Why Johnny Can't Read
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Cellular phones generate a field known as Radio Frequency Radiation
(RF). A number of studies have concluded that RF from mobile phones
poses significant health risk to users, including headaches, memory
loss, autism, brain cancers, leukemia and learning disorders. The
Committee on Electromagnetic Energy/Public Health Issues stated in an
Australian Government Discussion paper that : "Human exposure of radio
frequency radiation is greatest from mobile phone handsets because of
the method of use, with the transmitting antenna of the mobile phone
handset close to the head. There is evidence that localized hot spots or
energy deposition in the brain may occur as a consequence of internal
reflections." In another study conducted by leading neurosurgeon, Dr.
Leif Salford and colleagues at Lund University in Sweden the data
indicated an "unambiguous link between microwave radiation emitted by
GSM mobile phones (the most common type worldwide) and brain damage in
rats." There are hundreds of studies with correlative data indicating
that this is far more than an anti-establishment ploy concocted by
paranoid believers who fear technology and little green men.
Just as the information on the dangers of tobacco was hidden in plain
sight, one need only scratch beneath the surface to find warnings about
cell phone use. Scientists have warned parents to exercise caution in
providing cell phones to children younger than eight years of age as
there is little known about the effect of radiation on developing
brains. Paul Brodeur, a noted science journalist, was one of the first
in the medical community to issue a public alert about the dangers of
EMF. Brodeur warned that introducing your body to new forces such as EMF
created a condition known as "adaptation stress." In this condition the
body is sent into chaos as it tries to adapt to the new forces. Brodeur
identified symptoms such as fatigue, confusion, lack of concentration
and focus, headaches, backaches and increased emotional volatility. Is
it a coincidence that many of these symptoms which we have come to
associate with and label as learning disorders in children have
increased dramatically over the past decade?