| While driving, she also talked on her cell phone, sipped a soft drink, opened mail, or searched for a better song on her radio or CD player. Was she multitasking? No. She was addicted to impulsive behavior and couldn't focus on only one thing. It often got her into trouble. At work, her boss complained that she was always too distracted to complete tasks, and during the previous year, she had been in two fender benders because she wasn't paying attention to traffic.
Josh felt totally stressed by work. |
Mark Schapiro
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 Sometimes the parts are large, like in an automobile, and sometimes infinitesi-mally small, like in a cell phone. But no matter their size, the one thing they have in common is they die. And then what happens?
Machine Mortality
Across the United States and Europe, there is growing recognition that the dynamic of construction and destruction embodied in those marvelous Tinguely machines is not a simple metaphor. Electronic waste is emerging as one of the central challenges of our era. Plug something into a wall or a battery and wonderful things can happen. |
Phyllis A. Balch, CNC
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 No link between brain cancer and cell phone use and illness has yet been proved, but it makes sense to be cautious. The electromagnetic waves from a cell phone are supposed to meet government guidelines, but this is uncharted territory. It is best to err on the side of caution. There are numerous products on the market that contain an earpiece and attached microphone that allow you to keep the telephone itself some distance from your body.
þ If you use a computer and sit in front of a monitor all day, use a radiation/glare filter screen. |
Mehmet C. Oz., M.D. and Michael F. Roizen, M.D.
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 You curse car manufacturers, throw your cell phone against the windshield, and lash out at poor Roethlisberger for the time he peed on the carpet four months ago. The filthy bleeping mutt.
Results: If you answered C, it shows that you have a healthy stress response. D is not so bad either. Other responses make you more prone to stress-related aging.
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Irl the old days, we typically knew one kind of stress: life-or-death stress. It may have come in the form of a stalking tiger or a thirty-day famine, but that's the way life was. |
Jack Challem
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 At first, I was anxious about not being able to check my e-mail that morning, and adding to my initial distress, my cell phone LCD read "No service." But then I began to mellow. By the time I got home, I felt renewed as a human being. The experience reminded me how important it is to occasionally disconnect from the demands and pressures of life.
Meanwhile, as I looked at the world around me, I became dismayed by the increasing polarization in politics and religion. |
Wendy Bazilian, DRPH, MA, RD, Steven Pratt, MD, Kathy Matthews
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 Walk while you use your cell phone. Walk at the end of the day to wind down and refresh.
Resistance bands and water-filled hand weights are two exercise aids that travel well and will keep you on target with your strength-training exercises.
Help! I'm on a Plateau and I Can't Get Off!
Those last few pounds always seem so hard . . . this is the point when many people can feel discouraged. But don't lose heart! There are some real reasons your weight loss may have slowed down. For one thing, as you approach your goal, fewer calories are needed to feed a lighter you. |
Jack Challem
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| As another example, consider drivers who occupy themselves with any number of distractions—talking on a cell phone, eating, or applying makeup. If you ask them why they do all of these things, they may say that they don't otherwise have enough time, that they feel as though they're being efficient, or that driving is boring—as if driving a couple thousand pounds of metal at high speed weren't important enough to focus on. Or they may simply stare at you as if you are the one with a problem. Such people are also addicted to their distractions. |
Too Profitable to CureBrent Hoadley, Ph.D.
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| Until I flipped open my cell phone and actually started to dial the number, she did not budge. Talk about "sheep" mentality!
Eli Lilly recognized that depression and diabetes go hand-in-hand.6 Diabetics know that a hypoglycemic event triggers a bout of depression. What a unique marketing opportunity for Lilly. Force diabetics to use a labile insulin, almost certain to trigger hypoglycemic events, then sell the hell out of your best-selling antidepressant, Prozac! If the insulin doesn't kill 'em, maybe the Prozac will. |
Devra Davis
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 Why lump all users together, putting those who might have made a single cell phone call a week with those who used the phones more often? Why stop collecting information on brain tumors in 2002, when we know that brain tumors often take decades to develop and be diagnosed?
When you are looking at a large population to find an effect, generally the more people you study, the better your chance of finding something. |
John J. Ratey, MD
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 If our cell phone doesn't ring or our e-mail Inbox sits empty for more than an hour, we wonder what's going on. Who has the time or patience to sequence or plan or think things through and evaluate consequences? Why bother, when we can click to the next? It's no wonder exercise gets pushed to the bottom of the priority list—it requires planning and work.
Experts estimate that just over 4 percent of American adults— that's thirteen million people—have ADHD, which is not to say that the remaining 96 percent of the population is completely free of attention problems. |
Gregg Braden
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 If, however, the crowd of people waiting on the corner with us collectively dart across the street because there's a break in the traffic and we simply "go with the flow" and move along with them while we're talking to a friend on our cell phone, then something else has happened. Because our attention was on the call, we weren't focused on the traffic light. We followed the others like the proverbial sheep because our subconscious mind made that choice. And the subconscious doesn't "think" about things—it simply reacts. |
Bottom Line Health
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| When tempted to multitask—for example, talking on a cell phone while watering the lawn or cooking while houseclean-ing—stop and focus on just one thing at a time until you have completed that objective.
• Get enough sleep. In a 14-day study, volunteers sleeping four to six hours a night—a range common to many adults—showed significant deficits in memory performance. Interestingly, the sleep-curtailed volunteers had no sense of the extent of their cognitive impairment. |
Alex Steffen
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 But consumers have started wondering, "Why can't I get a cell phone that is just a cell phone?"
So why do manufacturers, despite these complaints, continue to develop products that do more and more? Obviously, they aren't taking the consumer's pleas for simplicity as an indication of true preference. Companies want to offer products that emerge from uncharted technological territory, so they hedge their bets and put out the products they believe will entice us with novelty and abundant capabilities. And the strategy works: we continue to buy the latest thing and eagerly anticipate the next. |
Devra Davis
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| There's no debate that driving, biking or conducting any other mechanical physical activity while talking on a cell phone is a bad idea. That's why several states and some countries have already banned such practices. But what about the long-term risk to our health? Do the towers that transmit cell signals or the phones themselves convey a risk? Does living close to high-power electric switching stations affect the blood and brains of children? What about those who repair or build such towers? |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 Considering the fact that cell phone use is even higher in Europe than in the U.S., wouldn't the pattern have been worse in Europe? Also, while it is true mobile phones can disrupt electronic navigation systems, these systems use magnetism to navigate; bees use polarized light.
Nailing down the cause
A CCD working group was organized recently in hope of finding a solution to the dwindling honeybee population by exploring the potential causes of the honeybee colony collapse epidemic. |
Richard Bartlett
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 There are radio broadcasts, TV programs, cell phone conversations, and microwave transmissions all around us, to name just a few. Information, in the form of frequencies and waves, continually inundates us. In order to pick up this information, all we need is a receiver apparatus and an antenna. There is evidence to suggest that the unconscious mind serves as the receiver and our electromagnetic field functions as the antenna. Our need or desire acts as a force of attraction, which programs our awareness to seek out experiences or information. |
Jonny Bowden, Ph.D., C.N.S.
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 You know how when you go on an airplane they sternly warn you not to use your cell phone? Well, just about every engineer I asked and every responsible scientific article Fve read on the subject is unequivocal about the fact that nothing you buy at Radio Shack is going to bring down a 747 jetliner. There just isn't any danger. But no one is going to "take a chance" becauseyKit in case they're wrong, the damages could be so great that no one's willing to risk it. |
Craig Pepin-Donat
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 In today's technological world, most people can use electronic schedules on their computer, PDA or cell phone, along with daily reminders. If you do not have access to this type of technology, put a calendar on your refrigerator door. Try to schedule one or two of your fitness appointments on the weekend, when most people have fewer excuses not to make the time. Set your weekday fitness appointments during realistic hours when you can absolutely get it done. Typically, the best time is in the morning. You are more likely to create excuses as the day progresses. |
Dr. Edward F. Group III, DC, ND, DACBN
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| Take a proactive stance and write the cell phone company CEOs and the local and federal government asking them for more testing and protection from these harmful devices.
See "Radiation", "Fluorescent Lighting", and "Geopathic Stress" in the Resources.
How to Eliminate or Reduce EMF Radiation from Home Electronics
(Safe exposure levels are between 0.5 and 2 milligauss of radiation daily.)
Household Electronic
Typical Exposure
1. Hair dryer - The motor emits high levels of EMF's close to the handle. Wearing metal hair clips can increase the amount of radiation absorbed. |
Charles Barber
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 The dominant image of the era is the American driving alone to work in his massive and luxuriously equipped climate-controlled SUV unaware even of the road beneath him, talking on his cell phone or listening to one of a hundred satellite radio channels. |
Jonny Bowden, Ph.D., C.N.S.
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| I wholeheartedly believe that within a year of the publication of this book, the cell phone ban on planes will be a thing of the past.) What does this have to do with vitamin A and pregnancy? Simple. There were some very early studies on mice that showed that vitamin A was associated with fetal abnormalities, and based on this, women have been advised for years that large doses of vitamin A could be toxic, especially to their unborn child. And just in case they're right, no one who's pregnant is going to take a chance. I don't blame them. |
Devra Davis
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| ZORBA THE GREEK
Whenever someone calls your cell phone and asks if it's you on the other end, you know something's wrong. My brother Stan's voice had more urgency than usual. "Hello, Dev? Is that you? I've got news. It's not good."
"What's going on? You sound just awful," I said.
My methodical, mostly unflappable brother was taking his time. This was not because he wanted to, but because he had to. "It's Mom. She has inoperable cancer. It's spread from her stomach to her liver. |
Paula Begoun and Bryan Barron
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 Hypershine Mini cell phone Lip Gloss Charms ($5) are sold as mini versions of the Hypershine Lip Gloss above. They have a different formula that's more emollient but not glossier. The set presents eight glosses with an overcap that can be attached to any shade so it can be worn as a charm (or added to a key ring). This is primarily a teen-appeal product, but is an option for adults who want a tiny gloss to tuck into an evening bag. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 In my opinion you are doing nothing wrong if you own a movie on DVD and rip it to other player formats such as PlayStation portable, iPod video, cell phone video, or any other video format. Of course, if you go out and rent movies, and then rip them, then you are in fact doing something wrong, because you don't own that movie, you're just renting it. When you return the movie for rental, you should delete the files. In other words, you should only have those alternate files for as long as you have paid for the right to be in possession of the DVD. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 So keep those cell phone videos rolling. Keep a compact video camera handy for all occasions. When the authorities step out of line, press the record button and try not to get your ass arrested. Book it back home, upload it to YouTube, and send me the link. We'll spread the word. (You can reach me through our feedback form, see the Contact Us link on our home page. |
Devra Davis
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| The study Carlo never completed for the industry began as a series of projects looking into whether cell phone signals disrupted cultures of animal cells growing in the laboratory. Some of the work done in laboratories clearly showed that wireless signals could affect the ways cells talk to one another to stay under control—what is called gap-junction communication. Under healthy conditions, cells send messages through proteins and enzymes that keep things in order and tell badly behaving cells to get in line or die. Wireless signals disturb this ability. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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| The signals from nearby cell phone towers are preventing the bees from finding their way back to their hives.
This phenomenon, referred to as Colony Collapse Disorder (CCD), is not yet well understood; even the existence of the disorder remains in dispute.
What is known for sure about CCD is that the colony is deserted by the hive's inhabitants, with only the queen, her eggs and a few immature workers remaining. However, unlike when the hive normally is abandoned and the colony is left defenseless, it is not raided for its honey and eggs by other bees, various predators, parasites or mites. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 In many cases, cell phone towers are still working even when the electricity is out in a particular region.)
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David Steinman
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 New York City households announcing the city's most ambitious personal computer, television, and cell phone recycling drive to date. Intel and Best Buy Co. both supported the drive, which ran on weekends in October.11 www.intel.com
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WTiile you might never get childhood comfort foods like Swanson roast beef TV dinners completely out of your life, you just might have a chance with prepared foods from Amy's Kitchen. They make prepared food not only healthy but also absolutely tasty. |
Jack Challem
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| The habit of multitasking migrated from work to other parts of our lives, and now many people don't feel right unless they always do more than one thing at a time, such as talk on a cell phone, eat, or apply makeup while driving to work. If you've driven behind someone who is multitasking, though, you know that the driver is not paying attention to traffic conditions. Multitaskers cannot give any single task their full attention, and it shows in their reduced performance. That's why multitasking is less efficient. |
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