Cell Phone Radiation-Dirty Little Secrets Are Right Around The Corner
Feb 03 '05
The Bottom Line Tobacco companies hidden secrets of health risks from cigarette smoking are just now coming to light. How long until cellular phone companies have their dirty secrets exposed?
A member wrote an opinion on this same subject, one tiny sentence from his opinion hit me like a brick wall so I thought that I might offer my own opinion on the subject. I quote from the opinion, “Try not to worry about all this radiation. The health risk of cellular phone radiation is unproven.”
This statement brought shuddering thoughts of statements from cigarette manufacturer’s that for years told us not to worry about cigarettes since it has not been proven that they cause cancer. After years of research, research that these cigarette companies knew of and in some case conducted, it has been proven by scientists that cigarettes do indeed cause cancer, something that has been denied yet known by the cigarette companies for years.
*"The concern is that cell phones are often placed close to or against the head during use, which puts the radiation in direct contact with the tissue in the head. There's evidence supporting both sides of the argument."
I don’t know much about Cell Phone Radiation but that didn’t stop me from conducting a little research into the matter myself to find out about it since I own a cell phone. The facts that I have found didn’t match what I read in the other member’s opinion so here goes.
What is Electromagnetic Radiation?
Electromagnetic Radiation is caused by an electric field that interacts with a magnetic field that in effect causes energy to be formed in a wave.
These waves can be found at low frequencies from sources such as microwave ovens, X-rays, visible light, cosmic and gamma radiation and of course, a cell phone.
**Those most at risk are babies and young people, whose bodies are in development, and those whose immune systems are already weak from other causes.
What damage can Electromagnetic Radiation cause to people?
**Independent scientists have shown that mortality rates on chicken embryos exposed to electromagnetic radiation from cell phones averages 73% i.e. only 27% survive compared to the average survival rate of 78% that were not exposed.
**"Chick embryo experiments can be transferred to humans, because in virtually all species, early developmental processes are identical and regulated by the same genes."
* Source: Kevin Bonsor
**Source: Professor T. Rosenquist, University of Nebraska, USA
What does all this mean to you and me?
From my research it leads me to believe that in all likelihood, Electromagnetic Radiation poses at least some health risk and whether or not it can lead to cancer is yet unproven, at least to you and me. What scientists and doctors know about it already is that it can cause you fatigue, stress, for women the possibility of miscarriages, hearing problems and several other problems as well.
I could go on with more of what I have found out through my research but I feel that what has already been written will be enough to create concern about the use of a cellular phone by myself or anyone else and the effects of EM.
My opinion is that if I could, I would throw my cellular phone in the trash right now, wrap my head in aluminum foil, and stay out of visible light but that isn’t an option for me, just as I am sure it isn’t an option for most people.
One’s health is one’s own concern and whether or not you want to use a cell phone is your choice but I think that taking anybody’s opinion on your health that isn’t a medical doctor is about as dumb as playing Russian Roulette with six bullets.
Someone once said, “If you worry about everything that can kill you, you’ll worry yourself to death," and I think that is a very true statement.
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