‘Do not boast about tomorrow, for you do not know what a day may bring forth.’ (Proverbs 27:1)
Recently the International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) classified cell-phone radiation exposure as “possibly carcinogenic to humans.” The panel put cell phones in category 2B on the agency’s scale, just below sure carcinogens such as cigarette smoke but in the same category as the pesticide and gasoline-engine exhaust.
Radiation is considered potentially carcinogenic when it is powerful enough to ionize atoms or molecules and cause genetic damage (DNA code breakdown and free radical formation) that can lead to cancer. However, some scientists think that cell phone radiation is non-ionizing and thus considered too weak to cause such damage. So far most studies are sponsored by the telco industry players, so few think that the results are independent and unbiased. Nevertheless, the essential enigma of cancer may never been resolved.
Time magazine suggests that we can adopt the following habits when using the cell phone:
• Using a wired headset can significantly cut down any exposure to radiation, better than Bluetooth devices.
• Used texting messages.
• Don’t use cell phone as an alarm clock- with hours phone is close by our heads while we sleep.
• Cell phone emits significantly more radiation when the signal is weak e.g. rural areas, inside elevators, buildings.
• Use radiation-blocking case will block much of a phone’s radiation.
Recently the International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) classified cell-phone radiation exposure as “possibly carcinogenic to humans.” The panel put cell phones in category 2B on the agency’s scale, just below sure carcinogens such as cigarette smoke but in the same category as the pesticide and gasoline-engine exhaust.
Radiation is considered potentially carcinogenic when it is powerful enough to ionize atoms or molecules and cause genetic damage (DNA code breakdown and free radical formation) that can lead to cancer. However, some scientists think that cell phone radiation is non-ionizing and thus considered too weak to cause such damage. So far most studies are sponsored by the telco industry players, so few think that the results are independent and unbiased. Nevertheless, the essential enigma of cancer may never been resolved.
Time magazine suggests that we can adopt the following habits when using the cell phone:
• Using a wired headset can significantly cut down any exposure to radiation, better than Bluetooth devices.
• Used texting messages.
• Don’t use cell phone as an alarm clock- with hours phone is close by our heads while we sleep.
• Cell phone emits significantly more radiation when the signal is weak e.g. rural areas, inside elevators, buildings.
• Use radiation-blocking case will block much of a phone’s radiation.
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