ES updates…….

04/12/2013 By Leave a Comment

I receive almost daily reports of news and events related to electrosensitivity, many of which are fascinating, but not really relevant for the FoodsMatter site – but I hate not to be able to share them so here we go with a few of the most recent.

(Many thanks, incidentally, to ES-UK, EMF Refugees and Dr Olle Johansson among many others.)


Frog_on_tree_f1Frog species are disappearing at an alarming rate in the Caribbean – could mobile phone radiation be implicated?

Researchers in the Caribbean report a 70–90% decline in the number of frogs on the islands. Not only are frogs, whose ‘peeps, tweets and staccato whistles’ enlivened the Caribbean night, an important part of the local culture but ‘they also have an important environmental role: they are consumed by birds and snakes and are major predators of mosquitoes. Their absence could lead to a rise in malaria and dengue, not to mention discomfort.’ Read more about the decline here in Yahoo News and then take a look at this research report from 2010 showing that mobile phone radiation can have a dramatic effect on the development of tadpoles.

In India…

‘The 4.5 lakh mobile towers in India are turning the country into an open microwave,’ warns Girish Kumar, researcher at IIT Bombay. ‘With 1w power (same output as cell phones) temperatures increase by 1′C in 500 seconds (9 minutes).’ Read more here in The Times of India.

Is the Cold War to blame?

Is the Cold War to blame for the lack of objective research into the possible dangers of microwave (mobile phone) radiation? A fascinating article in  The Scientist last autumn by Allan Frey suggesting that security fears in the 1970s effectively closed down all research and all funding for research into the possible dangers of  very weak microwave radiation (including breaching the blood brain barrier). As a result there is now no data that would allow scientists to determine whether or not there is a health hazard in mobile phone use.

Legal acknowledgement of EHS in Australia and compensation awarded for damage caused…

Details of the first case of its kind in the antipodes!

Michelle in silver net jacket

 

French Fashion label Smuggler designs clothes made from fabric which will block electromagnetic radiation! They should have come to me for advice – my silver net jackets were causing comment (some asking whether I was wearing a mosquito net….) five years ago!!

However, as Dr Johansson, who sent me this report remarks:
‘No! This is not the kind of society we should have…. First the spread of an environmental toxin; then we – the citizens – must wear protective clothing. Really, no.’

 

And finally…

‘Two children may have died for you to have your mobile phone.’

Whatever about the radiation given out by mobile phones, how much environmental and human damage is caused in making their cases? See this report from Inés Benitez in the InterPress Service.

 

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Thomas Ball, photographer

03/30/2013 By Leave a Comment

It is purely down to Thomas Ball, who is neither electrosensitive nor has any particular connection with anyone who is, that today’s excellent article by Nicholas Blincoe on electrosensitivity appeared in the Guardian Weekend.

He became interested in the condition a couple of years ago and embarked on a year long project to photograph and interview electrosensitivity sufferers and those who try to help them. Over the year he has recorded over 80 hours of interviews and taken hundreds of pictures, a tiny fraction which you can now see on his website. No one commissioned him to take these photographs or conduct these interviews and, although he did ‘sell’ the idea to the Guardian (we are delighted to say), his fee for the photographs will only have made the tiniest dent in the cost of the project.

So why did he do it? Because, like so many of the people who actually make society tick, he was interested by the condition, felt that electrosensivity sufferers were getting a raw deal and thought that maybe he could do something about it. What would allergy sufferers, electrosensitives and the millions of others in need of help, empathy and understanding do without that generous group of people who give their time and their expertise, and often substantial sums of money, to help establish their cause as ‘real’ and get it recognised by those in power.

So, thank you Thomas – your contribution is hugely appreciated.

Meanwhile, do have a look at the photos on Thomas’ site.  I really like the feeling of ‘detachment’  that he has created. Many of us really do look as though we have logged out of the 9-5 world and are not quite sure where we have ended up – which is pretty near what has happened!  And check out his blog where he explains a little bit more about the project.  And, of course, please do read the article in the Guardian Weekend – although I suggest that you do not venture into the ‘Comment’ section which, as usual with any article to do with electrosensitivity, has attracted all of those whose opinions would probably get them sued if they were expressed attributably! You might also want to have a look at the short film of interviews which accompanies it, a taster for the longer film which Thomas plans to make available on his own site and, hopefully, elsewhere.

Tim Hallam

This is Thomas’ photograph of Tim Hallam that appeared in the Guardian article. Tim has lined his bedroom with tin foil and silver-netted his window to create himself a Faraday cage to protect himself from his housemates’ and neighbours’ wifi, phones, cordless telephones and fluorescent/low energy lights.

 

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Will a pizza while checking out your Facebook page ever taste quite the same?…

08/16/2012 By 4 Comments

Courtesy of Dr Olle Johansson

‘A study by the University of Human Ecology in Ukraine has revealed that the electromagnetic field of the computer destroys the molecular structure of water and food making them harmful to health.

Ukrainian scientists conducted an experiment with food left next to the computer for some time, after having applied a molecular analysis. When they analysed the molecular structure of the water in the food it had changed negatively.

“Water becomes ‘aggressive’ changes its structure and ends up being harmful to the human body,” says Mikhail Kurik, one of the authors of the research. The same happens with the 80% of water in the human body. According to doctors, the negative impact accumulates in the body and can be implicated in the development of long-term disorders such as Alzheimer’s or Parkinson’s. Experts recommend spending less time at the computer and not eat near the device to not cause additional damage to the body. ‘

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