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Cellphone Radiation" Everyday we're swimming in a sea of electromagnetic radiation", produced by electrical appliances, power lines, wiring in buildings, and a slew of other technologies that have become a part of our modern day life. Electromagnetic Radiation, also known as EMR, is on the verge of being a serious world wide health threat, but in particular there's a huge public health crisis looming from the EMR in cellular phones. Both the radiation from the handsets and tower based antennas are carrying signals that studies have linked to the development of brain tumors, genetic damage, and other exposure-related conditions. Yet the government and the well-funded cellphone industry media continue to mislead the non alert public about the dangers of this product used by billions of people. The cellular phone industry was was born in the early 1980's and was allowed to be sold without the market safety testing them and an eager public managed to purchase them. Ever since then these phones were slowly prompting a host of health problems. Today there are more than two billion cellphone users being exposed everyday to the dangers of electromagnetic radiation. Dangers that government regulators and and cellphone industries refuse to admit exists, even though they are fully aware of these dangers. While watching a video on dried corn reacting to low microwave mobile phones, turning into actual popcorn made me think to myself, "What could radiation be doing to my brain cavity?"
Is this true? Well overall there hasn't been any solid evidence of harmful effects shown when experiments were done on humans and animals. Also, the World Health Organization has stated that cancer is unlikely to be caused by cellular phones or their base stations and their summary on such devices says: " Scientific evidence does not indicate any need for RF-absorbing covers or other "absorbing devices" on mobile phones. They cannot be justified on health grounds and the effectiveness of many such devices in reducing RF exposure is unproven", and reviews haven't found any convincing evidence for other health effects but with that said critics still believe cellphone radiation is a harmful and dangerous energy that travels through the body and effects the system. This can be understandable because nobody knows for sure the harm a simple cellphone can bring and plus, cellphones emit signals via radio waves, which consists of radio-frequency energy. Studies show that people have been complaining about their phones particularly cellphones with high doses of radiation causing mild cases of nausea, vomiting, illness, and fatigue with brief but intense exposure. Mild exposure can come with the results of fevers, hair loss, infections and poor wound healing and in very severe cases it can cause dizziness, unconsciousness and death and long term exposure can result in cancer and premature aging, so claimed. Not only that but as I was reading some facts about radiation and according to Dr. Andrew, the radiation from cell towers is potentially more dangerous than cellphones themselves because they run continuously day and night and have been shown to have many unpleasant effects on people living near them". I do believe that cellphone radiation is just as , harmful as tower radiation because they both emit the same energy. A cellphone usually emits radiation through the antenna system. It's job is to distribute usable RF radiation into the area around us, (to prevent this you can purchase an antenna radiation disburser). I believe the radiation is harmful to our bodies and I think its good to be aware and safe than to be sorry and clueless. Is this really true? Why doesn't anyone do something about it? Another concern of mine is, in what ways can way be able to avoid cellphone radiation. Some ways are by using a headset that can connect to the phone, not a wireless headset, such as bluetooth, but one that can plug up to your phone because it can significantly decrease radiation exposure to the brain. Wireless cellphone accessories produce their own radiation in addition to the radiation produced by the cellphone so it is not a good idea to use those kind of headsets whatsoever. A plugged-in headset eliminates cellphone radiation near the brain reducing possible damage. Another strategy is to use speaker phone as often as possible ,it also reduces the exposure of cellphone radiation. They also have radiation shielding cases, which come in handy. The shielding case dissipates the radiation so that it decreases going in to the body. There are many other ways to stay protected while dealing with this cellphone radiation tragedy, just view this online site, "What's in your pocket?" According to Devra Davis, an eminent American scientist and one of the country's leading epidemiologist, the mobile phone industry spent years trying to bury scientific evidence, to protect its $3 trillion, 4.6 billion - customer global business. With mobile phone use soaring, especially among the young, is said to be a "global public health catastrophe", that will be seen in as little as three years if the problem is ignored. This is a serious issue that is going to shake people for sure because the way I see it, this amount of radiation around us , travels in us and slowly destroys us. People are adapted and addicted to their cellphones and even sleep with them by their side at night, so it is indeed going to be hard to put them down and shorten phone usage to play a cautious role. Studies are inconclusive researchers have studies on everything radiation can potentially do to us, and according to Devra Davis, mobile phone can affect your fertility. The most troubling research dealing with radiation threatens male fertility. Research in seven countries, including the U.S, China, and Australia, suggests that keeping a turned on mobile phone in your pants pocket can have a drastic effect on sperm count. Sperm exposed to cellphone radiation in the lab is sicker, thinner and less capable of swimming. Those who use their phone at least four hours or more, men in particular, who are trying to become fathers, have about half the sperm count of others. A team at the University of Washington found that just two hours of mobile phone-level radiation splintered the DNA of brain cells in rats, making them similar to cells found in malignant tumors. This is a strong concern because children can be related back to the rat experiment in sense that a rats skull is just as vulnerable as a child's.  Children have thinner skulls than adults' and their brains are still in the field of developing. It is recommended that children only place cellphones near their heads when it is an emergency call. Cell phones are often placed against the skin or head during use, which puts the radiation in direct contact with the tissue in the head. My conclusion on cellphone radiation activity is to keep the notion of safety embedded in my head instead of keeping radiation in it, and at night make sure that my cellphone doesn't go under my pillow or beside me as I sleep. I will try my best to limit the use of my phone and pray that I don't get any of the symptoms or illnesses that radiation can bring. No one really knows for sure how much radiation is too much to obtain for a human being but I know one thing, I frequently use my phone, text on my phone, sleep with my phone, as well as keep my phone on my body and that for sure is putting my self at risk everyday of the hour I'm around my phone. I've acquired new knowledge and am now aware of all things that can happen through the use of my phone. My concern goes out to everybody who uses their phone as much as I do especially those in my generation because a cellphone now, is like a must have and it becomes apart of us and people need to understand that this is a tricky situation to play with because I never knew what could come out of just being on my phone everyday or just having one period. A cellphone and its radiation baggage could turn out to be the new plague of our lives, who knows? |
There has been a lot of discussion on just how dangerous cellphones can actually be, due to the radiation they give out.