It is interesting to note Snopes take on this issue - http://www.snopes.com/science/microwave/plants.asp Not that I really trust Snopes. But it is worth looking at such claims from several vantage points and testing and re-testing to confirm results. Of course, this reference is not about microwave effects on food, but rather just plain water, so it does not directly address the suggestion that microwave has some sinister effect on food heated in this manner.
--- On Fri, 5/11/12, leo <[email protected]> wrote: From: leo <[email protected]> Subject: CS>microwave food: hard-boiled vibrations To: [email protected] Date: Friday, May 11, 2012, 8:40 PM 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
