Do you use a microwave? If so, how frequently (scary study)?

Ah, from Mercola. We know what level of crank we are dealing with. All a microwave does is cook food by rotating water molecules which generates friction. The fact very few people understand how they work leads to crap like this. Also, they probably fed those cats "all natural" vegetables. Cats are pure carnivores. They cannot digest plant matter. Their diet killed them. Edit: Routers run at the same frequency as most microwaves (they can interfere with wireless easily). Their entire point is to "leak" radiation.

I'll repost my previous answer. Russian studies, if you can call them that, are filled with inconsistencies. Besides, if the government is mandating the removal of trans-fats from restaurants, you think they would do the same for microwaves if they were that dangerous. That is, unless the "microwave" lobby has more power than I realize

Dave thank you for posting this question, now onward to attempting to answer it. I cannot think that anyone on Earth could believe a word of this! "microwaves change the molecular structure of foods and create chemicals never before seen on this planet." This may just be the most ridiculous, ludicrous statement ever written. No part of it has any root in reality it's pure science fiction at it's worst! I would challenge anyone on Earth to come up with any PROOF for any of this, but I doubt that anyone who would believe this garbage even know what mass spectrometer is. A microwave agitates water molecules in food. That's all it does.

The usual load of non-scientific rubbish. Studies out of Russia are notoriously of dubious quality, and Russian science is still plagued by a lot of pseudo-scientific ideology. (their biological and genetic science programs were held back decades because of Lysenko, for example) Anyone who believes this tripe doesn't understand what microwaves are, and how they work to cook food. Microwaves simply cause molecules to vibrate, and essentially be friction to heat up and cook food. They are not energetic enough to alter DNA for example...which is why we also know that cell phones can't cause cancer even in theory. Robert Parks is a physicist who has written extensively debunking fearmongering about microwave radiation.

"Years ago, I attended a class where the speaker talked and handed out papers on how microwaves change the molecular structure of foods and create chemicals never before seen on this planet." Yeah, right, everyone has got a Hadron Collider in their kitchen. Idiot.

Thankyou for posting, Dave. These people basically don't understand science, there no reason why microwaves should be harmful and there is no convincing evidence to suggest it is.

I ditched microwaves several years ago. They're not worth the risk. Food heated, much less cooked in them tastes *almost* like food... Here's a little test experiment for you: heat a cup/sufficient amount of water in the microwave for 1-2 minutes. Let it cool. Water a presently healthy plant with it. Repeat for 3-4 regular waterings. See what happens. Russia is way ahead of the rest of the world in sports medicine and a number of other fields. Their research was never compromised by the limited financial interests of a few companies as it has been in most Western countries. As usual, someone is very ill-informed to suggest otherwise.

Mine gets used everyday. Someone is always heating something up in it. We try not to heart anything up in plastic though.

Probably use a microwave 4/5 times a week, have done for 20+ years, and its done me no harm, or at least i think it hasn't