: akubi

Originally posted by: nakedfrog

Originally posted by: Armitage

Originally posted by: Omegachi
hmm... i too came across a bunch of articles about bad effects in microwaved milk for babies... but i am not sure if the source is credible though.

It's often reccomended not to microwave baby bottles, but the only reason I've seen for it is to avoid scalding and/or exploding baby bottles.

Yeah, that's what I've heard.

well.... it's supposed to deactivate some types of proteins in the milk by changing certain amino acids but i guess i will have to dig up where i heard that lol :laugh:
so it won't kill you but it won't give you the full nutrients.

oh and So, I <3 you too :laugh:

:heart:

Sorry, pseudsience is my pet peeve.

I had a pet peeve once. Got out of the yard one day and was run over and killed. :brokenheart:

Well, at least you got a free meal.

Nah, they don't cook up very well in the microwave. You know, it changes them on a sub atomic level and makes them taste like Bob Denver's ass.

How do you know what Bob Denver's ass tastes like?

 

[91TTZ]

Originally posted by: Mo0o

Heating the food wouldn't change specific amino acids, that requires biochemistry and molecular biology. But it could denature certain proteins right? But i dont think that would cause a greater effect than just heating up in in warm water over a stove as long as you keep a close eye on the temperature

Depends how hot you make it. If you make something hot enough you can break down the molecules. Remember, it's only a chemical bond.

 

[So]

Originally posted by: 91TTZ

Originally posted by: Mo0o

Heating the food wouldn't change specific amino acids, that requires biochemistry and molecular biology. But it could denature certain proteins right? But i dont think that would cause a greater effect than just heating up in in warm water over a stove as long as you keep a close eye on the temperature

Depends how hot you make it. If you make something hot enough you can break down the molecules. Remember, it's only a chemical bond.

Well, I think we're assuming that the food hasn't been incinerated here.

 

[91TTZ]

Originally posted by: So

Originally posted by: 91TTZ

Originally posted by: Mo0o

Heating the food wouldn't change specific amino acids, that requires biochemistry and molecular biology. But it could denature certain proteins right? But i dont think that would cause a greater effect than just heating up in in warm water over a stove as long as you keep a close eye on the temperature

Depends how hot you make it. If you make something hot enough you can break down the molecules. Remember, it's only a chemical bond.

Well, I think we're assuming that the food hasn't been incinerated here.

lol, in that case, I think you're safe.

 

[Medicine Bear]

Originally posted by: Gibsons

Originally posted by: Medicine Bear

Originally posted by: So

Originally posted by: Medicine Bear

Originally posted by: So

Originally posted by: akubi

Originally posted by: nakedfrog

Originally posted by: Armitage

Originally posted by: Omegachi
hmm... i too came across a bunch of articles about bad effects in microwaved milk for babies... but i am not sure if the source is credible though.

It's often reccomended not to microwave baby bottles, but the only reason I've seen for it is to avoid scalding and/or exploding baby bottles.

Yeah, that's what I've heard.

well.... it's supposed to deactivate some types of proteins in the milk by changing certain amino acids but i guess i will have to dig up where i heard that lol :laugh:
so it won't kill you but it won't give you the full nutrients.

oh and So, I <3 you too :laugh:

:heart:

Sorry, pseudsience is my pet peeve.

I had a pet peeve once. Got out of the yard one day and was run over and killed. :brokenheart:

Well, at least you got a free meal.

Nah, they don't cook up very well in the microwave. You know, it changes them on a sub atomic level and makes them taste like Bob Denver's ass.

How do you know what Bob Denver's ass tastes like?

There was a time duriing the late 70's when money was short, DAMN YOU JIMMY CARTER, and well a man has to do what a man has to do in order to survive. I'm not proud of what I did, but money is money.

 

[hemiram]

Originally posted by: akubi
:roll: guys, microwaves can alter the structure of molecules. some harmless, some very harmful.
if you don't believe me feed your baby microwaved milk and see how he turns up in 10 years.

You really needed to stay awake during science class....

Stay off the kook sites...

 

[George P Burdell]

There exists an anti-microwave lobby that claims that there exist more subtle dangers than the ones listed above associated with cooking in a microwave oven. It is claimed that microwave cooking causes more loss of nutrients than conventional cooking and that microwave radiation leads to chemical reactions in the food that are different from those occurring during conventional heating. There is no accepted scientific validity to these claims and they are looked upon by scientists and skeptics in general as being alarmist and pseudoscientific to the point of ridiculousness.

Wikipedia

 

[AT]

Originally posted by: hotchilisauce

There exists an anti-microwave lobby that claims that there exist more subtle dangers than the ones listed above associated with cooking in a microwave oven. It is claimed that microwave cooking causes more loss of nutrients than conventional cooking and that microwave radiation leads to chemical reactions in the food that are different from those occurring during conventional heating. There is no accepted scientific validity to these claims and they are looked upon by scientists and skeptics in general as being alarmist and pseudoscientific to the point of ridiculousness.

Wikipedia

Following a link (Microwave Cooking is Killing You) from Wikipedia makes me wonder why all these nutty sites are always laid out on one single page. If they were properly done I might actually read them and at least get a laugh out of them. Now they just make my head hurt.

 

[Bassyhead]

Microwaved food is perfectly harmless to eat. In fact, I wouldn't be surprised if cooking with conventional sources of heat -- stove tops, ovens, toaster ovens, etc -- are overall more dangerous to one's health than microwaves due to the risk of being burned by the heating elements/burners.