Subject: Re: Our consensus on microwave ovens?
From: Trish Leon <[log in to unmask]>
Date: Sat, 30 Jan 2010 17:15:43 +0000

>I don't use the microwave. I don't cook enough for leftovers, and I defrost in 
>cold water or over a few days in the fridge. I think it can harm foods because 
>I, too, read about not using a microwave to warm breast milk as it destroys 
>nutrients and the antibodies that naturally occur therein. .....
>
>If it can damage breast milk, it can damage other foods too, I suppose.  
 
Why would anyone warm breast milk? I have never heard of this before. Even in the says of wet nurses, breast milk has always been fed ready-warmed from a perfect container.

Keith