Roberta J. Leong, LAc wrote: > > Hi all, > > Reviving our old thread about the safety of microwaved foods, I just > read an article in the most recent Gerson newsletter that I find > particularly disturbing. It reports an experiment, one which I would > like to try myself. Someone from Mosinee, Wisconsin tried to sprout > seeds using 3 different types of water. Water was all drawn from the > cold tap. Then some was boiled (conventional stovetop) then cooled; > some used straight from the tap; and there was also microwaved tap water > that was cooled. Seeds themselves were not microwaved of course. All > from the same batch of seeds, they were placed in the 3 types of water > to germinate. The microwave water group had a germination rate of 25%. > The other two were about 87%. > I tried to replicate this experiment with wheat grass. I just used cooled microwaved water and filtered water, both sat out the same length of time. I saw no difference in the germination rate. However, the non-microwaved watered plants did have a number of ultra fast growing plants. The microwaved watered plants had a very uniform growth rate and maybe slightly slower. I will continue to grow them into wheat grass and see what happens. I speculate that the lower germination rate in the original experiment was because not enough time was given. But the question still remains why the growth rate would be slower with microwaved water. Of course, one difference is that the microwaved water had all its bacteria and fungus killed which could effect the growth rate. I am a trained scientist and followed rigorous standards of experimentation. I would like to mention another experiment I did with growing wheat grass. I sprouted and grew two plots. Each was about 6 by 12 inches and where about 6 inches apart and I swap there position each day. Over one plot I prayed/meditated for 5 minutes twice a day. I held my hands over the one plot by about 12 inches so as not to create heat. After 3 weeks the ones I prayed/meditated over where about a quarter of an inch taller than the other. I was not really surprise by the results, only that it was great a difference. Positive attention is extremely powerful. Frank.