Health aNd Fitness Guide

A growing number of scientists are pointing out that our bodies constantly generate electrical pulses as part of their normal functioning. They maintain that incoming radiation from modern technology may be fouling those signals.

Epidemiological and animal studies have not been unanimous in finding negative health effects from low-frequency Electromagnetic (EM) fields, so the electric-utility and telecom industry continues to emphasis that no cause-and-effect link has been proven.

Until recently, cell phones had not been widely used over enough years to evaluate effects on cancer that take long time to develop. But now that the phones have been widely available for more than a decade, some studies are relating brain tumour rates to long-term phone use.

At Lund University in Sweden, rats were exposed to cellphone EM fields of varying strengths for two hours; 50 days later, exposed rats showed significant brain damage relative to non-exposed controls.