The risk comes from the fluorescent lights, energy saving bulbs and halogen lights.

What you can do:
You can reduce the risk to 0 by using ordinary bulbs and non-halogen spotlights.

A GOVERNMENT agency has acknowledged for the first time that people can suffer nausea, headaches and muscle pains when exposed to electromagnetic fields from mobile phones, electricity pylons and computer screens.

The condition known as electrosensitivity, a heightened reaction to electrical energy, will be recognised as a physical impairment.

A report by the Health Protection Agency (HPA), to be published next month, will state that increasing numbers of British people are suffering from the syndrome. While the total figure is not known, thousands are believed to be affected to some extent.

The report, by the agency’s radiation protection division, is expected to say that GPs do not know how to treat sufferers and that more research is needed to find cures. It will give a full list of the symptoms, which can include dizziness, irregular heartbeat and loss of memory.

Although most European countries do not recognise the condition, Britain will follow Sweden where electrosensitivity was recognised as a physical impairment in 2000. About 300,000 Swedish men and women are sufferers.

The acknowledgment may fuel legal action by sufferers who claim mobile phone masts have made them ill.

In January Sir William Stewart, chairman of the HPA and the government’s adviser on mobile phones, warned that a small proportion of the population could be harmed by exposure to electromagnetic fields, and called for careful examination of the problem.

The HPA has now reviewed all scientific literature on electrosensitivity and concluded that it is a real syndrome. The condition had previously been dismissed as psychological.

The findings should lead to better treatment for sufferers. In Sweden people who are allergic to electrical energy receive government support to reduce exposure in their homes and workplaces.

Special cables are installed in sufferers’ homes while electric cookers are replaced with gas stoves. Walls, roofs, floors and windows can be covered with a thin aluminium foil to keep out the electromagnetic field - the area of energy that occurs round any electrically conductive item.

British campaigners believe electrical devices in the home and the workplace, as well as mobile phones emitting microwave radiation, have created an environmental trigger for the syndrome.

There is particular concern about exposure to emissions from mobile phone masts or base stations, often located near schools or hospitals.

In January Stewart also called for a national review of planning rules for masts. The review was launched by the government in April.

British sufferers report feeling they are being “zapped” by electromagnetic fields from appliances and go out of their way to avoid them.

Some have moved to remote areas where electromagnetic pollution is lower.

The HPA report is eagerly awaited by campaigners. Alasdair Philips, director of the campaign group Powerwatch, said: “This will help the increasing number of people who tell us their GPs do not know how to treat them.”

Rod Read, chairman of ElectrosensitivityUK, added: “This will be the beginning of an awareness of a new form of pollution from electrical energy.”

Exposure to high levels of Electromagnetic Radiation is responsible for a condition known as Electrosensitivity (ES) or Electrohypersensitivity (EHS). Research shows that between 3% and 5% of the general population could be ES sufferers, and that they are affected to the extent that that their lifestyle has to be in some ways modified, sometimes quite dramatically. In Sweden, for example 285,000 people (over 3% of the population) are registered as ES and claim disability benefit from the government. Unfortunately, the people who have minor effects may well go on to become more seriously affected by exposure to electrical or microwave environs, if they do nothing to improve their electromagnetic environment.

Electrical Sensitivity is a modern illness that is little understood, except by the people who suffer from it, and in many cases they may not even be aware of the cause of them, or even have heard of the illness. The medical profession on the whole do not recognise ES (like ME or Chronic Fatigue Syndrome, was not recognised as a medical condition when it was first reported).

In ES sufferers, eyes and skin react in a multitude of ways, they get headaches of all degrees of severity, sleep disturbances (especially near mobile phone masts), heart problems, joint aches, tiredness, digestive and breathing difficulties, cognitive and behavioural disturbances. There is reason to believe that this escalation in ill-health is continuing as the environment is getting increasingly polluted by the wireless radiation from new developments in mobile telecommunications technology and a ‘bluetooth’ world where our electrical appliances talk to each other using microwaves.

Recently scientists consider people’s health to be more at risk from the ever increasing wireless microwave radiation. They suggest it is the digital pulsing ‘chatter’ of the digital communications world that can upset cell structure. It is not necessarily true that absorbing radio waves is bad for you. Most people absorb radio waves a lot of the time, perhaps all of the time. What is significant is the amount of energy we are all being exposed to today, compared with just 15 or 20 years ago. The magnitude of growth in the presence of radio waves is colossal, thousands of times greater. It is the totality of the electrosmog environment that concerns scientists. They don’t know what the gross exposure will do to the human body. “We are all living within the world’s biggest scientific experiment.”

Occupational exposure to electromagnetic fields can lead to an increased risk of developing Alzheimer’s disease, report USC researchers in a new study of more than 300 Southern California patients.

Eugene Sobel, professor of preventive medicine and neurology, and his colleagues examined the incidence of moderate to high occupational electromagnetic force (EMF) exposure among Alzheimer’s disease patients and controls. The most common highly exposed occupation was sewing machine operators, who are exposed to strong, continuous EMFs over long time periods.

Sobel’s group studied patients from the Alzheimer’s Disease Treatment and Diagnostic Center at Rancho Los Amigos Medical Center in Downey. The researchers compared occupational history data from Alzheimer’s patients with information from a group of control subjects who had been diagnosed with some other kind of cognitive impairment or dementia.

The work is published in the December issue of the journal Neurology.

Epidemiological analysis of the patients’ “primary” occupation showed that individuals who had likely been exposed to electromagnetic fields in their occupation-such as seamstresses-had nearly four times the risk of developing Alzheimer’s disease than individuals who had little or no occupational EMF exposure.

“Seamstresses seem to be among the individuals with the highest occupational EMF exposure,” said Sobel. “They sit near motors of sewing machines for hours, and most industrial sewing machines are always on, and always produce magnetic fields.”

That’s quite a difference, he said, from casual use of a sewing machine at home. But new computerized home sewing machines he noted, have a rectifier, which continuously produces a strong magnetic field, even when the needle is not operating.

In some cases, Sobel said, relatively minor design changes to some equipment, particularly sewing machines, might mean a significant decrease in magnetic field exposure. “The rectifiers in computerized home sewing machines could be taken out of the machine casing, put on a cord and positioned away from the operator,” he explained. And in industrial machines, motors could be shielded with a special metal that redirects the field.

Sobel emphasized that the EMF-Alzheimer’s association was found for magnetic fields generated from “electrical and motorized equipment located very close to the body, not necessarily the head.” Electromagnetic fields from sources like high-power electrical lines tend to expose individuals to much weaker fields than those produced by industrial sewing machines or similar equipment.

In a second paper in the same journal, Sobel and Zoreh Davanipour, Ph.D., D.V.M., describe a hypothesis linking the development of Alzheimer’s disease to EMF exposure.

Increased exposure could change the balance of calcium in some cells in the body, the researchers speculate, thus causing increased production of a protein called amyloid-b. The protein is secreted from cells into the bloodstream. Other research indicates that amyloid-b may aggregate within the brain, and previous research has shown that such buildup of amyloid-b is associated with the processes that accompany Alzheimer’s.

“There now needs to be some testing to learn whether exposure to electromagnetic fields causes any change of amyloid-b levels in the blood,” said Sobel of the hypothesis that has the potential to close some of the experimental distance between epidemiologists and biochemists.

“Elevated Risk of Alzheimer’s Disease among Workers with Likely Electromagnetic Field Exposure,” by E. Sobel, M. Dunn, Z. Davanipour, Z. Qian and H.C. Chui, and “Electromagnetic Field Exposure May Cause Increased Production of Amyloid Beta and Eventually Lead to Alzheimer’s Disease” by Eugene Sobel and Zoreh Davanipour, both appear in the December issue of Neurology.

So why do so few people even know what EMF(electromagnetic frequencies)stands for? Multi-billion dollar corporations rather you didn’t know. How many people have heard about the woman cell phone programmer who had a tumor shaped like a cell phone antenna in her brain, or the man who went blind from using Bluetooth Technology? Folks, there are more studies than could fit on this website documenting the hazards of EMF, or electromagnetic, exposure.

Studies have linked EMF Pollution to cancer, tumors, permanent DNA damage, alzheimer’s, leukemia, multiple sclerosis, sudden infant death syndrome, accelerated aging, cell death, miscarriages, birth defects, arteriosclerosis and cardiac problems.

Immediate symptoms of EMF exposure are headaches, fatigue, dizziness, nausea, dehydration, lethargy, spaciness, depression, insomnia, irritability, anger, rage and violence.

If you’re like most people, you use a cell phone, work on a computer and have wireless internet in your home. You talk on a cordless phone and sleep with an electric alarm clock next to your bed. You have a few power lines around your house and a cell phone tower nearby that you don’t know about..possibly because its disguised as a tree of maybe its been hidden in the gas station sign down the road. But you feel fine….right?

Well, you do feel kinda tired lately and you haven’t been sleeping that well, but you chalk that up to stress. It is stress. Environmental stress due to EMF exposure. Everything that plugs into a wall or runs on a battery emits EMFs, and in the new age of wireless communication, we are constantly being bombarded by these detrimental frequencies. Wifi, Cell Phone Towers, Satellite Dishes, Military and Airforce radar, HAARP (military program which beams radiation down into the oceans for submarine tracking) and just about every appliance and/or piece of technology down to your electric alarm clock emits frequencies that are detrimental to your body on a cellular level.

Made up of over 70% water and salt, our bodies are batteries which run on electrical impulses. These electrical impulses are sent out from the brain and the nervous system to the cells and tell the cells what to do. Clusters of these cells make up your organs, your bloodstream, your glands…
Electropollution disrupts the body’s electrical field and creates chaos and confusion. Cellular communication is lost. Functioning becomes impaired. Your organs become strained, your bloodstream holds toxins, your glands emit less hormones and your cells mutate and multiply until finally the label of cancer is given.

Research suggests that EMF levels in bedrooms and other places people spend a lot of their time should be less than 0.1 microtesla (µT) for magnetic fields and less than 20 volts per metre (V/m) for electric fields.
Research has linked high EMF levels to many health issues, such as; depression, chronic fatigue, fertility problems, sleeping difficulties, childhood leukaemia and behavioural problems in children.
People who are most susceptible to the effects of EMFs include; children, pregnant women, men with a family history of testicular or prostate cancer, women with a history of breast cancer and people with poor immune systems.

Radiation from all electrical wiring, equipment, power lines, substations and even battery operated items affect human biophysical and biological bodies, damage, alter DNA and lead to illness and disease.

Interesting article on the dangers of extended mobile phone usage. Scientist say that after 10 years exposure you are 2X as likely to develop a brain tumour. It is particulary dangerous for the young. There is no mention of DECT hpnes which are more commonly used in-house…. Don’t get phone cancer

DECT microwaves are potentially more harmful than those of other wireless technologies because the microwaves are delivered at maximum power density all the time, even when the phone is not in use; it is pulsed at 100 Hz well within the range of typical biochemical rhythms within the body, and users are typically exposed at maximum levels either throughout their working day or during their sleep. Chronic exposure to such a powerful, pulsed form of the radiation from DECT base stations is more harmful than either acute exposure or exposure to a constant (non-pulsed) radiation. Pulsed radiation, in which the electric component changes from zero to full power almost instantaneously induces a much more powerful magnetic field that can fully penetrate the body (to induce a correspondingly large electric current) than the more slowly changing non-pulsed field.