Fact vs. fiction.(Microwave Myths)

Nutrition Action Healthletter | April 1, 2005| | Copyright

"We are increasingly concerned about the damage done to food in the home microwave oven," the editor of an upstate New York newspaper e-mailed Nutrition Action Healthletter last November.

"According to the sources we find online and elsewhere, microwaving food creates carcinogens, and in parts of Europe, health authorities have banned microwaves as dangerous to human health."

It's not clear why so many people are uneasy about microwave ovens. "Maybe it's because there's no obvious reason why the food cooks," offers physicist Louis Bloomfield of the University of Virginia ...

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