Danger of EMF -
Electromagnetic Field - Powerlines, VDU, Home Appliances
Part 3
EM Field Meter
Life Bluetube Headsets
Cell Phone Sensitivity
Cell Phone Towers Health Effects
The National Council on Radiation Protection and
Measurement, in its 1995 "Draft Recommendations on EMF
Exposure Guidelines," generally endorsed an ambient EMF
exposure limit of 2 mG. A final report has yet to be
released. In 1990, Paul Brodeur ended his New Yorker series
with this conclusion: "The de-facto policy that power lines,
electric blankets and video-display terminals be considered
innocent until proved guilty should be rejected out of hand
by sensible people everywhere. To do otherwise is to accept
a situation in which millions of human beings continue to be
test animals in a long-term biological experiment whose
consequences remain unknown."
That is the situation we find ourselves in today. A 1998
Microwave News industry report, "Unfinished Business: EMF
Research Must Continue," makes several important points that
remain true today: "First, it is striking that we still know
so little about who is exposed to what. [For instance,] only
recently did we recognize that sewing-machine operators have
higher EMF exposures than do electric utility workers.
"[Second,] sources of EMFs turn up in surprising places. For
example, Swedish researchers report É that steel-belted
radial tires can expose automobile passengers to EMFs as
high as 50 mG. Thus, an office worker with a long commute
might have more exposure than a utility worker, [and] a
suburban kid who gets shuttled around in his parents' car
might have more exposure than a child living within sight of
a power line."
Contemporary EMF research Last year was a banner year for
EMF research. In January, a study by Milham connected many
disputed pieces of the EMF puzzle. Building on the
accumulating evidence that leukemia and certain other
cancers are linked with exposure to electromagnetic fields,
Milham wrote that "until poles and wires were first extended
into our communities, humans had never been exposed to
alternating power-frequency fields. Similarly, radio,
television, radar, microwaves, cell phones and other
indispensable devices of our modern world all expose humans
to EMFs, which are completely new to human evolutionary
experience." Milham uncovered conclusive proof that the
appearance of a new childhood leukemia peak in children ages
2 to 4 is the direct result of residential electrification
as it took place, country by country and state by state,
throughout the world. The peak was highest in states with
the greatest levels of electrification and, even today,
places without electrification do not show this childhood
leukemia peak.
As a result of this finding, Milham and his researchers
conclude that 75% of childhood acute lymphoblastic leukemia
and 60% of all childhood leukemia may actually be
preventable. They also note that "weak alternating magnetic
fields have been shown to affect reaction time, slow the
heart and affect the electroencephalogram in humans." In
other words, the negative health effects from exposure to
EMFs are not limited to children; they can and do affect all
of us. As environmental physicist Neil Cherry, M.D., Ph.D.,
and others have pointed out, the historical rise in
childhood leukemia is paralleled by the same rise in adult
leukemia in all developed countries.
Then, on July 16, 2001, under pressure from a First
Amendment Coalition lawsuit, the California Department of
Health Services released a major report on the health
effects of power frequency electric and magnetic fields. The
report summarized a decade of research costing more than $7
million. It stated, "Some of the health risks associated
with exposure to electric and magnetic fields such as those
that radiate from power lines are added risk of miscarriage,
childhood leukemia, brain cancer and greater incidence of
suicide." Two other EMF studies rounded out the year. In
November, researchers from Japan's National Institute for
Environmental Studies presented a study showing that
exposure to electromagnetic fields can interfere with
melatonin, a sleep-regulating hormone that also inhibits
cancerous tumor growth.
When the researchers exposed breast cancer cells to a level
of electromagnetism that people are exposed to on a daily
basis, they found that it decreased melatonin's ability to
suppress the cancer cells' growth. And in December,
scientists at the Neuro Diagnostic Research
Institute in Marbella, Spain, discovered that a mobile phone
call lasting a mere two minutes can produce abnormal
brain-wave patterns in children that last up to an hour. But
what about all those studies purporting to show that cell
phones are harmless?
Danger of EMF - Electromagnetic Field
- Powerlines, VDU, Home Appliances Part 4
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