Monday, June 6, 2011

Ways to Reduce Cell Phone Radiation

So much "bruhaha" were written about the so called radiation from cell phones. Studies came up with some "not-so-sure" conclusions that cell phone radiation could cause brain cancer. While talking with your cell phones, the device would emit some form of radiation and the heaviest is on the internal antenna portion. With prolonged use, specially with children having thinner skulls, this would pause danger to the brain. At least a latest study published in the February 23 Journal of the American Medical Association supported part of this theory. Dr. Nora Volkow, director of the National Institute on Drug Abuse, found that a cell phone's electromagnetic field can indeed cause changes in brain activity, with the regions closest to the antenna showing higher rates of energy consumption. Again, there is still no conclusive evidence that cell phone radiation could cause brain cancer. If the latest study results means good, bad or neutral, we still don't know.
Nevertheless it is better to be cautious and practice preventive measures so that our brains will not be affected by this form of radiation during our long-term use of the cell phone. I have at least two practical and most common-sense ways in using cell phones without the risk of exposing our brains to these radiation.
USE OF WIRED HEADSET
The use of a wired headset is the most practical way to make calls on your cell phones as you can put the phone away from your skull. This is also the least expensive way since most of these headsets always comes with your new unit when you buy it. Its given to you, use it. The use of a bluetooth headset is not advisable either since it will still emit some kind of radiation.
GET USED TO TEXTING
Kid are into this already. Most people from other countries like the Philippines are more into sending text messages than making calls. It is much cheaper to send texts than making calls, and this will prevent your brain from being exposed to the cell phone radiation.
There are laws in the United States that bans the use of cell phones and sending text messages while driving cars, but this is another issue.

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