Subject: First news of the Gothenburg Conference (Benson)...
Date: Fri, 24 Sep 1999 042620 -0500 (CDT)
From: "Roy L. Beavers"
To: emfguru
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......There appear to be some errors in this due to retransmissions...
The past work of Dr. Szmigielski is known to this group..... It is
good to find that he is still pursuing Mother Nature's elusive EMF
secret.....
Roy Beavers (EMFguru)......
rbeavers@llion.org.......
.....It is better to light a single candle than to curse the darkness.....
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Date: Fri, 24 Sep 1999 17:17:49 +1000
From: "Benson, Sarah (Sen L. Allison)"
To: "'rbeavers@llion.org'"
Subject: FW: EMR in Daily Mail, Sept 18
Roy
this is really interesting stuff - especially for the ES!
Sarah
> -----Original Message-----
> From: David J. Heaf [SMTP:101622.2773@compuserve.com]
> Sent: Wednesday, 22 September 1999 9:57 PM
> To: Sarah Benson
> Subject: EMR in Daily Mail, Sept 18
>
> Daily Mail, Saturday, September 18, 1999
>
> From BEEZY MARSH in Gothenburg
>
> RADIATION from mobile phones could force the heart to beat faster and
> eventually lead to heart disease, a safety expert claimed yesterday.
> Alarming evidence on the effect of radiation on the body emerged after a
> study on soldiers working in radio transmitting centres.
> Scientists in Poland found workers exposed to microwave radiation had a
> much higher incidence of irregular heart beats.
> Microwave safety expert Professor Stanislaw Szmigielski, who conducted
> the study, said:'It seems that microwave radiation causes heart
> irregularities which the individual can do nothing about.
> 'In people who have a predisposition towards developing heart disease,
> this further effect could tip the balance and it is something which most
> certainly needs further work because of the possible risk to human
> health.'
> The results were revealed at an international conference into mobile
> phone safety in Gothenburg, Sweden, yesterday.
> A Department of Health study is already under way in Britain amid growing
> health fears about mobile phones. Scientists have found that microwaves
> emitted by handsets cause brain cells to react as if they are being
> heated, leading to cancer fears, and also that mobile phones appear to
> make the brain work faster.
> The latest study, carried out the Military Institute of Hygiene and
> Epidemiology in Poland, looked at 38 workers in a radio base station who
> were exposed to microwave radiation throughout their la(?) -hour shift.
> Monitoring their heart rate, researchers found that 75 per cent of the
> group suffered an involuntary speeding up. In the general population,
> about 50 per cent would be likely to suffer such symptoms.
> Over time, this is thought to be a potential risk factor for heart
> disease. Heart disease is the biggest killer in Britain today, and claims
> 150,000 lives a year.
> The Requency of the radio station microwaves was lower than those emitted
> by mobile phones, but Professor Szmigielski said that it was likely that
> mobile phone radiation could have an identical effect.
> 'An urgent study needs to be carried out to prove this, but it is very
> likely that mobile phones will produce a similar effect because you are
> still dealing with radiation.
> 'We have shown it does have a direct effect on the body,' he said.
> Although the workers were exposed over a la(?) -hour period, the
> frequency patterns - with peaks and troughs of radiation - were similar
> to those of phone users.
> This is because the level of radiation goes up when actually making a
> call and down when the phone is on standby.
> When the heart speeds up involuntarily, the body is reacting as if it is
> under stress, and the latest findings add weight to other studies which
> suggest microwave radiation provokes a stress response from the body.
> The study found workers were exposed to radiation fields in bursts of
> three to five minutes, which accounted for between half an hour to two
> hours in any shift.
> This is similar to mobile phone users, who may make numerous calls of
> only five minutes a time during the day.
> A separate study by the Government-funded National Radiological
> Protection Board has also found that using mobile phones may have a
> laxative effect.
> Studies on mice showed that the bower movements of those exposed to 45
> minutes of mobile phone radiation were twice as frequent as a control
> group.
> Dr Zenon Sienkiewicz, of the NRPB, said:'Our research showed mobile phone
> radiation does have a biological effect, and we are trying to investigate
> this further.
> 'One theory is that the animals may have been stressed by the radiation
> which may have been more audible to them than humans, but it is certainly
> a real and interesting effect.'
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