Technology Getting Into The Way

According to the news report, researchers studying the health effects of cellphones say they have found evidence that when pregnant women use them regularly, their children are more likely to have behavioral problems.

Behavior and technology. It seems like both variables are independent isn’t it? But studies have shown that the two are intriguingly related. With technology advancement, it is no doubt that people are getting more and more reliant on cellphones. Cellphones have many functions such as music player, games, camera and many more. Besides its convenience to contact one another, now, it also provides one with access to the internet anytime, anywhere as long as there is internet connection. Thus, almost everyone owns a cellphone nowadays.

It sounds so good to have a cellphone right? But everything has it pros and cons. Cellphones also has its down side. Because of its multi-functional appeal, some consumers use their cellphones so frequently that it almost did not leave them an inch for a minute. I have friends who do not turn off their phones when they are asleep even in the late night. They even put their phones right beside them while they are asleep. I feel that they should learn about the harmful effects of radiation on humans and think twice about their time spent on the phones.

According to http://library.thinkquest.org/3471/radiation_effects_body.html,

doses above 100 rems cause the first signs of radiation sickness including: nausea, vomiting, headache and some loss of white blood cells. Doses of 300 rems or more cause temporary hair loss, but also more significant internal harm, including damage to nerve cells and the cells that line the digestive tract. Severe loss of white blood cells, which are the body's main defense against infection, makes radiation victims highly vulnerable to disease. Radiation also reduces production of blood platelets, which aid blood clotting, so victims of radiation sickness are also vulnerable to hemorrhaging.

In the article, it states that “children whose mothers used cellphones while pregnant and who also used the phones themselves were 50 percent more likely to have behavioral problems, the researchers reported in the Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health.”

Since studies have shown that the child would be affected should the mother used cellphones while pregnant and radiation would affect one’s health, I feel that one should try to refrain from using their cellphones all the time. This is for the benefit of health.

After all, nothing is more valuable than a healthy body, isn't it?

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http://sg.news.yahoo.com/rtrs/20101207/ttc-tech-us-cellphones-children-96247d2.html, 07 Dec 10
http://library.thinkquest.org/3471/radiation_effects_body.html

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