Cellphones hurt Children even worse
than Adults
by William Thomas, July 2003
Last April, while corporate “news managers”
were guiding the attention of Americans elsewhere, a London newspaper reported on “What Cellphones Can Do To
Youngster's Brain In 2 Minutes”.
It turns out that a call lasting just two
minutes can open the “blood-brain barrier” in kids as well as adults, allowing toxins in the bloodstream to cross
this blood vessel gateway into the skull and attack brain cells. The same two-minute cellphone exposure also
disrupts the natural electrical activity of a child's brain for up to an hour afterwards.
“Leading medical experts now question whether
it is safe for children to use mobile phones at all,” reported the Mirror. “Doctors fear that disturbed brain
activity in children could lead to psychiatric and behavioural problems or impair learning ability.”
Dr Gerald Hyland says he is “extremely
disturbed” by the new findings released in Marbella, Spain by the Spanish Neuro Diagnostic Research Institute.
"The results show that children's brains
are affected for long periods even after very short-term use,” this mobile phone adviser to the British government
explained. “Their brain wave patterns are abnormal and stay like that for a long period. This could affect their
mood and ability to learn in the classroom if they have been using a phone during break time, for instance.”
Dramatic photographs from a recent Spanish study show radio waves
from mobile phones penetrating deep into the brains of an adult, 10 year-old and five year-old child.
Dr. Hyland and other MDs worry that cellphone’s
deep penetration into children’s brains and the resulting disruption to the subtle electronic exchanges between brain
cells could cause kids to lose the ability to concentration and remember, making it impossible to learn.
Dr. Hyland also states that cellphone use is
also linked with aggressive behavior in children. Previous studies show that anyone exposed to cellphone energy
may experience “radical changes” in mood and behaviour. Measuring relatively low microwave and radio frequency
power levels in urban areas in 1975, Dr. William Blise found clinically diagnosed depression and violence. These
effects may be even more pronounced in more susceptible adolescent children. [EMF Health Report March/April 1995]
"It makes one wonder whether children,
whose brains are still developing, should be using mobile phones," this MD declared.
The Spanish findings coincide with a
potentially apocalyptic new survey showing that 87% of 11- to 16-year-olds own mobile phones; 40% of them spend 15
minutes or more talking each day on them, and 70% said they would not give up their cellphones in the face of government
warnings.
Dr Michael Klieeisen conducted the Spanish
study. "We never expected to see this continuing activity in the brain,” he told reporters. “We are
worried that delicate balances that exist - such as the immunity to infection and disease - could be altered by
interference with chemical balances in the brain." [Sunday Mirror Apr '04]
"This information shows there really isn't
a safe amount of mobile phone use,” Dr. Hyland emphasized. “We don't know what lasting damage is being done by
this exposure. If I were a parent I would now be extremely wary about allowing my children to use a mobile even
for a very short period. My advice would be to avoid mobiles."
Swedish scientist finds cellphone hazards “TERRIFYING”
Unfortunately for anyone still in ignorance or
denial about putting the equivalent of a loaded pistol to their heads and pulling the trigger, new research from Sweden’s
Lund University Hospital corroborates the Spanish findings. The Swedes also found that exposure to radiation
emitted by mobile handsets and neighbourhood relay towers can destroy cells in the parts of the brain responsible for
memory, movement and learning.
Professor Leif Salford, the neurologist who
carried out 15 years of research said, “We saw opening of the blood-brain barrier even after a short exposure to
radiation at the same level as mobile phones.”
Salford added, "We had already shown that
mobile phone radiation can allow harmful proteins and toxins to pass through the blood-brain barrier. Now we also
see a significant degree of damage to neurons in the brains of adolescent rats. If this effect is transferred to
young humans the effects can be terrifying." [Daily Mail 6 Nov '99]
Cellphones expose brain cells to bloodstream poisons
A study by Finish scientist Darius Leszczynski
published in the journal Differentiation shows that several hundred chemicals operating in a certain type of human brain
cells could be altered by the weak microwaves broadcast by mobile phones.
The blood-brain barrier normally keeps toxins
and microorganisms circulating in the blood out of the brain. But Prof Leszczynski found that at the legal limit for
mobile radiation, a blood-brain barrier protein named HSP 27 became ineffectual in keeping blood poisons out of brain
cells. [The Guardian 20 June '02]
Proteins found in the blood can, if they get to
the brain, cause autoimmune diseases such as Fibromyalgia and Multiple Sclerosis. Damaged nerve cells could also
lead to dementia, premature aging, and Parkinson's disease. Brain cells inflamed by cellphone conversations are
also indirectly be linked to Alzheimer's disease.
In addition to these potential personal
disasters, medication that under normal circumstances wouldn't be able to penetrate the blood-brain-barrier could do so
and cause damage. [British Library Net 14 Sept '03]
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Normal Rat Brain
Photo of "Control" showing normal state of
brain in what researchers at Lund University, Sweden say appears to be healthy condition. |
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Rat Brain after cellphone exposure
Lower photo of brain after being exposed to a 2-hour
dose of cellphone radiation of varying intensities, is heavily spotted with proteins (dark patches)
leaked from surrounding blood vessels, showing signs of significant neuronal damage. |
Mobile phones lead to earlier Alzheimer's
Scientists have discovered that prolonged
exposure to radiation emitted by mobile phones, cellphone towers and hidden relay stations can destroy cells in the
parts of the brain responsible for memory, movement and learning.
Professor Leif Salford said, "We can see
reduced brain reserve capacity", meaning those who would normally have got Alzheimer's or dementia in old age will
get it much earlier, those who would not 'normally' have got Alzheimer's or dementia during their lifespan are at
greater risk of doing so, and that both will at best have a significantly diminished number of non dysfunctional brain
cells and brain subsystems throughout their lives.
Neurosurgeon Leif Salford and colleagues at
Lund university hospital in Sweden published data including the above 'before and after' images showing for the first
time, an unambiguous link between radiation emitted by GSM mobile phones - the most common type worldwide - and brain
damage.
After fifty days, the rat brains showed
significant blood vessel leakage, as well as areas of shrunken damaged neurons. [British Library Net 5 Feb 03]
Childhood cellphone use may make you SENILE at 30
According to RFSafe.com, “A whole generation
of teenagers face premature senility in the prime of their lives due to the use of mobile phones and new wireless
technology.”
RFSafe.com continued: “Leif Salford, who
headed the research at Sweden’s prestigious Lund University, says the voluntary exposure of the brain to microwaves
from hand-held mobile phones is the largest human biological experiment ever. He is concerned that, as new wireless
technology spreads, people may drown in a sea of microwaves.”
Salford said it was possible that brain neurons
would repair themselves in time. [Examples of brain cell self-repair are extremely rare. –WT] But
the scientist warned, neurons that would normally not become senile until people reached their 60s might now do so when
they are in their 30s. [RFSafe.com 26 Nov '03]
Phoning your cells
“ Cellphones” are aptly named. Every
call you make, every conversation you have on a cellphone dials your cells directly. And the message is not
good. Just 13% of the cells exposed to mobile phone radiation remained intact and able to function, compared with
70% of cells exposed only to the natural electromagnetic field produced by the human body. [London Observer 11
April '99]
High frequency = HIGH RISK
It is not the power level but the frequency of
electromagnetic emissions that pose the greatest danger. Even at very low power outputs of typical cellphones and
cellphone relay towers, researchers have found the higher the frequency, the graver the risk.
“Very High Frequency” VHF, “Ultra High
Frequency” UHF, microwaves and portable phones operating in the Gigahertz range are all high-frequency electromagnetic
emission sources.
You are an antenna
“ It is well recognized that the human body
becomes more transparent to RF energy as the frequency of RF energy increases,” reminds radiologist Dr. Catherina
Mills.
Human brains achieve peak absorption in the UHF
bands, right where cellular telecommunications operate. Human bodies act as antennas whose peak resonance
frequency lies in the middle of the VHF TV band.
“As we sit watching TV, our bodies are
absorbing the same energy as the set,” writes Robert Becker in his landmark book, "Cross-Currents".
Cellphone Towers target Children
TV, radio and cellphone towers adjacent to
schools or homes could be killing kids. An Australian study by Dr. Bruce Hocking has found that children living
near three TV and FM broadcast towers in Sydney had more than twice the rate of leukemia than children living more than
seven miles away.
The radio frequency and microwave radiation
exposures measured by Hocking are similar to those emitted by cellular towers. The highest power densities occur
in a widening cone of transmission at a distance of 100 to 800 feet from towers rising 150-feet or higher above the
ground. [EMF Health Report March/April '95; London Observer 11 Apr '99]
In New Zealand, cellphone towers are prohibited
on school property because of possible health effects: learning disabilities, cancer, leukemia, DNA damage, blood
disorders, brain tumors and electrical sensitivity. [EMF Health Report Mar/Apr '95]
But in the UK and USA, newly introduced “Picture
Phones” featuring picture messaging are already boosting the power levels of often-disguised cellphone relay
stations. [Sky News]
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Hazardous cellphone relays are often hidden in trees and church
steeples. |
Cellphone towers trigger Hyperactive LEUKEMIA
After earlier studies showed leukemia to be
more common among mobile phone users, cell biologist Fiorenzo Marinelli and his National Research Council team in
Bologna, Italy began exposing this increasingly common cancer to the same 900-megahertz frequency of many mobile
networks operating at low-power outputs experienced by those living, working or studying in the vicinity of cellphone
towers.
The good news: After just 24 hours’
continuous exposure, 20% of leukemia cells were killed by this exposure.
The disastrous news: After 48 hours’
exposure, these effects reversed. As the cancer’s survival mechanisms went into overdrive, three genes that
trigger cells to multiply were turned on in the surviving cells, “making them replicate ferociously,” reported the
Guardian. “The cancer, although beaten back for a brief spell, had become more aggressive.” [The
Guardian 11 Nov '02]
More than 50 residential and occupational
studies support the conclusion that exposure to electromagnetic fields promotes brain cancer, female and male breast
cancer, miscarriages and other serious health maladies. [EMR Alliance Network News Spring '95]
Cellphones cause Childhood Cancers
It is hardly surprising that cellular phone
frequencies emitting artificial electromagnetic fields alien to millions of years of evolution can trigger or intensify
existing cancers.
“I believe that 30% of all childhood cancers
are associated with EMF exposure.” declares Dr. David Carpenter, Dean at the School of Public Health State University
of New York.
At the University of Washington, Dr. William
Guy saw nearly every test animals die from malignant tumors and immune system breakdown after five years’ exposure to
low-level electromagnetic fields. The EPA found Dr. Guy’s $5 million study “to have demonstrated the
carcinogenic action of this type of pulsed RF radiation.” [Washington Post 7 June '95]
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A primary school student in rural Shaoyang in central China
follows fashion trends by using a mobile phone and wearing earrings and makeup. |
Cellphones and CANCER
The scientific evidence is absolutely
conclusive: 60-hertz magnetic fields cause human cancer cells to permanently increase their rate of growth by as much as
1,600% and to develop more malignant characteristics. In 1990, the Environmental Protection Agency recommended
that magnetic fields be classified as “Class B” carcinogens. This category for “probable human carcinogens”
includes formaldehyde, DDT, dioxins and PCBs. [Dr. Robert Becker, "Cross-Currents"]
Three major animal studies show the low-level
microwave radiation similar to that emitted from wireless communication devices has a cumulative effect on cancer
promotion. “At the molecular level, radio waves can disrupt growth patterns and the functioning of calls -
particularly brain cells and nervous system tissue,” says Doctor A. S. Michrick. [Village Voice 9 Sept '97]
Low power Pulses pose EXTREME HAZARDS
Cellphone industry apologists like to claim
that today’s cellphones operate at relatively low power levels. Which is true. But what they never explain
is that because biological systems operate in a non-linear manner - where small effects can produce a cascade of
amplifying consequences - the damaging effects of cellphones and cellphone relay towers actually increase at low power
levels.
It turns out that the weak pulses emitted by
today’s digital cellphones mimics the subtle signals of the body’s cells, opening internal electrical pathways to
this artificial disruption of inter-cellular communication. The result can be disease and reduced brain function
– including the ability to reason and remember. [British Library Net 14 Sept '03]
“Safety standards” set at levels required
to cook human tissue would be laughably inadequate – if the effects of this scam were not so dire.
Especially worrying is the fact that even very
low microwave effects seem to affect the brain. The World Health Organization calls mobile phones “safe” when
they do not exceed two watts of energy absorbed per kilogram (2.2 pounds) of body tissue.
But Salford and his colleges have found that
even at one-ten-thousands of a watt, albumen proteins increase in the brains of half the rats examined. This means
that radiation from cellphone towers can penetrate and affect the brain. It also means that anyone in the vicinity
of someone using a cellphone can be affected by “second hand” radiation exposure.
The very low effects are also the ones that
affect the brain the most. [British Library Net 14 Sept '03]
Cellphones and EYE CANCER
It turns out that the higher frequencies of
today’s “low power” cellphones are very close to the resonant frequency of the human skull. Cancer can be
caused when radio frequency radiation released by a handheld cellphone bounces back and forth in eye sockets filled with
“naturally conductive” fluid. Research from the University of Essen in Germany shows how this watery uveal
layer comprising the iris and base of the retina absorbs cellphone radiation with every call, increasing the chances of
contracting eye cancer. [Epidemiology Jan '01]
As a London newspaper explained, “Cells
called melanocytes found in the uveal layer started growing and dividing more rapidly when exposed to microwave
radiation. Since uveal melanoma starts within such cells, there is a ready-made mechanism by which mobile phone
radiation might help to initiate cancer - especially in people with a genetic predisposition to the condition.”
[London Sunday-Times 14 Jan '01]
Cellphones cause TUMOURS to sprout on side of head
While users tout the “indispensable
convenience” of pocket phones, which they happily did without for much of their lives, few seem to recognize the
drastic inconvenience of cancer.
The risks are real - and increasingly
documented. Now, Swedish biophysicists have found that the risk of developing brain tumours increases with phone
use. [Daily Mail 17 Mar '03]
Studies show that adults who spend more than an
hour a day yacking on their cellphones increase the risk of developing a rare tumor by 30% on the side of the head to
which a cellphone or cordless phone is held. [Evening Standard 17 Mar '03]
For children, the risk is even higher.
Dream On
Speaking for just a half-hour a day on your
cellphone also messes with your dreams. A world-renowned sleep laboratory at the University of Zurich has
found that talking on a cellphone during the day significantly alters your brain’s electrical activity after you fall
into a sleep that is far from restful. [BBC News 27 June '04]
Cellphones release STRESS proteins
In 2002, Silva continued, the Journal of
Cellular Biochemistry reported that heavy cellphone use could cause brain cancer and other diseases by interfering with
DNA repair of wayward cells.
Dr. Theodore Litovitz, a biophysicist and
professor emeritus of physics at Catholic University, worked with a team of scientists looking at stress hormones
released by cellphones similar to the stress proteins released by “microwaving” food.
"Because stress proteins are involved in
the progression of a number of diseases, heavy daily cellphone usage could lead to great incidence of disorders such as
Alzheimer's and cancer," Litovitz lamented. [Daily Mail 6 Nov '99]
Forgetful cellphone users
Other researchers confirm the link between the
use of mobile phones - and/or exposure of similar duration to radiation from mobile phone relay towers - and the early
onset of Alzheimer's disease and dementia. Neurologists claim users and non-users exposed to “second-hand”
cellphone emissions from portable phones and towers could be at risk of developing Alzheimer's disease, multiple
sclerosis and Parkinson's disease.
In a separate study scientists have proved
mobile phones also cause long-term memory loss. [Daily Mail 6 Nov '99]
Cellphones and ASTHMA
Often attributed to steadily poisoned air in
the enclosed spaces of a sun-orbiting space colony called Earth, alarming asthma increases among children and adults are
also linked to cellphone pollution. Attempting to explain the 25% increase of asthma throughout the metropolitan
area of Sydney, Australia, and the 5% increase in death rates there, cellphone researcher PW Franch found the production
of bronchial spasm-causing histamine to nearly double after exposure to cellular phone frequencies. This
disruptive histamine production persists after the phone is shut off.
Franch also found that cellular phone
frequencies inhibit our body’s cellular response to anti-asthmatic drugs. [“Bioeffects of Cellular Phone Use”
by John A.G. Holt]
Cellphones reduce male FERTILITY
Of course, your offspring will never be
affected by cellphone emissions if you do not – or cannot – have any. Radiation from the phones could cut male
sperm production by a third, researchers from the University of Szeged, Hungary told the European Society of Human
Reproduction and Embryology.
Of the remaining sperm exposed to cellphone
emissions, high numbers were found to be swimming abnormally, reducing the chances of fertilization in a woman’s womb.
It was unclear whether the men were carrying
their phones in their trouser pockets, or in briefcases typically carried at waist level. Professor Evers, who
headed the Hungarian study, also cautioned that executive stress might also exacerbate the effects of cellphone
radiation.
What is known, said Prof. Evers, is that sperm
counts are decreasing sharply but less so for farmers “living in the open air, on the land and not carrying a mobile
phone at all.”
CROAKING
For more than a decade, the precipitous decline
in frog populations worldwide has been studied as a warning of high-levels of pollution or ultraviolet radiation from
our planet’s unraveling solar shield that could also be affecting humans. So far, studies have been
inconclusive.
Now it appears that electromagnetic radiation
from human-made microwave and radio-frequency sources may be a major factor in declining reproduction rates.
Whether in frog eggs or human embryos, from the moment of conception, subtle electrical energy powers all cell
division. And the higher frequencies of today’s cellphones lie very close to the resonant frequency of rapidly
replicating human DNA. [Epidemiology Jan '01]
“It is my belief that the whole of the
infertility of frog spawn, which lies on the surface of the pond, and [humans] derives from the same cause: radiowave
pollution,” says Franch.
[“Effects Of 835mhz Exposure On Cell
Structure And Function” by P.W. Franch, St. Vincent's Hospital, Sydney, Australia]
Cellphone risk “EXTREMELY HIGH”
Neil Cherry, a former biophysicist at Lincoln
University in Christchurch, New Zealand (now deceased) considered the proliferation of cellphones, microwave towers and
microwave pollution to be a serious contributor to cancer, brain tumors and increasing neurological problems among the
human population.
“11,000 Scandinavian cellphone users were
studied and they showed significant neurological effects in a dose response manner,” remarked the PhD researcher - “such
as headaches, fatigue, tiredness and dizziness. And a study in Australia also showed nausea. There is also a
higher incidence of cardiac problems.”
Cherry rated the risk from using a cellphone,
“extremely high.” As this respected cellphone researcher emphasized, “The neurological effects are noticed
within minutes of using a cellphone.”
DNA damaged by cellphones
In 1993, the wireless industry association
hired Dr. George Carlo, an epidemiologist to manage a research program into cellphone dangers. This six year,
$28.5 million dollar study found genetic damage from wireless phone radiation. Dr. Carlo’s "Cell Phones:
Invisible Hazards in the Wireless Age" blames the wireless industry and federal regulators for not following up on
studies showing DNA damage and other health hazards from wireless telephone use.
”Carlo’s research concluded cellphone users
were twice as likely to suffer from brain cancer and rare tumors than non-users.” ABC reported. [ABC “20/20,
26 May '00]
Cellphone damage is FOREVER
Now working at the Microwave Therapy Centre in
Perth, Australia, surgeon turned radiotherapist Dr. John Holt has spent 42 years probing the causes of cancer.
Since 1996, he has been looking at cellphones as a possible cancer culprit.
Pointing to chromosome and genetic analysis by
Dr. Peter Franch showing cells are permanently damaged by cellular phone, Holt warns, “Once the damage is created, the
damage is irrecoverable - and inherited unchanged, from generation to generation.”
Precautionary Principle
As more and more modern “advances” are
revealed as hazardous to healthy cellular life and reproduction, it is time to shift our decisions to precaution and
prevention rather than risk. Instead of asking what level of risk is acceptable, a precautionary approach asks,
"How much risk can be avoided?"
In 1992, the U.S. signed on to a UN declaration
endorsing the "Precautionary Principle". Europe - but not the USA - has actually adopted this approach,
with much more stringent standards for electromagnetic emissions.
DISNEY abandons lucrative child cellphone branding
As industry watchdog Jeffrey Silva relates, in
2000, Walt Disney “discontinued licensing some of its cartoon characters for display on mobile-phone faceplates
because of health questions.”
As cellphone lawsuits proliferate toward an
industry-rattling precedent, it can be hoped that “cellars” will soon undergo the same stigma and public revulsion
of cigarettes. In both cases, the best advice is not to light up. The lives you save may be those you most
cherish.
[Regrettably Disney has subsequently performed an about face on this
precautionary policy and, in the interest of profit in a market that is being exploited strongly at present, joined up
with Sprint to promote cellphone services to children in the USA. TL]
Cellphone tips
1. Don’t use a cellphone except in an
emergency.
2. Limit calls to 1 minute or less.
3. Never use a cellphone while
driving. Park your vehicle and get clear of its steel structure, first.
4. Never use a cellphone near small
children in or out of your car. Resist and remove cellphone relays from your neighborhood.
Hands-free HAZARDS
But cellphone junkies would be well advised to
consider that misrepresented “precautionary measures” like headsets could actually amplify exposures through
increased power requirements of “hands-free” cellphones.
Even using a hands-free phone, you could be “Yacking
Yourself To Death?” advises Inter@ctive Week. Because hands-free phones use more power to operate, four year-old
medical studies show that hands-free devices raise the amount of radiation being directed into the head by three
times. [Inter@ctive Week 13 Apr '00]
[TL: The wires used with many hands-free devices act as
an aerial to not only transmit a current of radiation to you ear canal and into your brain; it also attracts other EMF
radiation transmissions in the viscinity. However, you can avoid this by using the remarkable Biopro air tube
Hands-Free system.]
Cellphones carried in purses or waist pouches MUST BE “OFF”
Whenever your phone is turned on it sends a
short burst signal to the nearest cell site every few minutes. Clinical studies have shown that the energy
directed into your ovaries, liver, kidneys or similarly sensitive organs during each locator call is the same as
conversation mode – even greater if the cellphone’s antenna is not extended, requires more power to complete the
locator link.
WEBSITES
for further verifying information
"Mobiles can cause senility at
thirty"
http://pages.britishlibrary.net/orange/brainblood.htm
Mobile phones lead to earlier Alzheimer's
onset
http://pages.britishlibrary.net/orange/biologeffects.htm
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cellphone towers?
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www.cellular-news.com/tower_watch/dec2003.shtml
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