In article , "William Sommerwerck" wrote:
"Standing in front of a microwave is also highly damaging to
your health. Perhaps you have already felt this intuitively?
We know that cells explode in the microwave -- just fry an
egg in your microwave. We are made up of trillions of cells.
So work out how many are getting damaged if you stand in
front of your microwave for 5-10 minutes."

This shows a complete non-understanding of how a microwave oven heats
food -- or why an egg explodes.

In case anyone is wondering... All microwave ovens have a perforated metal
window that reflects microwaves back into the cavity. Virtually no microwave
energy leaks out.

There is always waves leaking out. A little food in the seal will help that.
It might be damaging to the eyes if you were looking in, but you would feel
heat on an other body parts if it were really high. Thats not common at all.
My HeathKit microwave had a conductive plastic outer seal that would
be heat damaged from microwaves. I don't thing the HeathKit used the 1/4 wavelength seal
common on all todays machines. It used a capacitive seal. I have several leakage detectors, and all
microwaves leak.

greg