Discovering YOU Magazine March 2018 Issue | Page 25

VACATION AND TRAVEL

radios, laptops and tablet computers all produce radiofrequency (RF) radiation, which is the same radiation produced by a cell phone; none of the others are placed close to your ear, like a cell phone. Here are some of the reported effects of talking on cell phones too much. People have reported eye cancer, brain cancer, tumors, depression, anxiety, trouble sleeping, irritability, leukemia in child and adults, attention span deficit, memory loss, abnormal cell growth, damage to cellular DNA infertility and possible neck damage and bad posture etc.

Doctors have found that children are at more risk because they have smaller and thinner skulls and the absorption rate of cell phone radiation is higher with them. Whether you are on the fence about cell phone usage should make you stand back and take a long look at your own usage and decide if you believe what some doctors say, or what other doctors are saying in regards to their findings. This information is not put here to scare anyone, but it written to make people more aware that cell phones could pose some dangers to our health. There are many other reasons why cell phone usage is not just problematic with just health problems alone, but other reasons that you and I have already experienced.

I remember as a young adult before cell phones, I kept dimes in my car in case I needed to make a phone call on a public phone, if I wasn’t at home. When I would stop at a phone booth, I would place a call if it was important, and then I would get back in my car and drive off without spending too much time on the phone. I was born in the baby boomer age where

"What could you possibly talk about so much that’s not urgent in nature? I know this is an average but I know some people that go beyond that number."

we did not have the luxury of a cell phone and we all survived.

Anyways, according to studies done, the average user is on a cell phone 144 minutes a day in a 16-hour period. What could you possibly talk about so much that’s not urgent in nature? I know this is an average but I know some people that go beyond that number.

I was driving home one day and this driver was all over the road and I thought he was going to swerve into me. As I drove next to this guy, he had his cell phone glued to his ear and he was oblivious to everyone around him.