> What's More Important - Your Cellphone or Your Brain

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No life without or with CELL PHONE

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vijay.sharma's Signature:

Cell Phone will be wid me all my life.....

Use a handsfree to stop ur braincells from getting cooked.. I read an article sometime back which said tht the cell phone has pretty much the same effect on ur cells tht a microwave oven has on ur food.. it heats up the cells which cause the discomfort...unfortunately, cellphones have not been around long to determine whether tht discomfort can get serious after continuous usage. Researchers the world over are still divided over it. So much so tht it has been said tht perhaps the radiation is only as harmful so as to heat up ur cells and hence, further research on the topic is not required.. search for it on wiki, u'll know..

Neways, harmful or not, thts something we will only get to know after we've seen the mobile around for a good 20-30 years. But the best way to minimize the risk is to use a handsfree all the time, if u are on a long call.. Thts the least u can do to avoid damage to ur cells..

Btw, i just wanted to know...what was the longest duration u've ever talked on a phone (without the handsfree)?

For me, the longest has been 2 hours.. once or twice..

Since then, i've made it a point to use a handsfree if i have to use it for a long duration.I make sure the person on the other side uses a handsfree too during the call.

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Private Ryan's Signature:

Max 1 hr, that too its like 3 or 4 times a year.

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Saiyan's Signature:

I use to to talk very long hours on cell phone. Sometimes 3 hours on a stretch and that was with both cellphone and that Reliance FWP(with All India Reliance-2-Reliance Free Plan). I think it lasted for more not less than 6 months.

I think the author himself highlighted the main problem with the hypothesis.

The fact is that you cannot attribute this to mobile phones alone. The same thing can be caused by anything really. You workplace, where you live(frankly you ahve more risks by the industries around you that way), by the n number of electronic goods in your house and such.
I am not saying Mobiles are harmless too, its just that there is nothing conclusive out there. But then for a long time there was nothing ever allowed by the Tobacco lobby also and this mobile lobby is pretty strong too.

Having said that, we should be cautious and wait for more scientific research. I don't think you can ever stop anyone and everyone from releasing his findings. The truth on this will come out sooner than later.

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Safin's Signature:

Last week, three prominent neurosurgeons told CNN interviewer Larry King that they did not hold cell phones next to their ears. Dr. Keith Black, Dr. Vini Khurana, and CNN’s chief medical correspondent, Dr. Sanjay Gupta all maintained that the practice could be unsafe.

Along with Senator Edward M. Kennedy’s recent diagnosis of a glioma, a type of tumor that critics have long associated with cell phone use, the doctors’ remarks have helped reignite the debate about cell phones and cancer.

According to the Food and Drug Administration, three large epidemiology studies since 2000 have shown no harmful effects. However, that the average period of phone use in those studies was about three years, which provides no information about the long-term exposures that could lead to cancer.

“What we’re seeing is suggestions in epidemiological studies that have looked at people using phones for 10 or more years,” says Louis Slesin, editor of Microwave News, an industry publication that tracks the research.
Sources:

* New York Times June 3, 2008
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/06/03/he...ss&oref=slogin