Is Your Cell Phone Putting You at Risk?

Over the years, there has been a lot of controversy and debate pertaining to the safety of cell phone use.

The total revenue of the U.S. mobile wireless industry is over $171 billion!

By 2014, there were more mobile devices than people in the world. Nobody wants to hear that your indispensable cell phone might cause grave harm to your health, but that's exactly what mounting evidence tells us.

The link between brain cancer and cell phone use has been of particularly concern to many.

You can search online and find study after study that concludes that cell phone use is safe. The wireless industry claims that there thousands of studies that have failed to pinpoint the exact adverse effects.

If you find out who funded the studies, you will learn a lot. Independent university studies are much more reliable than a study funded by a cell phone company. If it’s an industry-funded study, the results presented are just about guaranteed to favor the industry. Why would they publish results that didn’t?

But just because countless studies might conclude “no risk found,” it doesn’t mean that those were the result of independent scientific findings and methodology.

Many other independent studies have concluded that cell phones, portable phones and other wireless devices have the potential to cause all sorts of health problems, from headaches to brain tumors.

Additional research has shown that those who begin using cell phones heavily before age 20, have four to five times more brain cancer by their late 20s, as compared to those whose exposure is minimal.

In 2011, the International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC), an arm of the World Health Organization (WHO), declared cell phones a Class B Carcinogen, meaning a "possible cancer-causing agent," based on the available research.

This places cell phones in the same category as diesel engine exhaust, some pesticides, and some heavy metals. The expert panel ruled that there was "some evidence" that regular cell phone use increased the risk of two types of tumors – brain tumors (gliomas) and acoustic neuromas.

Common-Sense Guidelines to Protect Your and Your Family's Health:

1. Don't let your child use a cell phone

2. Keep your cell phone use to a minimum

3. Reduce your use of other wireless devices

4. Limit cell phone use to areas with excellent reception

5. Avoid carrying your cell phone on your body

6. Do not sleep with it below your pillow or near your head

7. Realize that the SARS rating on a phone is one factor, but there are many other factors tha

8. Use a; speakerphone, well-shielded wired headset or a low-power Bluetooth®.

9. Don’t place your phone against your head while the call is connecting.

10. Use landlines whenever possible.

11. Limit cell phone use in your car, since the metal magnify the radiation.

Dr. Henry Lai, a University of Washington scientist in cellular and molecular engineering, reviewed 85 papers on the DNA-damaging effects of cell phone radiation. He and his colleague had found from their own research that cell phone radiation could cause DNA damage in brain cells.

75% of the papers that showed no toxic effects were funded either by the wireless industry or the military. 80% percent of those that showed potential negative effects were not linked to the industry.

Time Reported:

"Independent studies on cell phone radiation found dangers at more than twice the rate of industry-funded studies."

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