Health Canada Offers Practical Advice on Safe Cell Phone Use

Source: Health Canada

The issue: 
The number of cell phone users in Canada rose from 100,000 in 1987 to more than 24 million by the end of 2010. With their growing popularity, questions have been raised about their safety. Cell phones emit low-levels of radiofrequency (RF) energy. The RF electromagnetic energy given off by cell phones is a type of non-ionizing radiation. It is similar to the type of energy used in AM/FM radio and TV broadcast signals.

GLOBAL ECOLOGICAL PROBLEMS OF XXI century

For the last fifty years, we have taken from Nature 2,5 – 3 times more spaces or territories for fields under crops, residential and public buildings, railways and highways, airports and seaports, kitchen gardens and dumps.

THE MAIN POLLUTANTS OF THE AIR

Pollution of the air has exceeded all possible bounds. Concentration of substances that are harmful to health has many times exceeded the medical norms in many cities. Acid rains, containing sulfur dioxide and nitric oxide that come as a result of work of thermoelectric power stations and plants are disastrous to lakes and forests.

SOLID DOMESTIC WASTES

The conception of ecological safety of the Earth envisages ways of gradual reducing, and further on, eliminating negative consequences of influence of polluted environment on the population’s health. It is a true statement that it’s easier to prevent a disease than to treat it.

Environmental conditions and children’s health

 Fedotova N. Y., a general practitioner, Simferopol.

PESTICIDES

Speaking about water, we mentioned pesticides.

What are pesticides? Are they harmful to plants and man? Do summer residents really need them or should they give up using them once and for good?

HOW MUCH DO WE PAY FOR SPEED AND COMFORT? Protection from electromagnetic radiation.

For a long time health problems connected with electromagnetic smog around us have been a matter of concern of scientists and doctors all around the world.
Do we need any protection from our certified technical equipment, meeting the world safety norms? Maybe, its producers provided for their possible negative effect on a human and took care of a consumer’s interests?

FOOD PRODUCTS: what is the 21st century going to feed us with?

QUALITY OF FOOD PRODUCTS
The thesis that nutrition of a person and his health are closely connected with each other needs no proofs any more. Food that we eat can influence both positively and negatively all the organs and systems of the organism. A well-balanced diet, consisting of ecologically pure products of high quality can help not just to restore our health, but also to heal the body. At the same time, contaminated products of poor quality can cause various diseases.