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Important Precautionary Advice Regarding Cell Phone
Use
By Ronald B. Herberman, MD
University of Pittsburgh Cancer Institute, 8/12/2008
Straight to the Source
(excerpted from Organic Bytes, newsletter of OCA, the Organic Consumers
Assoc.)

An international expert panel of pathologists, oncologists and public health specialists
recently declared that electromagnetic fields emitted by cell phones should be considered
a potential human health risk. To date, a number of countries, including France, Germany
and India, have issued recommendations that exposure to electromagnetic fields should
be limited. In addition, Toronto's Department of Public Health is advising teenagers and
young children to limit their use of cell phones, to avoid potential health risks.

More definitive data that cover the health effects from prolonged cell phone use have been
compiled by the World Health Organization, International Agency for Research on Cancer.
However, publication has been delayed for two years. In anticipation of release of the
WHO report, the attached prudent and simple precautions, intended to promote
precautionary efforts to reduce exposures to cell phone electromagnetic radiation, have
been reviewed by UPCI experts in neuro-oncology, epidemiology, neurosurgery and the
Center for Environmental Oncology.

1. Do not allow children to use a cell phone, except for emergencies. The developing
organs of a fetus or child are the most likely to be sensitive to any possible effects of
exposure to electromagnetic fields.

2. While communicating using your cell phone, try to keep the cell phone away from the
body as much as possible. The amplitude of the electromagnetic field is one fourth the
strength at a distance of two inches and fifty times lower at three feet. Whenever possible,
use the speaker-phone mode or a wireless *Bluetooth headset, which has less than
1/100th of the electromagnetic emission of a normal cell phone. Use of a hands-free ear
piece attachment may also reduce exposures.

3. Avoid using your cell phone in places, like a bus, where you can passively expose
others to your phone's electromagnetic fields.

4. Avoid carrying your cell phone on your body at all times. Do not keep it near your body at
night such as under the pillow or on a bedside table, particularly if pregnant. You can also
put it on "flight" or "off-line" mode, which stops electromagnetic emissions.

5. If you must carry your cell phone on you, make sure that the keypad is positioned toward
your body and the back is positioned toward the outside so that the transmitted
electromagnetic fields move away from your rather than through you.

6. Only use your cell phone to establish contact or for conversations lasting a few minutes,
as the biological effects are directly related to the duration of exposure. For longer
conversations, use a land line with a corded phone, not a cordless phone, which uses
electromagnetic emitting technology similar to that of cell phones.

7. Switch sides regularly while communicating on your cell phone to spread out your
exposure. Before putting your cell phone to the ear, wait until your correspondent has
picked up. This limits the power of the electromagnetic field emitted near your ear and the
duration of your exposure.

8. Avoid using your cell phone when the signal is weak or when moving at high speed,
such as in a car or train, as this automatically increases power to a maximum as the
phone repeatedly attempts to connect to a new relay antenna.

9. When possible, communicate via text messaging rather than making a call, limiting the
duration of exposure and the proximity to the body.

10. Choose a device with the lowest SAR possible (SAR = Specific Absorption Rate, which
is a measure of the strength of the magnetic field absorbed by the body). SAR ratings of
contemporary phones by different manufacturers are available by searching for "sar
ratings cell phones" on the internet.

For more in-depth information on this subject, please see the complete article (pdf file,
100kb) Practical Advice to Limit Exposure to Electromagnetic Radiation Emitted from Cell
Phones

*Note, however, that the previous article advises not to use these

Disclaimer: These statements have not been evaluated by the Food and Drug
Administration. The products are not intended to diagnose, treat, cure or
prevent any disease. The information is provided as a guideline only, and is not
meant to substitute for the advice of your physician, nutritionist, trained health
care practitioner, and/or inner guidance system. When in doubt, always consult
a professional before undertaking any change to your normal health routine.

Can Cell Phones Make You Sick?
(from Take Control of Your Health with Joseph Mercola, M.D.)

Tips to Limit Your Damage from Information Carrying Radio Waves:

There quite simply is no safe biological threshold for exposure to information-carrying
radio waves, and there is, quite honestly, little you can do to avoid them 100 percent. But
you can reduce your, and your family’s, exposure by taking the following commonsense
precautions:

Limit the amount of time you spend on a cell phone or cordless phone.

Use a wired headset to limit your exposure to the cell phone—ideally, an air tube headset
that conducts sound but prevents any radiation from traveling up the wire to your brain. Also
make sure the wire is SHIELDED, which prevents the wire from acting as an antenna that
could attract more information-carrying radio waves directly to your brain. Wireless
BlueTooth® headsets should be avoided.

Limit your exposure to WiFi routers. Find out where they are located in your work
environment and stay away from them.

If you have any land-based (non-cellular) portable phones, do NOT use anything other than
the 900 MHz phones as the Gigahertz phones stay on continuously, blasting you with
information-carrying radio waves 24/7.

Use the speakerphone instead of putting the phone to your ear; this is probably one of the
single most important steps you can take other than not using your cell phone.

Limit calls inside buildings.

Use the phone in open spaces as often as possible.

Limit use by children and pre-adolescents, or don’t let them use cell phones at all.
Children’s developing nervous systems and thinner skulls are simply too vulnerable to cell
phone damage.

Recent news from the U.K. tells of a cell phone company that recently removed its “tower of
doom,” as residents call it, from the roof of a five-story London apartment building after
cancer rates skyrocketed among those living on the top floor.

Unless you live in some unbelievably remote location, the odds are high that you’re being
bombarded with information-carrying radio waves that can wreak havoc on your body.

These radio waves have increased dramatically and exponentially over the last few years—
especially from cell phones, but also from WiFi, WiMax, BlueTooth, and other wireless
devices. For most people, the damage from this 24/7 exposure will take years or even
decades to surface since there is a lag time of 5 to 20 years for the health effects to
become clinically apparent.

For those unfortunate people in London who were living directly below a major cell phone
mast, the damage became apparent sometime between the mast’s construction in 1994
and the beginning of the resident’s campaign to have the mast removed in 2002.

You may not realize that you are likely living closer to a cell phone tower than you think. Cell
“sites” can look like antennas or huge towers, but they can also be quite camouflaged.
They exist on many schools, churches, firehouses, cemeteries and even in national parks.
If you’re wondering why a school or park would want a cell site on their grounds, it’s
because the cell phone companies pay to have them there, with fees that can range
upwards of $2,000 a month.

While there are already more than 175,000 cell towers in the United States, this number is
expected to increase by 48 percent to 260,000 by 2010, according to CTIA (the International
Association for the Wireless Communications Industry).

If you want to know just how close you are to a cell phone tower or antenna, simply type
your location into AntennaSearch.com. It will tell you all of the towers (existing and future)
and antennas that are within eight miles of your address!

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