_ (Apparently Apparel) A friend of my spouse recently asked me to find out if there are any dangers to children who use iPads for an extended amount of time, whether in school or at home. Perhaps the numerous health warning included on the iPad pamphlet prompted her to ask me to look into it. Here's what I found: (1) Cell phones and iPads are near the top of many youngsters’ wish lists this holiday season, but experts say the popular wireless devices come with some very real and very scary health dangers for children. Few people appreciate that almost all wireless devices come with manufacturers’ fine print warnings not to hold them next to an adult body. Even more alarming is the fact that controlled studies show that microwave radiation from cell phones weaken the brain’s protective barrier and cause men to produce damaged sperm. The kicker is this: Cell phones and other radiation-emitting devices are likely even more dangerous for children than they are for adults, say experts. Children’s heads absorb twice as much microwave radiation from cell phones as adult heads do, according to a recently published scientific report from the Environmental Health Trust (EHT) and Healthy Child Healthy World, two nonprofit research and educational groups. Guidelines by the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) that set safe limits on wireless device radiation are based on old assumptions that most users would be adult men. The standards were devised using a 6-foot-2, 220-pound man as the standard user, according to the EHT. These days, of course, smaller-bodied women and children use wireless devices as much as men.
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