[ RadSafe ] Men hooked on mobile phones may suffer a 40 per centdrop in fertility

[John Jacobus]

Maybe it will decrease the number who use cell phones
while driving.  That would be beneficial.

--- "Muckerheide, Jim  (CDA)"
<Jim.Muckerheide at state.ma.us> wrote:

> Hi Howard.  
>  
> So does this mean you wouldn't rather see the
> species who are always on
> their cell phones die out? :-)
>  
> Regards, Jim 
> 
> 	-----Original Message-----
> 	From: howard long [mailto:hflong at pacbell.net] 
> 	Sent: Friday, October 27, 2006 12:28 PM
> 	To: Muckerheide, Jim (CDA); John Jacobus; Dawson,
> Fred Mr;
> radsafe at radlab.nl; srp-uk at yahoogroups.com
> 	Subject: RE: [ RadSafe ] Men hooked on mobile
> phones may suffer
> a 40 per centdrop in fertility
> 	
> 	
> 	So infertile men who use phones more have lower
> sperm counts
> than others?
> 	Not well controlled. Those also are more likely 
> Type A, likely
> to exercise less (while busy, busy) and otherwise
> different in ways
> likely to reduce sperm count.
> 	 
> 	Men who phone a lot are different in other ways
> (likely to give
> low sperm counts).
> 	Forget this "study".
> 	 
> 	Howard Long MD MPH
> 	
> 	"Muckerheide, Jim (CDA)"
> <Jim.Muckerheide at state.ma.us> wrote:
> 
> 		John,
> 		
> 		Maybe we shouldn't interfere with Darwinian
> evolutionary
> determinism!
> 		
> 		Regards, Jim 
> 		
> 		
> 		> -----Original Message-----
> 		> [mailto:radsafe-bounces at radlab.nl] On Behalf Of
> John
> Jacobus
> 		> Sent: Friday, October 27, 2006 10:14 AM
> 		> To: Dawson, Fred Mr; radsafe at radlab.nl;
> srp-uk at yahoogroups.com
> 		> 
> 		> Maybe they should get off the phone and start
> talking
> 		> with their wives and significant others.
> 		> 
> 		>
> 		> --- "Dawson, Fred Mr" wrote:
> 		> 
> 		> > Times reports - Men hooked on mobile phones
> may
> 		> > suffer a 40 per cent drop in fertility
> 		> > 
> 		> >
> 		>
>
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,11069-2418475,00.html
> 		> > 
> 		> > 
> 		> > Radiation is the likely cause, reports our
> 		> > correspondent from the
> 		> > American Society for Reproductive Medicine
> 		> > 
> 		> > 
> 		> > MEN who are heavy users of mobile phones have
> 		> > significantly lower sperm
> 		> > counts than those who are not, according to
> research
> 		> > that suggests
> 		> > radiation from handsets could be damaging male
> 		> > fertility. 
> 		> > Both the quantity and quality of a man's sperm
> 		> > decline as his daily
> 		> > mobile phone use increases, a study of 361
> 		> > infertility patients in the
> 		> > United States indicates. 
> 		> > 
> 		> > 
> 		> > The greatest effects were seen among very
> heavy
> 		> > users who talked on a
> 		> > mobile phone for more than four hours a day. .
> . .
> 		> 
> 		> +++++++++++++++++++
> 		> May we never confuse honest dissent with
> disloyal
> subversion. 
> 		> Dwight D. Eisenhower 
> 		> 
> 		> -- John
> 		> John Jacobus, MS
> 		> Certified Health Physicist
> 		> e-mail: crispy_bird at yahoo.com
> 		> 
> 		>
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Dwight D. Eisenhower  

-- John
John Jacobus, MS
Certified Health Physicist
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