Article 8 02/04/2010

Health Concerns from Radio Waves

From the original site, the article presents information on how Mr. Per Segerbäck is “allergic” to radio waves. Segerbäck was at his home outside of Stockholm Sweden. He claims to be living out in the country where there are few people, away from the madness of cities. One afternoon he was outside when one of his neighbors approached him. While they were standing aside each other, the neighbor’s cell phone rang, which brought Segerbäck to his knees and eventually fell unconscious. He claims to suffer from electro-hypersensitivity (EHS), which means he physically suffers from electromagnetic radiation produced by our everyday electronic communication devices. Is this possible?

I sat back in my chair and thought of it this way; during war, the most destructive bomb is a nuclear bomb. Not only because it delivers an intense blast, which levels anything in its path, but also because of what is left after the explosion, radiation. There are many different types of radiation, but the radiation that parallels radio waves is called Gamma radiation. Like radio waves, gamma radiation consists of high frequency waves traveling through space, or in our case, one’s body, which destroys human body matter. Granted, from studying the electromagnetic spectrum, gamma waves are a much higher frequency than radio waves. But think of this topic like this; radio waves can affect each person differently, much like alcohol effects each individual differently. Now think of radio waves as a 20 proof drink, and think of gamma radiation as 190 proof alcohol. Obviously consuming 190 proof is going to mess with the body in a very short amount of time, meanwhile the 20 proof takes a larger amount of time to enable a body. Now apply it to our lives right now. As you read this, there are radio waves all around you, from your wireless router serving your computer, your cell phone is constantly transmitting waves, and the radio you may be listening also operates off of radio waves. Now through in effect of the microwave every time you use it, televisions, computers, iPods, refrigerators, dishwashers, electric can openers, electric shaves, they all give off radio waves at different frequencies. None of which are any good to our bodies. Much like constantly consuming low amounts of alcohol, right away the effects are minimal, but after constant consumption, the effects are great.

As a society, we can all agree that technology has great effects on our lives, but we need to start considering the unseen harms that we do not think about. I believe that we are setting ourselves up for disaster. If we are not careful, we will all suffer from brain cancer from the effects of our electronics. We all may soon become victims of electromagnetic hypersensitivity.

Original Site:
http://www.popsci.com/science/article/2010-02/disconnected

Supporting Sites:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electromagnetic_hypersensitivity
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radiation
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Electromagnetic-Spectrum.png
http://www.gi.alaska.edu/ScienceForum/ASF3/386.html