Cell Phones Cause Brain Activity

Published on February 24, 2011 by in Neurology, Public Health

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ABC News February 22nd, 2011

ABC news that covers the correlation between cell phone use and cancer. While it can’t be proven either way the simple fact remains that with every passing study that researchers can’t find proof, the danger still remains. Here is a key segment from the article:

“There have been several studies since the late 1990s trying to address whether the human brain is affected by the electromagnetic radiation from cell phones because it’s very, very weak,” said the lead author on the study, Dr. Nora Volkow of the National Institute on Drug Abuse. “The studies were very inconsistent, but we designed this study so it would be powered to detect small activity.”

“This shows that the human brain is sensitive to these weak magnetic impulses.”

Now after reading this I’m not suggesting that we all go back to pagers, I just wanted to bring this to your attention so that you can plan accordingly. I’ve started using a headset anytime I take a call when I’m at home. This at the very least cuts my exposure in half. I hope that this article helps in some way.

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Study Finds that Smoking Damages DNA Within Minutes

Published on January 18, 2011 by in Public Health

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Published Jan 18th, 2011 U.S. News and World Report

Smoking has negatively impacted my family for years now so when I came across this article I felt compelled to post it. I had always known that smoking caused lung cancer but I had no idea just how fast it started…

Cigarettes damage the body within minutes of taking a puff, new research suggests. In a small study, scientists tracked the level of a chemical associated with cancer—one polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon (PAH)—in 12 smokers and found it began damaging their DNA within 15 to 30 minutes of finishing a cigarette, according to a report published in the American Chemical Society’s journal Chemical Research in Toxicology. “Almost everybody knows that smoking can cause lung cancer,” Martin Dockrell, director of policy and research at the advocacy group Action on Smoking and Health, told BBC News. “The chilling thing about this research is that it shows just how early the very first stages of the process begin—not in 30 years, but within 30 minutes of a single cigarette. But it is never too late to quit.

I hope this was informative and will sway more people to quit smoking.

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