Texting and Your Health…

Senior Texting Words Since more and more Seniors are texting and tweeting, there appears to be a real need for an STC (Senior Texting Code)..! ATD:.........At The Doctor's BTW:........Bring The Wheelchair BYOT:.......Bring Your Own Teeth CBM:..........Covered By Medicare CUATSC:.See You At The Senior Center DWI:.........Driving While Incontinent FWB:.........Friend With Beta Blockers FWIW:.....Forgot Where I Was FYI:............Found Your Insulin GGPBL:......Gotta Go, Pacemaker Battery Low! GHA:..........Got Heartburn Again IMHO:.......Is My Hearing-Aid On? LMDO:.......Laughing My Dentures Out LOL:............Living On Lipitor OMMR:......On My Massage Recliner OMSG:.......Oh My! Sorry, Gas. ROFL/CGU:...Rolling On The Floor Laughing/Can't Get Up SGGP:..........Sorry, Gotta Go Poop TTYL:..........Talk To You Louder WAITT:......Who Am I Talking To? WTFA:.........Wet The Furniture Again WTP:.............Where's The Prunes? WWNO:......Walker Wheels Need Oil GGLKI:.........Gotta Go, Laxative Kicking In NTWD:  No texting while driving! However… Please no texting while driving… especially for us Seniors and teens!!

The AT&T documentary, "The Last Text," is about 11 minutes long. View the entire video below HERE:  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DebhWD6ljZs

St. Louis, MO (KPLR)-- Each year, as New Year's eve approaches, we hear warnings about drinking and driving. This year comes an additional warning: don't text and drive.

AT&T has produced a documentary focusing on Missouri teens killed while texting behind the wheel. The documentary features a young woman from Grain Valley, Missouri who points to a picture and says, "This is my sister. She was looking at my message that I just sent her. "

The teenager died after she over-corrected while driving on a Kansas highway last year. Her truck flipped over. Police say she was texting while driving.

Her guilt ridden sister weeps as she says, "People will tell you over and over again its not your fault, but knowing you were the person she was talking to when she was killed, just having a highway patrol officer write in a report that a text message sent at 12:05 is the reason that she is dead is not something that will ever go away."

The documentary is called "The Last Text." A Missouri highway patrol trooper is interviewed about another horrific accident in Neosho last year. When he arrived at the scene he saw a pair of shoes in a pool of blood and knew it was a young girl.

18- year-old Mariah West was killed in the accident. The trooper looked inside the car. "And at that point is when I noticed her cap and gown was still in her car. She was going to graduate the next day." He chokes up, shakes his head and says, "all because of a senseless text message. It’s just sad, sorry, it’s just sad."

The AT&T documentary, "The Last Text," is about 11 minutes long. View the entire video below HERE:  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DebhWD6ljZs

Texting Documentary

AT&T is also encouraging people to make the pledge via its Facebook page.

· Adults Text While Driving Just as Much as Teenagers

· Teens Prefer Texting vs. Calling ... Except to Parents

· Distracted Driving: The Dangers of Mobile Texting and Phone Calls

HAPPY NEW YEAR!!!  MAKE IT A SAFE ONE!

Electronics: Brain Damage from Mobile Phone Radiation & Accidents From Texting Approaching Epidemic

A collaborative team of international EMF activists has released a report detailing eleven design flaws of the 13-country, Telecom-funded Interphone study.

The exposé discusses research on cell phones and brain tumors, concluding that:

• There is a risk of brain tumors from cell phone use
• Telecom funded studies underestimate the risk of brain tumors
• Children have larger risks than adults for brain tumors

The Interphone study, begun in 1999, was intended to determine the risks of brain tumors, but its full publication has been held up for years. Components of this study published to date reveal what the authors call a ‘systemic-skew’, greatly underestimating brain tumor risk.

The design flaws include categorizing subjects who used portable phones (which emit the same microwave radiation as cell phones,) as ‘unexposed’; exclusion of many types of brain tumors; exclusion of people who had died, or were too ill to be interviewed as a consequence of their brain tumor; and exclusion of children and young adults, who are more vulnerable.

Ronald B. Herberman, MD, Director Emeritus of the University of Pittsburgh Cancer Institute has stated,

“Based on substantial evidence, especially from industry-independent studies that long term exposure to radiofrequency radiation may lead to increased risk for brain tumors, I issued a precautionary advisory last year to faculty and staff of the University of Pittsburgh Cancer Institute.

Since then, my particular concern about exposure of children to radiofrequency has been supported by a report from Dr. Lennart Hardell. Some of my scientific colleagues have expressed skepticism about the reported biological effects, especially DNA0A damage by radiofequency radiation, because of the absence of a demonstrated underlying molecular mechanism.

However, based on the precautionary principle, I believe it is more prudent to take seriously the reports by multiple investigators that radiofrequency can damage DNA and increase the risk for brain tumors, and for industry-independent agencies to provide needed funding for detailed research to ascertain the molecular basis for such effects.”

Lloyd Morgan, lead author and member of the Bioelectromagnetics Society says,

“Exposure to cell phone radiation is the largest human health experiment ever undertaken, without informed consent, and has some 4 billion participants enrolled.

Science has shown increased risk of brain tumors from use of cell phones, as well as increased risk of eye cancer, salivary gland tumors, testicular cancer, non-Hodgkin's lymphoma and leukemia.

The public must be informed.”

Source: Dr. Mercola

Will Bloody Texting PSA Get The Message To Teens?

Texting behind the wheel qualifies as irresponsible and completely stupid. There's even a word for it: intexicated. But is a gory British public service announcement going to reach kids who believe they are immortal?

Be warned: The four-minute PSA below is extremely graphic, showing not only the realistic bloody injuries of three pretty teenage girls, but also an unresponsive infant in a car seat and a preschooler asking her unconscious and bleeding parents to wake up.

Will Bloody Texting Message Get to Teens?

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Will Bloody Texting PSA Get The Message To Teens? - ParentDish

Mike Stout, director of the Division of Traffic Safety for the Illinois Department of Transportation, said that he didn't know if this kind of message would deter teens from texting behind the wheel -- and he wouldn't take the risk of trying to find out.

"This is way too gory," Stout told ParentDish. "...sometimes you have to push the envelope, but if you put this on TV, you'd have no control over who your audience was. Younger kids could see it, and I know some teens that it wouldn't affect at all."
As I watched the clip with my baby nearby, tears came to my eyes when the camera lingered on what appeared to be a dead infant in a car seat with a preschool-age sibling pleading for her parents in the front seat to "wake up."

So the PSA gets right to the hearts of parents to avoid the lure of a quick text. But would the teenager in the car behind me do the same?

86% of people responding to survey after watching video said they would show it to their teenagers and think it should be part of drivers’ education.

by: Amy Hatch - ParentDish

Source: Marion’s Place

Posted: TrueHealthIsTrueWealth

Cancer Risk Aside, Cell Phones are Dangerous

There has been much speculation over the last few years about whether cell phones increase the risk of developing a brain tumor. Research has not conclusively answered this question, which has left consumers confused. The majority of studies that have been published in scientific journals do not have sufficient evidence to show that cell phones increase the risk of brain tumors. The problem is that cell phone technology is in its infancy, so none of these studies could analyze long-term risks. This unknown is a particular issue for children, who will face a lifetime of cell phone usage. While the cell phone/brain tumor connection remains inconclusive, the American Association of Neurological Surgeons (AANS) cautions that cell phones present plenty of other risks to people’s neurological health, as illustrated by these few real-life scenarios:

~A 29-year-old male was talking on his cell phone while on an escalator, fell backwards, and lacerated his head.
~A 25-year-old male was talking on his cell phone and walked into a street sign, lacerating his head.
~A 43-year-old female fell down 13-14 steps while talking on her cell phone, after drinking alcohol. She suffered a neck sprain and contusions to her head, back, shoulder, and leg.
~A 50-year-old female suffered nerve damage which was related to extensive cell phone usage. She felt pain in her fingers and the length of her arm while holding her cell phone, and was diagnosed with cervical radiculopathy.
~A 39-year-old man suffered a head injury after crashing into a tree on his bicycle while texting
~A 16-year-old boy suffered a concussion because he was texting and walked into a telephone pole.

Several studies show cell phones are a leading cause of automobile crashes. It is estimated that drivers distracted by cell phones are four times more likely to be in a motor vehicle accident. The following are some sobering statistics:

~According to a Harvard University study, an estimated 2,600 people die and 12,000 suffer serious to moderate injuries each year in cell phone-related accidents.
~A Canadian study analysis of 26,798 cell phone calls made during the 14-month study period showed that the risk of an automobile accident was four times higher when using a cell phone.
~National statistics indicate that an estimated 50,000 traumatic brain injury-related deaths occur annually in the United States, 25,000-35,000 of which are attributed to motor vehicle accidents.

Cell Phone Injury Prevention Tips:

~Talk hands free by using an earpiece or on speaker mode whenever possible.
~Follow all cell phone laws applicable to your city and state – these vary greatly.
~Use your cell phone only when safely parked, or have a passenger use it.
~Do not dial the phone or take notes while driving, cycling, skateboarding, rollerblading, etc.
~Never text message while driving, walking, cycling, skateboarding, rollerblading, etc.
~Never text message or use a cell phone while performing any physical activities that require attention.

~If your phone rings while driving, let the call go into voice mail and respond later when you are safely parked.

And it is definitely worth reconsidering having a home land line... and using it at home instead of your cells, to cut down on the Cancer risks!

Source:  NewsMax Health