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- From: frankm@resonex.com (Frank Muennemann)
- Newsgroups: sci.med.physics
- Subject: Re: resisting electromagnetic radiation
- Message-ID: <1993Jan8.094943.4790@resonex.com>
- Date: 8 Jan 93 09:49:43 GMT
- References: <DENISE.93Jan7175501@isl.stanford.edu>
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- In article <DENISE.93Jan7175501@isl.stanford.edu> denise@isl.stanford.edu (Denise M. Cuevas) writes:
- >
- >Call me an ignorant, radical fool, but the fact remains that I want to
- >decrease my exposure to electromagnetic radiation. ...
-
- Your posting does not specify WHAT KIND of electromagnetic radiation
- you're concerned about: Cosmic gamma rays? Xrays from medical exams?
- Xrays from cathode ray tubes? Ultraviolet A/B? Visible sunlight?
- Infrared radiation? Microwave radiation? High frequency radio waves?
- AM broadcast? Low-frequency power-line radiation?
-
- These different classes of EM radiation have entirely different physical
- characteristics, though all of them are "electromagnetic radiation."
- The kinds of threats they pose to human beings are also quite different.
- I believe that 99.999 percent of all human-inhabited places suffer such
- low levels of any of these forms of radiation (except UV from sunlight),
- you'd reduce your chances of being damaged by your environment much much
- more if you'd take action to safeguard the food you eat, the water you
- drink, and the air you breathe from toxic chemicals like cigarette
- smoke, heavy metals, and industrial pollution. Electromagnetic
- radiation should be a concern if you live or work in very unusual
- places: frequent airline passenger, X-ray technician, tanning addict,
- microwave or radio transmitter repair technician, chronic CRT user (or
- television watcher) using equipment more than 20 years old. Probably
- others could/would add other classes of people to this list. Start by
- wearing sun-block and broad-brimmed hats whenever you're outside. This
- applies less if you have naturally dark skin. You MIGHT (this is very
- speculative) consider using your electric blanket to warm your bed, then
- turning it off before you go to sleep in it (no reason to dump it
- entirely!).
-
- >Has any research been done on blocking electromagnetic radiation? ...
-
- I make a career of it: Not so much protecting humans, but electronic
- equipment, which can be much MUCH more sensitive to some kinds of EM
- than people are. Different shielding technologies are appropriate for
- different kinds of EM, but in all cases I know of, avoidance is much
- cheaper than shielding.
-