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__Cell Phone and Brain Damage__

 * Introduction**

In everyday lives, people are slow to recognize danger when it is not painfully obvious. Unfortunately, many people suffer and die before we eventually get around to dealing with many potential invisible risks. These danger factors are very contradictory in a sense that they are mostly occurred and were created by ourselves. This includes smoking behaviors, consistent coffee drinking, drug use and so on, they are deadly but not painfully obvious. People neglect these harmful factors and they kept on with their same routine. For example, millions of people have died from smoking diseases but they still smoke everyday. Government, on the other hand, is reluctant to stand up against the powerful industries that produced these products. One source that has increasingly become an integral of our everyday lives are cell phones. They produce radiations that we don’t see which have serious effects on our bodies. The harmfulness of cell phones is not instant but are cumulative for years.


 * History of EMF**

Besides of all the pollution and diseases that cause us danger, many scientists believe that we are under attack by another form of pollution that we may have underestimated- the electro pollution. Electro Magnetic Frequency (EMF) is a form of electro pollution that is produced by most of the electro devices. They are silent, invisible and potentially deadly. With the rise of technology, this form of pollution became more common and deadlier. They are everywhere which is hard for us to escape it. Most of the electro waves are produced in wireless devices and on microwaves. Microwave ovens are not the only sources radiation transmitter that assaults you, but televisions, telephones, internet signals and so on produces microwaves that is harmful to your body as well. Cell phones are one of the major sources that produces the microwaves.


 * Can Cell Phone use lead to Cancer?**


 * Dr. George Carlo**

Dr. George Carlo is an American public health scientist. He is most widely known on investigating the “health effects of mobile phones”. In around 1993, he was funded to do research programs by the cell phone industries. His research was to prove that mobile phone have no effects on human body. After the program, his research proved the opposite- mobile phones have evidence of health risks. He found a strong connection between cell phone use with brain tumors and genetic damages. According to results, brain cancer has increased for 25% since cell phone became popular. And in every year, there are 183,000 more cases per year in the US alone.


 * Change in brain temperatures**

In some studies of cell phone radiations, one has calculated the change in brain temperatures due to exposure of cell phone use. In this study, they used realistic head models to measure the temperature rise induced by a mobile phone. This was done by analyzing the absorbed electromagnetic power distribution and the heat transferred by conduction and blood flow. Results have shown that the brain temperature was raised 0.11°C and the maximum temperature rise is at the skin. Although these power distributions are not consider as the proposed safety standards, but the temperature rise is too low to have any effects on human brains. However, cancer could still occur due to the cumulative effects after years from the raised brain temperature.


 * Different age groups**

Radiation penetration differs among different age group. For a five year old child, radiation penetrates through 75% of their head, 50% for a ten year old child and 25% for adults. These frequencies resonate with the water inside our brains. Younger children experience more risks from this electro pollution since their skulls are thinner, they have more brain fluid and their bodies are not fully developed yet.


 * Misconception of the hands-free use**

Many of the national radiation advisory authorities suggested that using the hands-free can help minimize the exposure of the cell phone radiation. According to British Consumers' Association, using the hands-free set can actually triple the amount of electrical strength inside the head. It appears that the hands-free set acts as a concentrating area for the radiation to the head not just from the cell phone but also other sources of devices that produce the EMF, electro penetrations and .microwaves.

Cell phone uses not only causes cancer and other diseases, but it also disrupts you natural energy levels. Eventually, you might occur in stressful responses. This constant stress contributes to your energy motions, lack of concentration, poor work performances and even with problems to sleep.
 * Other effects**

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