November 7, 2008 at 9:30 am by Sarah Irani
Studies Show Cell Phone Use in Pregnancy Negatively Affects Child
Here’s a topic I didn’t even want to write about, it’s so potentially disturbing. A study done in Denmark, in conjunction with UCLA, has shown that pregnant women who use cell phones only 2 or 3 times a day have a much higher risk of having children with behavioral difficulties. If the young children themselves use cell phones regularly, that risk is compounded.
Skeptics might scoff at this, but when the researchers accounted for other potential factors (smoking or alcohol during pregnancy, history of mental illness in the family, etc), the …
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World hunger seems like one of those grand unsolvable problems ““ the perennial favorite wish of beauty pageant queens. The truth is, it’s not unsolvable at all.
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