UPDATE---(from FROM DR. MERCOLA'S BLOG)
CELL PHONES (from Chris Gupta’s email newlsetter)
..."public
health scientist George Carlo found that rare tumors on the outside of the
brain are more than doubled among cell phone callers particularly
on the right side of the head where `phones are usually held...
Here is more support for the earlier post: "
Em Fields On Brain Tumor Incidence - Chemicals And Cell Phones" the
evidence is so compelling and the regulatory bodies will continually get
usurped by the industry - it should behove the reader
to protect her/his health by not using these devices...
Thanks to Tamara Theresa and Steven Zakrzewski for
the additional links provided at the end of the post.
Chris Gupta
...Health
.... Roger Coghill became a long-standing advocate
for health warnings to be affixed to cell phones after this biologist found
that cellphone transmissions damage the ability of
white blood cells to ward off infectious disease by disrupting the immune
system's electromagnetic communications. Dr. Neil Cherry has measured accelerated
aging, increased cell death and cancers caused by radio frequency microwaves
from cellphones and their relay towers. With the
brain's electro-chemical communications repeatedly zapped by lightning-like cellphone pulses, this Ph.D. biophysicist warns that
headaches, fatigue, lethargy, nausea, dizziness, depression, arteriosclerosis
and even Alzheimer's can result from frequent or prolonged calls on cell
phones....
...."The risk is extremely high," declares Dr. Cherry. "There
are 66 epidemiological studies showing that electromagnetic radiation across
the spectrum increase brain tumors in human populations. Two of those studies
are for particular brain tumors from cell phones."....
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GRAVE Cell Phone Dangers Revealed...
Article by Will Thomas
Though intended for renovations, Chris Anderson would like all visitors to
deposit their cellular phones in the cement mixer by his front door. This
sounds excessive until you step into
Much to the chagrin of this certified EMR-mitigation specialist, every day some
300 million cell phone users are "reaching out and touching someone you
love. Yourself, and anyone else within range of the microwaves emitted by your
cell phone."
Mesmerized by magical gadgets, we have yet to count the costs of miniature
radio transmitters that are transforming Marconi's invention into new
possibilities for portable personal pollution. As entire nations reach for
pocket communicators, the explosively emergent $40 billion a year cell phone
industry is poised to deliver a "Wireless Revolution" that over the
next five years is expected to double the one-billion people connected by
telephone lines over the past century.
Silicon sensors are already calling to each other. Soon, countless
communicating microchips embedded in everything from bumpers to brooms will be
sending streams of encoded electrical energy through glass, steel, concrete,
bone and flesh. Exquisitely sensitive to subtle electromagnetic harmonies,
human brains and bodies as intricate as galaxies depend on tiny electrical
impulses to conduct complex life-processes including the ability to read,
recall and respond to these words. Acting as antennas, our anatomies just as
easily tune into spurious signals from radio and microwave transmissions. Blake
Levitt, author of Electromagnetic Fields, says that
when it comes to cellphones, "a worse frequency
could not have been chosen for the human anatomy."
As cell phones conquer consumer minds and markets, researcher Carolanne Patton notes that "the brain reaches peak
absorption in the UHF bands, right where cellular telecommunications
operate." British military scientists have discovered that cellphone transmissions disrupt the brain sites for memory
and learning, causing forgetfulness and sudden confusion.
Other studies show that electromagnetic signals from cellular phones reduce the
ability to concentrate, calculate and coordinate complicated activities such as
driving a car. Startled by $4 billion a year in extra claims among cellphone-wielding drivers, North American insurers did a
double-take that found simply juggling `cell phones is not causing a 600%
increase in accidents over other drivers busy shaving, applying makeup, tuning
radios, taming pets, making out, pouring coffee, retrieving dropped cigarettes,
talking and gesturing to passengers, or actually steering the vehicle.
Instead of just another dangerous distraction, tests conducted by the
For all drivers dialing out on their cell phones,
In
One of a handful of licensed electricians who understand electromagnetic fields
well enough to eliminate them from household wiring, McGinnis has been testing EMFs and collaborating with fellow testers and researchers
for nearly a decade. In Victoria, where he has helped residents defeat six cellphone towers, there was dancing in the streets after Microcell Connexions withdrew its
application to erect a microwave transmission tower against the Wishart Elementary School fence in the spring of 1998. Microcell spokesman Colin McCrae points out that emissions
from the company's towers carry about the same energy as a 50-watt lightbulb well within federal guidelines.
This is hardly reassuring, retorts the former president of the Wisehart parents advisory council.
Tania Berenuik observes that Health
Roger Coghill became a long-standing advocate for
health warnings to be affixed to cell phones after this biologist found that cellphone transmissions damage the ability of white blood
cells to ward off infectious disease by disrupting the immune system's
electromagnetic communications. Dr. Neil Cherry has measured accelerated aging,
increased cell death and cancers caused by radio frequency microwaves from cellphones and their relay towers. With the brain's electro-chemical
communications repeatedly zapped by lightning-like cellphone
pulses, this Ph.D. biophysicist warns that headaches, fatigue, lethargy,
nausea, dizziness, depression, arteriosclerosis and even Alzheimer's can result
from frequent or prolonged calls on cell phones.
"There is also a higher incidence of cardiac problems," Cherry
comments, "in terms of the timing function in hearts. You get more heart
attacks and more heart disease - it has now been shown in many studies."
The biophysicist from
In 1995, Cell phone sales in
Hired by the Cellular Telecommunications Industry Association to condone cellphones, public health scientist George Carlo found that
rare tumors on the outside of the brain are more than doubled among cell phone
callers particularly on the right side of the head where `phones are usually
held. Carlo told ABC's "20/20" that cell phone causes genetic damage
that leads to cancer. Warning of "the potential for a global health
disaster," ABC recommended "prudent avoidance" of cellphones after finding that every cellphone
they lab-tested exceeded the Federal Communication Commission's standards for
EMF absorption rates. EMF researcher Dave Ashton cautioned 20/20 viewers that
because cellphones constantly search for the nearest
repeating tower, "long-term damage comes from cell phones in the stand-by
mode." Cell phone "shields" and headsets "cannot adequately
address these problems," Ashton added.
Dr. Carlo later told
Addicted as we are to a culture of convenience, we forget how inconvenient it
is to contract cancer. An
READY OR NOT
As magazine-size "cellular" relay antennas hidden in church steeples
and rooflines keep popping up just about everywhere, more and more communities
are declaring their airspace a "No Fry Zone". But in Canada, where
cell phone towers come under federal jurisdiction, municipalities are only
"advisers' to a process in which no permits are required to erect
transmitter towers deemed necessary for "national security." Cellphones do save a lot of lives. FCC Chairman William
Kennard reports that every day more than 98,000 people make 911 calls from
wireless cell phones.
Many more lives are involuntarily imperiled by non-emergency calls. Pat Irwin
was working in a Colwood health food store when she
noticed a truck unloading metal framework. The next morning, a new cellphone tower was ready to add its emissions to another
BC Tel tower already operating down the street. There had been no announcement,
no public hearings just a quiet notification to the municipality that a tower
was going up, literally overnight.
The intruder radiated for a month when Irwin felt her immunity dropping. She
wondered if other changes in her energy and menstrual cycle were "not from
the moon or something that I ate."
Irwin also seemed more irritable after her central nervous switchboard began
receiving round-the-clock cellphone calls. With
cellular relay towers in Kansas and Oklahoma being shut down because they
interfered with passing aircraft, Irwin sensed how the same transmissions
plucked her own electrical circuitry, inflicting a "chronic edginess"
that "twangs human nerves." Sleep disorders, she learned, are common
among people exposed to high levels of electromagnetic pollution.
After several other women in the same business centre reported similar
symptoms, Irwin quit her job. "I saw it as something that was there to
stay and I'd be daily exposed to it over a long period of time," she told
Alive. "All this stuff is what we're playing with on a daily basis, and we
don't know the long-term health effects."
Implying recognized hazard, cell phone companies such as B.C.'s FIDO insist
that the new digital phones operating at 1/50 the power of older analog models
are safer. But there is nothing "safe" about the new 1.9 gigahertz
broadcasting frequency. Much like a boxer taking repeated blows to the head,
rapidly pulsing cellphones signal permanent brain
damage. A study by Dr. Peter Franch found
unequivocally that "cells are permanently damaged by cellular phone
frequencies." This cellular damage, Franch
noted, is maximized at low dosage – and "inherited unchanged, from
generation to generation."
Attempting to explain a 25% increase in asthma and a 5% increase in
asthma-related death rates throughout rapidly "mobilizing"
metropolitan
Katharina Gustavss, a
certified Building Biology consultant with 25 years experience, explains that CDMA's 217 Hz spikes are very close to the frequencies of
human cell membranes. Gustavss accompanied a Microcell technician to the Colwood
microwave relay tower Irwin and others had complained about. When he waved a
spectrum analyzer, Gustavss checked the display and
saw "pretty scary" energy spikes. "What's that?" she asked
the tech. "I've never seen that before," he told her. It turned out
that this cellphone tower tester only set his meter
to an averaging mode. Switching to "real time"
froze the readings at "scary" maximum output levels.
How dangerous are cell phones? "The risk is extremely high," declares
Dr. Cherry. "There are 66 epidemiological studies showing that
electromagnetic radiation across the spectrum increase brain tumors in human
populations. Two of those studies are for particular brain tumors from cell
phones."
Cherry says that because cancer takes decades to develop, it will be another 10
or 20 years before "mobiles" manifest a big bonanza in brain tumors.
But he adds, we're already seeing "acute effects
that are noticed within minutes of using a cell phone."
After two minutes' conversation, a cell phone's digitized impulses disable the
safety barrier that isolates the brain from destructive proteins and poisons in
the blood. Professor Leif Salford, the neurologist
who carried out the research for this finding, informed the Daily Mail:
"It seems that molecules such as proteins and toxins can pass out of the
blood, while the phone is switched on, and enter the brain. We need to bear in
mind diseases such as MS and Alzheimer's which are linked to proteins being
found in the brain."
DANCING WITH THE TELECOMONSTER
If you must pack a cell phone, treat it like a loaded
pistol. Keep it turned off. Don't carry it near ovaries, testicles, or the
heart. For partial protection, buy an antenna shield. Limit calls to
one-minute, six to 10 minutes a month. Never fire off a cellphone
with children anywhere in sight.
A better bet is to facilitate the growth of organic telephone networks with
lots of fibre. Instead of more microwave towers,
"We should be wiring up our cities with fibre-optic
cables to provide Internet, fax, telephone, radio and television at very high
quality," Cherry urges, "rather than saturating our cities with the
microwave, radiowave and low frequency signals all
the time."
When it comes to cells, consciousness and cell phones, every call is collect.
How can convenience count more than cancer? What is gained by being in constant
contact with disembodied voices, while being "out of touch" with the
friends and neighbours around us? Are we comfortable
having our location traced by monitoring authorities?
Unless we start voting with our wallets, consumer complacency could prove as
species-limiting as corporate cynicism. "Microwave frequencies are the
same as those used in radar and your microwave oven," says
Having somehow survived three-million years of evolution without them, many
contemporary hominids claim they cannot live without them. But can exquisitely
sensitive electromagnetic beings live with cell phones – and the cell phone
towers their signals ride in on? Like polyethylene food and water containers,
plastic cookers and coffeemakers, microwave ovens and petroleum-powered
brilliantly beguiling inventions we have to let go. Would hanging up on such an
intrusive and hazardous addiction be so terrible?
On
See also:
You Tube Video
www.neilcherry.com
http://mercola.com/2002/dec/28/electromagnetic_fields.htm
Mobile
Phone (Cell Phone) Base Stations and Human Health
Harvard
Researchers Say Cell Towers Are A Hazard
The Truth About
Cell Phones
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