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I am willing to bet that everyone reading this uses a cell phone. I use one, my husband uses one, everyone I know has one.
I have recently committed to cutting WAY back on my cell phone usage and I purchased a wired phone for my desk. Why you may be asking? Well, I have read enough now to be convinced that cell phone usage may be dangerous and now their are studies surfacing to support that conclusion.
Just today I read some alarming new studies published in The Independent May 18, 2008 and Epidemiology June 2008.
Women who use mobile phones when pregnant are more likely to give birth to children with behavioral problems, according to a study of more than 13,000 children.
Pregnant women using the handsets just two or three times a day was enough to raise the risk of their babies developing hyperactivity and difficulties with conduct, emotions and relationships by the time they reached school age.
The likelihood is even greater if the children themselves used the phones before the age of 7.
Specifically, mothers who used mobile phones were 54 percent more likely to have children with behavioral problems. When the children also later used the phones themselves, they were:
* 80 percent more likely to suffer from difficulties with behavior
* 25 percent more at risk from emotional problems
* 34 percent more likely to suffer from difficulties relating to their peers
* 35 percent more likely to be hyperactive
* 49 percent more prone to problems with conduct
The results of the study took the top scientists who conducted it by surprise. The research will carry particular weight because one of its authors, UCLA's Professor Leeka Kheifets, had previously been skeptical that mobile phones could pose a risk to health.
I truly hope that one day we are not looking back at all our cell phone usage and thinking "wow look how dumb we were." Remember it was not that long ago that smoking was considered safe.
To Great Health Always,
Deanna Latson www.gotohealth.com
Read the full articles here: http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/health-and...
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Login or register to post a commentWow. that is interesting. I
Wow. that is interesting. I am glad when I had my son cell phones weren't even in yet. It was the bag phone, then the big clunky phones but they were so expensive that very few people had one.
Thanks Deanna. I really don't use my cell phone much other than texting, talking to my boyfriend or talking to my son and or mom. I am not a phone person. Thank God the guys in my life are not long winded. My mom........well that is a different story!
Freda
On the other hand, though . . . .
You have to realize that this study wasn't a double-blind study with scientific controls. It basically asked mothers to think back 10 years and report on their cell phone use. That's hardly scientific. The authors themselves admit that there's plenty of room for misinterpretation of the data.
I'm not disagreeing with you, Deanna--just cautioning that there's more to the story.
deciding to play it safe
I agree that there is still so much to study. I recently sat next to a brain surgeon who told me "without a doubt there is a rise in tumors on the brain right where we use our phones." He went on to say it wasn't that big of a deal because they were not cancerous. I personally do not like the idea of a tumor cancerous or not.
I would rather error on the side of safe and keep my kids away from the cells. On another note 4 countries in Europe have banned cell phone use for children under the age of 11.
To Great Health Always,
Deanna Latson
I agree with you Deanna.
I agree with you Deanna. There was another member who also wrote about this too.
http://alphawomen.com/soapbox/cell-phone-use-cause...