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Hanging Up on Electromagnetic Radiation
by author Milt Bowling

A monitor for baby, an electric blanket for grandma and a cellphone for sister...are these on your Christmas shopping list? There’s much joy in giving, but you should know these gifts have one thing in common with military crowd-control weapons: They all give off frequencies called electromagnetic fields (EMFs), which are electric and magnetic fields that are produced simultaneously at any source of electricity.

What happens when living things are exposed to these unnatural, manmade frequencies? According to a just-released $7-million study by the California Department of Health Services, exposure to household electricity is linked to increased risk of male and female breast cancer, miscarriages, suicide, Lou Gehrig’s disease (ALS), Alzheimer’s, sudden cardiac death, and leukemia and brain cancers in children and adults. In fact, the International Agency for Research on Cancer in the late 1980s classified EMFs as a possible human carcinogen.

Further, people around the world are reporting the same health problems when an EMF-emitting cellphone tower is erected nearby. Symptoms include sudden wakefulness in the night, headaches, chronic fatigue, heart palpitations, ringing or buzzing in the ears, nosebleeds, short-term memory loss and increased seizures in children suffering epilepsy.

Should we unplug the world and go to bed early?

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Milt Bowling is the executive director of the Electromagnetic Radiation Task Force and a director of the EMR Network, the International EMR Coalition and the Health Action Network Society. For decades, he marketed leading-edge technology to governments and Fortune 500 companies. Since 1997, when a multinational corporation planned to install cellular microwave transmitters on the roof of his sonâ€™s school in Vancouver, he has been involved full-time in raising public awareness about electromagnetic radiation and advocating for modern international regulations. He can be reached at 604-436-2152 or miltbowling@telus.net.

Source: alive #242, December 2002

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