Showing posts with label depletion. Show all posts
Showing posts with label depletion. Show all posts

Thursday, 7 March 2013

How to protect yourself from Electromagnetic stress


I am a stressed man, and who can blame me? I have a kid on the way, trying to manage all my debts and at the same time I read and write about all the dangers radiation and EMF pose to us. In addition to this, I’m pretty sure all of the excess Electromagnetic energy being produced can’t be doing much good.
Let’s think about it for a minute, ten years ago, there was hardly any wireless technology out, the occasional phone and television remote being the only things that immediately pop into mind, as well as the few overhead power cables.

Now, let’s compare that to these days, we have Mobile phones, Mp3 Players and Laptops all of which are producing electromagnetic fields. A tangle of wires hang over our heads, telephone cables, power lines and the such, all leaking their own EMF’s. Towering telephone masts and Cell phone towers loom over us, showering us with radiation. In short, compared to then, there is so much more technology projecting waves that damage us on a cellular level.

I’m not sure about anyone else, but ten years ago, I felt much healthier and a lot less stressed (this may have been because I was 10 but who knows…) now a possible cause of all this is the aforementioned EMF, which constantly bombard our bodies. These fields actively attack our cells, damaging them on a molecular level, causing us to become fatigued, our metabolism to slow and lower our resistances to disease. And because of all this we become more and more stressed, so they key to alleviating this stress falls into making our bodies more resistant to the damage these EMF’s are unavoidably doing.

The most obvious way to combat the damage is to minimize the amount of time we expose ourselves to these EMF’s. By spending less time using our phones and other wireless electronics, we can decrease strength of EMF’s we are exposed to.
As an example, I play a lot of video games, mainly on the Xbox, so I was regularly holding onto a wireless controller for several hours on end, when I started to read about EMF’s however I immediately went out and bought a wired control. It wasn't much, but I did feel a very slight improvement in my health, whereas I used to feel run down after a couple of hours of playing, I now felt fine, well worth the money.
Another obvious way of minimizing the strength of the EMF’s, is to make sure you live far away from Cell phone towers and other powerful EMF producers, it may seem a trivial matter but it will make all the difference. In addition, by wearing magnetic jewellery you can help to counteract some EMF fields, a simple magnetic bracelet can make a world of difference.

You know how metal conducts electricity correct? Well
many of us have metal filling, and the EMF’s react with them the way you would expect it to. When the EMF passes through your body, the metallic fillings conduct trace amounts of the electromagnetic pulse, and does so repeatedly, gathering its own EMF overtime, producing it in your own mouth and I need not describe how that is damaging. If you can have these replaced with tooth-colored composite fillings, you should as it will lead to less damage from EMF overtime.

By improving your immune system your cells will naturally be more resistant to the damage the EMF’s will do. There are dozens of ways to improve your natural immune system, drinking lots of water and eating raw vegetables are both simple ways to give yourself a little boost. Upping your vitamin intake will help in more ways than one, as will taking several Probiotics over the course of a week.
To continue on the theme of Probiotics, the bodily stress caused by the EMF’s will cause your body to power through the good bacteria in your body, causing you to become more and more susceptible to diseases and illnesses, so by using Probiotics you can replenish the good bacteria at rate that should hopefully match the rate that the EMF’s cause them to die off.

When your body is regularly hit by powerful EMF’s it causes the micro-organisms in your body to produce an excess of neurotoxins as a response to the mass of minor infections your body has to start to defend itself against and due to the prior damage already caused, your body cannot cope with the mass of neurotoxins now flooding your system. So be sure to regularly purge your body of toxins, or the build up will cause further cell determination which in turn causes your body to create more neurotoxins, a never ending cycle.

Remember when your parents used to say, “Don’t sit to close to the TV, or your eyes will go square” well, they weren't far off. Newer televisions produce a much stronger EMF’s than older televisions, so sitting further away will cause the EMF produced by the TV to deal less damage to your body. The same idea also goes for computer screens, even now as I write this I’m leaning back in my chair, a kind of unconscious way of minimizing the damage done, other than sitting across the room of course.

As I mentioned in my previous post “Is an Apple that healthy?” your room should be one of the cleanest areas in your home, both physically and on a molecular level. So here are a few tips to decrease the amount of Radiation and the strength of the EMF’s in your room:

  • Remove any electrical wires than run under your bed.
  • Avoid having wireless devices in your room.
  • Substitute automatic electronic devices for manual non-electronic variants.
  • Swap any cordless phones for corded versions.

So with only a few alterations in your room, you can massively alter the strength of the EMF’s where you sleep. Never underestimate the damage that can be done whilst you sleep, because you aren't moving the EMF’s affect you far more directly, damaging the cells over the time you sleep.

With a few of these changes, you should be able to lessen the amount of EMF that effect you, which will be minimize the damage the done by the electromagnetic fields that run rampant across our landscapes. On a secondary note, there have been proven methods that can minimize or sometimes even neutralize EMF’s harmful effects, so in time, a more widespread way of neutralize the damage may become available. But until then, I hope the tips I have given you prove to be helpful!


Tuesday, 5 March 2013

Microwave Ovens and Your Health

How Unhealthy Are Microwave Ovens?

Microwave ovens and their health implications are a highly emotive topic.  There are many myths and stories floating around the internet, some designed to placate us, other intended to shock and scare us.  But what is the truth about microwave ovens and their effects on our health?

A bit of history

Percy Spencer, an American self-taught engineer from Howland, Maine, worked at the time with the defense contractor Raytheon. He was working on an active radar set when he noticed that a Mr. Goodbar chocolate bar he had in his pocket had started to melt - the radar had melted his chocolate bar with microwaves.  In late 1945, Raytheon filed a US patent for Spencer's microwave cooking-process, but it wasn't until the mid-seventies that popularity began to grow for the RadaRange and handful of other microwaves on the market.

How do they work?

Microwave ovens heat food by bombarding it with electromagnetic radiation in the microwave spectrum causing polarized molecules in the food to rotate and build up thermal energy in a process known as dielectric heating.

Safety Concerns & Controversy

The safety of microwaves tends to center on three key areas;
1) whether microwaves deplete vitamins from food.
2) radiation concerns.
3) the effects of food storage items like certain plastics and styro foam when microwaved.

Vitamin Retention

In an article entitled, Microwave Ovens Destroy the Nutritional Value of Your Food, author Mike Adams attests that microwave ovens are responsible for many nutritional deficiencies and health problems. According to Adams, microwaved food is “dead food” and essentially nutritionally destitute. However his article doesn’t cite any sources or studies for this claim.

The Harvard Medical School, says that cooking vegetables in your microwave actually causes them to retain more vitamins than if you boil them in water. This would infer that microwaves are a more healthy cooking method than stove-top. (Although, steaming veggies is indisputably better than boiling, as the nutrients are not leached into the water.)

Radiation

According to the USDA Microwave FAQ  microwaves do not make food radioactive. “Microwave energy uses a wave length similar to television, radio waves, electric shavers and radar…. X-rays and nuclear radiation are at the other end of the spectrum and are a million times more powerful.”  Of course there is also concern that microwaves can leak radiation. However, studies show that this isn't the case and that appliances are designed to stop producing radiation once the door is opened. Quite obviously, don’t operate a microwave if the door is broken and it’s probably prudent not to stand close to the microwave whilst it is operating, as low dose microwaves have been found to effect soft tissues in the eyes and testes.

Wrappers & Containers

There are a number of containers and wrappers that shouldn't be used in microwave ovens.  The USDA has a great list of microwave safe materials.

Safe To Use:
  • Any utensil labeled for microwave use.
  • Heatproof glass (such as Pyrex, Anchor Hocking, etc.).
  • Glass-ceramic (such as Corning Ware).
  • Oven cooking bags.
  • Baskets (straw and wood) for quick warm-ups of rolls or bread. Line the basket with napkins to absorb moisture from food.
  • Most paper plates, towels, napkins and bags. For optimal safety use white, unprinted materials.
  • Wax paper, parchment paper, heavy plastic wrap. Do not allow plastic wrap to touch food; vent it to allow a steam escape.
  • Heat-susceptible packaging.

NOT Safe To Use:

  • Cold storage containers: margarine tubs, cottage cheese and yogurt cartons, etc. These materials are not approved for cooking and chemicals can migrate into food.
  • Brown paper bags and newspapers.
  • Metal pans.
  • Foam-insulated cups, bowls, plates or trays.
  • China with metallic paint or trim.
  • Chinese "take-out" containers with metal handles.
  • Metal "twist ties" on package wrapping.
  • Food completely wrapped in aluminum foil.
  • Food cooked in any container or packaging that has warped or melted during heating.

Conclusion

Microwave ovens do not harm your food or indeed irradiate it!  The ovens also don’t irradiate you either, however we think it common sense not to stand right next to it while it’s cooking!

Common sense dictates you should let your food cool for a minute at least after cooking as the temperatures food reaches can be very high and very hot.

And be sure to keep you oven in good repair, and if you find the door broken, don’t try and bodge a repair, just get a new oven!