You've probably heard about the old "Canary in the Coalmine" method used to determine the safety for coal miners. A canary was kept in the mine-as long it was singing, the miners knew the air quality was safe. A dead canary in a coalmine signaled the need for immediate
evacuation.

I want to alert you to a modern-day canary-ourselves and our children on cellular phones and in the midst of a wireless technology industry.

We are sensitive individuals who have become seriously affected by the long-term exposure to the wireless technology industry. George Carlo, PhD, a world public health authority on the mobile phone industry and founder of the Safe Wireless Initiative says, " [damage from wireless technology] is the most serious problem I have ever seen that mankind has ever faced. More serious than global warming."

Already a decade ago, Dr. Carlo and his research team identified that cell phone radiation may cause genetic damage and leakage of the blood brain barrier, and that using a cell phone for 500 minutes a month may double the risk of brain tumours. He sent a public health letter to the mobile industry saying, "If we don't do something now we are going to have an enormous problem in the next decade."

We are in the next decade and, unfortunately, the science was right. We have an enormous problem. Information-carrying signals are man-made. Our bodies have no historical memory of these information-carrying radio waves and, therefore, interpret them as a foreign invader.  Because the information-carrying signals do not exist in nature, the body closes down to protect itself against them.

When the body's cells are under threat or stress they close down and go into a sympathetic lock position. Nutrients are not able to get into the cells and they become energy deficient, thus losing the ability to perform intracellular communication. In other words, the energy that is required for cells to talk to each other is lost.

When the cells can't talk to each other, they can't function as tissues. When tissues cannot talk to each other they cannot function as organs. When organs are not able to talk to each other the organism, the body, can't function and we have a breakdown of the  biological system and immune system. Unexplained anxiety can result, as well as sleep disturbances, digestive problems, difficulty learning, short term memory loss, immune dysfunction, reproductive dysfunction and diseases such as autism.

Dr. Carlo assures us that if we start acting now we can fix this health epidemic. For more information on this topic, Health Action Network (www.hans.org) offers Dr. Carlo's DVD, Wireless: Popular, Convenient, and Hazardous to Your Health.

In the meantime, my simple solution: give up your cell phone! Don't scream. I was once addicted to a cell phone, too. Now I am 12 weeks cell phone-free and haven't had any cravings since. My business still runs fine without it; in fact, my business has actually grown.

HANS member Kimberly Easterbrook is a longevity research writer, interior wellness consultant and member of the Safe Wireless Initiative. www.canaryinawirelessmine.com

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