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NBC Nightly News talks cell phone radiation
Last week, EWG released a report about exposure to cell phone radiation. Today, its author, EWG Senior Scientist Olga Naidenko, PhD, testifies in Congress about the issue.
Here's a quick take on the report on NBC's World News Tonight:
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In the meantime, we're asking the FDA and the FCC to step up their oversight of this fast-changing and increasingly popular technology. We think the federal government has been TOO LAX in evaluating the science and TOO SLOW in reexamining regulations.
Please join us by sending a quick email asking your representatives to modernize our cell phone radiation standards.
I am so sorry that I ever met a cellphone. It has changed my life for the worse. Almost three years ago, I was on my cell, which I used mostly for short calls, when I started to get Tinnitus, while on the phone. From that it went to pain on the left side of my head, exactly the area where my cell sat.
Soon after that, I couldn't be near a cell phone at all and more discomfort was on the way. The lights in my house, in stores and and everywhere began to hurt my head badly and the muscles in my neck tighened so much I could hardly swallow.
I found out, doing a lot of detective work, that I had developed Electro Hypersensitivity, a condition that has not been addressed in this country at all until very recently. This illness is known throughout Europe, and even there, is kept under wraps many times.
I have found some help here, however all the conventional doctors just laughed at me and said, of course, that it was all made up in my head.
Well, headaches are in my head, and so sadly did Senator Ted Kennedy die of tumors in the brain.
Many are sure that his death was definitely connnected to cellphone use.
If anyone, out there, reading these comments, has been diagonised with ES or EHS and would like to contact me, my e-mail address is: recovcery@aol.com. This is a very scary condition and I would appreciate only sincere people contact me. I was very lucky to find the new LED lights on the market. These lights have very low or no emissions coming from them. Without them nighttimes were so hard without adequate lighting. They are available in Walmart and Cosco, when they have them in stock.
I now eat mostly organic foods, take supplements to cleanse my organs. My next BIG step is to release heavy metals as in mercury, lead, aluminum, etc. Hopefuly I will be able to reverse this condition and be well again. Under no circumstances, will I ever use a cellphone again, an Ipod, Blackberry, etc. Cell towers are cropping up everywhere on major highways. When my house was tested for radiation levels, we found out that we live in the center of 350 cellphone and business towers north and south of us! What more can I say! Limit or eliminate a cellphone. Before this revolution, we lived fine without all this new technology!
Bobbie Lieberman