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Electromagnetic Fields: A Consumer's Guide to the Issues and How to Protect Ourselves
With ubiquitous electropollution from cell phones/towers, powerlines, computers, and wireless devices, this eye-opening book is the best resource for parents, community planners, healthcare professionals, and scientists alike. Winner, 1996 Award of Excellence from the American Medical Writers Association. From the earth's natural electromagnetic background to "Green" EMF safety designs, Electromagnetic Fields explains which illnesses are associated with artificial radiation, how technology impacts human health and wildlife, and how to live more safely."If you're looking for the plain unvarnished truth and the best available advice, this is one book you should not miss."-Robert O. Becker, M.D., author of Cross Currents and coauthor of The Body Electric"Other authors have dealt with EMF questions, but none with the clarity and evenhandedness of B. Blake Levitt. This book avoids the extremes of over-dramatization and understatement and delivers the important information in a cool and lively manner."-Andrew A. Marino, Ph.D., J.D., coauthor of Electromagnetism and Life, and The Electric Wilderness
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462 pages, Paperback
First published December 13, 2007
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December 23, 2017
"The very subject of electromagnetic fields embodies its own polarization metaphor: the positive and negative apects seem to cancel each other out, leading to a neutral state in which people are unable to decide what to do." (page 10-11)
This is a book that should be required reading for all health care practitioners. If that were the case, the prevention and treatment of chronic disease would improve dramatically. If you haven't noticed yet, the health of mankind and life on this planet is not doing so well. Human male sperm counts have dropped by over 60% since the 1930's. Debilitating brain diseases are becoming more and more common. While no disease has a single cause, this excellent book presents study after study showing that long-term, chronic exposure to electromagnetic fields can certainly be harmful to human health.
While it was published 20 years ago, the information is more relevant now that ever before, as the "Wireless Age" is in full swing. Nearly everyone is now exposed to multiple sources of EMF, at varying frequencies, creating health problems never seen before, including chronic fatigue and fibromyalgia.
For the last year, during my initial consultation, I question my patients about their exposure to these fields. This often helps to bring the pieces of the illness puzzle together. I have also seen patients improve their health in many ways by avoiding any possible overexposure.
The author also discusses why today's doctors, even the progressive ones, don't even touch on this environmental toxin, in the chapter entitled "What Your Doctor Doesn't Know, and Why." Most people think that if EMFs are harmful then your doctor would tell you. Unfortunately, as the author states, "We seem to know more and more about the machinery of the body and less about the life within it."
I have read several other books on this subject and this is the best one with regard to extremely low frequency EMFs, as found in close proximity to power lines and eletrical equipment. I also encourage you to review all the more recent information regarding this overlooked issue at Dr. Devra Davis' Environmental Health Trust and Dr. Martin Blank's book, "Overpowered."
There is a safer way of using technology, but ignoring the biological effects just delays the advent of safer alternatives, while life on this planet suffers. At the rate we're going, artificial intelligence and autonomous machines will not be a luxury, but a necessity, as human beings, even the youth, are slowly losing the ability to think and function properly.
This is a book that should be required reading for all health care practitioners. If that were the case, the prevention and treatment of chronic disease would improve dramatically. If you haven't noticed yet, the health of mankind and life on this planet is not doing so well. Human male sperm counts have dropped by over 60% since the 1930's. Debilitating brain diseases are becoming more and more common. While no disease has a single cause, this excellent book presents study after study showing that long-term, chronic exposure to electromagnetic fields can certainly be harmful to human health.
While it was published 20 years ago, the information is more relevant now that ever before, as the "Wireless Age" is in full swing. Nearly everyone is now exposed to multiple sources of EMF, at varying frequencies, creating health problems never seen before, including chronic fatigue and fibromyalgia.
For the last year, during my initial consultation, I question my patients about their exposure to these fields. This often helps to bring the pieces of the illness puzzle together. I have also seen patients improve their health in many ways by avoiding any possible overexposure.
The author also discusses why today's doctors, even the progressive ones, don't even touch on this environmental toxin, in the chapter entitled "What Your Doctor Doesn't Know, and Why." Most people think that if EMFs are harmful then your doctor would tell you. Unfortunately, as the author states, "We seem to know more and more about the machinery of the body and less about the life within it."
I have read several other books on this subject and this is the best one with regard to extremely low frequency EMFs, as found in close proximity to power lines and eletrical equipment. I also encourage you to review all the more recent information regarding this overlooked issue at Dr. Devra Davis' Environmental Health Trust and Dr. Martin Blank's book, "Overpowered."
There is a safer way of using technology, but ignoring the biological effects just delays the advent of safer alternatives, while life on this planet suffers. At the rate we're going, artificial intelligence and autonomous machines will not be a luxury, but a necessity, as human beings, even the youth, are slowly losing the ability to think and function properly.
February 13, 2013
For those who study the field of electromagnetic radiation (EMR) poisoning of the human, this is an excellent book. What I find amazing about this book that it was written in 1995! Today, wireless radiation is classed as a suspected carcinogen that is known to increase the risk of brain disease. The free Bioinitiative Report 2012 is saying that Autism appears to be an electromagnetic disease. The rise in Autism is almost directly following the rise in adoption of wireless communications. I no longer have wireless devices, as they were deforming the plants both inside and outside of my home. When I took my wireless devices out of service, I got very painful and sensitive teeth afterwords! It appeared to be a withdrawal reaction. My plants are now growing normally. I would recommend that you get familiar with the contents of this book and the symptoms of Radio Wave Sickness (RWS), which you may already be displaying and not be aware that it is coming from your wireless products!
August 17, 2012
If you have not yet begun to educate yourself about the effect electromagnetic fields are having and may be having on our health, it is time to start. This author has substantive information to add.
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