Microwave cooking - good or bad?

[Svend]

I've been wondering whether or not cooking in a microwave oven is a healthy approach? I know there's many different takes on this but I've never really worried about it since preparing veggies and some dishes simply is so much quicker and more convenient. I recently read Robb Wolf's "The Paleo Solution" and in one of his recipes he suggest NOT to microwave but doesn't really tell why.

What's your take on this topic?

[gymgreg]

Short answer : No, it is not bad.

Detailed answer here: http://www.skepdic.com/emf.html

"The photon energy of a cell phone EMF is more than 10 million times weaker than the lowest energy ionizing radiation"

Ionizing radiation means: the photons have enough energy to break electron bonds in molecules.

Same goes for a microwave. The calculations are not hard to do.

I guess it's the word "radiation" that scares people.

But people claiming that you shouldn't microwave your food, probably took a nap during their high school physics class.

[Svend]

Thanks for that clarification, Gymgreg.. I've heard quite a few horror stories about microwave ovens which I had a quite hard time believing.

But I'll keep using it then!