Swimming In A Deadly Sea: Awash In Radiation
Part One
By Kathleen Deoul
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Kathleen Deoul: Are ELFs dangerous?
Copulos: ELFs have been the center of controversy for decades, especially those associated with power lines. Although the electric utility industry denies any danger, there is clear evidence linking ELF fields associated with power lines with an increase in certain cancers, especially childhood Leukemia. Also, workers who are exposed to ELF fields from power lines have also evidenced an increased cancer incidence. But that's not all.
Kathleen Deoul: What else is there?
Copulos: Well, studies have shown that there is a possible link between use of electric blankets and even watching television and cancer.
Kathleen Deoul: Television! That's incredible. How could that be?
Copulos: Well, a lot of it has to do with proximity and duration. The effects tended to occur in people who sat very close to their TVs for extended periods of time. But the real concern these days is from the Video Display Terminals we all have for our computers. You sit closer to a VDT than you normally would to a TV, and computer screens give off a number of types of radiation, especially ELFs. There is concern that they can cause cancer and birth defects.
Kathleen Deoul: Wow! Isn't true, though, that ELFs are not the only dangerous form of non-ionizing radiation?
Copulos: Absolutely. Perhaps the most commonly understood danger is from ultraviolet light. For years we've been warned to wear sunscreen to block UV rays because they cause cancer. Recently, there's been a great deal of publicity concerning tanning booths and the danger they pose of causing cancer. In fact, there are actually two forms of ultraviolet light, UV A and UV B. UV A is by far the more damaging and that is exactly the type that is put out by the lights in tanning booths. Remember, most skin cancers are the direct result of exposure to ultraviolet rays.
To get a sense of just how great the risk is, if you live in the mid-United States, being in direct sunlight for just half an hour each day is enough to give you a potentially lethal dose of UV rays if you're not protected by sunscreen.
Kathleen Deoul: Just half an hour! That's astounding. It seems an awfully high price to pay for vanity.
Copulos: I agree, Kathleen. Especially when the risk of getting skin cancer is entirely preventable by using sunscreen.
Kathleen Deoul: What about the other sources of ELF non-ionizing radiation we have to be concerned about?
Copulos: There is a new source that may pose a public health problem of epidemic proportions.
Kathleen Deoul: That sounds grim, but I bet I know what you're about to suggest.
Copulos: Cell Phones and cordless phones?
Kathleen Deoul: Exactly. Aren't cell phones and cordless phones a major source of the non-ionizing radiation that is causing more and more health problems?
Copulos: That's right Kathleen. The cell phones that have become an omnipresent element of daily life may be creating a hidden cancer epidemic that will dwarf any public health problem we've encountered to date. Worst of all, the principal victims of this epidemic may be our children.
Next month our interview with Milton Copulos continues and explores the hidden dangers of cell phone radiation. Learn the real facts and how they've been suppressed by an industry that puts profits ahead of people.
Swimming In A Deadly Sea:
Awash In Radiation
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