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Important Information on the
Biological Effects of
Cell Phones and Wireless Technologies
Cell Tower
Life Bluetube Headsets
Cell Phone Towers Health Effects
EM Field Meter
Cell Phone Sensitivity
by Dr. Mercola | August 30, 2011
On the site linked below, you can listen to an interview
with Dr. Karl Maret. Dr. Maret is the president of the Dove
Health Alliance, a nonprofit foundation that focuses on the
creation and promotion of global research and education
networks in Energy Medicine.
Dr. Maret trained in both electrical and biomedical
engineering before his medical studies. He has recently
begun educating physician groups specifically on the
biological impacts of communication technologies, such as
cell phones and wireless technologies.
According to Electromagnetic Health, in this interview,
Maret discusses:
“… the biological effects of electromagnetic fields. He
offers especially valuable perspective given he has both an
extensive medical background and a background in electrical
engineering and biomedical engineering.”
According to a new study, electromagnetic radiation from
cellular phones may affect bone strength. Men who wear their
cell phone on the right side of their belts were found to
have reduced bone mineral content and bone mineral density
in the right hip.
Researchers measured the bone strength at the left and right
hip in two groups of healthy men, half of whom did not use
cell phones and half of whom carried their cell phone in a
belt pouch on the right side. Their hip bones were assessed
using a test called dual-energy x-ray absorptiometry.
According to Newswise:
“… [M]en who did not use cell phones had higher [bone
mineral content] in the right femoral neck (near the top of
the thigh bone) … The cell phone users also had reduced
[bone mineral density] and [bone mineral content] at the
right trochanter — an area at the outside top of the thigh
bone, close to where the phone would be worn on the belt.”
Additionally, a separate U.S. government funded study by
Nora Volkow et al published in JAMA unsettled many people
when it reported that using a cell phone could alter brain
activity, and do so at non-thermal levels of microwave
radiation, levels which have long been argued by industry
and regulatory bodies do not have enough intensity to create
biological effects.
The report did not conclude whether the changes in glucose
levels resulted in any negative, long-term health effect,
but it had many people wondering what they can do to protect
themselves, and also whether they can trust regulatory
bodies setting exposure guidelines.
Dr. Michael Kundi, at the Medical University of Vienna,
Austria, commented:
“Since a brain tumor utilizes excessive amounts of glucose,
changes in glucose utilization may be a key mechanism to
support tumor growth.”
The study’s authors advise cell phone users to keep their
phone at a distance by putting them on speaker mode or using
a wired headset whenever possible. Even holding your phone
farther away from your ear can make a difference, as the
intensity of radiation diminishes sharply with distance.
According to the New York Times:
“Many cellphones emit the most radiation when they initially
establish contact with the cell tower, making their ‘digital
handshake.’ To reduce exposure it’s best to wait until after
your call has been connected to put your cellphone next to
your ear.
During the ensuing conversation, it’s advisable to tilt the
phone away from your ear when you are talking and only bring
it in close to your ear when you are listening … radiation
is ‘significantly less when a cellphone is receiving signals
than when it is transmitting.’”
In addition, texting instead of talking might be safer.
And if the Volkow study demonstrating increased glucose
levels in the brain from cell phone radiation raised major
concerns about cell phone safety around the globe, stunning
new research from China is following on its heels, waking up
people further to the evident very serious risks from cell
phones.
The recent study, by Duan Y, et al , “Correlation between
cellular phone use and epithelial parotid gland
malignancies,” published in the International Journal of
Oral and Maxofacial Surgery, showed a dose-response
relationship between cell phone use and parotid gland
tumors, and as much as a 3,000% increased risk of parotid
gland tumors with greater than 2.5 hours of cell phone use
per day.
See ElectromagneticHealth.org post, “Important New Chinese
Study Connecting Cell Phone Use with Parotid Gland Tumors,”
and coverage by Microwave News, “Chinese Put Cancer of the
Parotid Gland on Center Stage.”
“The authors found general indications of a dose–response
relationship between cellular phone use and parotid gland
malignancy.
In particular, duration of use prior to diagnosis, average
daily number of calls, average daily duration of cellular
phone usage, number of calls since first use, and total time
of usage were positively associated with parotidgland
malignancy.”
Brain tumor analyst L. Lloyd Morgan, B.S., who was lead
author of the landmark report, “Cellphones and Brain Tumors:
15 Reasons for Concern,” says the risks of parotid gland
tumors found in the Duan Y, et al parotid gland study were
“as large, perhaps larger, than the risk of lung cancer from
smoking.”
Camilla Rees of www.ElectromagneticHealth.org says:
“It is not surprising we have never seen the full data set
from the 13-country Interphone study, especially the data on
parotid gland tumors and acoustic neuromas, tumors closest
to where a cell phone is held against the head, despite the
fact that the study was completed over six years ago.
The International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC), the
part of the World Health Organization responsible for the
Interphone study, is planning to soon draw conclusions on
risk of cancer from RF from cell phones based only on the
50% of Interphone results they have released to date,
Global scientists and activists are now actively protesting
this decision and insisting it be held off until the full
Interphone data set is released. The Duan Y, et al parotid
gland study very strongly reemphasizes we must gain access
to the full dataset of the Interphone study, and subject it
to independent analysis.”
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