Soul Food Unhealthy
Microwaves: Are they really unhealthy and what DO they use to heat/cook food?
It seems as though I’ve heard that microwaves use radiation to heat/cook food, which would make sense given the whole “nuke” slang. I’ve also read that using plastic in a microwave is not good since they somehow cook the chemicals in the plastic in the food. (More recently, in the March issue of “Body and Soul” magazine.) Yum. Good eats.
Overall, from those two things I very rarely use my microwave except to melt my SmartBalance spread for air popped popcorn and occasionaly heating up coffee (which I have rarely since my pregnancy).
Anyway, I would just like some information out of curioisity. And, in case the topic ever comes up again with my husband’s wife, I have better information. (She once told me that she does most of her cooking in the microwave. That just sounds lazy to me, too.)
Thank you.
Microwave Ovens do not use ionizing radiation. They use radio waves. The source of the radio waves in a Microwave Oven is a Magnetron. It produces short wavelength radio waves at approx. 2.4GHz.
Why 2.4GHz? It’s the frequency that water resonates at. 2.4GHz radio waves makes the water molecules vibrate (resonate) very quickly, the produces heat, which cooks the food.
It’s perfectly safe unless the door or case of the microwave oven is damaged.
