So, I always have to laugh when someone comes to my home and needs to use a microwave. It is such a good time every time. They look and turn and look and turn, and look so perplexed when I don’t have a microwave. My poor children didn’t even realize we didn’t have one until I explained to them that you can’t make microwave popcorn in the toaster oven.  We threw our microwave out almost 8  years ago and have never regretted it. There is nothing we can’t do in the kitchen that I can’t do without it. (except make microwave popcorn, but then you don’t really want to even eat that anyway…) And I feel much better knowing the nutrients in the food I prepare are healthy and whole for my family.  I am extending an invitation: throw out your microwave, don’t even give it to someone you love, I wouldn’t give one to someone I didn’t love either. So here are 10 reasons to take the plunge, and a link after for more info, if you don’t want to believe me…

Ten Reasons To Throw Out Your Microwave Oven:

• Continually eating microwave processed food causes permanent brain damage.

• The human body is unable to metabolize the unknown by-products created in microwaved foods.

• Male and female hormone production is shut down and/or altered by continually eating microwaved foods.

• The effects of by-products remain in the human body long-term.

• Minerals, vitamins and nutrients are reduced by microwaving so that the body gets little or altered components that cannot be broken down.

• The minerals in vegetables are altered into cancerous free radicals by microwaves.

• Microwaved foods cause stomach and intestinal cancerous growths. This may partially explain the rapid increase of the colon cancer rate in America.

• Long term consumption of microwaved foods causes cancerous cells to increase in human blood.

• It also causes immune system deficiencies through alterations in the lymph glands and blood serum.

• Eating microwaved food causes loss of memory and concentration, emotional instability and a decrease of intelligence.

Source: www.mercola.com

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