Cell Phones, Cancer
In this video, Kerry Crofton spends about 26 minutes speaking on "Cell Phones, Cancer" at the 39th Annual Cancer Convention held on Labor Day weekend by the Cancer Control Society.
About Kerry Crofton
KERRY CROFTON, Ph.D. received her Doctorate in Psychology from Union Institute & University in Cincinnati, Ohio. Her dissertation was based on research she conducted for the Canadian Navy using mindfulness techniques she developed in the treatment of essential hypertension.
Kerry also worked with pilots and air traffic controllers and in 1989 was appointed by the Privy Council of Canada to the Civil Aviation Tribunal. For many years she directed a biofeedback institute, with a clinical practice addressing health-related issues, including people with a range of environmental sensitivities.
From 1986 to 1996 she wrote a newspaper column focusing on environmental health. In 1998 her first book, The Healthy Type A was published by MacMillan Canada. It was based on the patient education programs she did for the Canadian and American Heart Foundations.
Kerry is the Co-Founder with Stephen Sinatra, M.D. and Executive Director of the International Advisory Board Doctors for Safer Schools and member of the International EMF (Electro-Magnetic Frequency) Alliance.
For the past several years, she has focused on electro-pullution. In researching her award-winning book Wireless Radiation Rescue—Safeguard Your Family from Electro-pollution (2011 Global WellBeing Books), she has become well versed in this issue. She is not a scientist – her expertise lies in health education and coaching people and organizations in effective change. Her background in Psychology has turned out to be an asset – she has counseled many people dealing with the issues of digital addiction and electro-sensitivity (ES). Like other environmental health conditions, ES is not "all in your head."
Kerry has brought together the research and recommendations of leading authorities and with their collaboration she developed a strategic plan for healthy aging in the digital age. The International Advisory Board addresses this public health issue – especially how electro-magnetic radiation adversely effects children and how to reduce cancer and other risks in this vulnerable generation.
And it's not just cell phones! Yes, this technology is everywhere, but government safety standards are not protecting us – there is evidence of harm at much lower levels. The good news: there are safer-tech solutions.
Kerry resides in Victoria, BC, Canada and she may be contacted through her book's website www.radiationrescue.org.
Transcription
So much thank you to Frank and Lorraine for organizing this confidence and their dedicated team. Well, this is a good time to speak right after lunch when people are feeling a little dozy because this wireless wakeup call, as I call it, is a bit of a jolt. So I encourage you to snooze.
I do encourage you, however, to power off your mobile devices. There are people here who are electoral sensitive and you may not feel this radiation, but they do.
So if you have anything that's sending and receiving wirelessly. Don't just turn off the sound. Please power off the signal. So, yes, we are here in the digital age, the age of wireless communication. And there are many advantages that we acknowledge. Certainly educational advantages. There are medical advantages and there are security advantages, unfortunately. And I wish this weren't true. There's health drawbacks to all of these. This wireless radiation is a real danger to human health. As Professor Johansson, one of the first researchers in centerfield in Sweden, also a colleague of his, a neurologist in Sweden, has said we are active participants in the largest human biological experiment ever. These arcs of radiation, you can't see them. Most people can't feel them, but they're around the antenna, particularly of anything that's sending and receiving wirelessly. Young children are particularly at risk. But not that they want to hear about it. So I counsel you. If you are a parent of a teen, you're used to lots of eye rolling. So you can certainly expect that when you tell your teens about this, your friends don't want to hear about it. Your physician most likely does not want to hear about it being heavily addicted himself or herself. And your school principal probably doesn't want to hear about it either because of all the pressure they get from parents. That's why the school has to be Wi-Fi. There are, however, many groups of scientists and legislators and researchers around the world calling for caution. Most recently, the World Health Organization, which, as you probably know, is a pretty conservative organization. They're not first to the party. They're not quick to the party. But in this not that this is a party, but they have finally reclassified wireless radiation in the questionable company of LED and exhaust fumes and said that this is possibly carcinogenic to human health. I think you'll see by some of the research that I present, it's more than possibly there are many European government legislators who have banded together to call for stricter standards. The skeleton was a group of scientists that have called called for caution in using