ear Andrea sought medical advice. The doctor then diagnosed her with cancer and the tumor was located in the same place she stored the phone. Coincidence maybe or maybe not, four similar women shared the same story and Andrea had no prior history of cancer in her family. Now to help regulate the radiation in cell phones as of January, San Francisco will require cell phone retailers to provide the estimated Specific Absorption Rate (SAR) for each phone.
Maybe the thought of cancer wasn’t enough to deter you from purchasing a cell phone for that chatty boy or girl teen. Recent studies also show that the teens that tend to talk too much on the phone tend to text too much when they can’t talk. A problem that is on the rise in high schools across the country these teens are called “hyper texters” who normally send more than 120 texts per day. These texters are more likely to get into physical fights, binge drink and misuse prescription drugs according to a study conducted at Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine.
Although there is a brighter side according to the,” lead author Dr. Scott Frank, an associate professor of epidemiology and biostatistics at Case Western is “If parents are monitoring their kids’ texts and social networking, they’re probably monitoring other activities as well In essence it’s up to us to make sure that our chatty teen is doing just that chatting.
The good, The bad & The ugly
In today’s day and age it’s not impractical that your 12 year old has a cell phone, but does that mean its right? Many people believe that the world has changed so dramatically that it would be ridiculous for their child not to have a phone. My question to those people is… what did your parents do before the age of cell phones? Don’t get me wrong, cell phones have beneficial reasons for kids to have them but…do the benefits really outweigh the bad?
Recent studies show that cell phone use in teens leads to other things such as sex, behavioral problems and even cancer. I interviewed fifty parents whom all have given their teens a cell phone and over 65% of those parents had a bad experience with their teen and the use of the phone. According to Derva Lee Davis of the San Francisco chronicle “younger women that have cell phones tend to tuck them in their breast” not knowing a cell phone's microwave radiation seeps directly into soft fatty tissue of the breast. That was too late unfortunately for Andrea “X” a mother of three from Southern California who was diagnosed early this year with a malignant tumor. Andrea stated that “I would use my blue tooth for hours while the phone was was in my sports bra” after noticeable redness of her
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