Is microwave cooking healthy

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Microwave generates electromagnetic waves at 2450 mega hertz. the microwaves bombard the molecules of water in the food and this creates polarity and the food gets cooked inside out. The otehr conventional heating sytem cooks food outside in. Unfortunately this violent movement of molecules causes substantial damage to other molecules, often tearing them apart and deforming them. Reports suggest that microwave cooking leads to structural degration of vitamins such as B , C and E as also some essential minerals upto 60 to 90%. It is also said that lysozyme found in breast milk, which protects against bacterial infection gets completely destroyed if heated in a microwave even at very low temperatures. Even baby foods when microwaved converts the trans amino acids into synthetic substances such as trans fatty acids. What is your view?. Do you do a lot of cooking in your microwave?. While there are studies which do not completely reject microwaves all that I do is balance my cooking by equally using conventional.