EMR - The Health Crisis of our Time

This is a fascinating interview with Dr. Dietrich Klinghardt PhD about Smart Meters and "EMR - The Health Crisis of our Time".  Dr. Klinghardt refers to EMR as the catalyst of many diseases of our generation, from Autism to Fibromyalgia and chronic fatigue syndrome - all exacerbated by the wireless revolution.

"Based upon a study of 10 autistic cases and 10 normal cases, the pregnant mothers who gave birth to autistic children slept in a location in which microwave radiation was 20.7x HIGHER, on average, than pregnant mothers who gave birth to non-autistic children."

WiFi in Schools is Safe. True or False?

Dr. Magda Havas simplifies the engineering behind Electro Magnetic Fields and dispels the myths of safety that have been misleadingly created by our Governments and Technology experts.

Dr. Havas is an associate professor of Environmental & Resource Studies at Trent University where she teaches and does research on the biological effects of environmental contaminants. Her research deals with the health effects of non-ionizing electromagnetic energy at the extremely low frequency range associated with electricity (60 Hertz) and at the radio frequency range commonly associated with wireless telecommunication. Dr. Havas is particularly interested in monitoring exposure of the population in urban centres to radio frequency radiation and power-frequency fields. She is the author of numerous works on the subject. She received her Ph.D. from the University of Toronto, completed Post-Doctoral research at Cornell University, and taught at the University of Toronto before going to Trent University in Peterborough, Canada.

Source: http://www.emftransformation.com/

Is an Apple really that healthy? The Radiation Damage Caused by Apple Products.

In the current day and age, almost everyone is running around with an Apple product hanging at their hip. Be it the “Brand new” iPhone, or the latest incarnation of iPod, or the top of the line iPad. Apple has been proclaiming itself the greatest innovator in the world for years, but the important question is, “How safe are their products?”

To measure the amount of ambient radiation an object produces, we need to use a RF meter, which scans a nearby area to determine how many Microwatts of radiation are being generated per square metre. For a more educated estimation of the dangers being posed by these machines, I should explain in deeper detail the danger levels related to microwatts/m2.

• Less than 0.10 microwatts/m2 provide no risk of danger, or concern as cosmic background radiation (Of which we are all affected) remains in these levels.
• 0.10-10 microwatts/m2 is of slight concern, authorities in the field of radiation recommend that sleeping areas be kept below 10 microwatts/m2 for the safety of the occupants.
• 10 – 1000 microwatts/m2  Can be considered a risk to health, with 100 microwatts/m2 falling into the average scale for living areas within a home and the proposed safety limit for Europe, levels higher than this considered hazardous to human cells.
• More than 1000 microwatts/m2 is an incredibly dangerous amount of ambient radiation, a minimum of ten times the maximum safe human limit.

With these base danger levels established, we can begin the test to see the average microwatts/m2 output of several apple products.

Apple iPhone:

The ambient Microwatts/m2 level of the iPhone being used in this test, is 14.8, placing it in an area of slight concern, not however, in immediate danger, keep in mind that this level will also be affected by the ambient Microwatts/m2 of the room. Upon turning the devices Wifi on however, the levels jumped sporadically, increasing in bursts every few seconds. At this point, the lowest level displayed was 1.092, which was periodically lower than the phones average ambient Microwatts/m2, however this low level lasted less than a few seconds before leaping up into the hundreds. Within the first few second of turning the Wifi on, the Microwatts/m2 registered at 853.0, more than 8 times the maximum safe limit! Topping off at 990.7 Microwatts/m2, the iPhone proves to be a highly dangerous device.

In call, the Microwatts/m2 will tend towards the upper scale of 1000, keeping in mind that when in call, many people will hold their phone close to their head, which can and will cause the cells in your cranial cavity to rapidly heat, causing untold damage.

Apple IPod:

Being the same device as an iPhone, simply lacking the apparatus needed to make or receive phone calls, the iPod output similar Microwatts/m2 levels. When the Wifi is switched on, the iPod began to generate dangerous amounts of radiation, causing cells nearby to heat in a similar fashion to the iPhone. However, there is a single defining factor that divides the iPod from the iPhone, location. Traditionally, the iPod spends far more time in ones pocket than the iPhone, seeming as the default setting of the iPods Wifi is ON, the device is sending out levels of Microwatts/m2 measuring in the hundreds constantly, whilst affecting the entire mid section of the carrier, ranging from the stomach to the genitals.

Apple iPad:

At the start of the test you can see the iPad is producing no ambient Radiation level, a good sign to start the test on. As the device is switched on, the Radiation level slowly increases; however, it does so within safe levels. The iPads Microwatts/m2 levels reach their highest at 33.30, far below the maximum safe levels for Human use. This does comfortably place the iPad as the safest of the three devices being used on a regular basis, which in my mind, is a surprise as I personally expected the iPad to be generating the highest ambient radiation level, but this is a good show of an uneducated guess being highly inaccurate.

After thoughts:

After running a test on each, we can safely judge in the inbuilt risks of using these devices, with each kicking a significant amount of radiation out, with the iPhone generating a truly dangerous level of ambient radiation. Whilst it is known that all phone companies, (Apple included) package each phone with a small safety leaflet that roughly states “When the device is in use, hold at least four inches from the head”. This demonstrates the company is aware of the innate risks a mobile phone produces; yet, even holding the device a few inches from the head is not enough, as the measurement “Microwatts/m2” demonstrates, these devices project Radiation waves with a radius of at least a squared meter.

In the end, I can answer the question I posed myself and you, the reader, at the beginning of this article. “Are Apple products safe?” the answer being, on the whole, No.

The iPhone product, is the most sold device that Apple produces, also making up 70% of all owned mobile phones, with roughly 2100000000 calls being made daily across the world on them. Each and every call generating dangerous levels of radiation for an average time of 3 minutes and 15 seconds each time, so it is evident the amount of damage that is being done.

My personal recommendation, if you must own an Apple product, try and keep to the iPad, as it is simply the safest of each device.

Although, to be fair to Apple, it is not just them producing mobiles and other devices that produce exceedingly dangerous levels of radiation, all mobile companies produce this cloud of radiation that is damaging us, and none of them seem to making much of an effort to minimize the radiation levels that currently plague our world.

I hope that this article has been of use and will help guide you to a slightly cleaner, Radiation free lifestyle. 

Dr. George Carlo talks about EMF Cell Phone Dangers

In 1993 eminent public health scientist, Dr George Carlo was hired by the cell phone industry to examine the health risk of cell phones.  This twenty five million dollar, seven year pivotal study was intended to prove that cell phones were safe.  Dr Carlo’s study was thorough and conclusive, proving just the opposite of what the cell phone companies wanted.  In fact, Carlo found a strong connection between cell phone use and brain tumours, neurological disease and genetic damage.  He say's, because we still don't know the true health risks that we must exercise caution.

Dr Carlo told us, "It's very similar to the problems we had with the tobacco industry, but the difference here is that in the United States, we have now two hundred and eight million people using cell phones.  Around the world, at last count, I think at last count, there were one point nine billion people using cellular or mobile phones.  So we've never had, ever in history before, penetration of a consumer product like this.  And because of the litigation ongoing in the United States the cell phone industry knows that they will lose a couple of these lawsuits and when they do, they are probably going to turn to the government for some kind of bailout.  So that the institutional arrogance they are exhibiting is born of the fact that so many people use cell phones, so much of retirement investment funds that are in place are tied to telecommunications stocks, they feel they are almost untouchable. So at the end of the day they feel that they're gonna have a government bailout here in the United States, that will probably follow them around the world."

When asked about this opinion on Disney and Sprint in the USA actively targeting children, he went on to say, "Well this is really grotesque.  We have companies like the Disney Corporation which built it's reputation on being friendly to kids who have partnered with Sprint here in the United States.  And in this partnership, Disney is not only selling phones but they are also a carrier of signals so that people who have the Disney phones would actually pay the Disney Corporation for the minutes.  And what is most grotesque about this is that they are targeting children between the ages of eight and twelve years old.  They have actually named them the 'tweener' market.  So we have not only this very gross marketing tactic aimed at children, but we also have the problem that the scientific studies, the epidemiological studies that have been done thus far are really studies of adults who have used the phone for 500 to 1000 minutes a month, maybe over a period of ten to twelve years.  And those studies are showing us a doubling or tripling in the risk of brain cancer and eye cancer.  When you start talking about a child, eight or nine years old beginning use, by the time they are nineteen to twenty years old, they will have used the phone for ten years, and we have no idea what type of risk that's carrying.  The projection that we do have indicate that we are putting these children in unbelievable danger.

But what have the studies told us about heavy phone usage in an adult population?  Dr Carlo told us, "the studies that have been published so far, studies that have been done in the mid 1990's and early 2000's.  So back then there wasn't such widespread use of cell phones.  And you're right, that's not a lot of time on the cell phone.  We did a study here in Buffalo, New York, where we looked at teenagers and their cell phone use patterns.  The average teenager in Buffalo uses his cell phone twenty six hundred minutes a month.  And the behaviour patterns are very different.  Many of these children leave their phones on at night and put them under their pillow, so that they can receive text messages from their class-mates during the night.  And this is the kind of thing that's unprecedented, we have no idea how to estimate how big the risk really is with this type of usage.

And finally, what is the science telling us of moderate users, only using fifteen to twenty minutes a day; what we would consider a typical adult usage?  He went on to say, "we have conducted or constructed epidemic curve projections based on the epidemiological studies that have been published to date, and what they tell us is that today there are between 30,000 and 50,000 new cases of brain and eye cancer attributable to cell phone use.  By the year 2010 the projections say that number is going to near 500,000 cases of brain and eye cancer every year attributable just to cell phone use.  Those numbers are unprecedented.  It's true that they are driven by the fact that in the world there are 1.9 billion people using cell phones, but we have never had this type of impending risk facing society.  It is unprecedented and I fear unprecedented in terms of the danger it represents".

EMF - An Invisible Killer

Madame Marie Curie

In 1903 Madame Curie won the Nobel prize for her pioneering work on radioactivity, which she mistakenly considered harmless to humans.  We now know that her premature death from a rare blood disease was directly related to her exposure to radiation.  Lead was a common ingredient in house paint and other house-hold items until scientists fully understood the deadly effects of lead poisoning.  Until the 1980’s the US Federal Government was reluctant to stand up to the powerful tobacco industry even though millions had died of smoking related diseases.

Let’s face it, some times we’re slow to recognize danger when its not painfully obvious.  And the government is reluctant to take action even after the danger has been exposed.

Unfortunately, many people suffer and die before we eventually get around to dealing with many potential risks.  And in spite of the fact we have curtailed smoking, regulated harmful pesticides in agriculture, reduced the kinds of chemicals we use in food and household products, decreased dangerous toxins that pollute our air, many diseases are on the rise, including Parkinson’s disease, Alzheimer’s and some forms of cancer.  Why?

Well many scientists believe we’re under assault by another form of pollution we may have underestimated.  Invisible, odourless, silent and potentially deadly, this form of pollution is everywhere.  You can’t escape it.  EMF’s or Electro Magnetic Frequencies are produced by most electrical devices, appliances and the high voltage power lines that surround us.  Electro magnetic radiation emitted by most wireless devices and microwaves, the same energy frequencies we use to cook food in microwave ovens.

But your microwave oven isn’t the only source of pulsing microwave radiation that assaults you every minute of every day.  Television, telephone and computer signals are transmitted by microwaves.  Even some automatic garage door openers use microwaves to operate.  Some environmentalists call this proliferation of EMF’s, electro pollution.  And United States agency warns that the levels Americans are exposed to every day, without even being aware of it, may be dangerous.

The fact is, you, your loved ones, you children, are exposed to one hundred million times more EMF’s and microwaves than your grandparents.  And now, one source of electro-pollution has become an increasingly integral part of our lives.  Up close and personal; the cell phone.

In 1993 the first lawsuit was filed against the cell phone industry by a man who claimed his wife’s brain tumour was caused by cell phone use; a brain tumour shaped exactly like the cell phone antenna.  The resulting publicity prompted the cell phone industry to fund a twenty five million dollar study to prove that cell phones were safe.  They hired Dr George Carlo, a highly respected public health scientist to conduct the research.  Dr Carlo’s study was thorough and conclusive, proving just the opposite of what the cell phone companies wanted.  In fact, Carlo found a strong connection between cell phone use and brain tumours, neurological disease and genetic damage.  The scientific evidence is mounting daily.  Brain cancer is up 25% since cell phones became popular.  Every year there are 183,000 more cases in the USA alone.  And this may just be the beginning.  Like smoking and lead poisoning, the damage from electro pollution is cumulative and may take years, even decades to reveal itself.  But every exposure may adversely effect your health.  Several renowned neuro-surgeons now believe radiation from cell phones and other mobile devices are directly related to the 21% increase in brain tumours in children.  Children and teenagers are at greatest risk from electro pollution damage, because their skulls are thinner, they have more brain fluid and their bodies are not fully developed.  How much time does your child spend on the cell phone every day?  And how will the constant barrage of electro magnetic radiation from cell phone use effect your child’s’ health in five years, ten years, twenty or more years?

The effects of cell phone radiation on a rats brain

In a recent study neuro-surgeons at Lund University in Sweden proved conclusively a link between radiation from cell phones and brain damage.  The researchers attached cell phones to the cages of rats and exposed them to intermittent electro magnetic radiation for only two hours, emulating typical cell phone use.  Fifty days after that single two hour exposure, the rat’s brain showed significant blood vessel leakage, as well as areas of shrunken, damaged neurons.  Researchers concluded that if human brains are similarly effected, the damage could produce long term mental deficiencies.  And in 2004, respected scientists in Sweden proved for the first time, a definitive human link between cell phone use and benign brain tumours, located exactly where the patients held their cell phones.

Dr Sheldon Levy, a respected physician and surgeon has studied the effects of EMF radiation, “I have to tell you, it’s hard to ignore the data.  You must consider the long term risks of cell phone use.  If indeed the effects are cumulative, then young people who are using cell phones at such an early stage of their development, run a particularly high risk”.

But cell phones aren’t the only culprit.  Scientists have become increasingly concerned about the potential risks involved in exposure to low level microwave radiation from microwave ovens.  Keep in mind, like all forms or radiation, you may not see or feel the microwaves that escape your microwave oven, but don’t underestimate the power of this insidious form of electro pollution.  Just think, it only takes about a minute to boil a cup of water in a microwave oven; disconcerting when you consider the human brain is 90% water.

Certain body organs are particularly sensitive to this thermal effect or heat, generated by invisible microwaves; your stomach, intestines and bladder are especially sensitive to thermal damage from high levels of microwaves, EMF’s and electro magnetic radiation.  Likewise, the testes are very sensitive to changes in temperature.  Exposure to high levels of microwave energy can alter or kill sperm, producing temporary sterility.  According to one study, men who kept their cell phones in their pockets experienced a 35% reduction in sperm count.

And there is no escaping this invisible menace.  Electro pollution is not limited to cell phones and microwave ovens.  Home computers, laptops, cordless phones, televisions, refrigerators, hairdryers, coffee makers, even our cars add to the daily accumulation of electro pollution and may be pushing us closer to a national health crisis.

Do you or children use a laptop computer or a video game console?  Do you use these devices on your lap?  Consider this: scientists are exploring the connection between the EMF’s from the electronic devices we use on our laps and the astounding 50% increase in testicular cancer over the past twenty years.  One important study in the USA, found as link between those who work in an environment with high EMF exposure and neuro degenerative disorders such as Alzheimer’s disease, Parkinson’s disease and Lou Gehrigs disease.

But it’s not just about diseases.  Research shows that continual exposure to this onslaught of electro pollution, disrupts your natural energy levels, triggering an adrenal response which in turn increases stress responses.  This constant stress contributes to your energy depletion and fatigue, lack of concentration, poor work performance and difficulty getting a good nights sleep.

Dr Sheldon Levy told us, “Based on the research that I’ve reviewed, I’m convinced that the chronic exposure to electro magnetic frequencies, plays some role in the dramatic increase in stress related diseases and conditions that we’ve been seeing”.

If electro pollution is so dangerous, why doesn’t the government step in and do something about it?   Government officials will tell you that the studies are inconclusive, that they’re waiting for long term human studies to prove that cell phones, which bombard us continually with radiation, are truly harmful.

Can you afford to wait?  Are you willing to put your health and the health of your loved ones on the line, while the government spends years confirming what so many respected scientists already consider an international health crisis?

The Electronic Radiation Dangers Around You

The Swiss government and the World Health Organisation share the largest microwave research studies and some of these studies are showing adverse effects.  But what has the Swiss government learned about WiFi that we are unaware of?

Cell phone radiation is mainly limited to the duration of the call.  However, if you live close to cell phone towers you are exposed to constant microwave radiation from the antennas.

This high level of radiation can also be found in our homes, generated by cordless phones, cordless baby monitors and WiFi base stations.  Dr Magda Havas shows us the EMF radiation created by these consumer electronics.