Losses due to cell phones

Increasing Danger From Cell Phones

More and more Americans are eliminating their land lines, and as such are having increasing exposures to cell phone dangers.

An NIH survey found that almost one in six households are now wireless-only. About 14.5 percent of adults, or 32 million Americans, live in wireless-only households, as do 10 million children. In 2006, less than one in eight adults lived in wireless-only households, and in 2004, only one in eighteen adults did.

Folks, this is a disaster in the making, especially for the next generation. Many children in the generation currently being born will be raised with no other type of phone except their cell phones.

Unfortunately, research has shown that children are particularly vulnerable to the radiation emitted by cell phones, which penetrates deeply into their young brains. Current evidence suggests that if this trend continues, it will contribute to an epidemic of brain cancer, autism, Alzheimer’s disease, and other serious health problems.

Play it smart and keep your land line. Save cell phones for emergencies.

Cell Phones Can Damage Your Eyes

A recent scientific study identified a link between microwave radiation of the kind emitted by cellular phones and two different kinds of damage to the eye. At least one type of damage apparently never heals.

When the eye is exposed for a prolonged time to microwave radiation, there is large-scale damage to the optical quality of the lens. But there seemed to be a maximum level to this kind of damage, and when the exposure stops, the damage begins to heal.

However, at the same time, a different kind of damage occurs at the microscopic level. Tiny "bubbles" appear on the surface of the lens. This kind of damage reaches no maximum level, but instead accumulates progressively, and it did not heal even after the experiment stopped. It was theorized that the bubbles were caused by friction between cells that were exposed to the radiation.

Next Generation Cell Phones May Cause Nausea, Headaches

Radio signals for the next wave of cell phones--third generation (3G) phones that transmit high-speed Internet data--caused headache, tingling sensations and nausea among participants in a research study. The side effects occurred after participants were exposed to radiation from 3G base station signals. No side effects were noted from current mobile phone base stations. Base stations transmit constant signals, exposing everyone within range, while cell phone handsets emit stronger levels of radiation to the user. Government officials say further research is needed to confirm findings and explore long-term health effects.

Cell Phones May Harm Blood Cells

A study has shown that radiation from mobile phones may cause a substantial increase in the forces that living cells exert on each other. Experts said this research could be critical to providing answers to the question of whether radiation from mobile phones is linked to cancer and other health problems. Although several researchers believe this to be the case, they have been unable to come up with ways that radiation could produce this affect and harm biological tissue. The conventional theory states the only way radio waves could harm a cell would be if they were powerful enough to break chemical bonds or heat the tissue, like microwaves. However, it was discovered the radiation given off by the handsets on mobile phones was too weak to result in either of these effects. Research has shown that water molecules have poles of positive and negative electric charges referred to as van der Waals forces, which are known to produce attractive forces between cells. In a study using a very simplified mathematical model of two red blood cells, the effect of electromagnetic fields with different frequencies of radiation was calculated. This study determined that the water molecules within the cells tried to reposition their negative and positive poles by altering the field created by the radiation. The results of this study didn’t prove negative effects from mobile phone radiation, however if the effect could be proven based on experimentation, it could provide the basis of an explanation for tissue damage. Future studies will be conducted to check the dielectric properties of various types of biological tissue during exposure to radiation across the range of frequencies normally used by mobile phones.

Radiation Dangers from Cell Phones

British researchers have just demonstrated that the same type of microwave radiation emitted by mobile phones can cause the production of substances known as heat-shock proteins (HSPs) in roundworms, even though there was no significant heat generated by the microwaves. These results are significant because humans also produce these same proteins. HSPs are a family of proteins, which are produced in response to various stresses such as heat, cold, oxygen deprivation, hypoglycemia, and viral infections. Current regulations governing human exposure to microwaves emitted by mobile phones are solely concerned with the radiation's heating effects. According to one of the researchers: "The telecommunications industry and regulators seem to regard non-thermal effects as either illusory or insignificant. Our paper shows that they are not." A soil nematode, which is a type of roundworm, was used in the experiments, because like humans, then produce HSPs when exposed to heat or toxicants. The researchers subjected the nematodes to microwave radiation overnight; this caused them to produce HSPs but not to increase in temperature.

Are Cell Phones More Dangerous Than Smoking?

According to a study by a cancer expert, mobile phones could kill far more people than smoking or asbestos. Dr Vini Khurana concluded that people should avoid using cell phones wherever possible and that governments and the mobile phone industry must take "immediate steps" to reduce exposure to their radiation.

Growing evidence shows that using handsets for 10 years or more can double the risk of brain cancer. Since cancers take at least a decade to develop, earlier studies which included few, if any, people who had used the phones for that long are most likely invalid -- although official safety assurances are based on these earlier studies.

Professor Khurana reviewed more than 100 studies on the effects of mobile phones. He came to the conclusion that "there is a significant and increasing body of evidence for a link between mobile phone usage and certain brain tumors."