Your Brain on a Cell Phone
I got a fright and then a chuckle in an email this week. A person who had read my post about the latest research on cell phones and salivary cancer asked if I had heard that a hands free cell phone device was not safe for your brain. "What the heck", I thought. Just when I had decided to become a big text messenger and make my next phone a Bluetooth model! Fortunately they included a link and when I followed it, I immediately saw that they must have only read the headline and the first sentence.
So, my plan may still be a good one. Keep the cell phone as far away from the head as possible. Now I need to track down the research on the latest I heard about cell phones, that people who keep it in their pants pocket all day, may be causing cellular changes in the tissues close to the cell phone pocket. I guess researchers somewhere had determined that if they put a cell phone near a Petri dish with some quickly dividing cells, they could detect cell changes or mutations they think are related to the radio frequency radiation emitted by the phone. That idea might be related to this, which if you are a young man, may get your attention.
Sometimes, you just have to close your eyes and go on with what you normally do to avoid driving yourself crazy thinking about all the possible adverse health consequences of simply being alive!
I still say go with a couple of proven changes in lifestyle. There are many things to do that have been shown to increase your odds of staying healthy. Nothing is guaranteed, but I would look at eliminating soda and fast food from your diet, quitting smoking, or reducing your salt consumption, before I would give up the cell phone.
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