How Hands Free Headsets Increase Radiation to Your Head
- 16 years ago
http://www.emfnews.org
Dr. George Carlo, the cellular industry's chief research scientist turned whistleblower, even initially recommended their use in his ground-breaking book, Cell Phones: Invisible Hazards in the Wireless Age. The idea behind hands-free sets is simple. The strength of radio wave radiation decreases rapidly with distance from the handset. Exposure from a mobile phone even ten centimetres from your head is far lower than if the phone is right against your ear. The mobile phone antenna is where the radiation plumes are emitted from, and keeping it away from the body will reduce the exposure.
But lately even this practice is being called into question. Currently, the cellular industry encourages the use of hands-free (headset or earpiece) kits only because it creates the public perception that it is safer, not because it really is. The only real advantage of a hands-free option is that it offers greater freedom of use to the user, nothing else.
The truth is -- hands-free kits are no guarantee of lowering radiation emissions from mobile phones. In some cases, they actually increase it!
While some recent tests have shown that using a hands-free device may reduce exposure of the head to EMF emissions by around 70 percent, this does nothing to protect the rest of the body. If you are wearing the phone at your waist, for example, important blood-cell producing tissues in the pelvic bones are now exposed to radiation -- as are your liver, kidneys, prostate, uterus, and ovaries. New research has shown that men who regularly carry their mobiles near the groin -- on a belt or in a pocket -- could potentially have their sperm count reduced by as much as 30 percent! Increased number of testicular cancer incidents are also being linked with this practice.
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Dr. George Carlo, the cellular industry's chief research scientist turned whistleblower, even initially recommended their use in his ground-breaking book, Cell Phones: Invisible Hazards in the Wireless Age. The idea behind hands-free sets is simple. The strength of radio wave radiation decreases rapidly with distance from the handset. Exposure from a mobile phone even ten centimetres from your head is far lower than if the phone is right against your ear. The mobile phone antenna is where the radiation plumes are emitted from, and keeping it away from the body will reduce the exposure.
But lately even this practice is being called into question. Currently, the cellular industry encourages the use of hands-free (headset or earpiece) kits only because it creates the public perception that it is safer, not because it really is. The only real advantage of a hands-free option is that it offers greater freedom of use to the user, nothing else.
The truth is -- hands-free kits are no guarantee of lowering radiation emissions from mobile phones. In some cases, they actually increase it!
While some recent tests have shown that using a hands-free device may reduce exposure of the head to EMF emissions by around 70 percent, this does nothing to protect the rest of the body. If you are wearing the phone at your waist, for example, important blood-cell producing tissues in the pelvic bones are now exposed to radiation -- as are your liver, kidneys, prostate, uterus, and ovaries. New research has shown that men who regularly carry their mobiles near the groin -- on a belt or in a pocket -- could potentially have their sperm count reduced by as much as 30 percent! Increased number of testicular cancer incidents are also being linked with this practice.
http://www.emfnews.org/qlinks.html
http://www.emfnews.org/headset.html