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Since the PE Gym is also about making and keeping your body healthy, I thought it worthwhile to bring this item from Dr. Gabe Mirkins current newsletter to everyone's attention.
Dr. Gabe Mirkin's Fitness and Health E-Zine
August 23, 2009
Cell Phones and Cell Damage
A review of eleven long-term epidemiologic studies shows
that using a cell phone for ten years doubles the risk of diagnosis
with a brain tumor (glioma, acoustic neuroma) on the same side of
head used for the cell phone (Surgical Neurology, August 12,
2009).
Microwaves from cell phones cannot cause cancer unless
they produce heat because, unlike X rays, they are not strong
enough to break bonds that hold molecules together. However, an
earlier study from the University of Nottingham, England, showed
that low dose microwaves emitted by cell phones caused
roundworms to release heart shock proteins, a sign of cell damage
(JAMA, December 20, 2000; Nature, May 25, 2001). The cell
damage comes from 800 to 900 MHz range radio frequencies from
the antenna inside the phone that sends a signal from your phone
to the tower many miles away. The energy generated by
electromagnetic waves that come into your cell phone appears to
cause no damage.
Since we still do not know if cell phones can cause brain
tumors, you would be wise to keep the antenna at least two inches
away from your body by using a wired or wireless earpiece such
as Blue Tooth. The sound waves from these devices have never
been implicated in any type of damage.
Dr. Gabe Mirkin's Fitness and Health E-Zine
August 23, 2009
Cell Phones and Cell Damage
A review of eleven long-term epidemiologic studies shows
that using a cell phone for ten years doubles the risk of diagnosis
with a brain tumor (glioma, acoustic neuroma) on the same side of
head used for the cell phone (Surgical Neurology, August 12,
2009).
Microwaves from cell phones cannot cause cancer unless
they produce heat because, unlike X rays, they are not strong
enough to break bonds that hold molecules together. However, an
earlier study from the University of Nottingham, England, showed
that low dose microwaves emitted by cell phones caused
roundworms to release heart shock proteins, a sign of cell damage
(JAMA, December 20, 2000; Nature, May 25, 2001). The cell
damage comes from 800 to 900 MHz range radio frequencies from
the antenna inside the phone that sends a signal from your phone
to the tower many miles away. The energy generated by
electromagnetic waves that come into your cell phone appears to
cause no damage.
Since we still do not know if cell phones can cause brain
tumors, you would be wise to keep the antenna at least two inches
away from your body by using a wired or wireless earpiece such
as Blue Tooth. The sound waves from these devices have never
been implicated in any type of damage.
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