Information Every Family Needs to Know, from 'ZAPPED'
"The latest form of environmental pollution, and one that industry, government and wireless consumers don't like to acknowledge, may be the most devastating threat to health yet: electromagnetic fields (EMFs)."
-The Huffington Post
12 ways to protect your family from EMFs.
Electromagnetic fields (EMFs) can damage your DNA and disrupt normal cell division
Hundreds of studies have found that exposure to electromagnetic fields may be associated with Alzheimer's disease, ALS, heart disease, miscarriage, birth defects, infertility, and mood disturbances such as depression. They also interfere with the body's production of melatonin, which impairs sleep.
"Electronic Feng Shui" can help
You can greatly reduce your exposure to EMFs by moving furniture and appliances to help create a lower EMR environment. "Electronic feng shui" should be practiced first on the rooms you spend the most time in, your bedroom, your family room, and your home office.
Children are most vulnerable
The RF from a cell phone penetrates about two inches into an adult brain, but much deeper in a child's brain because the immature skull is smaller and thinner. Because of their size, they absorb 50% more electropollution than adults. Since they are growing at breakneck speed, children's cells are dividing rapidly. The more they are dividing, the greater the risk for damage at critical junctures. Some studies even suggest that children's cell phone usage can result in hearing loss.
Remove Wi-Fi and cordless phone chargers in the bedrooms
Your cordless phone charger is emitting RF power even when you are not using it. The pulsed digital signals are more damaging than the analog signals, and they should not be anywhere near your head. The newer monitor with the short stubby half-inch antenna operates the same as a Wi-Fi or cordless phone and should never be used in a house with children.
Walls do not stop magnetic fields
The back of your refrigerator is emitting a massive field of EMFs, and they go right through walls, so if your family room shares a wall with the refrigerator, move the sofa. And by all means, stay out of the kitchen when your self-cleaning oven is operating; it uses very high wattage to burn off debris on the oven walls.
Don't cradle your laptop
It may be called a laptop, but don't use it in your lap at any time, and you really don't want to use it when you are pregnant. Even before birth, children are exposed to electropollution in the womb. Since a fetus spends 40 weeks essentially floating in a sack of water (a well known conductor of electricity), it is particularly vulnerable. One physician found that a pregnant woman's body voltage, as well as the body voltage of children in their bedrooms, was a predictor of autism and other serious neurological disorders. Other researchers found that the kinds of lesions found in the brains of some children with autism are the same as those that were created in animals exposed to 50 Hz and to microwaves.
Keep your phone calls short
One study found that after just a two minute cell phone call, the brain's electrical activity can be altered for at least an hour. Brain tumor risk starts at only 260 hours of lifetime cumulative exposure. Text instead of calling, or use a safe headset, a hands free kit with a wireless air tube near the ear piece (the wires on many headsets actually act as an antenna delivering the RF right to your head).
Get the cell phone out of your pocket
A new study found that men who carried their cells in their pockets had 30% lower sperm counts than the control group. Dial, then stretch: don't place your cell phone by the ear when your call is connecting, that's when the phone is sending out its strongest signal.
Outside transformers may be disrupting your health
At least 30 separate studies found that children who lived one or two houses from step-down transformers (they're the barrel-shaped devices mounted on the power poles in your neighborhood) had a two-to-three fold increase in childhood cancers, specifically leukemia and brain tumors.
EMFs and the link to cancer
The Swedish National Institute for Working Life examined the cell phone habits of more than 900 people who had been diagnosed with brain tumors and found that those who used the phones most often and for the longest period of time had a 240% increased risk for a malignant tumor on the side of the head where they typically held the phone. In 2009, a multi-international study found that people who use cell phones before the age of 20 are more than five times as likely to develop a malignant brain tumor. When making cell phone calls, switch sides frequently.
Don't take or make calls in cars, elevators, trains, buses, or underground
Your cell phone has to work harder to get a signal out through metal, so the power level increases, any metal "cage" like a car or an elevator can cause the waves to bounce around, boosting their strength. Reduce your cell phone emissions by purchasing one with a low SAR (Specific Absorption Rate).
Protect yourself with superfoods, seasonings, and minerals
A zap-proof diet bolsters your body's defenses. Superfoods like asparagus, artichokes, blueberries, and cherries fight the stealth stress of EMFs, along with seasonings like cinnamon and garlic. All-star supplements including melatonin, NAC, vitamin D, honeybee propolis, and sea buckthorn also help shield against the harmful effects of electropollution. Superstar minerals like magnesium help keep the cell membrane permeable, so that our cells can talk to each other, as they must do for overall health.
