Subject: (Lande) Re (Reuss) Re EMF/diabetes...... (fwd)
Date: Sun, 30 Aug 1998 162053 -0500 (CDT)
From: "Roy L. Beavers" <rbeavers@mail.llion.org>
To: emfguru@hotmail.com
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Date: Sun, 30 Aug 1998 22:40:51 +0200
From: Morten Lande
To: "Roy L. Beavers" , creuss@bluewin.ch
Subject: Re: (Reuss) Re: EMF/diabetes...... (fwd)
EMF/Diabetes and occupational exposure
Christoph Reuss writes that the death rate from diabetes for
electricians are below average in Switzerland. Among groups
with high diabetes death figures are cooks, textile workes,
bakers, and stones/ceramics/glass/wood industy workers.
This supports the theory thet EMF is an important factor in
diabetes.
Electricians are not exposed to high EMF. (Power station
worker used to be, but most of these jobs are automatized.)
Many electricians have an exceptional low occupational
exposure because they have to turn of the electicity before
doing anything. Or they work with new buildings where
electricity is not yet connected. They do not use much
rotating electric equipment.
The groups having high occupational exposure are those
working within a short distance from electrical equipment.
For example, sewing machines usually expose textile workers
to low freqency magnetic fields more han 10 times higher
than VDT operators. Also cooks and bakers have very high
EMF exposure from stoves and rotating equipment. (I have
not measured the working place of stone/glass
processing and wood industry, but it is probable that
rotating electric machinery and elecrical heating give
high EMF exposure.)
Regards Morten
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Morten Lande, Verdens Ende, N-3600 Kongsberg, Norway.
Phone: (+ 47) 32 72 47 97 Mail: lande@c2i.net
Roy L. Beavers wrote:
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> Date: Sat, 29 Aug 1998 01:07:19 +0200
> From: Christoph Reuss
> To: "Roy L. Beavers"
> Subject: (Reuss) Re: EMF/diabetes...... (fwd)
>
> On Thu, 27 Aug 1998, Roger Coghill wrote:
> > I have read somewhere that electricians have above average diabetes rates.
> > Anyone know of a supporting study for this?
>
> I have an opposing census study [1] for this: In Switzerland, the
> Comparative Mortality Figure (CMF) for electricians is 62.7 for diabetes
> (that's very low -- it means that while the expected number (from the
> age-adjusted general population) of diabetes deaths is 100, only 62.7
> electricians actually died of diabetes in the examined time period (1979-83).
> However, electricians' CMF for pancreatic malignoma is a high 170.3.
>
> Some professions with a high CMF for diabetes are:
> Profession: CMF:
> a. wood industry jobs except carpenters 139.3
> b. butchers 141.3
> c. leather industry 156.1
> d. stones/ceramics/glass processing 196.8
> e. bakers/pastry-cooks 203.5
> f. textile manufacture 227.0
> g. cooks 235.8
>
> It seems that these are professions that are either pre-disposed by diet
> (b,e,g) or by dealing with preservation and other endocrine-disrupting
> chemicals (a,c,d,f) -- there is evidence that the latter are involved in
> the etiology of diabetes.
>
> A Medline search brought up two studies [2,3] that mention that EMFs are
> used in the TREATMENT of diabetes ! But this seems to be restricted
> to mere treatment of symptoms (e.g. neuropathy), not cause-oriented
> treatment...
>
> Cheerio,
> Chris
>
> References:
>
> [1] Profession-specific mortality risks of men in Switzerland 1979-83.
> Volume 14: Health. Swiss Federal Office for Statistics, 1997.
> (All men were aged 35-74)
>
> [2] Beneficial effects of electromagnetic fields.
> Bassett CA, Bioelectric Research Center, Columbia University, Riverdale,
> New York 10463.
> J Cell Biochem, 1993 Apr, 51:4, 387-93
> Abstract:
> Selective control of cell function by applying specifically configured,
> weak, time-varying magnetic fields has added a new, exciting dimension
> to biology and medicine. Field parameters for therapeutic, pulsed
> electromagnetic field (PEMFs) were designed to induce voltages similar
> to those produced, normally, during dynamic mechanical deformation of
> connective tissues. As a result, a wide variety of challenging
> musculoskeletal disorders have been treated successfully over the past
> two decades. More than a quarter million patients with chronically
> ununited fractures have benefitted, worldwide, from this surgically
> non-invasive method, without risk, discomfort, or the high costs of
> operative repair. Many of the athermal bioresponses, at the cellular and
> subcellular levels, have been identified and found appropriate to correct
> or modify the pathologic processes for which PEMFs have been used. Not
> only is efficacy supported by these basic studies but by a number of
> double-blind trials. As understanding of mechanisms expands, specific
> requirements for field energetics are being defined and the range of
> treatable ills broadened. These include nerve regeneration, wound healing,
> graft behavior, diabetes, and myocardial and cerebral ischemia (heart
> ^^^^^^^^
> attack and stroke), among other conditions. Preliminary data even suggest
> possible benefits in controlling malignancy.
>
> [3] Pulsed electromagnetic fields in experimental cutaneous wound healing
> in rats.
> Patiņo O; Grana D; Bolgiani A; Prezzavento G; Miņo J; Merlo A; Benaim F
> Department of Postgraduate Reconstructive and Plastic Surgery,
> Universidad del Salvador and Fundacion del Quemado.
> J Burn Care Rehabil, 1996 Nov, 17:6 Pt 1, 528-31
> Abstract:
> Electromagnetic fields are now being used in many diseases such as
> osseous, ligamental, cartilaginous, or nervous reparation, diabetes,
> and myocardial or cerebral ischemia. [...] ^^^^^^^^
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