Can eating food from the microwave often, lead to cancer?
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Reasonable question given the profound occurrence of cancers now a days! This may be one of many things that may contribute to cancer as well as eating processed food, using mobile phones, living near HV power lines, or living in your house which exposes you to electromagnetic radiation from the electrical wiring. The thing is, there is no conclusive evidence that any of these things can cause cancer. However, as the microwave causes water molecules to vibrate, and therefore heat up the food, it is best to let food stand usually for a similar amount of time that it has been cooked for the molecules to stop vibrating, before consumption. Again this may or may not have an adverse effect. One thing for sure is that if the microwave you are using has poor screening the radio wave may radiate and have an adverse effect, as with any radio waves. Therefore it is a good idea not to stand too close or in front of a microwave whilst cooking, in case its screening has become ineffective over the years. Not sure if this answers your question effectively and maybe in 50 or so years it may be determined that some of the above mentioned potential sources of cancer may be confirmed, the most likely one being the use of mobile phone and HV powerlines which are believed to cause some forms of leukaemia. Anyway that's my opinion, as a Telecommunications Engineer, for what it's worth.
no
Thank God, No
The health care fiels has determined it's not the microwaved food that causes cancer but the containers you use to heat your food. Always use clean glass dishes as the plastic ones release a chemical into your food everytime you use them.
Even tho the microwave uses radiation...the "micro" waves are small and so is its energy.unlike Ultraviolet waves witch are big and lots of energy
I took this off wikipedia:
Some people are concerned with being exposed to the microwave radiation. According to the United States Food and Drug Adminstration's Center for Devices and Radiological Health, a U.S. Federal standard limits microwave leakage from an oven, for the lifetime of the device, to 5 milliwatts per square centimeter when measured 2 inches from the surface of the oven.[4] This is far below the exposure level that is currently considered to be harmful to human health. As a comparison, a GSM mobile phone may emit up to 1 W[5] at 1800 MHz, which is 3.2 mW/cm², at 5 cm[6] with a human being staying nearby (such as within 5 cm) for far longer periods of time. Whether or not cellular phones are hazardous to one's health is controversial (see mobile phone radiation and health).
The radiation produced by a microwave oven is non-ionizing. As such, it does not have the specific cancer risks associated with ionizing radiation such as X-rays, ultraviolet light, and high-energy particles. Any health problems would result from electric currents induced in the body, most prominently cataract formation. Long-term rodent studies to assess cancer risk have so far failed to clearly identify any carcinogenicity from 2450 MHz microwave radiation at chronic (large fraction of life span) exposure levels, far larger than humans are likely to encounter even from leaking ovens.[7][8]
No.
Despite the rumors, no evidence exists linking food cooked in a microwave to cancer.
It's not true. You can always check these types of rumors out on the American Cancer Society site or on Snopes:
ACS: Rumors Myths and Truths
http://www.cancer.org/docroot/med/med_6.
Urban Legends: Microwave Foods, plastic, and email hoax
http://www.snopes.com/medical/toxins/coo...
Absolutely not
Depends on what you're eating, not how it's cooked.
I stopped using my microwave cause I got a headache and several other stuff. If it came from the oven.. I don't know. Yeah, maybe I heated my food in the wrong containers.
i will follow the way of the buffalo on this one, that's a simple myth.
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