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How Your Family’s Health Is Affected
by Marleen Walmsley
Disney is releasing a new line of cell phones for kids in June. Designer phones with Disney characters, add-ons like games, cool wallpaper for their screens, music, cameras, and cartoon clips. You think a little kid wouldn’t like to play with that pressed to their head 6 or more hours a day? That’s the expectation of the cell phone industry who is marketing to their most lucrative market ever: children 3 and older.
There is mounting hard evidence of significant health risks. It’s a trillion dollar industry; the manufacturers ran the studies on effects on human health, then suppressed them. The revenue stream is only beginning. So why shoot themselves in the foot? The FDA is told the evidence is “inconclusive”. Like Tobacco, by the time the symptoms occur and it generally takes years, it’s usually not retrievable.
What You Can Do:
1. Get a headset for your cell phone and your child’s. It will reduce your EMF risk by up to 90%. They cost around $20.
2. Reduce phone use. Store it away from your body when you’re not using it. Unlike tobacco, the exposure to radiation and electromagnetic skews with phones is constant. It takes a few minutes to have a cigarette; we’re exposed 24/7/365 to the cell’s EMF waves.
Studies by the Central Brain Tumor Registry of the U.S. (www.cbtrus.org ) show over 250,000 are diagnosed with primary and metastatic brain tumor each year in this country. The statistics are rising.
Telco towers: Unlike metropolitan areas in California like Sacramento, Los Angeles and the San Francisco Bay Area where there are multiple telecom towers, SLO County has low exposure. SLO County’s only major FTC tower site is on Garcia Peak, McKittrick, CA off Hwy 58. There are not a lot of relay stations here. Rural areas, however, do have 740% more exposure from these towers on mountainsides. Look around the hills. You won’t see many of those needle towers. But they are also camouflaged on rooftops of schools, office and government buildings, in forestation, bus stations, universities, airports, and malls. And they aren’t legally required to tell occupants of the dangers.
Cordless phones, which most of us have, are particularly bad news. They emit a great deal of harmful EMFs even while not in use!
What you can do:
Don’t sleep or work next to them for long periods of time. The greater the distance, the less the exposure. The body can repair itself unless there’s near-constant exposure; then the cellular damage becomes cumulative.
“We’re sitting on a time bomb here,” says Libby Kelley, executive director of the Council On Wireless Technology Impacts, an NPO in Novato, California. “You’re going to have one claim where somebody wins, and then it will start snowballing, just like with tobacco.”
Effects on the body:
Basic heartbeat, muscle contraction, bone regeneration, hormones, smell, emotional response, bone regeneration, mind’s interaction with immunity, cells’ ability to replicate. The body is electric. It’s affected by EMFs.
The central nervous system operates on one millionth of a volt. It is a fine-tuned machine vastly affected by radiation and EMFs. But the only way it can tell you something’s wrong is by presenting symptoms when it’s over the top.
Symptoms include: Chronic fatigue, confusion, ADHD, neuralgia, lack of coordination, lack of emotional control, anxiety, inability to concentrate, hormone problems, etc.
Check your cell phone: One of the first passes at safety standards was the establishment of the SAR or Specific Absorption Rate. A SAR is a number to tell the user how much the body can take. Every cell phone is different. Take your cell phone apart and look with a magnifying glass at the plate inside. It isn’t displayed in the literature nor on the outside of the phone anywhere. Makes you wonder: If they have nothing to hide, then why hide it? The FCC, by the way, creates standards based on 30 minutes of exposure for the entire body. Not just the side of the head.
One more tip: Don’t use your cell phone while pumping gas. The vapors can ignite an explosion. Cell phones (although rarely) have the ability to create sparks that can be generated by the battery inside the phone. Mobil Exxon and other gas companies have started posting warning signs at their gas stations.
Get yourself a headset. They’re available to Radio Shack and other electronic stores. They are interchangeable with just about any cell phone. Just plug it in. It’s the best thing you can do to protect yourself; headsets reduce the exposure by 90%.
Marleen Walmsley is a naturopath in Morro Bay and Host-Producer of an educational TV program called Healers Who Share on Ch. 2. She can be reached at clarityandhealth@yahoo.com or 831-325-7483.
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