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6 tips for minimizing cell phone radiationOn Tuesday, scientists at the World Health Organization announced that the agency will now list mobile phone use in the same "carcinogenic hazard" category as lead, engine exhaust and chloroform. There haven't been enough long-term studies to make a clear conclusion if radiation from cell phones is safe, but there was enough data to persuade the WHO of a possible connection. Cell phones use non-ionizing radiation, which doesn’t damage DNA the way ionizing radiation does. The cell phone radiation operates more like very low power microwaves, but nobody really likes to think of leaning their face on a low-powered microwave. If the WHO’s labeling of cell phone use as "possibly carcinogenic to humans" has gotten you alarmed, here are some quick basic tips to limit your exposure.
- Get wired It’s no coincidence that most cell phones come with a wired ear piece. A wired headset will automatically decrease your radiation exposure because the phone is away from the body. Every inch you can get away from the body reduces the amount of radiation you are absorbing. A wired headset may still transmit radiation through the wire – but it is a very low level. If that is a concern, you can buy a ferrite bead for just a few bucks at most electronic stores. It attaches to the wire and it absorbs any radiation traveling through the wire, reducing how much enters your body. And it’s not too inconvenient. CNN’s chief medical correspondent Dr. Sanjay Gupta said he uses an earpiece because his neck doesn’t hurt as much after being on a long phone call. Gupta: Cell phones, brain tumors and a wired earpiece – Use the speakerphone This could get quite annoying, if you’re in a public place. But experts say that using the speakerphone function is helpful because you’re keeping the phone away from your brain. Every inch you can get the phone away from your body reduces the radiation. For example, holding out the cell phone by two inches drops the radiation by a factor of four, Magda Havas, an associate professor with the Institute for Health Studies at Trent University in Ontario, Canada, had told CNN. But try not to share your conversation with the whole world. Thanks. – Don’t wear Bluetooth all the time Bluetooth wireless earpieces will expose you to some radiation. However, it would be much less radiation than a cell phone. The problem is that most people wear their Bluetooth all the time. And this isn’t a good look on anyone. If you use a Bluetooth device, switch it from ear to ear so you don't have too much exposure on one side. Just take it out of your ear when you aren't on the phone. – Radiation hot spots Cell phones don’t always emit the same level of radiation. For example, your phone will emit the most radiation when connecting to cellular towers. But a moving phone (like if you are talking while driving) will continually connect to towers that come in and out of range - and this automatically increases power to a maximum as the phone repeatedly attempts to connect to a new antenna. A weak signal will also cause your phone to work harder, giving off more radiation. So avoid using your phone in elevators, buildings and rural areas. Research shows your device emits more radiation when transmitting than when receiving. – Read the fine print Most of us ignore those manuals that come with our gadgetry. But most cell phone safety manuals tell consumers to not keep the phone next to their head, or even in your pocket. Apple iPhone 4 says 5/8 inch away from the body when transmitting. And the BlackBerry Bold says to keep it least 0.98 inch from your body when the BlackBerry device is in use. If you keep it next to your body, the manufacturers can't guarantee that the amount of radiation you're absorbing will be a safe level. – Don’t talk, text If you don’t want to hold the phone next to your face all the time, send text messages or use your email or messaging services if you have a smartphone. This way you avoid putting the phone to your head altogether. And our friends at CNN Tech say the general rule of thumb is that the smarter the phone, the more radiation. CNN's John Sutter contributed to this blog.
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You would have to be an idiot not to know this device that emits radiation can cause cancer. PS..so does the sun.
Tis entire article to me is just trying to make people feel good eough to conitnue to use their cnn mobile app. Wouldn't want ad revenue going down now since we pushed a new unhealthy habit on people would we.
not sure if Nelson is kidding here, but obviously if you're reading the news on your smartphone using your CNN app, you don't have the phone pressed up against your head. if you are pressing the phone against your head while trying to read the news, then you are doing it wrong.
They missed the #1way to limit exposure:
"Don't use the phone all of your waking hours."
Just because you have limitless minutes doesn't mean you have to graft the phone to your head. There are real people around who would like to participate in your life.
And for those of us who live in New England, we have all this granite that just loves to radiate stored energy. We get exposed to more low-level activity just being in the 6 northeastern most states than the folks in the sun belt do from solar radiation.
No, there is NO chance that cell phones cause cancer. When it comes to cancer risk, the key word is not 'radiation', it's 'ionizing'. Ionizing radiation has sufficient intensity to damage atoms and molecules by stripping electrons, thus changing the way that they behave and increasing cancer risk. Non-ionizing radiation-what a cell phone emits-is effectively harmless. And when I say effectively, I mean that even if you had an active cell phone strapped to your skull every day for your entire life, your chance of cancer wouldn't go up by a trillionth of a percent. The hazard of non-ionizing radiation is WARMING, not cancer, and a cell phone won't warm your body by any relevant degree.
There is more chance that the potassium in a banana will give you cancer than a cell phone, because unlike a cell phone, a banana DOES have some ionizing radiation effect. If you think that means you shouldn't eat bananas, then you're missing the point.
The WHO is extremely irresponsible in stating that it's even a possibility-anyone who has even the faintest knowledge of radiation will tell you that it is literally impossible. You have more of a chance of getting cancer from eating a cell phone than using it.
Who are you, so wise in the ways of science?
You're an idiot, shut your pie hole and take physics. Radiation does not need to be ionizing to damage cells and/or efect body chemistry.
Thanks, Slash, for speaking sense; mass panic by the ignorant masses is all these clowns are after, and it apears they've hit their mark again. There's little hope, though, that scientific facts will make a dent in the panic, since it appears John and Jane Public are more than happy to remain blissfully ignorant...
The brain functions via electrical impulses. Evidence has shown that after just 60 minutes of continued use, brain cells are stimulated by the EMR. True, we don't know what the long term results are; but we have educated theories, based on evidence, that long-term chronic use is probably not a good idea. Do what you like though, it's a free country. People still smoke too....and that one's pretty definitive.
The radiation and emf effects pale by comparison to the social effect of living through a little plastic box.
I'm with Phil on this one.....The other day my daughter was in a panic about not having her phone with her and so I told a story about my youth where when we needed to get a hold of someone, we actually had to go inside of someones house to use a phone that was.....are you ready for this?....ATTACHED......TO THE WALL!
Whats a cell phone?
The WHO has data that bears this out and have issued a warning, and you have what data?
Slash – a co-worker and friend of mine died from brain cancer a few years ago. The tumor circled the ear he used to press his cell phone against for around 8 hours a day. Say what you think but I know exactly what killed him, and so did he before he died.
As for Bluetooth radio waves vs cellphone radio waves – there is no comparison. Bluetooth has an effective range of about 30 feet. Cell phones work over miles. which one emits more radiation? I wear a bluetooth for nearly all phone calls.
Slash, a couple things your missing here. You say non-ionizing radiation can't cause cancer. Interesting, considering UV rays are in fact non-ionizing radiation. UV rays can produce free radicals in your skin cells. That process is known, as in proven definitively, to be potentially carcinogenic. Thus the link between UV rays and skin cancer. Since some evidence suggests that cell phone radiation can produce free radicals, well, need I say more? I'm sorry but this is all not just fear mongering.
opamper I'm afraid it is you who does't know what they are talking about, since UV radiation is ionizing radiation and thats exactly why it damages skin. This is certainly another scare article published by idiots for idiots to believe. Who cares if what you write is accurate in the news anymore, look at fox news; people aren't interested in real news on science, pseudoscience is much better for idiots since it caters to their level of knowledge. To rick and rob, if you know science so much better than Slash, publish a paper on how radio frequencies cause cancer for peer review, I'm sure the scientific community would love to see your evidence and a theory for this apparent mechanism. In fact, you would probably win a nobel prize much like Marie Curie did back in 1903 for new discoveries on the nature of radiation. Lets face it, if you believe this article, you know nothing about science, and are basically in the same camp as the creationist retards. Sorry for your ignorance on "radiation", but like it or not you get 240 mrem of ionizing radiation that is well known to increase the risk of cancer. I guess people that work at radio stations right next to radio towers, or anyone near them for that matter should all have cancer since radio towers broadcast in the dozens of kilowatts compared to fractions of a watt.
I doubt this will get people to slow their usage. Too bad. Anyone else get sick of seeing/hearing people talk all the time? Whatever happened to quiet reflection? It's dead like our culture.
People, we survived just fine before the advent of cell phones. We can survive without them. I'm not feeling too bad for people developing cancer from using cell phones too much. In today's age, there isn't much out there that doesn't cause cancer.
One other thing to keep in mind, something I just thought of. A lot of times, I talk on my iPhone using the wired headset it comes with. The iPhone is usually in my pocket when I'm doing this. Now, instead of the radiation going to my head, it's going to my leg through my pocket. Maybe it's time to just switch back to lan lines.
How about putting the d@mn phone down once in a while.
Be smart people. Radiation creates a panic. The radiation one should truly fear is the kind created by a nuclear reaction (ref Chernoble.) There is the other kind, more prevolent and has been in use since the creation of the radio. I also suggest you look up the etymology of the word radio. Also look up the term "R squared" in reference to the dispersement of electromagnetic radiation in the atmosphere. Nevermind that the current data about cellphones and brain tumors only suggests that it is possible. There is no significant proof. Also, as to the suggestions in this article, note that when driving, you should have a phone pressed to your face anyways. And the radiation from bluetooth earpieces, nominal to that of the transmitting in the phone for connecting to cell towers. Bluetooth is designed to be good for 30 feet. Your cell phone transmitter needs to be good for a few miles. Radiation getting into your head relies on amplitude, and if 5/8 inch is good enough to prevent the transmitter from affecting your brain, what about the bluetooth earpiece?
The problem is that when you talk you generate higher amplitude radiation than the one you receive, so even with your bluetooth, which does that, you are still affected even though to a lesser extent than with the phone stuck to your ear.
"If you keep it next to your body, the manufacturers can't guarantee that the amount of radiation you're absorbing will be a safe level." Interesting that the phone companies have known about this health risk all along and chose to not publicize it but instead bury it in the fine print. I can see the lawyers making a fortune off the lawsuits on this one (and of course the class action participants getting a free coupon for blue tooth ear piece or something).
This is a neat solution for this problem. It is a classic desk top phone that links to your cell phone by Blue Tooth. Transmitter is on the desk and you use an "old fashion" hand set. You can even plug in a land line for it. I use it in my office and no longer use my cell phone while sitting at my desk: it goes through my desk phone automatically, http://www.jablocom.com/component.php?cocode=catalogue&itid=87&lang=en&icid=1
I always stick mine up my butt for protection! just saying.
LOL....Obviously, that seems to be where you head is right? So now you get colon cancer along with your brain!
And I bet all the WHO investigators making this "possible connection" threw away their cell phones and those of their family members...NOT.
Next thing they're going to find out is that laboratories cause cancer in mice.
The smarter the phone, the dumber the user.
True!...
This whole scare is idiotic and irresponsible. The news providers are doing a terrible job of reporting on this in order to scare people can get eyes on pages. This is typical of our fear driven society.
First of all the listing is for group 2b...which is the same group of cancer agents as coffee, skin contact with nickel (those evil 5 cent pieces causing cancer all over the place!) and certain food colorings. It's basically a list of stuff that they think could possibly somewhere, somehow have some sort of link...really it's just a list of CYA list "just in case".
Second even the fear articles from CNN have said it's not ionizing so it can't damage DNA and that at worst it heats the cells...like say any heat source does. And then goes on to say that they don't think the heat causes cancer. So what exactly is the source here?? We receive more radiation from the sun, and our environment everyday and these types of radiation are of types that we absolutely know are dangerous. So if a source as weak as a cell was dangerous then my feeling is we'd have a lot more to worry about from everything else first.
Vibrations can stimulate and turn on genes and this can lead to cell proliferation and cancer.
Facetime or Skype is a good option. The phone/laptop/ipad2 is away from the body and it frees up your hands. Sound can be tough sometimes though.
EMR refers to Electromagnetic Radio-frequency Radiation which is the potentially dangerous frequency emitted by cellular or mobile phones. High frequency ionizing forms of radiation exists as X-rays, Gamma rays and forms of nuclear radiation known to be hazardous . Non-ionizing radiation of lower frequency ionizing forms such as early cell phones were thought to be safe. That view has changed since cell phones and mobile phones have grown in strength from low-level radio waves to high-level microwaves. No scientific study has proven conclusively that the use of cellular phones is hazardous to human health, yet continued use of higher frequency phones could adversely affect the central nervous system, diminish the effectiveness of the immune system and facilitate the development of cancer according to scientific research. Perhaps this is why governments and health organizations worldwide are spending millions of dollars towards on-going research to determine the long term effects of exposure to E.M.R from cellular and mobile phones.
And yet everything you list is a maybe/could be/etc even after we have spent millions in research trying to find a link. We haven't found a link and this new study doesn't claim to have found one either.
SIX TIPS FOR MINIMIZING CELL PHONE RADIATION: DONATE YOUR CELL PHONE TO JOHN BOEHNER, ERIC CANTOR, MITCH MCCONNELL, JOHN CORNYN, SARA PALIN, RUSH LIMBAUGH.
Cute, I like it. Only one problem all of the people you listed are already mutants so the cell phone rads will only make them burb.
People have to start using the cellphone wisely...or don't use at all.
Ladies and Gentlemen: A cellular device is simply put a two-way radio that operates in full-duplex mode (receives and transmits simultaneously) the non-ionizing radiation that is emitted is form of RF (Radio Frequency) voltage. As others have noted non-ionizing radiation warms cells, however any and all exposure CAN or MIGHT cause damage due to long-term exposure all of the studies done thus far are inconclusive, with studies sponsored by the telecommunications industry saying there is no threat and studies conducted by the scientific community being inconclusive or showing there may be a risk factor. All of these studies combined say one thing; MORE RESEARCH IS REQUIRED. Is there an immediate problem like your brain going to explode? ABSOLUTELY NOT!! Is there cause for concern? I would say yes, and that it is prudent to look at some of the recommendations and apply them wisely. That’s my two-cents worth.
Now before someone questions my credentials. I have spent most of my life working with communications first in the Army as a Field Radio Repairman a job skill that involved working with Receiver/Transmitters for AM and FM frequencies plus repairing almost all electromechanical devices used by the military between the late 60's and 1986. I also hold a degree in Information Technology specializing in Networks to include wireless technologies.
I don't trust research sponsored by the telecommunications industry (or any industry, for that matter).
Try explaining to the public that 99.9% of all flouride in water is natural, the public likes to worry. Let em have it.
Is this Malthus' Theory in action? Overusers eventually will die of brain cancer (perhaps improving the gene pool?), and reduce population.
7. Kill yourself
I use land lines at home and work and do not own a cell phone.
I don't think that not having a cell phone will save your life... matter of fact, a cell phone could save it someday.
After all said and done: 'Prevention will always be better than Cure'
Meanwhile does anybody know the effects of the electromagnetic Radio frequency sent through the "Blue tooth" hands free devices since we are all sticking these in our ears now???
You can play text games on ur cellphone http://www.ironrealms.com/text-based-mmos-the-four-best-places-to-text-game-on-the-go
It's Bluetooth. Not Blue Tooth, there's no quotes around it. Stop it! Retards
Could you say "she blue my friend Tooth"?
Make sure use your blue tooth or ear piece with wire, restrict your calls to not more than a minute or two, use text messages. Never use cell phone or sending text messages while driving ,Human life is the best life and priceless,can't compromise with any thing in the world.
The most important in life is , once u lost your mother,father and time never get back in the life again.
Use your time properly according to your needs. Don't waste your time by sleeping more than 7 to 8 hours , Limit watching videos, playing games or talking to friends and relatives more than 1or 2 minutes by phone.
we can't stop the time as it is running without rest or break so don't run faster than time, you know the day will come to every body to stand. still or stop.
Don't forget early morning bath, breakfast, drive your car carefully Always start early from home to your job,school,college or for appointments.I did not forget your exercise, can do five days a week, don't tell me you don't have time, you will find the time if you follow the above stress less and restless life style.
Never discuss any thing about others or your family members about their personnel life to anybody talk only about yourself.
Stop Making parties without Alcohol. Try at least once.
Report your job ,school or any appointments before 10minutes.
Save 5% of your take home salary from the day one you start earning, if not done now start from today, do not touch till you reach 60 years of age.
All the above is not advise this is very essential for the routine life to keep your life restless and stress less.
If you are thinking of making property for your each child, you never live peacefully you will not enjoy your life with your partner. only give them good education according to your children's interest then they will make their own property we are not going to live with our children for ever.
Save energy for our children.
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Nah. Scarier, older cell phones than we have today don't cause ceancr. Really, the sort of radiation they put out is lower EM, at frequencies that your body is as transparent to as glass is to sunlight.A lot of it is that we're better at diagnosing ****** ceancr today, we have better screening methods, better detection and better treatment. A huge number of the various forms of ****** ceancr have excellent survival rates now. Also, people who get it don't tend to keep quiet about it. They know what they have, they take charge of their illness, and don't let it drive them back to a quiet death in their homes, out of sight.
Or do you have to say, "she blueTooth"?
So quit walking around with your g**d**m phone velcroed to your head and incessantly babbling because you just 'Have to keep in touch'. It's really rude to the people around you and it gets REEEAAALLLY ugly listening to conversations about stuff people don't want to hear about in public places.
comparison to a microwave oven is hyperbole. A typical microwave emits 500W and a cell phone emits .3-.6 watts (one-tenth of one percent of a microwave). I believe some people are probably more sensitive than others, but that's true of peanuts too. For all the millions upon millions of people using cell phones (keeping in mind, the original analog phone emitted more energy), how many suspected incidents have there been? Very, very, very few. You are likely more at risk from the foods we overeat than from a cell phone. Just sayin'
It is better to use a headset to avoid brain cancer. and limit the usage of your cellphones in taking in calls.
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No, not exactly. They do make irtiadaon capsules that can be implanted in the cancerous area to help fight the cancer. Usually used in persons with stage 2, 3 and 4 cancers.But there are no irtiadaon pills that you can take orally. Radiation HAS to be in the affected areas only.
hmmm
Yeah people... please be very concerned with the cell phones causing cancer and let the tobacco industry alone. Hello!! waste your time quitting smoke and shut up!
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The regular wired headset has been found to intensify radiation into the ear canal. The wire transmits not only the radiation from the cell phone but also serves as an antenna attracting EMFs (electromagnetic fields) from the surroundings
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Thebrian,I cringe when people like you express their options. It must be extremely embarrassing being that opinionated while not know the facts and only speaking through fed words. Could you image the airline industry without the FAA, or the highways without the DMV? Why do you think, if you do think, many Americans cross the borders to get their pharmaceutical medications in Canada and Mexico? By the way the USSR does not exist anymore, and you need to be hook on phonics.
Why even take the chance when products like the iFusion SmartStation are now available (www.thefusionphone.com). Studies have shown the iFusion to reduce cell phone radiation exposure by up to 95%.
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