Dear Friends In 1980 I briefly worked with botanist Bargyla Rateaver PhD, a notorious & long-time organic-gardening professor for U.California. At the time Dr. Rateaver occasionally published on dangers to DNA posed by microwave cooking.
As I knew something about nutrition, I wanted to know all about this issue. I was so fortunate to be able to directly and leisurely view this beloved professor's personal collection of research data on the issue. And so at that time I quickly learned... There is no argument that microwave cooking damages cells of many foods. But what I learned is that all the available reports on the topic which Dr. B had collected concerning "hazards" of microwaved food indicated the "damage" to biological cells was identical to that long reported with conventional cooking methods... And I learned it's not so easy to discuss the issue. __________________________ Anyway- re the discovery of "water crystals" - Such *beautiful *pictures! So imaginative. There must be scores of photographers making images of the phenomenon. But that is apparently not the case. Who can find any independent verification for the phenomena? Not I. What I have found is that this pretty book is a product of Transcendental Meditation interests. As I am told is the case with the film "What the BLEEP Do We Know" which covers similar terrain. Otoh I absolutely *<3* this one TM film: "David Wants to Fly" - about David Lynch. http://www.linktv.org/programs/david-wants-to-fly Love the meditators at their flying "academy" Did I notice that all TM flyers seem to be v.young, athletic white males... very occasionally overseen by older Indian male functionaries? Odd.) [btw,...another magnitude of* meditation *can be found in "Crazy Wisdom" http://www.snagfilms.com/films/title/crazy_wisdom_the_jack_kerouac_school_of_disembodied_poetics ] ~~~~ Leo, Pasadena Hi Jane, For a long time, convenience had made me turn a blind eye to much of =20 what I've read about negative effects of microwave on food. Then I read "The Hidden Messages in Water' by Masaru Emoto, a =20 scientist who became fascinated by the structures of ice crystals =20 after varying factors were used on water (types of music, words taped =20= to container, micro-wave, etc.). He did a small, scientific paper =20 about his observations and it that went viral, then was republished =20 for the general public. Just seeing the deformed structure of micro-=20 waved water has made me finally use it rarely. I simply didn't want =20 that sort of ugly chaos in the water of my body. It also made me rethink the studies done years ago of plants leaning =20 toward or cringing from different types of music, language, etc. It =20 might not have been the plants responding at all, but rather, the =20 water within the plants. Check it out! Be well, L=E9na
