Dial "D" for danger!

In your car, on they way to work, you see someone in front of you weaving a bit on the road. Not enough that you would classify it as “dangerous” perhaps, but enough that you’re a little nervous about passing them. As you drive past, you see the cell-phone in hand.
Admit it, we all do it every once and awhile and we all know that it’s dangerous. Did you know that it can be dangerous to use a cell while walking? A new study conducted with children age 8-10 using a virtual reality simulator showed that kids were significantly more likely to get hit by a virtual car when crossing the street when they were on a phone. The researchers concluded that the accident rate would be even higher if the person the kids were talking to on the phone was a best-friend, a cute boy or a parent they were in conflict with, rather than an unknown expert. The really scary news is that the confusion and bad decision making, for both children and drivers, lasts for several minutes longer than the phone call goes on. Could there be something more dangerous than just distraction going on here?
Many have heard that call -phones could cause cancer. Most of the health concerns are based on the fact that cell-phones use electro-magnetic radiation in the microwave range. Trust me, I am heavily aware of the irony in the fact that I stopped using a microwave and started using a cell-phone at pretty much the same time in my life! The World Health Organization has declared that there is no real evidence proving ill-effects from cell-phones or their base towers and appears to be highly critical of any studies that might state otherwise.
And yet, there are some compelling studies out there. Some scientists claim that they have lost funding and support form multinational corporations due to their findings. “Professor Ross Adey, a biologist, had his funding withdrawn by Motorola before completing research which showed that mobiles affected the number of brain tumors in animals. Dr. Henry Lai, who has been studying the biological effects of electromagnetic fields for 20 years, was asked three times to change findings on how they caused DNA breaks in rats.” (Fleming et al. “Cover-up claims over mobile phone danger.” Express Newspapers, May 24, 1999). These two scientists found that someone else was interested in their research. Many of their observations on the health effects of EMFs have been used in increasing the military’s understanding of these potential weapons applications (Earth Rising – The Revolution: Toward a Thousand Years of Peace. by Dr. Nick Begich and James Roderick, January 2000). I’m claiming all my sources here because I know this is a touchy subject and I want people to look into this more themselves.
There is a lot of information out there about the dangers of cell-phones, but not a lot of suggestions for reducing risks. Research suggests keeping phones away from areas that are particularly sensitive such as the heart, ovaries, and testis. Mushrooms such as maitake and reishi have been shown to help the body deal with certain frequencies. All herbs and foods that aid the nervous system, especially those that protect the myelin sheath such as lecithin, can be helpful as well. There are even devices that can be placed on the phone to reduce the negative affect.
Sometimes in studies, the affects on human tissues can seem insignificant because they only look at cell-phone radiation and only for a limited period of time. In real life however, most people in our society are now exposed to these waves from cell-phones on the road, cordless phones at home and work, micro waved food on the table and wireless internet on their laps! All those little bits probably add up after a time, don’t you think?