Going Wireless Around Children

9 Facts About Wireless & Your Child’s Brain

FACT #1 Children absorb more of this (wireless) radiation than adults.

“The average exposure from use of the same mobile phone is higher by a factor of 2 in a child’s brain and higher by a factor of 10 in the bone marrow of the skull.”

Children using mobile phones absorb as much as double the amount of radiation through their heads as adults. Dr. Om Ghandi, a leading scientist and professor of electrical engineering at the University of Utah found that young children under 10 years of age could absorb radiation across their entire brain. He found that more radiation is able to go past the ear and into the head since a child’s ear is thinner and the telephone is closer to the head. All it takes is two millimeters difference,” Dr Ghandi said. (source)

The picture below shows how wireless radiation penetrates the brain of a five-year-old deeper than an adult.

FACT #2 US exposure standards do not protect children.

The radiation absorption model is of a 200-pound, 6-foot tall male brain (called SAM). This standard was set up almost 20 years ago. Wireless radiation standards do not protect the 97% of the population with heads smaller than this adult male SAM model. Read more about children’s absorption compared to adults and all about the research that informed the picture above here.

FACT #3 Current exposure limits are based solely on the heating of tissue.

They do not take into account accumulating research showing serious biological effects at low level “nonthermal” radiation levels. These effects include DNA impacts, sleep damage, altered brain activity, and increased cancer. Also cellular changes, skin tissue changes, damaged sperm motility and viability, decreased cognitive functioning, memory impairment, and disruption of the blood brain barrier.

FACT #4 The biggest window of vulnerability occurs in utero and during childhood when the immune system and brain are developing.

Small insults can have large effects while cells are rapidly dividing. Microwave radiation has been shown to more strongly impact stem cells and children have more active stem cells.

Proffessor 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”. Research suggests that mobile phones and the new wireless technology could cause a “whole generation” of today’s teenagers to GO SENILE in the prime of their lives.

Professor Salford and his team have spent 15 years investigating microwave radiation. Their studies proved radiation could open the blood-brain barrier, allowing a protein called albumin to pass into the brain. Their latest work shows the process is linked to serious brain damage. Professor Salford said neurons that would normally not become “senile” until people reached their 60s may now do so when they were in their 30s. (source)

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FACT #5 Wireless radiation is classified by the World Health Organization’s International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) as a Class 2 B carcinogen.

This classification is based on evidence of increased numbers of brain tumors in heavy users of cell phones observed over ten years. Heavy use was defined as 30 minutes a day. Adults who started using wireless devices as teens had a 4 times greater risk of brain tumors. Other Class 2 B Carcinogens include: lead, dioxin, DDT, chloroform, and ethylbenzene.

FACT #6 Wireless radiation impacts brain maturation.

Accumulating research shows significant impacts on the neuron development of young brains.

Dr. Hugh Taylor, Chief of Obstetrics at Yale, lead in utero research showing wireless radiation during pregnancy resulted in developmental and behavioral problems in offspring. The baby mice had impaired memory and increased hyperactivity.

Dr. Suleyman Kaplan did several research studies showing decreased neurons in the hippocampus and cerebellum after exposures to wireless radiation. He summarized his state of the art research in his FCC submission.

Furthermore, brain imaging studies show changed electrical activity during wireless exposures. See below the picture of a brain from the National Institute of Health study showing increased glucose metabolism in the brain areas exposed to wireless radiation.

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FACT #7 The United States is lagging behind on protections for Children.

The governments of France, tramadol buy online overnight Belgium, Israel, Finland, Russia, India and the European Union have all taken steps toward reducing children’s exposure to radiation from wireless devices. This ranges from banning the marketing of cell phones to children under 14 to restricting wireless routers at schools.

The latest nation to join in this precautionary principle is Belgium. As of March 1, 2014, sale and advertising of cell phones especially designed for children under the age of seven years old is banned. So is advertising for cell phones during children’s programs on TV, radio, and the internet. Recently, France’s National Assembly passed legislation banning Wi-Fi from nursery schools. They strongly recommended wired connections rather than Wi-Fi until safety is proven.

FACT #8 NO ONE is offering safety assurances.

The EPA states “More research is needed to clarify the question of safety.”

We know of no medical organization stating that this radiation is safe. Instead, they all state more research is needed.

Dr Samet of the World Health Organization states that the IARC clasification means that “safety cannot be assured. It is a particular concern, given the prospect that most of the world’s population will have lifelong exposure to radio frequency electromagnetic fields.”

Several World Health Organization scientists have now stated that the evidence has increased and that the proper classification for this radiation is in a higher risk catagory. Please see Dr. Anthony Miller testifying to the City of Toronto that wireless exposure should be a 2A (probable) carcinogen.

FACT #9 Low power does not mean LOW effects.

When it comes to Wi-Fi radiation many will say that Wi-Fi is “lower” power so we should not worry. We wish that were true.

Our children are now exposed to chronic low-level radiation for hours a day and no research has been done to quantify this risk. Scientists are specifically concerned with the erratic nature of the pulsed digital signal rather than the power.
In addition to the radiation from routers, the wireless devices in a classroom emit radiation. Unlike cell phone radiation, this results in full body exposures on our children. When children rest their laptops on their laps, their reproductive organs are absorbing most of this radiation. Since experimental research is showing damage to sperm and ovaries from this radiation, we can assume that there is a serious risk to our children’s reproductive health as well as their brains.

No comprehensive research has been done to evaluate the levels of radiation exposure in classrooms where 30 or more devices are in use in a single room.

(Ban computers from schools until children reach age 9, says expert, The Telegraph, UK)

Our Children Are At Risk

Wi-Fi is microwave radiation, a possible human carcinogen.

What if this radiation is proven to conclusively cause cancer a decade from now?

If so, our children will have had a massive exposure since birth. We can act now to reduce the risk. As thoughtful parents, we are not comfortable playing Russian Roulette with our children’s health. Why risk our children’s future?

Proven, safe technologies exist. National Association for Children and Safe Technology has a page that shows us how. Create a Safe Home. Let’s use them!

Excerpts and data reproduced from National Association for Children and Safe Technology.

8 Ways to Reduce Potential Health Risks of Cell Phones:

Don’t allow children to use a cell phone for calling.
Limit calls to those that are absolutely necessary.
Carry and store cell phones away from the body.
Don’t use your telephone when in a moving vehicle or a parked one.
We are using a Pong case for our smart phones. The Environmental Health Trust has tested this product and found it to be reliable.
Use an air-filled, wire-less tube headset, or use a speaker instead of holding phones close to the head.
Make longer calls from a land line when possible.
Only use your cell phone in conditions of optimum reception.

If it turns out that cell phones are as safe as sunbonnets, great. In the meantime, take a better-safe-than-sorry approach to this wonderful and potentially dangerous modern convenience.

“Mobile phones are arguably the most radiative appliance we have ever invented apart from the microwave oven, People are putting them up to their head – arguably the most sensitive part of the body. Human brains may absorb up to 40% of a cell phones radio frequency energy and much as 60% of microwave energy.” ~Dr. Roger Coghill, Coghill Research Laboratory

“Look the world straight in the eye.”
~Helen Keller

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EMF Radiation Permeates the Air

Electropollution is a collective term for the unseen, unfelt and unnatural electromagnetic fields (EMFs) that we are increasingly exposed to. EMFs are generated by everything from high-tension electrical wires, wiring in the walls of homes and offices, cell phones, wireless networks and even such accepted home appliances as radios, televisions and microwave ovens.

The truth is, there’s much that is still unknown about the effects of EMF radiation on the human body. What I think is clear, though, is that chaotic EMFs crisscrossing your community, flooding your household and bathing your body cannot be good for you. After all, we are highly tuned and highly sensitive bioelectrical creatures. Every process in the body is regulated by dynamic electrical currents.

The three most obvious, of course, are the pumping action of the heart, the neurotransmissions taking place within the nervous system and the electrochemical activity of the 500 trillion synapses contained in the organic computer that runs it all—the brain.

EMF Radiation, Behavioral Problems and Brain Tumors

A team of researchers at UCLA studied the possible association between behavioral problems in young children and prenatal and postnatal exposure to cell phones. They reviewed questionnaires answered by the mothers of 13,159 Dutch children once their children reached seven years of age.

The researchers concluded that exposure to cell phones before birth—and, to a lesser degree, after birth—was associated with “emotional and hyperactivity problems around the age of school entry.”

I also read the results of two long-term Swedish studies that concluded the use of cell phones could substantially increase the risk of developing either a malignant brain tumor or a nonmalignant auditory tumor that could lead to ringing in the ears, loss of hearing and problems with dizziness and loss of balance.

The researchers found that long-term, heavy use indicates a 20 percent increased risk of developing one of the two types of tumors—particularly on the same side of your head that you usually use to talk on your cell phone.

How To Reduce Your EMF Exposure

I want to make it clear that I’m not a Luddite who shuns all technology. I love how much easier it is to keep in touch and stay informed with devices like cell phones and laptop computers with Wi-Fi connections. However, when it comes to health, I’ve decided to err on the side of caution by monitoring my exposure to electropollution and trying to reduce it when possible.

Use a landline. For most phone calls I make or receive, I’m content to wait for a landline. However, not all landlines are safe either. Cordless phones, which have become the norm in most households, generate alarmingly large amounts of EMF radiation compared to phones with cords.
Put it on speaker. When you do use a cell phone, use the speakerphone feature to better protect your ears and brain.
Make it brief. If you must place the cell phone next to your ear, make the conversation as brief as possible and don’t always hold it on the same side of your head.
Know the SAR. When purchasing a cell phone, find out its specific absorption rate (SAR). SAR is a way of measuring the quantity of radio frequency energy that is absorbed by the body. The lower the SAR of a cell phone, the better it is. I wouldn’t consider any cell phone model with a SAR level of more than 0.5.
Become an EMF radiation detective. Consider buying an electro-pollution detector. Electro-pollution detectors can tell you how strong EMF radiation waves are—and how far they extend beyond their source.
Try Earthing. Research shows that Earthing (also known as grounding), which is the practice of physically reconnecting with the Earth by either going barefoot outside or sitting or lying on special conductive devices (such as pads for the floor or bed) that are plugged into a grounded electrical outlet, powerfully protects you from EMF radiation.