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We take the incredible technological of internal reflections." In another
advances that have been made in the past study conducted by leading neurosurgeon,
50 years for granted. Technology that Dr. Leif Salford and colleagues at Lund
was once a distant dream is now a part of University in Sweden the data indicated
the fiber and fabric of our culture. A an "unambiguous link between microwave
typical American home is equipped with radiation emitted by GSM mobile phones
microwaves, cell phones, cordless phones, (the most common type worldwide) and
PDAs, computers, and a wide assortment of brain damage in rats." There are
technological gadgetry designed to make hundreds of studies with correlative data
life easier. indicating that this is far more than an
However, what price are we paying for anti-establishment ploy concocted by
these advances and, more importantly, paranoid believers who fear technology
what price are our children paying for and little green men.
living in a world filled with these Just as the information on the dangers of
energy emitting devices? tobacco was hidden in plain sight, one
In spite of the occasional debate on need only scratch beneath the surface to
safety, most of us have come to regard find warnings about cell phone use.
cellular phones as fairly harmless. Scientists have warned parents to
After all, if cell phones were in any way exercise caution in providing cell phones
hazardous to our health, we would know to children younger than eight years of
about it. The sheer accessibility allays age as there is little known about the
any potential fears about their use. effect of radiation on developing brains.
Cigarettes are also widely available but Paul Brodeur, a noted science journalist,
we now know without question that not was one of the first in the medical
only are they harmful to the user but to community to issue a public alert about
those around the user as well. However, the dangers of EMF. Brodeur warned that
widespread tobacco use went on for introducing your body to new forces such
hundreds of years before the connection as EMF created a condition known as
between it and the fatalities it causes "adaptation stress." In this condition
was made. Until then, the vast majority the body is sent into chaos as it tries
of people didn't consider cigarettes, to adapt to the new forces. Brodeur
pipes, or any other form of tobacco use identified symptoms such as fatigue,
hazardous. Are we guilty of being lulled confusion, lack of concentration and
into a similarly false sense of security focus, headaches, backaches and increased
about cell phones? emotional volatility. Is it a
The answer is an emphatic and resounding coincidence that many of these symptoms
"Yes." which we have come to associate with and
Before you dismiss that as an alarmist label as learning disorders in children
cry of an anti-technology fringe of have increased dramatically over the past
society, let's take a closer look. decade?
Estimates indicate that we are exposed to In another study, conducted by the
100 million times more radiation per day Spanish Neuro Diagnostic Research
than in our grandparents' generation. Institute, it was found that a cell phone
Electromagnetic Fields (EMF) are low call lasting only two minutes not only
levels of radiation which are generated opens the blood-brain barrier (in
by electronic devices. Initial concerns children and adults) allowing toxins into
about radiation were dismissed because of the blood stream which can attack brain
low level of exposure. We learned to cells, but in children that same two
live with microwaves because our homes minute exposure could disrupt the natural
were not filled with other devices. Yet, electrical activity of their brain for up
what is the risk now, when our homes are to an hour following the call. So
filled with electronic devices, our cars alarming was the data that Dr. Gerald
are powered by micro-computers, we are Hyland, mobile phone adviser to the
surrounded by power lines and cell British Government, was quoted as saying
towers, and we spend hours a day with a "If I were a parent I would now be
portable phone held to our ear? extremely wary about allowing my children
Cellular phones generate a field known as to use a mobile even for a very short
Radio Frequency Radiation (RF). A number period. My advice would be to avoid
of studies have concluded that RF from mobiles."
mobile phones poses significant health The cell phone industry is targeting the
risk to users, including headaches, very profitable children's market. Cell
memory loss, autism, brain cancers, phone makers are marketing "Disney
leukemia and learning disorders. The phones" and kid-friendly versions with
Committee on Electromagnetic Energy parental controls. The industry is no
Public Health Issues stated in an longer content to have the adult and teen
Australian Government Discussion paper market, but in nationwide back-to-school
that : "Human exposure of radio campaigns, they aggressively market to
frequency radiation is greatest from tweens and younger.
mobile phone handsets because of the We may not have all of the answers today,
method of use, with the transmitting but the information we do have is
antenna of the mobile phone handset close alarming. How much more evidence do we
to the head. There is evidence that need before we take the dangers to our
localized hot spots or energy deposition children seriously?
in the brain may occur as a consequence






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