Limit Your Smartphone Use! (esp. for those ages < 20)
Monday, January 12, 2015 ★ 6:53 AM │
Found this in my email, and thought that it was very relevant to us netizens of this age and time. I am equally guilty of heavily using my smartphone ><
Use it only when necessary? Don't abuse it! It may lead you to cancer.
But it's your own lifestyle.
So, What's your final choice? Heavy users of wireless mobile phones face
increased risks of developing
severe brain tumours, according to the most comprehensive study ever
conducted on the possible link between cancer and the long-term use of
cellular telephones.
Researchers at the Swedish National Institute for Working Life and the
University of Oerebro compared the mobile phone use of 4,400 people—half of
them cancer patients, and the other half healthy people who made up the
control group—and made some disturbing discoveries. [The U.S. Food and Drug
Administration has since questioned the results of this study. For
information, see FDA Questions Results of Study Linking Mobile Phones and
Cancer.]
Heavy Mobile Phone Use
Increases Cancer Risk According to Kjell Hansson Mild, who led the study, heavy users of mobile
phones have a 240 percent increased risk of developing a malignant tumor on
the side of the head where they press the phone to their ear.
Published in the International Archives of Occupational and Environmental
Health, the study defines “heavy use” as
2,000 hours of mobile phone use in
the course of a decade, which "corresponds to 10 years' use in the work
place for one hour per day."
Of the 2,200 cancer patients in the study, who ranged in age from 20 to 80
years old, 905 had a malignant brain tumour and just under one-tenth of that
number were
heavy mobile phone users.
"Of these 905 cases, 85 were so-called high users of mobile phones, that is
they began early to use mobile and/or wireless telephones and used them a
lot," said the authors of the study in a statement issued by the Institute.
In addition, the study concluded that early users, defined as people who
started using a mobile phone before age 20, are also at greater risk of
developing a malignant brain tumour.
The study also took into account factors such as smoking habits, working
history and exposure to other known cancer-causing agents.
Limit Mobile Calls and Use Hands-free Options Hansson Mild advised that the best ways for consumers to lower their risk
of cancer related to mobile phones are to use their wireless phones less
frequently and to use hands-free options when they do make or receive mobile
calls. He said the research report about the study is not intended to cause
public alarm or to raise concerns about widespread risk for the majority of
people who use mobile phones.
"It does however give reason to use caution when calling on wireless
phones,” he said in an interview with Dow Jones. “Use hands-free and avoid
wireless when possible.”
Swedish Study Breaks New Ground
The Swedish study is the first to show a significant link between long-term
mobile phone use and cancer. Previous studies found no evidence that
radiation from mobile phones is harmful, but those earlier studies looked
at mobile phone use among fewer people over a shorter time.
The Swedish study is the largest and most comprehensive to date. Also,
people in Sweden have been using mobile phones since 1984, longer than
people in many other countries, so getting a large sample of people who
have been using cellular telephones for a long time was relatively easy.
*You have been warned! Share this essential information with others!*
-Aly xoxo
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