Nuking (Microwaving) Your Food and Water is Killing You

Maybe it is a bad idea but let's make a comparison.

The Southern diet once consisted of heavily cooking food in lard. We were told how bad the diet was for us so that many in the South began turning against the Southern diet and higher mortality resulted. It turned out that Southerners had acclimated to their diet and the source of their dietary habits were from European and African origins in relation to race where the diet was what they called a "poverty diet'. Germans, for instance, eat a lot of sausages and the French eat a horrendous mix of foods. Each culture adapted to their diets and thus, regardless of what we may find bad about them, their bodies had inherited a tolerance for certain foods and an intolerance for other foods which may be dubbed "healthier" by people outside of a certain cultural region.

The French diet is a key indicator as the French tend to eat their food with a glass of wine and drink around a glass of wine a day. Most of you know that in the US, this practice was stopped long ago and that beer outweighs wine in most areas. Even the practice in churches of giving a small cup of wine to congregation members ceased due to people warning us how bad alcohol was.

The problem was that wine / beer isn't bad for us at all. It is in introducing alcohol into cultures which don't drink alcohol on a regular basis, or people into a culture not used to this, alcoholism becomes a problem. Alcoholism has since been determined to be an issue more of social behavior than anything else and not a result of alcohol addiction in and of itself. People drink due to depression seeking out the effects that dull their pain or maybe allow them to enjoy life a bit more by alleviating their stresses and problems. Thus, someone not used to drinking a glass of wine each day would be more likely to succumb to the addictive properties because their bodies aren't used to this and their minds are more directly affected by the effects.

Thus, imagine a mix of cultures in the US like we once had where cultures which did not drink a glass of wine as habit but drank more to get drunk or don't drink any alcohol at all.

When I was a kid, pinto beans and corn bread were a staple of the Southern diet... today, it's pizza and hamburgers one might say. The Southern diet has been hit hard by health food and our bodies paid a price as many actually became unhealthy as a result just as junk food did a whammy on us... for the same reason, it changed our dietary habits radically and even now, eating cornbread and pinto beans is still healthier for most Southerners than what we eat now.

People trying to say microwaving food is bad for us need to look at the fact that many things we eat, that are nuked, are bad for us because it was bad from the start.

It's also like telling people cannibalism is bad because it passes human disease from the food to the people eating it... and yet, many cultures did it for thousands of years for various reasons with no ill effect for the most part.

You might say bad example with the cannibalism point but the issue is to point out that the most "obvious" health concerns can be wrong but that there are reasons to have them.

Cornbread and many Southern foods are actually healthy for almost anyone... it's how they were prepared that made the difference. But in the process of attacking the Southern diet, dietitians actually attacked the food itself. Even the soul foods eaten by black Americans came under fire when these were the ultimate in poverty foods as these were often the parts white people wouldn't eat. However, black Americans had adjusted to it as did whites and Native Americans who ate these foods as well.

Then, look at all the modifications we make to our food itself before we even eat it... begs the question if eating rocks and dirt might be healthier.

I eat microwaved food all the time and I don't think it's dangerous because something else the studies you present didn't mention is that if we were eating this much food that our bodies couldn't digest... it wouldn't be storing it as fat but pushing it through our systems for the toilets to deal with.

Ultimately, grilling food is possibly the best way to eat and there are warnings about it as carcinogens from fats and other things get on our food and make it more likely to cause cancer even if it makes it safer by removing more fats.

So the best information would be to learn multiple ways to prepare food and then do each in moderation. Eat home grown food instead of genetically altered. Eat foods your ancestors ate in order to stay fine tuned to your biological inheritance. Find ways to make eating healthier meet your needs rather than it changing what you eat where traditional foods are concerned.

If you fear using a microwave... then find other ways to prepare your food. The worst that can happen is you learn your fears were unjustified or maybe they were but many people you know may have suffered because they didn't listen.

What does it hurt to go back to traditional ways of cooking? Cook outside on a grill and invite the neighbors over cooking what you can there and cooking the rest indoors on a stove.

Microwaves are meant for speed cooking and making it unnecessary to know how to cook so that without electricity to cook with, most people can't prepare food for themselves... that should be the focus to get people back to basics.