Almost every household all over America has a microwave oven that is used daily. Simply called a microwave for short, the machine is arguably the most widely used appliance in the kitchen. other than the kitchen stove and best of all it heats food and liquids in very convenient ways. While microwaves are not too useful when it comes to baking compared to conventional ovens, many users rely on their radiation-based functions to heat up meals with choices of time and temperature settings. People who live with very hectic daily routines depend on microwaves for heating up water for coffee in the morning to cooking up a TV dinner in the evening. While microwaves are popular, useful and have become symbolic figures of technology and society, many users remain unaware about the risks that they pose to their health and safety at home.

For starters, microwaves emit radiation (with radio wave frequency of 2.45 GHz) and such energy can destroy nutrients in food cooked in microwaves. Food stripped of nutrients may be good to for the taste buds or good to fill the hungry stomach, but they are not good as far as personal health is concerned. As many users often set the microwave’s temperature or cooking setting at “high” thinking that more heat will make cooking food better, they don’t realize the risk of radiation (and manipulated matter) they would get exposed to nor do they think that the radiation on the food they cooked and consume will be passed on to them.

A vegan should refrain from cooking vegetables in those machines as they do more harm than good. Microwaves are also used to superheat liquids (when placed in a container with smooth surface), and this means heating them above the normal boiling point (and there are no bubbles to determine boiling). Worse, when the liquid gets touched or slightly moved, the boiling can happen violently and extremely hot liquid can spread to the user as well as other people nearby, and burn their skin. Aside from these observations, even simply standing in front of the microwave oven as it operates will expose the user to whatever radiation that comes out. Some people exposed to microwaves and consumed lots of food cooked in them reported allergies later on.

Because microwaves provide efficient means to heat up food and liquid in very convenient manners, many people don’t realize the potential threat the machines pose on their health and safety. It is advisable to look at microwave ovens as devices that should be used with caution and patience. It is also helpful to understand the science behind radiation, radio frequency waves and other forms of energy that are associated with microwave ovens. Even the nutrition levels of food cooked in microwaves need to be compared with food cooked on conventional ovens or on the kitchen stove.

Convenience may be nice to have but health risks linked to microwaves should not be ignored. With radiation involved, it is simply too dangerous to use a microwave to heat a baby’s bottle. The dangers of microwave ovens are noted in history as it turned out the Russians banned them in 1976 (lifted some time later) after doing extensive scientific studies on them. Until better technologies come out, microwaves are health risks just as they are convenient for cooking and heating needs.

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