Subject: A third of Japanese suffer chronic fatigue --poll (Maisch).. Date: Mon, 14 Feb 2000 200733 -0600 (CST) From: "Roy L. Beavers"To: emfguru -------------------------------------------------- .......It has been speculated that the EMF concentration is as high or higher ... in Japan ... than most anyplace in the world.....???!!?? Roy Beavers (EMFguru) roy@emfguru.com .....It is better to light a single candle than to curse the darkness..... NEW!!! Website... http://emfguru.com ...................People are more important than profits................. ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Mon, 14 Feb 2000 09:12:07 +1100 From: Don Maisch To: rbeavers@mail.llion.org Subject: A third of Japanese suffer chronic fatigue --poll HI Roy I think this one is VERY much on topic! Don >A third of Japanese suffer chronic fatigue --poll > > >TOKYO, Feb 6 (Reuters) - More than one in three Japanese suffer from >chronic fatigue so severe that many are forced to skip work or school, >the Health Ministry said at the weekend. > >A national survey of 3,015 people aged between 15 and 65, conducted by >the Health Ministry, showed 36 percent of the respondents had suffered >from fatigue for at least six months. > >The number of men and women experiencing fatigue for six months or longer >was about equal, said the survey, issued by Kyodo news agency. > >Nearly half the 1,078 chronic sufferers, or 17 percent of the people >surveyed, indicated that they had taken days off from work or school due >to fatigue, it said. > >``I am surprised at the extremely large number of people complaining of >fatigue,'' Kyodo quoted Teruo Kitani, head of the ministry's research >team, as saying. > >``Japanese people apparently show high levels of fatigue compared with >respondents in similar studies from abroad.'' > >Some attributed their fatigue to overwork, although many said they could >think of no reason for their exhaustion. > >06:06 02-06-00 _______________________________ EMFacts Consultancy PO Box 96, North Hobart, 7002 Tasmania, Australia Phone: (03) 62430195 Fax: (03) 62430340 Email: emfacts@trump.net.au ICQ: 30814841 Web: http://www.tassie.net.au/emfacts/ ______________________________ Archive provided courtesy of WaveGuide, http://www.wave-guide.org Reprinted with permission of Roy Beavers, http://www.emfguru.com