Let’s admit it, we check them for a new message on every few minutes, we install applications on them, keep a few photo albums inside, constantly use them for selfies, play games, use the calendar and calculator.. and this list seems endless.
However, the problem concerning these devices is that they expose us to a cancer-inducing radiation.
The electromagnetic radiation can be of two types:
Ionizing – high frequency and high energy (cosmic rays, x-rays, etc.)
Non-ionizing – low frequency and low energy (power frequency, radio frequency, etc.)
The radiation cell phones emit through their antennas is of non-ionizing form, which enables the wireless calls and wi-fi connections. However, bodies which are near this radiation absorb this energy.
This radiation is intensified during active phone calls, and it continues long afterward.
A woman who had absolutely no genetic predisposition to develop cancer afflicted with multi-focal breast cancer. When her cancer specialists examined her condition, the scheme and distribution of the cancerous cells made up the shape of her cell phone.
Yet, this was quite strange, until she explained that she was continuously tucking her phone into the bra.
According to a study published in 2009 which measured the pelvic bone density in 150 men who wore their mobile phones attached to the belt for 15 hours on a daily basis for around 6 years, the mineral density of the bone was reduced on the side of the pelvis where the cell was carried.
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The FCC issued the Specific Absorption Rate (SAR) in order to provide guidelines to estimate the radiation in tissue, and it uses the thermal effects of phone radiations.
According to it, the maximum value for legal cell phone radiation allowed is at 1.6 watts of energy absorbed per kilogram of body mass.
Yet, the following phones are really close to this limit:
Huawei Vitria – SAR 1.49
(ZTE Source – SAR 1.41)
(ZTE Warp 4G – SAR 1.41)
BlackBerry Z10 – SAR 1.42
BlackBerry Z30 – SAR 1.41
Alcatel One Touch Evolve – SAR 1.49