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EMF Exposures and Health

COULD EXPOSURE TO THE ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELDS GENERATED BY POWER LINES BE CAUSING CANCER?  WE’LL INVESTIGATE ON TODAY’S ENVIRONMINUTE.

SCIENTISTS SAY THERE IS AN OBSERVED ASSOCIATION BETWEEN A CHILD’S PROXIMITY TO POWER LINES AND THE RISK OF LEUKEMIA.  BUT BECAUSE THEY HAVEN’T SEEN THE SAME RESULT IN ANIMAL STUDIES, MANY RESEARCHERS SUSPECT THE CAUSE IS NOT SIMPLY THE MAGNETIC FIELD, BUT A RELATED EXPOSURE.

FOR EXAMPLE, RESEARCHER KEITH FLORIG OF CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY SAYS THAT THE WAY A HOME IS GROUNDED COULD CAUSE AN ELECTRIC CURRENT - WHICH IS PROPORTIONAL TO THE MAGNETIC FIELD - TO FLOW THROUGH THE PLUMBING SYSTEM AND THROUGH THE BONE MARROW OF A CHILD WHO TOUCHES THE FAUCET WHILE BATHING. 

BUT REGARDLESS OF THE MECHANISM, MAGNETIC FIELDS CAN BE A RISK FACTOR FOR CANCER.  SO TO FIND WAYS TO MINIMIZE YOUR CHILD’S EXPOSURE, LOG ON TO ENVIRONMINUTE DOT COM.

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Learn more about EMFs, their impact on health, and recommended precautions from the World Health Organization and the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences.

Learn more about the association between childhood leukemia and EMFs from Environmental Health Perspectives.

Learn more about the contact current hypothesis from Robert Syfers.

Learn more about ways to mininmize EMFs while building from greenbuilder.com and ways to reduce EMF exposures in the home from Organic Baby.

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