You Wouldn't Give Your Child A Cigarette -- This May be Far Worse

You Wouldn't Give Your Child A Cigarette -- This May be Far Worse







This is a video about the importance of limiting exposure to microwave radiation, and using wireless technology wisely.

Sources:



Powerwatch January 5, 2011









Dr. Mercola's Comments:





In the video above, Dr. Magda Havas PhD points out the many hurdles we face when trying to address the growing concerns about microwave radiation, such as that from cell phones and wireless technology.



In the end however, regardless of how strongly anyone feels about being able to use these modern technologies, there is a price to be paid. According to Dr. Havas, microwaves will likely end up killing far more people than smoking and asbestos combined if we do not start thoroughly addressing its dangers



I tend to agree. I believe our wireless, electro-polluted society is an enormous experiment that cannot end well. It has already started taking its toll. Unlike cigarette smoke or asbestos, microwave radiation from wireless technologies is almost ubiquitous in urban settings.



Electromagnetic Hypersensitivity on the Rise

Electromagnetic Hypersensitivity Syndrome (EHS) is gaining recognition as a very real and increasing problem. Sweden is leading the pack in acknowledging and addressing this issue, mainly due to the progress made by FEB - The Swedish Association for the ElectroSensitive. The association produces and distributes educational literature that has helped raise awareness about the phenomenon around the world. Mast Action UK, Radiation Research Trust and Electrosensitivity U.K. are doing similar work in Great Britain, as well as the Electromagnetic Radiation Alliance in Australia.



Electrosensitivity U.K. publishes a terrific primer explaining this condition containing over 800 scientific and medical references, written and compiled by Michael Bevington, Chairman of the Trustees of Electrosensitivity U.K.



Camilla Rees of www.ElectromagneticHealth.org says:



"Electrosensitivity U.K.'s primer on electrosensitivity offers an extensive review of symptoms, sources of exposure, pathological markers, treatment approaches, references for other illnesses linked to EMFs, and lists references to numerous resolutions on this topic by organizations of international scientists, medical doctors and psychologists.



For a small donation to the U.K.charity, people who are electrically sensitive or who think they may be can bring their own physicians up to speed on this important new condition quickly. We encourage all to share the ES primer with their doctors, families, schools and government officials."



Early signs of electrosensitivity should be heeded to prevent escalation of symptoms and the development of even more serious conditions, such as cancers.



Director of the Radiation Research Trust in the U.K., Eileen O'Connor, a breast cancer survivor, recently told the audience at the Commonwealth Club of California about what happened when the Wishaw T-Mobile phone mast went up in her small U.K. village. An estimated 77 percent of the residents within 500 meters became ill with a range of health problems from symptoms of electrosensitivity to infertility and cancer. Seven years later a cancer cluster was discovered in the village, after which the tower was forcefully removed.



Commonwealth Club 11-18-10. Panel I - Eileen O'Connor, Director, Radiation Research Trust (U.K.) from ElectromagneticHealth.Org on Vimeo.



Eileen, who today counsels members of the British Parliament and EU on EMF health policy, said six ladies developed breast cancer, there was one case of prostate cancer, one case of bladder cancer, one case of lung cancer, three cases of pre-cancerous cervical cells, one man developed a spinal tumor and motor neuron disease (MND), many cases of breast lumps and pervasive symptoms of electrosensitivity, such as sleep problems,headaches, dizzy spells, vertigo, fertility problems, immune disregulation, and fatigue. An Olympic level horse was also treated for blood problems.



When the mast came down, the symptoms of electrosensitivity went away, and with few exceptions, cancers people were treated for never recurred and the Olympic horse no longer suffered with blood problems.



Eileen also presented compelling research from the European Reflex Report, visually showing DNA breaks in a comet assay test from 24 hours of cell phone radiation exposure compared with DNA breaks from 1600 chest x-rays. (See graphic below.)







Source: Reflex Report as presented by Eileen O'Connor at the Commonwealth Club of California, November 18, 2010



The point to understand is that microwave radiation not only leads to electrosensitivity but can lead to cancer when DNA damage occurs. So take any signs of electrosensitivity very seriously and learn to shield yourself from this pervasive toxin.



For parents concerned about electrosensitivity as it relates to children in schools, a good resource is the Campaign for Radiation Free Schools on Facebook .



The site advocates schools follow the guidance in Dr. Havas' BRAG Antenna Ranking of Schools Report to minimize children being harmed by radiation, and teaches schools how to do this. It also offers both the EMF-Help Blog™ and a new series of EMF Remediation Interviews by Camilla Rees with leading environmental consultants, including Vicki Warren, past Executive Director of the Institute for Bau Biology & Ecology.



Dirty Electricity and Microwaves—The Cigarettes of the 21st Century

Most of you reading this are too young to remember the ads touting the health benefits of cigarettes and portraying physicians smoking. These ads began appearing in various publications in the 1920s—including JAMA (Journal of the AMA), one of the most widely distributed medical journals.



It took nearly a century for truth to win out and defeat the corporate marketing fraud, but now science and the courts have definitively established the destructive effects of tobacco and everyone can agree that the claims in these ads are preposterous.



Unfortunately, many fail to appreciate that there are massive similarities between the telecommunications and tobacco industries with respect to their manipulative and deceptive tactics to deceive you about the health dangers of their product.



There is often a delay of several years to several decades between new scientific findings and a change in public policy—a time period that is critical in preventing irreversible health damage. By waiting for government regulations to change, it is often too late. Researchers have now concluded that just as smoking doesn't cause immediate signs of cancer, the latency period for brain tumors from microwave radiation can be 10, 20, or even 30 years.



That means, it's still too soon for most cell phone-induced brain tumors to show up!



So the question is, do we learn from history and choose to leap-frog over the inevitable resistance and denials from industry, or do we go along with the program until the health ramifications are so disastrous and the connections so obvious they cannot be ignored by anyone?



Personally, I opt for preemptive action.



The links between non-thermal radiation and health problems have already been scientifically established, and researchers who specialize in this field can now explain at least some of the mechanisms behind this controversial finding. The time to take precautionary action is now. Not 75 years from now when our children and grandchildren start dropping like poisoned canaries…



Beware of Plans to Exponentially Increase Wireless Technology Inside Your Home, Whether You Want it or Not

Keep in mind that exposures to radiation comes not only from telecommunications technologies such as cell phones, wireless networks, wireless routers, wireless computers, iPads and portable phones, but also from new utility technologies like 'smart' meters, which despite their name are not very smart at all.



The plan for the coming 'smart grid' is first to have utility meters transmit data on your household energy usage wirelessly through neighborhoods and back to the utility. The next step includes having household appliances within the home individually transmit to the 'smart' meter! Yes, that means all major appliances, like washing machines, stoves, dishwashers and electronics like stereos will be outfitted with transmitters. Interoperability standards are well along in development for this new generation of radiation-emitting home appliances to be integrated into smart grids.



An excellent interview on the radiofrequency these new energy strategies will bring into your home can be found at on ElectromagneticHealth.org. It features Blake Levitt, author of Electromagnetic Fields and a long-time science writer on this topic, and Duncan Campbell, Esq, a visionary thinker on the future of utilities and new energy technologies.



What all this is pointing to is there is rampant unchecked proliferation of wireless technologies in our lives, perpetrated by corporations who have no appreciation for the health impacts, or worse, who simply don't care about the health consequences, perhaps considering health damage to the population akin to 'collateral damage' par for the course in pursuit of a larger goal. It is going to take citizens saying NO MORE to the lack of corporate conscience and failure of global governments to protect public health before the current trajectory we're on is reversed.



We recommend you consider signing the EMF Petition to Congress, signed now by thousands of Americans in every state.



Ask your friends and neighbors to sign it, too. And if any of them need convincing, point them to the telecom industry's own report on the biological effects, commissioned by T-Mobile and Deutsche Telecom MobilNet, GmbH, called The Ecolog Report. This should end all doubt that the industry knows they are harming us.



Alasdair Philips of Powerwatch estimates that "33 percent of people are electrosensitive to an extent, and an increasing number, currently about 3 percent, are highly sensitive."



He says electrosensitivity symptoms seem to increase with the age of the person, especially over 40 years of age:



"It is becoming a major cause of chronic and, increasingly, acute illness. ES symptoms start gently by just increasing general stress levels resulting in chronic health problems of poorer sleep, irritability, fatigue, headaches, etc, and at that point it is usually not clear what the cause is. Gradually people become more and more sensitive and can link their now acute reactions with cordless phones, cell phones and their masts, Wi-Fi, etc."



I wonder how many people will need to become electrosensitive before citizens will start taking decisive action, taking this issue up with their legislators. Already the telecom industry is pushing to dismantle the hard-wired, landline telephone system in the U.S., which would leave millions of electrically sensitive people without the means to make a phone call.



And the wireless 'smart grid' is well underway. When these kinds of large infrastructure decisions are made without feedback or pushback from citizens, they will certainly be impossible to reverse once implemented.



The Science is Clear: Non-Thermal Radiation DOES Cause Biological Harm

If you missed Dr. Martin Blank's presentation in which he explains how wireless devices affect your cells and DNA, I highly recommend you take 20 minutes and listen to it now.



Dr. Blank is an Associate Professor at Columbia University in the department of physiology and cellular biophysics, and a researcher in bioelectromagnetics. He is adamant when he says that there IS evidence of harm within the non-ionizing range of radiation, and that the harm to human health can be significant.



This evidence has been peer-reviewed, published, and that the results have been replicated, evaluated and "judged by scientists capable of judging it," as Dr. Blank says.



Most importantly, researchers are now beginning to understand the actual mechanisms causing the damage, and anyone who has been hoodwinked by the standard brush-off that "non-thermal radiation is incapable of causing biological damage" should pay close attention, because the scientific discoveries are moving swiftly these days.



Which can be to our benefit, as long as we don't fall for the shallow assurances of safety from those who stand to gain from suppressing these discoveries.



One plausible EMF mechanism was published in the Journal of Cell Physiology in 2008. Other mechanisms of effect have been compiled and recently published in the European Journal of Oncology in collaboration with ICEMS, and the Ramazzini Institute. The report, called "Non-Thermal Effects and Mechanisms of Interaction Between Electromagnetic Fields and Living Matter", can be downloaded at www.ElectromagenticHealth.org.



The Danger of Cumulative Load and Chronic Exposure

It has become clear that it is the cumulative load of exposure to the entire spectrum of frequencies—from ELF's all the way up to the ionizing rays of x-rays—as well as the chronic duration of these exposures that are capable of causing significant harm to your health.



We all need to become cognizant of these exposures and take measures to protect ourselves against them.



Dr. Blank aptly compares your DNA to a fractal antenna, which can pick up a range of frequencies across the EMF spectrum. Your DNA is constantly busy creating proteins to maintain the health of your cells. Heat shock proteins (HSP) are created in response to stress (any harmful stimulus). This is known as the cellular stress response.



And guess what?



Your cells respond to electromagnetic fields (EMF's) as harmful. In a nutshell, your body is constructed with many fractal antennas inside each and every cell, which responds to the entire range of frequencies on the EMF spectrum!

The importance of this simply cannot be overstated.



Knowing this, it's no wonder scientists have been able to link EMF exposure to a growing list of health concerns, including:



Harm your blood cells

DNA damage

Nerve-cell damage

Possibly accelerate and contribute to onset of autism, and trigger Alzheimer's disease

Eye damage

Sleep disruptions, fatigue and headaches

Salivary gland tumors

Decreased bone density in your pelvic region

Electromagnetic hypersensitivity

Altered heart rate and blood pressure

Altered sugar metabolism

Brain tumors Fertility impairment Steps You Can Take to Protect Yourself and Your Family

Unless you're willing to give up your wireless conveniences, you need to at least make accommodations to minimize the inherent health risks to yourself and especially your children. Kids growing up today are exposed to an unprecedented amount of radiation and dirty electricity, and we already KNOW that some people simply cannot handle these levels of exposure.



It's also only a matter of time before this generation of children reaches the age where health deterioration becomes evident. If it's 30 years, then many of us older folk will die before the health effects become apparent. But 30 years for today's children is another story—the health effects may hit them before they've even entered middle-age!



I also urge you to help spread awareness on this issue. People must be made aware. So please, help educate others, especially those in government responsible for setting exposure guidelines. We recommend you sign the EMF Petition to Congress and support local, national and international advocacy groups in this field.



Also, take as many of these proactive steps as you can to minimize your and your family's exposure:



1.Have your child avoid wireless technology: Barring an emergency, children should not use a cell phone, or a wireless device of any type. Children are far more vulnerable to cell phone radiation than adults, because of their thinner skull bones. One alarming 2008 study indicated that that children and teenagers raise their risk of brain cancer by 500 percent if they use cell phones!

2.Reduce your cell phone use: Turn your cell phone off more often. Reserve it for emergencies or important matters. As long as your cell phone is on, it emits radiation intermittently, even when you are not actually making a call.

3.Use a land line at home and at work: Although more and more people are switching to using cell phones as their exclusive phone contact, it is a dangerous trend and you can choose to opt out of the madness.

4.Reduce or eliminate your use of other wireless devices: You would be wise to cut down your use of wireless and electronic devices. Just as with cell phones, it is important to ask yourself whether or not you really need to use them, how often, and for how long. In your home it is usually a very simple matter to run multiple Ethernet cords to avoid the need for wireless internet and to replace wireless routers and wireless/hard-wire 'combination' routers with 'wired-only routers'.



Camilla Rees of ElectromagneticHealth.org cautions that in testing many homes she finds the 'combination' wireless/wired routers often still emit microwave radiation even if you have a hard-wired Ethernet cord plugged into it and believe you're not using the wireless part of it!



"Sometimes when I visit people's homes they are concerned because of a new Smart Meter, wondering if that is causing their symptoms, but commonly it turns out very high levels of radiation are coming from a 'combination' wired/wireless router, both store-bought routers or those provided by the utility. Naturally, this can be dumbfounding, as all along they assumed they were using a safe router and didn't know that they were being continually exposed to radiation," she says.



"This is not to say that smart meters are not a problem, but very basic home electronics issues need to be ruled out first and the only way to do that is by measuring with a meter."



As for portable phones, if you must use a portable home phone, use the older kind that operates at 900 MHz. They are no safer during calls, but at least many of them do not broadcast constantly even when no call is being made.



Note that the only way to truly be sure if there is an exposure from your cordless phone is to measure with an electrosmog meter, and it must be one that goes up to the frequency of your portable phone (so old meters won't help much). Many people buy a meter and go searching for older model portable phones at thrift stores, where there is no packaging and one can actually test the phone.



As many portable phones are 5.8 Gigahertz, we recommend you look for RF meters that go up to 8 Gigahertz, the highest range now available in a meter suitable for consumers. You can find RF meters at www.emfsafetystore.com. But you can pretty much be sure your portable phone is a problem if the technology is DECT, or digitally enhanced cordless technology.



Alternatively you can be very careful with the base station placement as that causes the bulk of the problem since it transmits signals 24/7, even when you aren't talking. So if you can keep the base station at least three rooms away from where you spend most of your time, and especially your bedroom, they may not be as damaging to your health.



Ideally it would be helpful to turn off your base station every night before you go to bed.



Obviously, apartment living poses special problems, where you could conceivably be exposed to multiple portable phones and multiple wireless routers from multiple neighbors. In cases like this, not only is it important to minimize exposures from your own personal communications devices, but inevitably, you must learn about measuring/detecting and RF shielding or face the consequences of potentially excessive exposures.



5.Use your cell phone only where reception is good: The weaker the reception, the more power your phone must use to transmit, and the more power it uses, the more heating it generates (SAR), and the deeper the dangerous radio waves penetrate into your body. Ideally, you should only use your phone with full bars and good reception.



Also avoid carrying your phone on your body as that merely maximizes any potential exposure. Ideally put it in your purse or carrying bag. Placing a cell phone in a shirt pocket over the heart is asking for trouble, as is placing it in a man's pocket if he seeks to preserve his fertility.



6.Don't assume one cell phone is safer than another.There's no such thing as a "safe" cell phone. They all create biological effects, and a low SAR phone, depending on the angle with which you use it, or the duration of use, or the location of use, can be more damaging that a higher SAR phone. Consider all cell phones inappropriate in a truly health conscious lifestyle.

7.Keep your cell phone away from your body when it's on: The most dangerous place to be, in terms of radiation exposure, is within about six inches of the emitting antenna. You do not want any part of your body within that area.

8.Respect others who are more sensitive: Some people who have become sensitive can feel the effects of others' cell phones in the same room, even when it is on but not being used. If you are in a meeting, on public transportation, in a courtroom or other public places, such as a doctor's office, keep your cell phone turned off out of consideration for the 'second hand radiation' effects. Children are also more vulnerable, so please avoid using your cell phone near children.

9.Use safer headset technology: Wired headsets will certainly allow you to keep the cell phone farther away from your body. However, if a wired headset is not well-shielded -- and most of them are not -- the wire itself acts as an antenna attracting ambient information carrying radio waves and transmitting radiation directly to your brain.



Make sure that the wire used to transmit the signal to your ear is shielded. The best kind of headset to use is a combination shielded wire and air-tube headset. These operate like a stethoscope, transmitting the information to your head as an actual sound wave; although there are wires that still must be shielded, there is no metal wire that goes all the way up to your head.