Sometimes I laugh at myself, wondering whether, if I had been alive during the transition to electricity, I would have insisted on keeping my old wood-burning cook stove.  In actual fact, as you can see, I keep up with technology fairly well - but for some reason, the micro-wave oven alarmed me.

I know we don't often look to the Soviet Union for guidance on health issues, but when I saw that at one point they BANNED  micro-wave ovens, I was intrigued.

To mis-appropriate one of their own sayings - I banned it first!

The effect of the microwave oven on your family' health

Safety of Micro-wave Energy

The alarming effects of Microwave apparatus on food and humans

Fact versus Fiction - an opposing view-point