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Disney has spent a great deal of marketing money to get kids to use cell phones. Disney characters along with “Family Plans” have been carefully geared towards children between the ages of 7-12, although some marketing campaigns have reached into the 5 and under age group. Cell Phone baby toys are a big hit.Marketing to kids is nothing new in a corporate controlled landscape that views children as an untouched goldmine whose purchasing power resides in their uncanny ability to whine until mom or dad buys them what they want. Corporations understand that the way to separate adults from their money is to get to the kids.

Cell Phone companies and Disney have been hard at work doing just this. The only problem is, not only are you out some hard earned cash on your kid’s cell phone and cell phone plan, you might actually be contributing to harming your child. Most parent’s would never do such a thing, but most parents have no idea that buying their child a cell phone is putting their child’s health in danger.

Cell Phones emit microwave radiation that emanates from the antenna. This highly controversial microwave radiation has been the subject of countless studies over the past decade, studies which are trying to discern whether or not this radiation is hazardous to our health.

Studies are good, but sometimes real life is a better barometer. It is know common knowledge that during the Cold War, the Soviets beamed low level microwave frequencies at the US Embassy in Moscow, forcing two successive ambassadors to resign after having developed leukemia.

Microwave radiation from cell phones penetrates the skull and is absorbed by the brain and the eyes, the eyes being particularly vulnerable to radiation as they are ‘organs of light’. Studies have shown that the radiation emitted by cell phones penetrates deeper into the heads of children than adults.

The book “Cell Phones: Invisible Hazards in the Wireless Age” by Dr. George Carlo illustrates this through recounting a study done by Dr. Om Ghandi at the University of Utah. This study found that the differences in the rates of penetration into the heads of five year old children, ten year old children and adults were astounding. Ghandi’s study compared the absorption rate of radiation in the three age groups.

The study found that the radiation absorption rate inside the brain(in mW/kg) were 7.84 in an adult, 19.77 in a ten year old child and 33.12 in a five year old child.

Radiation absorption rates in the fluid of the eye were 3.3 in an adult, 18.38 in a ten year old child and 40.18 in a five year old child.

Radiation absorption rates in the lens of the eye were 1.34 in an adult, 6.93 in a ten year old child, 15.6 in a five year old child.

Radiation absorption rates in the connective tissue of the eye were 1.77 in an adult, 9.8 in a ten year old child, 19.69 in a five year old. (1)

Genetic damage as well as DNA damage and cancer are the potential health risks associated with this level of radiation absorption.

Disney says yes, but parents need to say no.

Footnotes:

(1) Cell Phones: Invisible Hazards of the Wireless Age by Dr. George Carlo, pg 216

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