OVERUSE of microwave causes cancer?

No. In fact, unlike ionizing radiation (x-rays and gamma rays) microwaves are not a known cancer risk. The real risk is from the heating effects, with the most sensitive organ being our eyes. Exposure to damaging levels of microwave radiation can cause or accelerate cataract formation because it can actually cook (well, denature) the proteins in our eyes. Very high levels of exposure, like you would get from a defective microwave door, can also damage internal organs, and that would be very bad. If you have not pried the door open it is not a concern.

My father was an Army radar technician in WW2 and was responsible for maintaining the shipboard radar when he was shipped from Italy to the Pacific. He told us how he would stand in front of the dish to warm himself and that the Army warned him he would probably be sterile. That was before any of the five of us were born. He eventually died of alcoholism.

No idea where you got that "fact". A microwave excites molecules and heats things up. This does not cause cancer.

No it wont, - about 35 years ago when we all started buying microwaves there was news that it could cause cancer because of radiation leaking from it and your local council/town hall would come and check them out, I got the guy to come out and he used some type of detector to show me it was not giving out radition, I still use the microwave and dont have cancer

no. it cant. let me explain. yes the microwave does use tons of microwave radiation to heat up the food particles. thus the name microwave. however, the radiation emitted from your microwave is none-ionizing radiation. which means it cant hurt you, unless you somehow manage to stick one of your body parts in the microwave and turn it on. even then it wont give you cancer, itll just cook you. and if youre stupid enough to do that then you kinda deserve to die. but anyhow. let me explain to you what ionizing radiation does. when I.R. (ionizing radiation) hits you it strips the electrons off your atoms. this is absolutely destructive as it completely tears apart your DNA and in high enough doses can kill you in horrific ways, one of which being cancer, if not outright killing you instantly. thats why things like gamma rays are dangerous. so dangerous that high enough exposures have been known to cause peoples skin, the lining of their organs, and muscles to fall off as the dna in their tissue dies over the course of days. your microwave cant do that to you. even if you had direct exposure to the micro-radiation it still couldnt give you cancer. though it would probably burn a bit. and you shouldnt worry about it anyways. most the radiation is contained with in the microwave. and the small amounts that get out can do zilch. nothing. sun light, which has high doses of gamma radiation, and thus has I.R. will give you cancer. but your microwave cant.

I quit using the microwave a couple of years ago due to concerning things I had read about them. What some suggest is that microwaves alter the molecular structure of food and destroy most of the nutrients. Even if microwaves don't actually cause cancer, I don't miss microwaved food at all. The quality and taste of food cooked on the stovetop or in the oven is far superior. To me, it's worth waiting a few extra minutes to allow food to cook the real way.

If it did we'd all have cancer , cell phones don't work on radio waves.

when you use a microwave it destroys the nutrients in the food. so if you want health then you would not cook food in it.

A cell phone causes more damage (people hold them to their heads). The metal mesh you see when you look through the door glass stops the microwaves. Besides, when I nuke my coffee, I don't stand there waiting for it to finish. I am moving about the kitchen preparing other things some distance away.

that was way back when they first came out micros are safe now but I would not stand in front of one when it is in use jt because there is no need to.

No a microwave has a metal case inside it to reflect the all microwave radiation back in. It's the water molecule vibrating which causes the food to cook, not the radiation itself.

It's a microwave,not a nuclear reactor.

Don't worry.

as long as it is in a good condition , like the door fitting well, it is safe and not a cancer risk.

It is radiation, and esp if u use plastic containers... try to research more on it, for osme poeple claim stopping using it, and their various illnesses and symptoms stopped too.

I think so

Are you microwaving your head? No. Then don't worry about it, they are perfectly safe.

not unless you get in it...

The cause of cancer is unknown thats why they cant cure it.