Cell Phone Radiation Linked to
Autism
For the last few decades, the use of
cell phones has been on the rise
across the country and around the
world. With the advent of
micro
technology and satellites, mobile
phones have gotten
smaller and smaller. In fact, some
have reached the point where big
people actually have trouble dialing
a phone number because their fingers
are too big to touch one key at a
time! For that matter, some models
of phones are so tiny that big
headed people have trouble hearing
from the earpiece and talking into
the mouthpiece at the same time.
With those new phones have come
other aspects of the technology. The
biggest and most obvious – the one
just about everyone sees every day
is the
cell phone
towers. Between the
towers and the phones themselves,
there is a lot of radiation flipping
about through the atmosphere. Well,
the atmosphere is one thing, but our
minds and bodies – that is quite
another; and the minds and bodies of
our children is quite another thing
altogether!
Possibly, you may have heard about
the increase in cases of autism in
recent years. Now, based on input
from doctors and teachers who deal
with these cases, part of the
increase is due to the fact that
years ago children with autism were
misdiagnosed. After all, autism
covers a very broad range of
maladies. Some children sort of
“shut down”, they’re non-responsive
and non-verbal. Others are very
intelligent, but socially awkward;
they’re known as “high functioning”
autistic. The point being, today
autism encompasses a wide range of
developmental problems for
children.
Yet, even allowing for the incorrect
diagnoses of the past, it is still a
fact that about one child out of a
hundred has some form of autism.
That is a very large increase over
past cases. The question is: what is
the cause? Here again, researchers
say that part of the contributing
factor is genetics; some children
are predisposed to being autistic.
Yet, they are also equally certain
that there is some kind of
environmental factor that sets them
off. Debate has raged for years as
to what the factor (or factors)
could be. Some have said it is the
mercury used in inoculations; some
say it is our processed foods.
Based on studies of the human body,
it is a fact that a
child’s skull
is thinner than an adult’s.
So, what does this mean in terms of
cell phone use? A child using or
exposed to a cell phone will have
the phone’s radiation penetrate into
their skull much deeper than into an
adult’s skull. This high-frequency
electromagnetic field can cause
increases in blood pressure, affect
biological functions within the
brain, and negatively impact the
brain’s bioelectric activity. When
you consider that a child’s brain is
growing and developing, any outside
influence that damages their neurons
as they are forming networks could
certainly lead to some form of
neural damage.
There may not yet be a direct
connection between
cell phones
and autism. But, when
you consider the chance you are
taking with your child’s health and
future well-being, it is definitely
in your best interest to minimize
their exposure to cell phone
radiation. It is a sad fact that
there is no cure for autism, and
some forms of it are quite
debilitating. So, anything you can
do to reduce the chances of your
child ending up in poor health, it’s
worth doing, isn’t it?