* Kaiser recommends limiting screen time to less than two hours per day for teens, less than one hour per day for children three through twelve, and no screen time for children under three.
* Dr. Victoria Dunckley, MD, child psychiatrist, Reset Your Child's Brain: A Four-Week Plan to End Meltdowns, Raise Grades and Boost Social Skills by Reversing the Effects of Electronic Screen-Time, New World Library, 2015. www.drdunckley.com
Physicians are concerned about children's EMR exposure:
Children's skulls are thinner than adult skulls and therefore more vulnerable to EMR exposure. Unlike the FCC, the Air Force recognizes that EMR exposure affects five- and ten-year-old boys and adult men differently. See Radio Frequency Radiation Dosimetry Handbook, 5th Edition, Ed. William P. Roach, Air Force Research Lab, Directed Energy Bioeffects Division, Radio Frequency Radiation Branch, Brooke City-Base, TX.
See IEEE's June 23, 2015, Spectrum for a paper by Dr. Om Gandhi, prof. of electrical engineering at the Univ. of Utah, co-chair of IEEE's Subcommittee on RF Safety Standards (1988-97) and Chair of IEEE's Committee on Man and Radiation (COMAR) 1981-82. "Yes the children are more exposed to radio-frequency energy from mobile telephones than adults," Dr. Gandhi wrote that "it is very hard to understand why" the FCC's safety guidelines only consider the head of a mannequin whose size is in the 90th percentage of US military recruits.
Children exposed to EMR emitted by WiFi, iPads and other mobile devices can present with bloody noses, bleeding from the ears, headaches, rashes, sleep disturbances, migraines, dizziness, nausea, behavioral problems and many other symptoms.
* Dr. Hugh Taylor, MD, head of Yale Medical School's ob/gyn dept., warns pregnant women and children to decrease exposure to cell phones and Wi-Fi as much as possible. www.youtube.com/watch?v=vpsixxrZrDg
www.ehtrust.org and www.babysafeproject.org have collected signatures from more than 50 physicians who support Dr. Taylor's warnings.
* Dr. Martha Herbert, MD, pediatric neurologist at Harvard Medical School and Cindy Sage, MA, coeditor of The BioInitiative Reports (www.bioinitiative.org) published "Autism and EMF? Plausibility of a pathophysiological link--Parts 1 and 2" in Pathophysiology 2013.
* See talk from Erica Mallery-Blythe, MD, "Children, Radiation and Health" www.youtube.com/watch?v=sNFdZVeXw7M
* An EMR-reduction protocol and case studies are presented by pediatrician Toril Jelter, MD in "Calming Behavior in Children with Autism and ADHD," www.electronicsilentspring.com/calming-behavior
c. Workers
A.M. Best Co. estimates that 250,000 workers come into close contact with cellular antennas every year. It warns insurers that at close range, cellular antennas act "essentially as open microwave ovens;" and that exposed workers' health effects "can include eye damage, sterility and cognitive impairments." Underwriters, including A.M. Best and Lloyd's of London, advise insurance companies not to ensure against damages to health caused by wireless devices, including cellular antennas. Swiss RE rates man-made electromagnetic fields higher than any other emerging risk. click here
In his 9.11.13 Comment to the FCC about radio-frequency exposure limits, Edwin D. Hill, Int'l President of the Int'l Brotherhood of Electrical Workers (IBEW), stated, "We believe that many of our members have been exposed to levels of RF radiation in excess of the FCC limits.... When there is a hazard, the hazard creator has a duty to warn others against the hazard." He suggested that telecom companies that are licensed to deploy transmitting antennas should be responsible for ensuring that IBEW members "know the unique physical boundaries at every work location so as not to exceed the referenced RF exposure limits." At present, telecom corporations are not required to post signs that inform workers that an antenna (which may be disguised or in a chimney) is nearby.
Next Page 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10
(Note: You can view every article as one long page if you sign up as an Advocate Member, or higher).
