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Use your cell phone
By Sue Mueller
Jun 14, 2006, 22:06
Many
organizations including the cell phone industry often downplay the
risk of cell phone radiation to the brain. Results from short-term
studies were used to convince consumers that use of a cell phone is
not associated with brain tumors or cancer, which only develop
decades after exposure.
To be fair, no one knows exactly how much harm a cell phone can do
to a person. However, one thing for sure is that the radiation from
a cell phone is harmful. It is only a matter of how much. There is
no denying that.
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Recently, new media has reported a study showing the radiation from
cell phones is so full of energy they can be used to cook eggs.
In the experiment, researchers placed one egg in a porcelain cup
(because it is easy to conduct heat), and put one cell phone on one
side and another cell phone on the other. The researchers then
called from one cell phone to another and kept the cell phones on
after connecting.
During the first 15 minutes, nothing changed. After 25 minutes,
however, the egg shell started to become hot and at 40 minutes, the
surface of the egg became hard and bristled. Researchers found the
protein in the egg had become solid although the egg yolk was still
in liquid form. After 65 minutes, the whole egg was well cooked.
The study shows how scary cell phone radiation is. People should try
to avoid use of cell phones. Although so far no one has proved the
radiation from cell phones can cause something clinically
significant. By the same token, there has been no one who can
disprove the existence of such a risk.
Children should be forbidden from cell phone use because they still
grow their brains and are particularly vulnerable to radiation.
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U.K. Sunday Mirror, Thursday 27th December
2001
http://www.sundaymirror.co.uk/shtml/NEWS/P15S3.shtml
Scientists have discovered that a call lasting just two minutes can alter the
natural electrical activity of a
child's brain for up to an hour afterwards.
THE CHILD SCRAMBLER
What a mobile can do to a youngster's brain in 2 mins THESE are the first images
that show the shocking effect that using a mobile phone has on a child's brain.
Scientists have discovered that a call lasting just two minutes can alter the
natural electrical activity of a child's brain for up to an hour afterwards.
And they also found for the first time how radio waves from mobile phones
penetrate deep into the brain and not just around the ear. The study by
Spanish scientists has prompted leading medical experts to question whether it
is safe for children to use mobile phones at all. Doctors fear that
disturbed brain activity in children could lead to psychiatric and behavioural
problems or impair learning ability.
It was the first time that human guinea pigs were used to measure the effects of
mobile phone radiation on children. The tests were carried out on an 11-year-old
boy and a 13-year-old girl called Jennifer. Using a CATEEN scanner, linked
to a machine measuring brain wave activity, researchers were able to create the
images above. The yellow coloured part of the scan on the right shows how
radiation spreads through the centre of the brain and out to the ear on the
other side of the skull. The scans found that
disturbed brain wave activity lasted for up to an hour after the phone call
ended.
Dr Gerald Hyland -- a Government adviser on mobiles -- says he finds the results
"extremely disturbing".
"It makes one wonder whether children, whose brains are still developing, should
be using mobile phones," he adds. "The results show that children's brains
are affected for long periods even after very short-term use. "Their brain wave
patterns are abnormal and stay like that for a long period. "This could
affect their mood and ability to learn in the classroom if they have been using
a phone during break time, for instance. "We don't know all the answers
yet, but the alteration in brain waves could lead to things like a lack of
concentration, memory loss, inability to learn and aggressive behaviour."
Previously it had been thought that interference with brain waves and brain
chemistry stopped when a call ended. The results of the study by the Spanish
Neuro Diagnostic Research Institute in Marbella coincide with a new survey that
shows 87 per cent of 11- to 16-year-olds own mobile phones and 40 per cent of
them spend 15 minutes or more talking each day on them. And disturbingly, 70 per
cent said they would not change the use of their phone even if advised to by the
Government.
Dr Hyland plans to publish the latest findings in medical journal The Lancet
next year. He said: "This information shows there really isn't a safe amount of
mobile phone use. We don't know what lasting damage is being done by this
exposure. "If I were a parent I would now be extremely wary about allowing
my children to use a mobile even for a very short period. My advice would be to
avoid mobiles."
Dr Michael Klieeisen, who conducted the study, said: "We were able to see in
minute detail what was going on in the brain. "We never expected to see this
continuing activity in the brain. "We are worried that delicate balances
that exist -- such as the immunity to infection and disease -- could be altered
by
interference with chemical balances in the brain."
A Department of Health spokesman said: "In children mobile phone use should be
restricted to very short periods of time."
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