Cell Phone Radiation

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Cell phone radiation is important to know about because it is all around us. We live with it everyday, we deal with it 24/7. This type of radiation is causing many health risks that harm our bodies. It has been researched that it causes health risks like cancer, headaches, brain tumors it even makes people (male or female) sterile. Products that throw off radiation are now going to come out with warning labels inside or on package so that people can know what they are buying and what they are getting themselves into, Many people choose not to read these labels but they will hopefully start reading them sooner or later.

In class we saw a video where cell phone radiation popped popcorn kernels. We all wondered if this was true, yea we all saw it in a video but does that actually mean it works.

In the article How Cellphone Radiation Works it describes different types of radiation, health risks, testing for radiation and it gives other sources so you can understand more. Two Different types of radiation are Ionizing Radiation and Non-Ionizing Radiation.

Ionizing radiation - This type of radiation contains enough electromagnetic energy to strip atoms and molecules from the tissue and alter chemical reactions in the body. Gamma rays and X-rays are two forms of ionizing radiation. We know they cause damage, which is why we wear a lead vest when X-rays are taken of our bodies.

Non-ionizing radiation - Non-ionizing radiation is typically safe. It causes some heating effect, but usually not enough to cause any type of long-term damage to tissue. Radio-frequency energy, visible light and microwave radiation are considered non-ionizing.

This means things like microwaves and cellphones throw off radiation but not strong enough radiation to harm the body for a long period of time, but in some cases they may be harmful because they may not throw off a lot of radiation but that doesn't mean it's ok to place a cellphone directly on the ear and have a 2 hour conversation. When we stand or hold things like that closer to our body we are helping it harm our body and destroy it.

Cellphone radiation is now considered to be giving health Risks to people and their bodies. A few illnesses that have potential links to cellphone radiation are

The article Can Cell Phones Make You Sterile describes how men are losing their sperm count according to there cell phone activities. Ashok Agarwal, Director of the Center for Reproductive Medicine at the Cleveland Clinic and his colleagues recruited 361 men and compared the health of their sperm with their cell phone activity. He performed an experiment and divided these men based on self reported cell phone use, the results were that men who used there cell phones a lot actually had a lower sperm count then the other 3 groups. While Agarwal's results were compelling there where too many factors that were unaccounted for, such as lifestyle factors(stress)that could have also caused low sperm count.

The article Warning, Your Cell Phone May Be Hazardous To Your Health shows how a man went through this problem with many of his colleagues and himself. He was diagnosed with a brain tumor behind his right ear, he believes it has something to do with cellphone usage because he is an investment banker and they have been using cell phones since 1992. He knows several of his colleagues already that have died from brain cancer.

When I listened to Leonard Lopate interview of Dr Devra Davis I learned that cell phones are considered small microwave radios that look for signals from towers and sending signals back and forth. Even when my cell phone is off it is still working and searching for signal. In France it will soon be illegal to sell a cell pone without an ear piece do to the damage a cell phone does to your brain when held directly on the ear. Phones now a day are coming with warning labels, Very few people know of these labels and some people just choose not to read them.

Every package such as the Ipad, Cell phones, Laptops etc. has a paper inside the box that says the warning labels(6 point font) most say do not place on body or near lower abdomen. They are designing safer phones with different antennas with a different configurations that will result in antennas that throw off less radiation and need less power to get signals.

The article Making Popcorn With Cell Phones brings up a really good point on how fast the popcorn pops in the video . The Popcorn in the video pops seconds after the cell phones start ringing when in fact it takes about 60 seconds in the microwave to start popping. Which in this case they say the video is fake and cell phones do not throw off that much radiation.

The article Cell Phone Popcorn-Urban Legend talks about the video and it says there is indeed no detectable trickery, but trickery there must be because if a cellphone emits enough radiation to pop a popcorn kernel in seconds it should also be able to make your head explode. They explain that there must be some sort or heating element hidden under the table or something. The comments people posted said in the video it takes abut 10 seconds for about 7 popcorn kernels to pop when if fact it takes longer then 60 seconds to hear one popcorn kernel pop in a microwave oven, "that person asked "Is it possible for a cell phone to have more power then a microwave oven ?"

No I have not tried to make popcorn with a cellphone but from my own personal experience and knowledge I believe that this video is fake, due to the fact that it's true what people say "popcorn in the microwave doesn't even start popping till like after 60 seconds. I believe that this is also fake because many men use cell phones and hold them next to there lower abdomen and are still able to have kids. Yes, there have been many experiments and researches on this but there are way more things in life that can cause these heath issues such as (stress, family background etc.). The way people explain and describe this everyone who uses a cell phone there head should be exploding, I myself have used a cellphone and held it right next to my ear for over 2 hours and nothing bad has happened to me. Everyone goes through different things in their life that caused them to have different reactions and some things may come across as something related to cell phone radiation, but I doubt it's actually that itself. To me nothing has happened to me or anyone around me related to this situation so I believe it is a fraud.