Do Microwaves Actually Lower Your Nutrients in Food?
Dr. Berg’s Healthy Keto and Intermittent Fasting Podcast
Dr. Eric Berg
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🗓️ 6 February 2020
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In this podcast we’re going to talk about microwave ovens and nutrition. Is microwaving food bad for you?
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Dr. Berg, 51 years of age is a chiropractor who specializes in weight loss through nutritional & natural methods. His private practice is located in Alexandria, Virginia. His clients include senior officials in the U.S. government & the Justice Department, ambassadors, medical doctors, high-level executives of prominent corporations, scientists, engineers, professors, and other clients from all walks of life. He is the author of The 7 Principles of Fat Burning.
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| 0:00.0 | So if you guys have any questions whatsoever about keto or in a minute fasting, |
| 0:04.4 | whether you're starting keto as a new person or just need to debug your program or we have a question about a product. |
| 0:10.5 | Call one of our keto consultants. They'll be able to help you. Call 5405.7. |
| 0:29.0 | Welcome to the Dr. Berg's Healthy Kito and Interminute fasting podcast, where Dr. Berg takes you on the journey for the truth about getting healthy and losing healthy weight. So I wanted to do this quick video on a question that someone had about using the |
| 0:49.4 | microwave oven. Okay? Now the type of radiation that you're getting with microwaves is non-ionizing |
| 0:56.0 | radiation. It's still radiation, but it's of course not as dangerous as getting a cat scan or |
| 1:02.4 | x-rays, but it's still giving you radiation, which can create some |
| 1:06.4 | problems. Now, there are some long-term studies that do show that using the microwave may give you a cancer causing effect in laboratory animals, especially rats. |
| 1:18.6 | So if you are going to feed your pet rats, definitely do not use the microwave. |
| 1:24.4 | And they can produce cataracts. |
| 1:27.4 | And one of the big questions that people want to know |
| 1:29.1 | is that if I use my microwave, |
| 1:30.8 | is that going to lower my nutrients |
| 1:32.3 | compared to other types of cooking? |
| 1:35.2 | And the answer is absolutely yes. |
| 1:38.0 | It can reduce your nutrients from 5 to 40 percent or more depending on how long you cook the food in the microwave. |
| 1:45.0 | I mean just by using the microwave for 60 seconds you can inactivate |
| 1:50.0 | key phytonutrients from 96 to 100% versus steaming which is only 11%. |
| 1:58.0 | Using the microwave can also increase the glucose and insulin response. It can increase more free radicals. |
| 2:06.1 | It can also oxidize cholesterol, which is another big problem. And on top of that, if you're |
| 2:11.3 | cooking food in a plastic container, you could potentially release up to 44 different chemicals including benzene. |
| 2:20.0 | So my recommendation is this. If you're going to use the microwave don't use it on a regular basis |
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