"...Many people do not understand the implications of Smart Meters. Since most of us have wireless devices, many people say, " what's the big deal?" I won't go into the detail on the issues of RF radiation that these Smart Meters generate. Wendy Mesley of the CBC National stated that 60% of Insurance carriers refuse to insure cell phone manufacturers and other wireless carriers for health lawsuits based on these devices. It's also interesting to note that in the United States U.S. power companies and other providers have been granted immunity from future lawsuits that may arise over health & safety concerns posed by Smart Meters. How convenient. Maybe Mr. Olynyk can tell us if this is the case with B.C. Hydro...I urge to all to fight this Legislated Tyranny to preserve what democracy we still have in this country."

"...Last week, the Health Officer of Santa Cruz County California submitted a report to the Santa Cruz County Board of Supervisors reporting on the health risks of SmartMeters. The report finds that the scientific literature on health effects from wireless technologies supports the continued moratorium on SmartMeter installations on public health grounds. The Santa Cruz report is not a watershed event in the way that the US Surgeon Generals 1964 report on smoking was. Nevertheless, it is continued progress in making the health damage caused by wireless technologies common knowledge..."

What are the potential health issues associated with cellular telephone use? Whether it's the increased use of cell phones by children, or the overall increase in cell phone use by adults, human exposure to electromagnetic radiation is happening in ways never dreamed of before. Very young children are using them, teenagers live on them--and some even sleep with them on their pillows, as cell phones are often used as alarm clocks...

Environment and Human Health, Inc. (EHHI) today released a new report calling for tougher standards to regulate cellular technologies--especially for children and pregnant women. North Haven, Conn. (PRWEB) February 01, 2012

-- Environment and Human Health, Inc. (EHHI) is releasing a new report calling for tougher standards to regulate cellular technologies--especially for children and pregnant women. This report is the first part of a project researching the health effects of cell phone use. EHHI has reviewed hundreds of peer-reviewed studies that have examined the potential health threats associated with cellular device use, along with the regulatory standards that have been adopted by the U.S. and other nations. This report provides the context for the second section of the project: an animal study designed to investigate the health effects on offspring of cell phone exposures during pregnancy...

This poster can be downloaded and printed out as a public awareness tool. It is meant to be displayed in public areas such as workplaces, communal living spaces, medical offices, health stores, or any places where people congregate.

"The ongoing debate in Canada regarding health consequences of involuntary and unremitting exposure to microwave emissions coming from "smart" meters, cell phone base station antennas, wifi, etc., has elicited many personal reports from those suffering electrosensitivity. Many citizen groups and associations, having received such reports, hope that these will not have been in vain and will contribute to ongoing follow-up on these matters in Ottawa...Registry of persons whose health has been affected by devices using wireless microwave technologies Creation of this Registry is a concrete response to one of 5 recommendations contained in the Report of the Standing Committee on Health, which examined the impact of microwaves on health (Report submitted December 2010).Charmaine Borg, MP, designated by the NDP caucus as responsible for this dossier in Ottawa, has agreed to receive submissions from people suffering from this condition..."

"My name is Alwyn Lewies and I am 38 years old. I am giving a short background of my life with an illness called Electromagnetic Sensitivity (ES), which I have been struggling with for the past 12 years since exposure from a cell mast.

"It started in 2000 with a cell phone tower that was erected at my workplace in Wapadrand, Pretoria. We were approached by a cell phone company who was interested in putting up a tower on my premises and we were assured that the tower would have no effect on us at all . . .

"I will continue to fight until the end. I owe it to myself and my family to seek a way to find a normal life. This letter is my last attempt to try and convince the authorities that ES is very real and a life threatening disease. I just want my life back and it really just depends on the cell phone towers closest to my home . . .

Greek Study Shows Regions of the Brain Related to Learning, Memory, Alzheimer's Impacted by EMF

A Greek study led by Adamantia Fragopoulou and Lukas Margaritis has demonstrated important protein changes in the brain of animals following whole body exposure to RF electromagnetic fields, similar to the kind of microwave radiation emitted from cell phones, portable phones, Wi-Fi and wireless computer equipment. 

Important regions of the brain necessary for learning, memory and other functions of the mammalian brain were impacted by the microwave radiation, including the hippocampus, cerebellum and frontal lobe, at exposures below the ICNIRP (International Commission on Non-Ionizing Radiation Protection) safety guidelines.  A total of 143 proteins in the brain were impacted by the RF radiation over a period of 8 months, providing new evidence for a potential relationship between everyday cell phone use, wireless transmitters and wireless computer equipment and electrosensitivity symptoms, such as headaches, dizziness and sleep disorders, as well as with tumors, Alzheimer's and even metabolic effects.

The study simulated 3 hours of cell phone exposure over eight months, 8 hours of DECT portable phone exposure over eight months, and included a sham exposure control group. The results showed both down regulation and up regulation of the proteins.

Several neural function related proteins (i.e. Glial Fibrillary Acidic Protein (GFAP), Alpha-synuclein, Glia Maturation Factor beta (GMF), and apolipoprotein E (apoE)), heat shock proteins, and cytoskeletal proteins (i.e. neurofilaments and tropomodulin), were shown to be impacted by the radiation, as well as proteins of the brain metabolism (i.e. Aspartate aminotransferase, Glutamate dehydrogenase), in nearly all of the brain regions studied.

Figure 2 from the study shows the 143 proteins that have changed (up- or down-regulated) and their functional relationship based on a literature survey.

"The increasing use of cellular phones in our society has brought focus on the potential detrimental effects to human health by microwave radiation. The aim of our study was to evaluate the intensity of oxidative stress and the level of neurotransmitters in the brains of fetal rats chronically exposed to cellular phones. The experiment was performed on pregnant rats exposed to different intensities of microwave radiation from cellular phones . . .

"Through this study, we concluded that receiving a certain period of microwave radiation from cellular phones during pregnancy has certain harm on fetal rat brains . . .